Self-financing is not just for fantastically wealthy gubernatorial hopefuls — candidates for local offices are making six-figure loans to their own campaigns. It is a high-risk, high-reward proposition.
Tag: County Government
Posted inCountywide, Government, Santa Ana, Top Stories
Honoring Veterans Beyond Memorial Day
It isn’t just Orange County’s war memorials that don’t get enough attention. More than 3,500 homeless veterans in the county need help that they aren’t getting.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Top Stories
Fire Authority Postpones Decision on Fee Hikes
The Orange County Fire Authority, citing a need for consensus on the 2010-11 budget, will form an ad hoc committee to hammer out an agreement.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Politics & Elections, Top Stories
Campaign Cash Reports: Sheriff’s and Treasurer’s Races
More campaign cash reports, this time from candidates running for sheriff and treasurer/tax collector.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Politics & Elections, Top Stories
Campaign Cash Reports: Fourth District Supervisor Race
New rules require all county candidates raising more than $25,000 to file electronically. All goes well, registrar reports.
Posted inEconomy, Government, Investigative
Fire Union to Offer Cash to Kill Fee Hikes
The Orange County Professional Firefighters Association is set to offer the Orange County Fire Authority $170,000 to offset fee hikes that the authority says are needed to cover the costs of contracted salary increases.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative
Watching Absentees Trend Up While Forking Over for Voting Machines
About 25 percent of Orange County’s voters will vote absentee in
the June primary. But the county still has to be ready for a flood
at the polls.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Norberto Santana Jr.
Supervisors Set to Take Stand on Outing Highly Compensated Pensioners
County supervisors expect to take a public stand over retirement system refusing to release retirees getting six figure retirement payouts to OC Register.
Posted inGovernment, Norberto Santana Jr.
It’s Finals Week for Bureaucrats
As the end of the fiscal year nears, get ready for massive agendas throughout cities and agencies in Orange County.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Investigative, Politics & Elections, Top Stories
The Science of Signs
We’re two weeks away from an election, which means political campaign signs are hard to miss at intersections, in yards and on poles. But to a candidate, there is a lot more to signs than meets the eye.
