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Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Warrior takes on Party Establishment
eLECTION Watch 2016
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OUSD Warrior takes on Local Political Establishment over endorsement of candidate  |
| OUSD Trustee Mark Wayland and family from Facebook |
Orange Unified Trustee and U.S. Marine Mark Wayland continued in his warrior mode.
After
taking OUSD candidate Greg Salas to court (see below) for false statements on Salas' ballot
statement (and winning), Wayland is now taking on the local political establishment over
their endorsement this week of Orange Unified Area 1 candidate Greg Salas.
In
a Tuesday January 19, 2016 posting on the official Orange County Republican
Facebook page, Wayland reacted to the
establishment endorsement of Greg Salas.
Wayland-
a lifelong Republican- expressed similar frustration with the local party establishment
politics that is now shaping the national dialog
in both parties in the 2016 Presidential Primary races of both parties.
Wayland
stating he is "disappointed in this endorsement" writes about the
OUSD Area 1 contest between candidates Greg Salas and Andrea Yamasaki that: "The differences between the two
candidates could not be more stark. Just because someone puts an R next to
their name, does not mean that they are the best candidate for the position."
Wayland
then admonishes the local political establishment: "Look to Washington
Wayland
then takes personal responsibility for his vote to appoint Salas as the provisional
trustee: "I take responsibility for my vote that led to the recall, because
I did not do my job and completely vet the two candidates for the board. I
regretted my vote almost immediately after I did it."
The
Trustee continues:
"But
I will not make the same mistake twice. I am asking the voters in the district
to get informed, find out which candidate has dedicated most of their adult
life in the service of others. The choice, unlike most elections, should be an
easy one. Now it is up to all of you to do the right thing. You do not vote for
an individual that did his best to mis-inform the voters on his candidate
statement. We all need to put honest and ethical people into pubic office. This
would be a good start."
Comments
to Wayland's post in the Facebook comments
was overwhelming positive from other Greater Orange Republicans who also took
the establishment to task for the establishment endorsement of Salas (see link
below).
Also on January 19, 2012 Wayland
released a press release on his successful court action against the false Salas
ballot statement.
The press release reads in
part:
Wayland said he believed that it was his
duty as an elected OUSD Trustee to ensure that the March 1, 2016 election would
be free of party politicking and political gamesmanship."
Nothing is more sacred than the people’s
right to vote,” he said. “The Orange
County
The press release also states:
I
believe that Mr. Salas’ original statement was misleading – and not just
because he wrongly listed me as an endorser,” Wayland explained. “But,
perhaps more importantly, because Mr. Salas falsely implied that he was an
experienced incumbent elected to the Orange
Unified School
District
Wayland
added that voters needed to know that Mr. Salas was provisionally appointed,
never elected, to fill the OUSD District One seat vacated by former Trustee
Diane Singer late last year.
“In
fact, Mr. Salas served just 38 days and attended only two meetings before voters
terminated his provisional appointment,” he explained.
Below
is the Tuesday January 19, 2016 posting, you may also see it on the official
Facebook page-click on:
Mark
Wayland As a OUSD board member, and a life long Republican. I also am
very disappointed in this endorsement. The differences between the two
candidates could not be more stark. Just because someone puts an R next to
their name, does not mean that they are the best candidate for the
position. Look to Washington
# posted by /OCS/ Orange Communication System @ 8:48 PM
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016
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Trustee Mark Wayland full of surprises
and OUSD Board elects new officers
At the beginning of their
December 10, 2015 meeting, the Orange Unified School Board elected three new
Board officers. Trustee Rick Ledesma
will return as the Board President, Trustee Dr . Alexia Deligianni
-Brydges will serve in her first OUSD leadership capacity as OUSD Vice
President and Kathy Moffat will return to the Board leadership as Clerk after
years of being denied any leadership position by the OUSD Board Majority. In the past, Moffat has served in all three
leadership positions.
This is the first time in years
that two women have served on the Board Leadership.
After the 2001 Orange Recall one
of the Recall Reforms championed by newly elected Citizen's Board was rotation
of the leadership positions. The rotation of leadership positions was initiated
by OUSD Board President Robert Viviano- one of two sitting trustees who
supported the goals of 2001 Recall against their recalled board colleagues who
were part of the then Jacobson Fringe Majority.
Vivano was long unfairly denied a leadership position by that Jacobson
Fringe Majority.
The policy to rotate officers was
rescinded after the controversial Steve
Rocco was elected to the OUSD Board.
At the same Board meeting on
December 10th, Trustee Mark Wayland's last comment of the last agenda
item stunned the audience as Wayland announced that for personal health reasons
he would be resigning his Trustee position effective December 31, 2015.
Wayland however did not resign.
