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UPDATED: Rodenhuis Will Get To Run For Treasurer-Tax Collector!

April 6, 2010 0

Judge Sanders has ruled this morning that Rodenhuis is eligible to run for county Treasurer-Tax Collector. Rodenhuis said in an email statement; “I am happy, but not surprised by the decision. The suit was frivolous and a waste of the court’s time and the taxpayer’s money. This is not the kind of leadership Orange County wants or needs in a time of fiscal stress.”

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Deputy Treasurer Keith Rodenhuis Jumps Into Race

March 17, 2010 0

Keith has a killer ballot title in an expensive county-wide race. Street had the slates pretty much locked up — and if he arranges with the vendors to release them to Keith, then Mr. Rodenhuis will be in a pretty commanding position to at the very least make it into a run-off.

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OC Supes Strip Street of investment powers

March 16, 2010 0

County supervisors on Tuesday unanimously voted to revoke Orange County’s Treasurer-Tax Collector Chriss Street’s authority to invest county funds. Supervisors said that while Street has done a good job as treasurer, the move was needed to prevent the public and investors from losing confidence in the county’s investment pool until Street’s term ends on Jan. 3, 2011.

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Primary Challenges for Orange County Democrats

March 14, 2010 3

In the Fourth District Supervisor contest to fill the unexpired term of recently elected Assemblyman Chris Norby, we have a full field of six candidates, three Republicans, and three Democrats in this technically non-partisan contest. On the Democratic side we have Anaheim City Councilwoman Lorri Galloway, La Habra City Councilwoman Rose Espinoza, and Buena Park Mayor Art Brown. On the Republican side there is Fullerton City Councilman Shawn Nelson, Anaheim City Councilman Harry Sidhu, and Businessman Richard Faher.

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Chriss Street Drops Out – Beware the Ides of March

March 12, 2010 0

Campbell and board Chairwoman Janet Nguyen are sponsoring an emergency agenda item that calls for transferring Street’s investment authority to county Chief Financial Officer Bob Franz. “We just don’t believe it’s proper to have someone found guilty in court of breaching his fiduciary duty to be responsible for managing the county’s investment funds,”