Local prosecutors want to have a frank discussion with Deputy Attorney General Helen Arens – seeking information about what prompted her abrupt firing of Orange County’s fair board as a client in December 2009 when the board was trying to sell the fairgrounds.
Tag: Orange County Fair Board
Posted inCosta Mesa, Countywide, Top Stories
Fair Board Intensifies Calls for Investigation
Members want the district attorney and governor to investigate a shadowy state financing agency.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Government, Investigative, Top Stories
Fair Board Calls on DA to Re-Examine Privatization Bid
After more than three years of controversy, the Fair Board is moving on from its investigation of the failed privatization effort.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Government, Investigative
Fair Board to Ponder Action on Failed Privatization Bid
Orange County Fair Board members will finalize their review of the controversial bid by Republican appointees three years ago to privatize the 162-acre public fairground in Costa Mesa.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Countywide, Investigative, Top Stories
Fair Board Calls for Audits of Failed Bid to Privatize
Fairgrounds leaders prepare for series of forensic audits on how public funds were spent during the Schwarzenegger administration to privatize the 160-acre property in Costa Mesa.
Posted inCosta Mesa
OC Fair Board Advances Plans for Farm Worker Memorial
It would be the largest such monument in the state. Board members were appointed to investigate ways and means for the project.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Countywide, Government, Top Stories
Old Battles Revive on Fair Board
Monthly meeting features skirmishes on citizens oversight committee, California attorney general representation and fairground’s equestrian center.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Countywide, Investigative, Top Stories
Fair Board Bans Elephant Rides
The decision was based largely on evidence that the rides are cruel to elephants. The board also established a citizens committee to examine the past effort to sell the fairground.
Posted inCosta Mesa
Reconstituted OC Fair Board Wants Attorney General Back
The state attorney general’s office dropped the Fair Board as a client in 2009 during the ultimately unsuccessful attempt to sell the fairground.
Posted inCosta Mesa, Government, Top Stories
Governor Appoints Two New Members to OC Fair Board
A Republican businessman and a Democratic lawyer are selected as part of the effort to reshape the board.
