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Saturday, March 12, 2016
Deligianni and Pauly campaign for Assembly
eLECTION Watch 2016
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OUSD Trustee Deligianni-Brydges and
Former Villa Park Councilwoman
Deborah Pauly in crowded 68th Assembly Race
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| Dr. Deligianni-Brydges |
With the Friday 3/11/16 election filing period deadline, it's official that OUSD Trustee
Deligianni-Brydges and Villa Park
Councilwomen Deborah Pauly are in the crowded race for the 68th Assembly Seat. A total of seven candidates
are seeking the seat being vacated by termed-out Assemblyman Donald Wagner.
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| Former VP Councilwomen Deborah Pauly |
Both Deligianni-Brydges and Pauly
had previously announced their candidacy and had already started
campaigning and taken part in a candidate forum.
Pauly who is no stranger to controversy
having made national headlines with her firebrand Tea Party-style
pronouncements against Muslims and Obama-care, made more headlines after annoucing her campign then being arrested and accused of DUI in an drving accident.
In September of last year, Pauly
was arrested in Anaheim
for hitting a parked car while driving and charged with DUI. Her trial proceedings on the DUI
charge are set to start in May.
Media reports had her DUI controversy morphing into another anti-Muslim rant with reports of her blaming Muslim groups in remarks to police officers the night of her arrest and then blaming Muslim groups for leaking her arrest to the media.
Media reports had her DUI controversy morphing into another anti-Muslim rant with reports of her blaming Muslim groups in remarks to police officers the night of her arrest and then blaming Muslim groups for leaking her arrest to the media.
Pauly has also publicly blamed her divorce proceedings for
contributing to the DUI arrest.
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This is OUSD Trustee Dr. Alexia
Deligianni-Brydges' second run for a state office. In 2010, two years after being elected to her
first term on the OUSD Board, Deligianni
ran for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction. With twelve people on the June 2010 primary
ballot, Deligianni came in 8th with 4.8%
of the vote. (Click on: Deligianni )
In this year's Assembly race, real-estate
agent Deligianni is casting herself as an "independent-business women".
Deligianni who has had her real estate license since 2010 actually works
through Ricci Real Estate in Orange . (Deligiani Job )
Deligianni had announced intentions to run for Assembly on her Facebook page at the end of last year. Initial fundraising showsed that she raised $43,000 in contibutions-$40,000 from herself and the rest mostly from family members.(Click on FUNDRAISING)
In her Facebook announcement she
had promoted her website as www.AlexiaMeansBuisness. That domain was dropped for her new website
domain: www.votealexia.com
Her domain was registered by Sacramento based Dawn Dias who lists herself
on her blog as "freelance writer, designer and filmaker". Her books include: Sh!t No One Tells You About Toddlers & The Sh!t No One Tells You: A Guide to Surviving Your Baby's First Year.
On her website, Deligianni's campaign consultant Dias explains:
Dawn lives in Sacramento, CA, with her
partner, two kids, two dogs, two cats, and the occasional mouse brought into
the home by said cats. She is tired.
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| Chris Ngyuen |
In the recent Area 1 Trustee appointment debacle, Deligianni passed over voting for now Trustee Andrea Yamasaki and Timothy Surridge's hand picked candidate Greg Salas for Deligianni's close friend, former campaign manager and Orange County Political blogger-Chris Nguyen.
Both Deligianni and Pauly worked against the last Orange Unified School District Facilities Bond-Measure K.
Deligianni's website and Facebook
page calls for lower gasoline prices and states that she will fight for lower
gasoline prices-but does not indicate how she will accomplish this goal over
the multi-national petroleum companies-or as a member of the minority party in
an overwhelmingly Democratic State Legislature.
In a recent community forums Deligianni has spoken against Common Core and mandatory public school vaccinations.
Deligianni's recent Facebook page picture update has a
photo of her with Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas .
In a recent community forums Deligianni has spoken against Common Core and mandatory public school vaccinations.
Deligianni's recent Facebook page picture update has a
photo of her with Sen. Ted Cruz of
The other candidates are: Irvine
Mayor Steven Choi; Former Anaheim City Councilman Harry Sidhu; Anaheim Cultural
and Heritage Commissioner Konstantinos Roditis; Attorney Jay Panahi; and
Non-profit Executive Brian Chuchua.
The two top vote getters on June 7th will face
each other in the November 2016 General Election.
Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Lawsuit, Yamasaki and Bond update
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OUSD going to mediation over Peralta Golf Partnership lawsuit
The Orange Unified School District will be going to mediation over a lawsuit Orange Unified School District Recreation Center complex at the former 20-acre Peralta School
Peralta Golf Partnerships held the lease at the site from 1994 until March of 2015 after the OUSD Trustees voted in 4-3 against extending the lease in February 2015. Led by OUSD Trustee Timothy Surridge- the OUSD Board voted to sub-lease the site directly to three groups (Olive Crest School
Drotter LLC is owned by Jason Drotter, the former coach of the Villa Park High School boy's and girls' golf teams for six years who was the current the head coach of the CSUF men's golf program in addition to managing the Super Sports complex for Peralta Golf Partners.
Surridge openly displayed contempt toward the owners of Peralta Golf Partners during meetings that the owners appeared before the Board trying to save their lease after Surridge's plan to lease the property to an apartment developer fell apart as well as his next plan to sell the property.
Surridge stated that he wanted to maximize the dollars from
the site by cutting out Peralta Golf Partners as a middle man as he lead the
effort to deny Peralta Golf Partners a month-to-month lease and then to
terminate the lease.
Trustees Kathy Moffat, Dr. Alexia Deligiani-Brydges and
Diane Singer voted against ending the relationship with Peralta Golf Partners.
Yamasaki set to take OUSD seat
The Orange Unified School Board Agenda for Thursday March
10, 2016 tentatively has Andrea Yamasaki taking her seat after a landslide win
in the Special Election for the Area 1 Trustee
Seat.
Now just waiting for the Orange County Registrar of Voters
to certify the election results, Community Advocate Andrea Yamasaki won with 74.9%
over her establishment endorsed opponent Greg Salas. Voter turn out was 19.6% in the first ever OUSD all-mail-in vote.
Expecting the certification of the election by
Thursday, Yamasaki will have public
swearing in at the Board Meeting ( she will be officially be sworn in as soon
as the election results are certified).
Inside the OUSD Agenda
OUSD Bond information UPDATE
The
OUSD Agenda includes a report from Bonnie Moss of CliffordMoss the OUSD Political
Consultant on additional steps toward a 2016 bond measure. To see CliffordMoss
assesment of how to win after losing-CLICK ON: CliffordMoss
The
update will be Agenda Information Item 14 B page 43.
Also on the OUSD Agenda:
· Action Item 13 A (page 5)- Second Interim
Financial Report on the Budget
· Information Item 14 C Fred Kelly
ADA Update (page 44)
NEXT OUSD BOARD MEETING January
18, 2016
Next OUSD Board Meeting -OUSD BOARD ROOM
CLOSED SESSION- 6:00 pm
OUSD Regular Session: 7:00 pm
For AGENDA-CLICK ON
For more information call the OUSD
Superintendent’s office at 714-628-4040
For budgeting questions call Business Services at
714-628-4015
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016
YAMASAKI LANDSLIDE in OUSD
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A SUPER TUESDAY FOR YAMASAKI
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In
a clear rebuke of the Orange County Republican Establishment, Orange Unified Republican
voters joined with Democrats and Independents and elected Community Advocate
Andrea Yamasaki over Republican Establishment Endorsed Greg Salas.
Winning
74 % of the vote, Yamasaki easily won election after her supporters ousted Salas
by petition from his appointed post.
Yamasaki
won based on her community connections over Salas who's main community
connection was that he played on a basketball team with OUSD Trustee Timothy
Surridge who admitted he had recruited Salas for the vacancy on the OUSD
Board after the resignation of Diane Singer.
Even
after being rebuffed by the community in a petition, Salas forced the district
to spend over $500,000 on a Special Election by entering the election.
While
Yamasaki conducted a flawless campaign, Salas struggled to have a campaign of any significant
meaning and could go down as one of the worst local campaigns ever waged.
UPDATE: 3/2/16: 20,822 ballots cast: 19.5%
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OUSD Area 1 Vote by Mail Election turn out at 16.7%
(3/1/16 before votes released)
Orange
County Registrar's office reports on the all mail ballots reveal that 17,988
ballots were received by today- March 1st, 2016. A total of 107,546 ballots were mailed out
bringing the total vote returned to 16.7% as of this posting on March 1st before the final ballots of the day.
Of
the 17,988 ballots returned, total of 9,607 ballots were from Republicans (53.4%
of the vote). Democrats returned 5,028 ballots (28% of the vote). Independents
and minor party votes made up the remaining 3353 ballots (18.6% of the total vote).
OUSD
Total Ballots mailed
107,546
· Registered Republicans= 47,899 45.5%
· Registered Democrats
= 31,126 28.9%
· Other Registration =
28,521 26.6%
Percentages
of Total Registered Voting in OUSD
election
· Registered Republicans = 20%
· Registered Democrats = 16.2%
· Other Registration
= 11.7%
The
Orange County Registrar of Voters will continue to release voting results as late ballots postmarked on March 1st continue to arrive.