The often surprising Wayland did however have an even bigger December surprise
for Greater Orange. He filed a lawsuit against OUSD Area 1 Candidate Trustee
Greg Salas for filing false statements on his Ballot Candidate Statement.
Salas had falsely listed Wayland as endorsing Salas, and
more importantly according to Wayland, Salas filed false and misleading
statements for his ballot statement to imply that Salas was an incumbent (i.e.
elected) OUSD Board member.
On January 6th, Wayland won in court when Greg Salas
was ordered by Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard Lissebrink to remove
the false statements from his Candidate Statement. (For more
information Click on SALAS ).
INSIDE the January 21, 2015 Agenda
Action Items
12 A- (page 3) Vote
on new contracts with OUSD employee groups
12 C- (page 34) $4.7
million for maintence that has been deferred
12 D- (page 35)
Request by Trustee John Ortega to work with local law enforcement agencies toward
improving use of School Resource Officers
13 A- (page 37) Survey
results on future OUSD Bond conducted in December 2015
NEXT OUSD BOARD MEETING Thursday,
January 21, 2016
CLOSED SESSION 5:30 pm
OUSD Regular Session: 7:00
pm
For the AGENDA-
For more information call the OUSD
Superintendent’s office at 714-628-4040
For budgeting questions call Business Services at
714-628-4015
ARCHIVAL Information and direct news can be found
at:
the Greater Orange News Service
http://greaterorange.blogspot.com/
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Court orders Salas change
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OUSD Trustee Wayland stays with integrity
Judge orders OUSD candidate Greg Salas to
Orange
Unified Trustee Mark Wayland's last
comment of the last agenda item in the last meeting of 2015 (the December 10
meeting) stunned the audience as Wayland announced that for personal health
reasons he would be resigning his Trustee position effective December 31, 2015.
That
surprise announcement from Trustee Mark Wayland however led to even bigger December
surprises for Greater Orange from the often surprising Wayland.
On December 14th, four
days after that last meeting, Wayland filed a lawsuit against OUSD
Area 1 candidate Greg Salas for false candidate ballot statements and then at
the end of December-Wayland did not resign as he had announced.
Wayland
filed the lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court against candidate Greg Salas
for false statements Salas had included in his Candidate Statement and filed
with the Orange County Registrar of Voters for the March 1 Special Election for
OUSD Area 1 Trustee seat.
Wayland
reported to local media outlets that he had filed the suit when he learned
that Salas falsely listed Wayland as
endorsing Salas, and more importantly according to Wayland, Salas filed false
and misleading statements for his ballot statement to imply that Salas was an
incumbent (i.e. elected) OUSD Board member.
On
January 6th, Wayland won in court when
Greg Salas was ordered by Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard Lissebrink
to remove the false statements from his Candidate Statement.
Salas
was never elected to the OUSD Board. Salas was ousted as a "provisional
trustee" 38 days after his
controversial "provisional appointment" in September when a coalition
of Greater Orange residents terminated the Salas' appointment with a petition of
3670 signatures-134% more than required within 30 days of the appointment.
After
the controversial Salas appointment caused widespread anger throughout Greater
Orange against the OUSD Board (and immediately led to the successful petition
drive to oust Salas) a hastily called Special OUSD Board Meeting was called one
week later on October 1, 2015. The purpose of that meeting was to try and defuse
the petition drive to oust Salas by having the OUSD Trustees explain the
process that led each to vote on the on the "provisional appointment"
to the vacant seat ( OUSD Trustee Kathy Moffat and OUSD Trustee Dr. Alexia
Deligianni did not vote for the Salas appointment).
That
Special Meeting however only intensified the growing anger over the Salas
appointment as OUSD Trustee Timothy Surridge admitted during that meeting that
he recruited his friend Salas for the position based on political
motivations. Salas, who had just
recently moved to Anaheim Hills from outside of Orange Unified, had never been
to any OUSD meeting or event and had never visited any OUSD schools until after
being recruited by Surridge shortly before the OUSD vote to appoint Salas.
After
being ordered by the Superior Court to change his Candidate Statement, the
revised Salas "candidate statement" takes out the false statements ordered
by the court, but continues to try and
mislead voters.
The
new Salas candidate statement ( full
text below) reads: "I've been an Orange County
Salas
states that he is "committed to serving on Orange Unified School District's
Board" but does not say that that commitment only
started when his friend OUSD Board
Trustee Timothy Surridge actively recruited Salas for a position Salas was not even aware
existed- all admittedly because of political motivations.
The
Salas statement continues with as Salas (who admittedly was recruited by Surridge
based on political motivations) writes: "and I won't let OUSD become a
political football for outside special interests."
