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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Political arrogance continues in OUSD
SPECIAL
REPORT
OUSD in CRISIS
OUSD Board to put on a "show" at
a Special Meeting on Thursday October 1, 2015
Number 3 in
a special news series by Orange Net News /O/N/N/
The embattled arrogant politicians of Orange Unified's Surridge Majority appear to be now taking ideas straight from the playbook of the last politically arrogant OUSD Board that finally pushed the Greater Orange community too far back in 2001.
That 2001 OUSD Board-known as the
Jacobson Majority-also arrogantly
tried to push their personal political agenda
onto what they too thought was a disengaged public. Then, just as now, that public
that was finally pushed so far that they saw those trustees for what they were-
arrogant politicians with a personal non-educational political agenda- not
public servants of the people who elected them.
In 2001, those arrogant
politicians were ultimately recalled by the voters, but not before spending millions of educational
dollars while using the powers of their office to try and thwart the will of the
voters on what one famous Recall bumper sticker of the times called political "lawsuits, lawyers and
litigation" .
"Provisional Trustee" Salas |
What appears clear to long-time
OUSD observers is that California Brown Act violations in the mysterious appointment
of an unknown and unqualified candidate and bungled process obviously took
place.
While having Surridge lead the
appointment of the mystery man Greg Salas in the face of the overwhelming
evidence of Salas being unqualified is
not a surprise, what is more troubling is that long time OUSD Trustee Rick
Ledesma and the ultra patriotic former U.S. Marine and Trustee Mark Wayland
followed suit in this political corrupt bargain. It was clear to those at the Monday September
22nd OUSD appointment meeting that Wayland audibly wrestled with his conscience
when his name was called to vote, but ultimately cast his vote for Salas and in
so doing let down the democratic process he has fought most of his adult life
to preserve.
When the audience gasped at Wayland's struggled vote, it was clearly the shock of seeing this patriotic warrior who fought to protect the ideals of our nation, fail to protect those ideals in his own hometown and community.
After the political vote to
support the mystery man Greg Salas, the meeting was quickly called to an end, as the four
trustees and Salas left the room and any chance they then had to explain to
the shocked community why they selected this mystery man-no one knows- over the
candidate the community had overwhelmingly come to the
meeting to support - a respected
community leader who is well know, well trusted
and well respected- not just in Anaheim
Hill's Trustee Area 1-but across the Greater Orange Communty.
Since that corrupt vote, Greater
Orange has exploded with indignation at the arrogance of the politician's 4-2 vote.
Now, after a week to make up slick reasons
for voting for the unknown Salas, those arrogant politicians now want to
"explain" why they voted for Salas at another "Special Meeting" this Thursday
October 1st.* After this political theater, the politicians will then vote for a
"resolution" against a Special
Election-which they could have easily avoided- as too expensive.**
* The
meeting is not expected to be videotaped by OUSD, but California law allows public videotaping of
all public meetings
**OUSD
currently has a surplus in excess of $70 million
The organizers of the Nullify Petition drive have calculated the
cost of
the Special Election to be about $5.00 a voter, a price which hundreds
of voters who have already signed the Nullify Petitions agree is a small price to pay for democracy and to nullify the arrogant political injustice of September 22nd.
Which is what these four arrogant
politicians continue to not understand or comprehend.
Citizens of Greater Orange have
routinely used the petition process to call for elections as the "price" of
controlling arrogant politicians
and safeguarding local democracy.
Over the past two decades, Greater Orange citizens have never shied away from using the petition process to correct the excesses of numerous arrogant politicians -and now in 2015, as a wave of anti-politician sentiment is sweeping the nation, it is apparent that the citizen's of Greater Orange are on the verge of again telling OUR local arrogant politicians that they have gone too far and in America, it is the majority of voters who are in charge- not four arrogant politicians who disregard the will of the people.
NEXT OUSD BOARD MEETING Thursday
OCTOBER 1, 2015
6:30 pm OUSD Board Meeting -OUSD BOARD ROOM
Public Comments from the audience will
be heard.
For AGENDA-CLICK ON : OUSD AGENDA
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REPORT
OUSD in CRISIS
a special
news series by Orange Net News /O/N/N/
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