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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.
Orange resident Eric Woolery, who will be sworn in Monday, is warning county supervisors that he’s ready to head to court to enforce his elected mandate to audit agencies as he sees fit.
Since 2012, nearly $34,000 in contributions to Nguyen’s supervisor and state Senate campaigns have come from five unrelated individuals who list an upscale home in Placentia as their primary residence.
The city’s Republican council majority had ordered an investigation into votes by two commissioners who also happened to be on a competing slate of council and mayoral candidates.
After a year of political tumult, Matthew Fertal abruptly announced his retirement Tuesday. Meanwhile, residents showed up in force to the City Council meeting in protest of a deal for the departed fire chief.
Bao Nguyen bests incumbent Garden Grove mayor Bruce Broadwater by a mere 15 votes while Costa Mesa’s Jim Righeimer is re-elected by just 47 votes. Recounts could loom.
Orange County District Attorney officials are investigating a case of alleged forgery in Stanton involving key OC GOP insiders who led a failed effort to kill a new public safety tax proposal on this month’s ballot.
While Carl DeMaio has lost his bid in San Diego to be among the Republican Party’s first openly gay congressmen, intense political intrigue lingers along with a federal investigation.
Incumbent mayor Bruce Broadwater is barely ahead of his opponent Bao Nguyen in the city’s closest mayoral election in recent years.
Once known as a bastion of white establishment conservatives, Orange County’s Republican Party says there’s a new face to the GOP: Asian American women.
