Supervisor Don Wagner quibbles with typos and minor details, but fails to acknowledge the big picture about race relations and the Covid-19 crisis. Wagner refuses to address the fact the Board of Supervisors rejected the call to put a discussion of the renaming of John Wayne Airport, an avowed White Supremacist, on the agenda of its July 14 meeting or before voters. Just like Trump, Wagner fails to take responsibility for the County’s failed response to the Covid-19 crisis, which is why virus cases and deaths in Orange County have, since late May and early June, spiraled out of control. The County needs leadership, not political gamesmanship.
Tag: Mario Mainero
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Wagner: Mainero and Smoller Can’t Get Their Facts Right
Professors Mainero and Smoller get basic facts wrong in their effort to impugn county leadership.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Mainero and Smoller: The GOP is Self-Destructing
The Chapman professors—one conservative, one progressive—argue that Donald Trump is proudly taking the national and local GOP over a cliff. The president’s exploitation of America’s racial divide and rejection of science is being emulated by Orange County Republican electeds, to their political peril.
Posted inCountywide
When Balancing Freedoms and Public Health, Courts Often Choose Health
The precedent – cited often in recent court decisions – goes back over a century, to a 1905 case where the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a state’s power to mandate vaccinations during an epidemic.
Posted inGovernment, Safety, Security & Justice, Top Stories
OC Sheriff Kept Evidence Booking Crisis Secret for Almost Two Years
Sheriff Don Barnes’ spokeswoman declined to say why county supervisors and the district attorney weren’t told of the scale of the issue sooner.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Reiff: Law Prof Mainero Says He’d Love to be DA but Hates the Politics
Chapman University Law Professor and former Orange County supervisor chief of staff Mario Mainero discusses the controversies enveloping the county District Attorney’s office. The discord has fueled an election challenge to incumbent Tony Rackauckas from Supervisor Todd Spitzer. But many observers are pushing for an “outsider” to enter the race. Is Mainero the answer? He discusses the state of justice in OC and whether he’ll run for DA.
Posted inGovernment, News Briefs, Politics & Elections, Safety, Security & Justice, Top Stories
Spitzer Officially Declares His Run Against Rackauckas for DA
The move, which had been expected for years, set the stage for what is anticipated to be an intense election campaign.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide, Investigative
Mainero: Voters Themselves Can Spur Government Ethics This June
Chapman University Law Professor Mario Mainero writes that with weak campaign finance enforcement by Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, citizens of Orange County need to step and support a ballot initiative that provides a better enforcement approach by establishing a local commission to oversee campaign spending.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Government
Supervisor’s Chief of Staff Moving to Costa Mesa City Hall
Rick Francis will leave John Moorlach’s staff to become a deputy
to Costa Mesa CEO Tom Hatch.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Top Stories
Third Time a Charm or Just More Lost Taxpayer Dollars?
Supervisors to decide today in closed session whether its worth
it to rack up more legal bills by taking their retroactive pension
lawsuit to the California Supreme Court.
