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Anaheim, thrifty rent a car homepage CA A prominent California attorney alleged that members of the Anaheim City Council violated state law when they voted on behalf of a $158 million hotel subsidy, thrifty rent a car homepage after accepting contributions from a PAC tied to the project s developer. Attorney Cory Briggs urged California Attorney General thrifty rent a car homepage Kamala Harris and Orange County District thrifty rent a car homepage Attorney Tony Rackauckas to prosecute the council thrifty rent a car homepage members in a letter sent Thursday. Briggs' request for prosecution was made on the behalf of a community organization, Orange County Communities Organized for Responsible Development, thrifty rent a car homepage and a private Anaheim resident named in the letter.
The letter alleges that Anaheim City Council members Lucille Kring and Jordan Brandman had an illegal conflict of interest when they voted for the Garden Walk Hotel subsidy in May, within months of accepting donations from the political action committee formed by Support Our Anaheim Resort (SOAR.) Hotelier Bill O'Connell, who benefited from that subsidy, sits on the SOAR Advisory Committee. The letter thrifty rent a car homepage also names council members Gail Eastman and Kris Murray, who voted in favor of the subsidy and are SOAR Advisory Committee members. Eastman and Murray did not disclose their business relationships with SOAR and O'Connell at the time of the vote, as required by law.
The request for prosecution issued by Briggs is a required thrifty rent a car homepage legal step before the filing of a private lawsuit. A potential filing would result in another in a recent series of lawsuits faced by the city council on behalf of residents. Last month, a judge ordered a trial in a case brought by the ACLU on behalf of Anaheim voters, alleging that the city's election system violates the California Equal Voting Rights Act.
The Garden walk subsidy caused controversy, even before the allegations made last week. The subsidy was first passed thrifty rent a car homepage in January 2012, but that vote was voided after a Superior Court Judge ruled that it violated the Brown Act, California's open government law, because the public did not receive proper notice.
OCCORD s mission is to reframe the debate about the role of government in our society, and as their track record of policy advocacy makes clear, OCCORD wants to radically increase the role of government (yes, it s hard to believe there is room to make government even bigger).
Is this the sort of militancy OCCORD s funders support ? Do the James Irvine Foundation, the Orange County Community Foundation, Wells Fargo, the California Endowment and other non-profit funders support having their money used to call for government prosecution of elected officials who don t tow the OCCORD line?
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This is Tait/Moreno/Ward working thrifty rent a car homepage to discredit the council lending some perceived weight to their call for single thrifty rent a car homepage member districts. Their belief being that if they can create enough smoke, the judge will agree with their flawed logic that districts thrifty rent a car homepage are closer to the people. Another stunt from a desperate group of strange bedfellows.
What is most disgusting with these continued poltical stunts from Tait s camp is that they publicly denegrate the city as much or more than the council he is attempting to discredit so he can elect the council he didn t have last time and likely to try and keep Kring out of the race against him for Mayor. I used to think the world of Tom Tait now I just hope he leaves at the end of his term so these attacks on our city can stop.
Jason you moron. There were over two hundred thrifty rent a car homepage emails to the council in favor of this vote, passed by the majority of the elected council. The problem is that you spend so much time plotting your idiotic schemes that your requests for information are made far too late to have been saved. A simple phone call to the city clerk confirms this. Your requests for records come in weeks or months too late for old correspondence to be available. If you weren t so focused on the tearing down of a city YOU DO NOT EVEN LIVE OR VOTE IN, you could actually do a little good with your life. But first why don t you get a life and stay out of my city and its business
Jason, even if what you say is true, the reason thrifty rent a car homepage we elect leaders to make decisions is because they can make the unpopular decisions that serve the greater good. Go reread Federalist #10 and see what it says about insulating the decisions thrifty rent a car homepage of government from the passions of the public. This is a case when the Council majority thinks thrifty rent a car homepage that the deal they have struck is better for the City as a whole than not having such a deal.
If the majority of the City s voters didn t agree with the Economic Assistance Agreements, they wouldn t have voted for a Council candidate that was clearly and strongly in favor of the deal. You cannot thrifty rent a car homepage say, with any credibility, that the majority of Anaheim voters opposed the GardenWalk deal when they voted Jordan into office last November. thrifty rent a car homepage If the majority of Anaheim voters were truly opposed to the GardenWalk deal they would never have voted for Jordan based on the platform he ran on.
We have an election system that allows us to change our elected thrifty rent a car homepage representatives when they don t do what we, as a community, want them to do. After the GardenWalk deal was done, we didn t change our elected leaders in a meaningful way when it comes to Economic Assistance Agreements. And, if you want to say that the voters of Anaheim do not represent the residents of Anaheim, that s the fault of the people who don t get to the polls to vote. If OCCORD spent nearly as much time getting thrifty rent a car homepage people to the polls as they do dragging the City through the mud, they d be able to accomplish their goals and would have more allies (including myself) along the way.
You use blah blah as your stock answer to a lot of postings on these blogs. Is that the only answer you come up with when a reasoned and intelligent reply is beyond your mental capabilities? Go register a voter and encourage thrifty rent a car homepage them to speak out at the polls as is their right. Suing people because you don t get your way is truly the desperate act of a group who not only doesn t play by the rules, but doesn t even know what the rules are.