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Orange County is looking to replace its top fiscal watchdog, Auditor Controller Eric Woolery, who died suddenly in August, with a former longtime employee at the agency he ran.
CalOptima provides health care for nearly 800,000 disabled, elderly and low-income Orange County residents. County supervisors are moving to expand their power on its board of directors, but state legislators are moving to block that effort.
The Orange County Taxpayers Association, backed by the medical industry, teamed with state Sen. Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia) to block a move led by Supervisor Andrew Do to have the supervisors take over the $3.4 billion CalOptima health plan for low income, disabled and elderly OC residents.
A one-cent sales tax increase was overwhelmingly approved, but the two council members who championed it lost their races to ideological conservatives.
After a contentious meeting packed with residents and employees in support of putting a tax increase before voters, the City Council voted to approve the ballot measure on the condition that any tax increase expire after six years.
In what some say is an all-out effort to save the Anaheim City Council majority, the megaresort has so far doubled what it spent in 2012.
The total amount of independent expenditures in the race for Anaheim City Council is well over $730,000, much more than in 2010.
A handful of political action committees financing Anaheim City Council campaigns have received nearly $190,000 from the mega-resort.
Twice in recent weeks, Roger Faubel Public Affairs has received lucrative public contracts, even though it was initially not rated the best qualified firm.
As landmark healthcare reform begins its journey from the
drawing board to reality in the U.S., Orange County Supervisor John
Moorlach could play a big role in its implementation here.
