Irvine Vice Mayor Tammy Kim Pulls Papers for AD-68
Irvine Vice Mayor Tammy Kim has pulled papers to run for AD-68 to challenge incumbent Steven Choi which would pit two Korean-American candidates against each […]
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Register Editorial: Over the Top on State Of The Union Address
I usually try to ignore the rhetoric spewed across the editorial pages of the Orange County Register, but the following from yesterdays editorial Obama’s focus on fairness, not on a foul record, requires rebuttal.
Can Beth Krom use the Debate Duck Now?
Now that Rep. Loretta Sanchez is set to debate Van Tran on KOCE (she isn’t going to debate him as much as she’ll mop the […]
Berardino responds to OC Register distortions regarding retiree medical benefits
Five years ago, Supervisor Bill Campbell and the Orange County Employees Association recognized two things: the importance of providing quality health care coverage for retired county employees and the rising cost of doing so. So, together, we addressed these issues head-on. Through the collective bargaining process, OCEA and the county arrived at an agreement that reduced the county’s unfunded liability for retiree medical benefits by $815 million while continuing to ensure our employees would receive adequate care in their most vulnerable years.
Distorting public employee pay – Just another day at the OC Register
Sometimes the OC Register’s Watchdog reporter Teri Sforza get’s it right. But when it comes to analyzing government statistics I think she has allowed the Register Editorial Board’s prism of anti-government employee rhetoric to blind her. Such is the case with Sforza’s piece Tuesday titled Public pay rises despite recession.
Nguyen and Campbell Sound Off On Hybrid Pension Debate
There has been a lot of criticism of the innovative employee pension plan negotiated by the Orange County Board of Supervisors and the labor unions […]
Street’s Risky Investments Sold at a $7.6 million loss
The Orange County Register’s Ronald Campbell reported yesterday that the County of Orange has sold off their holdings in the bankrupt Whistlejacket structured investment on […]
The Register’s First Step to the Left
 Our first great April Fool’s gag was an announcement that TheLiberalOC had been acquired by OCBlog (now the heart fo the RedCounty blog). The […]
Does John Seiler actually think that Senator Lou Correa is a communist?
John Seiler seems to think that State Senator Lou Correa is a communist. In a post yesterday he wrote “thanks to the profligacy of Lou “North†Correa and others, state and local government pension funds in California are $500 billion in the red.†So exactly what about pensions for public employees is communist? Well nothing, but that doesn’t stop Seiler from trying to make a connection where there is none so that he can use the phrase Lou “North†Correa.