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Category: Local Politics
Giving Power to the people…this is a short video of the April Tea Party held at the corner of La Paz and Marguerite in Mission Viejo. We ask the people what they would say to their neighbors, the Governor and the President…here’s what they had to say.
This post was done by request of: Tenant Advocates of Orange County. We are happy to give everyone a voice in this blog…
Todd A. Brisco received the presidential gavel from Malcolm Bennett at the recent legislation reception and installation dinner at the Yacht Club. Todd will serve as President of the AACSC Board of Directors for 2009.
Todd, a landlord/tenant specialist and also a real estate and insurance defense attorney, has been an attorney for more than 15 years in Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties. He is the sole proprietor of his own law firm, the Law Offices of Todd A. Brisco, in Anaheim.
He also serves as judge pro tem for San Bernardino and Orange counties.
Assisting Todd on the Board will be: Elaine Hutchison, Vice President-Administration; Malcolm Bennett, Vice President-Federal Legislation; Carol Chen, Vice President-State Legislation; Marial Sanders, Secretary; Kirk Davey, Treasurer; Paul Menezes, Parliamentarian; Steve Wyard, Product Service Council Chair; Kari Negri and Michele Hansen, Management Service Council Co-Chairs; Lucille Aresco-Crowley and Burt Sirota, Education Co-Chairs; Evelyn Arnold, PAC Chair. OCAJ Officers include: Clive Graham, President; Leonardo Wilborn, Vice President; Kyle Kazan, Secretary; Brad Ward, Treasurer.
New Board members include Terry Geiling, Steve Bogoyevac, Sharon Coughlin, Lorrie Baldwin and Bill Moseley.
Malcolm Bennett expressed gratitude to the staff and board members who helped with projects during the last two years of his term. “As rental property owners, we have had many legislative challenges this year and have protected owners against increased fees, fines, taxes and rent control,” he said. “Our partnership with elected officials underscores our success.”
Todd outlined his four initiatives for his presidency: expanded education, increased advocacy, added membership benefits and developing new revenue streams.
Malcolm received nearly 50 proclamations, resolutions and certificates of recognition from Congress members, US Senators, nine State Senators and 17 Assembly members plus L.A. Board of Supervisor Chair Knabe and L.A. Tax Assessor Rick Auerbach. Dozens of mayors and council members from cities throughout the Southland were on hand to congratulate Malcolm.
Senators Rod Wright, Alan Lowenthal and Lou Correa “roasted” Mac at the party. Newly elected Assemblymember Curt Hagman, son of 20 year AACSC member Diana Kuhr, was on hand to welcome Todd and thank AACSC for its support.
“You know that I understand rental leasing policies and problems— I own units in Long Beach, too,” he said.
A PAC highlight of the evening was the presentation of the new PAC pins and plaques to contributors. Kari Negri of Sky Properties, Christie Slatcher of Jamison Management, George Pabst of Pabst Kinney, and Paul Bonner (Cabrier Apartments) received plaques for donations of $1,000 or more. Paul presented the PAC Chair Evelyn Arnold with an additional $1,000 check as George Pabst picked up the challenge and committed to another $1,000 for 2009.
“Just think,” Paul said, “if only 100 of our 3000 members would contribute $1,000 we would have a $100,000 PAC — imagine the good we could do for rental property owners!”
Will you take the challenge and help our PAC and our Association in 2009?”
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Tenant Advocates of Orange County
The director of the California Department of Consumer Affairs, Carrie Lopez, resigned last Friday in the wake of disclosures about expenses she charged to taxpayers, including state funds for transportation to attend a Justin Timberlake concert with her daughter.
Carrie Lopez stepped down when she was presented with findings of a review undertaken by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s finance office after a LA Times report March 1 spotlighted travel expenses for her and nine other administration officials.
Who’s next?
The recent decline in the newspaper business has become an interesting topic in Orange County. Here’s the results of a recent survey…
Thirty-seven percent (37%) of Americans favor federal government subsidies to keep newspapers in business, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Forty-three percent (43%) say it’s better to let the papers go out of business, and 20% are not sure what to do.
Thirty-two percent (32%) of Americans believe some newspapers are too important to fail. Fifty percent (50%) reject this idea.
Fifty-one percent (51%) oppose a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last week that would let newspapers become tax-exempt non-profit organizations as long as they don’t endorse political candidates. Thirty-three percent (33%) support the measure proposed by Democratic Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland.
But 53% agree with Cardin that losing the newspaper industry is “a real tragedy for communities across the nation and for our democracy,” while 31% disagree.
While almost everyone reading this post probably check out news on-line, I’m not exactly sure that we will see the complete failure of the newspaper industry – but it does seem fairly sure that we will have a small fraction of the number of papers that we see today. Is this good or bad – what do you think?
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