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eLECTION Watch 2006
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OUSD GADFLY MORAN NAMED TO
MOORLACH STAFF
The Orange County Register Blog Total Buzz and the OC Blog have reported that Orange Unified School District gadfly and Foothill Sentry writer Kathy Moran has been named to the incoming staff of Orange County Supervisor-Elect John Moorlach. In a Moorlach Press Release Moran is described as follows:

Kathleen Moran is a scientist and an expert in Health Care and health care benefits issues. She has served as a lead technologist and technologist supervisor in Pasco Laboratory and the University of Minnesota Hospital, respectively. She has been a Growth Demographic Studies consultant to the Orange Unified School District, and Trustee on the Orange Unified Teachers Health and Welfare Benefit Trust, serving as Chairman in 1998-99. She also served on the Orange Unified School District Fiscal Advisory Council, chairing committees on Retiree Benefits and the Orange Trust. She has served with Hill, Farrell, Burrill, LLP, as a labor negotiator and member of benefit committees representing the Orange Unified School Board, and with Crittenton Family Services as a Compliance Officer and Director of Quality Control.. She holds a B.S. from the University of Dayton.

What the Moorlach Press Release does not report is that Moran was appointed by the fringe Recalled Orange Unified Board without any experience to the various positions she held in the district as a self anointed expert. Often referred to as the eighth “unelected” OUSD Trustee Moran’s goal was to destroy the OUSD Health Trust, which she helped do. Moran rejected any information contrary to her opinion and would continue to search for anyone who would support her views. She then would embrace those who supported her as proof of her wisdom. Her ill advised self-serving efforts led to numerous lawsuits which cost local taxpayers millions in educational tax dollars and court losses for OUSD.

Moran worked hard against the Orange Recall to keep her position of unelected power. After the successful Orange Recall ousted her political allies from the OUSD Board, Moran fought to continue her role as “unelected Trustee”. However, the new OUSD Board would have nothing to with her. After months of trying to muscle her way into her old OUSD power hold, Moran finally disappeared and began focusing on the Orange County government structures.

(For PRESS RELEASE Click ON: http://blogs.ocregister.com/buzz/moorlach.doc)