Having
moved into Orange Unified just two years ago, Salas continues to lie with the
ballot statement "I've dedicated my life to serving our community." Salas has never
served the local Greater Orange Community in any capacity prior to his
attending two OUSD Board meetings of OUSD Board while he was a
"provisional trustee".
Finally, Salas writes:
"My leadership and experience have
earned me the support of: OUSD Boardmember Rick Ledesma OUSD Boardmember Tim
Surridge OUSD Boardmember John Ortega Rancho Santiago Canyon Boardmember Phil
Yarbrough"
Of course Surridge admitted
that it was his friendship and political motivations that earned his recuritment and endorsement of Salas.
To see what others on the
board learned about Salas before the vote- see what Salas himself wrote about
his "leadership and experience "
on his handwritten OUSD candidate information sheet- CLICK on:
Below is the revised candidate
statement Greg Salas was forced to submit after the Superior Court ruled
against his false statements in his first ballot statement:
ORANGE UNIFIED SCHOOL
DISTRICT GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER TRUSTEE AREA 1, SHORT TERM GREGORY SALAS AGE:
54 Orange County
Businessman/Parent
I've been an Orange
County
My wife Elizabeth and
I have raised our six children in Orange
County , five have graduated and one
still attends a local Orange
County
I have no desire to
seek higher office, I'm committed to serving on Orange Unified
School District
I will ensure OUSD
serves our children and our community, and I won't let OUSD become a political
football for outside special interests.
I've dedicated my life
to serving our community.
My leadership and
experience have earned me the support of: OUSD Boardmember Rick Ledesma OUSD
Boardmember Tim Surridge OUSD Boardmember John Ortega Rancho Santiago Canyon
Boardmember Phil Yarbrough
Please join my
supporters in voting for Greg Salas for Orange Unified
School District
LINK: Salas Statement
The other candidate for the
Area 1 seat is 20 year Anaheim Hills resident Andrea Yamasaki.
Her Candidate
Statement is below with links to the statement and her OUSD candidate information
sheet.
Click on: Yamasaki Qualities in her own words
and
Ballot Statement
Restoring
trust and confidence in the Orange
Unified School
My experience, hard
work and dedication to OUSD schools have prepared me for the significant
educational and economic challenges facing this Board in the critical years
ahead.
I am committed to
focused efforts in support of a well-rounded education for all students and to
maintaining accountability for conservative fiscal management of our resources.
Making OUSD school
facilities safer and equipping them for 21st century learning is fundamental to
a quality education.
I have devoted over
15,000 volunteer hours serving as President/ Executive board member for several
PTAs, and holding leadership positions in advisory councils, Girl Scouts,
booster organizations, and numerous community groups.
This experience taught
me the value of galvanizing community support in a transparent and proactive
manner.
My husband, a
technology company executive and retired US
We've lived in this
community over 20 years with 3 children attending OUSD schools since
kindergarten.
Please help me restore
trust and confidence in the OUSD Board and put the focus back on students - not
party politics!
eLECTION Watch 2016
is a service of Orange Net News /O/N/N/
Thursday, January 07, 2016
All Canyon Roads open
CHP declares all Orange County Canyon roads open today
After days of pounding rain and mud closed Santiago Canyon roads, all roads are open as of this morning in Greater Orange Canyons
After days of pounding rain and mud closed Santiago Canyon roads, all roads are open as of this morning in Greater Orange Canyons
- Silverado Canyon Road has been cleared of Debris and reopened at Oak Ln
Orange County EOC
#OCSDPIO: Silverado Canyon - Deputies continue to patrol canyon areas, monitor & report conditions to @OrangeCountyEOC #whileyousleep 
Wednesday, January 06, 2016
Wednesday: Voluntary evacuation for Santiago Canyon
Voluntary Evacuation again for Wednesday in Santiago Canyon
- Beginning Wednesday at 10:00 am voluntary evacuation is in effect for Silverado Canyon residences east of 30311 Silverado Canyon Rd (1/3)
Tuesday, January 05, 2016
Santiago Canyon Road closed
Mudslide closes Santiago Canyon Road
Since rains subsided, emergency crews are working to open Santiago Canyon Road.
KTLA has posted the following video of mud slide:
Click on: KTLA
Since rains subsided, emergency crews are working to open Santiago Canyon Road.
KTLA has posted the following video of mud slide:
Click on: KTLA
Silverado Canyon evacuation
Voluntary Evacuation again for Wednesday in Santiago Canyon
- Beginning Wednesday at 10:00 am voluntary evacuation is in effect for Silverado Canyon residences east of 30311 Silverado Canyon Rd (1/3)
Red Cross Care & Reception Facility open for those affected by #Silverado voluntary evacuations. Service animals welcome. Silverado Community Center (27641 Silverado Canyon Rd) -No animals.
