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At their first official meeting, Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait and his new city council majority worked through a laundry list of actions aimed at reversing major policies and actions taken by the previous majority.
After more than six years of holding the powerful accountable in Orange County, Adam Elmahrek is leaving for the Los Angeles Times.
Mayor Tom Tait argued it’s time for the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce to be “weened” off government subsidies. But he lost a 3-2 vote to give the Chamber a new $167,000 city contract.
The Anaheim Chamber of Commerce for years had organized and made money on the annual state of the city event. But after a rough-and-tumble political season, Mayor Tom Tait says he wants to send a different message.
The ballot measures transform the city’s electoral system and increase the size of the city council.
The newspaper published an attack ad with an unflattering picture of Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait after rejecting a similar ad that featured a photo of Kris Murray, the mayor’s chief opponent on City Council.
The rhetoric to keep the Angels in Anaheim – or woo them to Tustin – is ratcheting up.
A Bay Area-based nonprofit with a mission to help elect candidates of color contributed $45,000 to the campaign to remake Anaheim’s electoral system. A local blogger calls the donation “dark money.”
An auditor says the chamber didn’t leave a reliable audit trail as it administered the city’s enterprise zone, but he downplayed the finding.
The City Council choses to have voters decide whether to cut mayoral terms, another move by the council majority against Mayor Tom Tait.