Subject: Bill Campbell

• Less Than a Year Since She Was Appointed Sheriff, Sandra Hutchens Has Made Some Powerful Enemies

  March 26, 2009

• Supervise the Supervisors-Stop the Toll Road

  On Feb. 28, the OC Board of Supervisors will consider adopting a resolution to support the Transportation Corridor Agencies' Foothill-South (241) extension. The motion was put forth by Supervisor Bill Campbell at the Board's Feb. 7 meeting (item 32 on the agenda). No doubt this is meant to trump the adoption by three local city councils (Aliso Viejo, Laguna Beach, Oceanside) of resolutions opposing the road. Unfortunately for TCA and the BOS, the State legislature has its own deck of trump card

  February 17, 2006

• Bill Campbell Hates the (Surfin') USA

  Today I listened to a State Senate Budget Subcommittee meeting on Transportation. Slightly more fun a C.I.A. interrogation. But as long as the TCA keeps trying to build a time/money-wasting toll road that might not even relieve traffic, when they haven't even done ANY studies on weekend traffic because they were only concerned w/ the nine-to-fivers who can afford to fill their coffers, when it's illegally close to an Indian burial ground, when it'll wreck the only inexpensive beach campsite left

  May 17, 2006

• Bates: Fishy

  If only it were a smile contest... I thought the Transportation Corridor Agencies were getting desperate when I saw their ads on cable. But now it looks like they're going so far as to cobble together campaign mailers for supporters. I say this because Pat Bate's latest mailer, which uses TCA endorsements, graphics and basic formatting, looks like it could have come straight from the toll road agencies. It lists her supporters from the Senate and Assembly Transportation Committees, OCTA, and bo

  October 10, 2006

• Save Trestles on the Airwaves

  Daniel Gannaway, musician and active member of the Surfrider Foundation, has composed a song called "Save Trestles". It can be downloaded from his MySpace page, www.myspace.com/danielgannaway. Why is he giving away the goods for free? "I believe Save Trestles is a really important campaign, and I've contributed in the best way that I know how," says Gannaway. "If Surfrider felt that there was nothing at risk here, there would be no Save Trestles campaign, and I might have slept more and not writ

  October 15, 2006

• Civilian Review of Sheriff Passes 5-0

  Steven Greenhut at the Register's Orange Punch Liberty Blog attended today's Board of Supervisors meeting and reports that Sheriff Mike Carona lost his bid to kill the concept of a civilian review panel. Thanks to a surprising last-minute switch by Supervisor Bill Campbell, the vote was 5-0, according to Greenhut. In 60 days, a detailed proposal will come back to the all-Republican board for consideration. Led by Supervisors John Moorlach and Chris Norby, the board has worked to increase scr

  May 22, 2007

• Schroeder Law Enforcement Empire At Stake Today

  Mike Schroeder will jump out of bed this morning in Corona del Mar, neatly hang his Darth Vader pajamas in the closet, shower, kneel at his USC football altar and don an expensive, natty suit befitting Orange County’s leading Republican strategist-slash-chiropractic insurance company king. It’s a big day in Schroederdom. He’ll drive his jumbo-sized, black Hummer to the state court of appeal (COA) in Santa Ana in the hopes of teaching a onetime disciple a lesson: Don’t Mess with Mike. S

  December 18, 2007

• State Park Scare Tactics 2

  The Southern California Association of Governments has issued a warning that the California Coastal Commission's veto of the 241 (Foothill-South) toll road extension could spell doom for our air quality. Or at least our air quality credits. It's hard to imagine how a road which would increase cars on all our roads, encourage development, foster industrial as well as commercial complexes and require extensive construction just to be built could possibly have a positive impact on air quality. Sti

  March 7, 2008

• (Sheriff) Jack in the Box

  If ever a man looked like a sheriff, it’s Jack Anderson. The mustachioed man is tall and husky and, if he wore a cowboy hat, would cast an impressive shadow sitting on a horse. Of course, the wild—ridiculously wild—west days at the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) should be over. Ex-Sheriff Mike Carona and his evil sidekicks Jo Ann Galisky and Steven Bishop have found their rightful places in society. Carona teeters on the brink of prison if convicted later this year in a bribe

  April 1, 2008

• Supervisor Wannabe Promises to Combat OC Weekly's Evil Grip on County

  You're forgiven if you haven't already heard the good news about Donald Ritze. He's a helicopter pilot, avocado grower and member of the Orange County Bee Keepers Association who is running against Bill Campbell for OC's third supervisorial district. According to a section of his website called "My Bios"--which you presumably can find on "The Internets", Ritze has a wife and kids, 232 avocado trees, and a desultory relationship with spelling and punctuation. "Everyone wants to know what party I

  May 14, 2008

• And The Sheriff is. . .

  Sandra Hutchens! The Orange County Board of Supervisors earlier this morning appointed the retired LA County Sheriff's Department division chief to replace Mike Carona as Orange County Sheriff. The vote was 3-2 in favor of Hutchens. Supervisors Chris Norby and Bill Campbell supported Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Walters. Patricia Bates, John Moorlach and Janet Nguyen voted for Hutchens. More new-sheriff stuff to come on this very blog. Stay tuned!

  June 10, 2008

• The Circus Outside the Toll Road Circus Inside

  Photo by Christopher Victorio Passing through the Del Mar Fairgrounds gates bound for the toll-road hearing inside O’Brien Hall Monday morning, you were first re-directed to a party scene created by 241 opponents. At any time during the 10-hour marathon inside, dozens and dozens of people filled the bustling area outside to sign up with environmental groups, get free food vouchers, make protest signs or acquire pre-printed ones, pose with a cut-out of George W. Bush in a green “Save the Par

  September 23, 2008

• Board of Supes Invite Pedo-Priest Apologist To Give Invocation This Monday**

  What is it with the Orange County Board of Supervisors and their love of pedophile apologists? In 2006, Third District Supe Bill Campbell tried placing Monsignor John Urell, the right-hand man of Diocese of Orange bishops for a good decade of their sex-abuse scandal, on the county's human relations commission until molestation victims raised rightful holy hell. Now, an addendum to this Monday's BoS agenda currently lists Monsignor Lawrence Baird as giving the invocation at 9:30 in the morn.Baird

  January 10, 2009

• A Pedo-Apolgist's Best Pal: OC Supervisor Bill Campbell

  So it turns out icky Monsignor Lawrence Baird won't give the invocation at the Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting today after all as originally planned; Baird now says he has to give Mass at St. John Vianney Chapel on Balboa Island at 9:30 a.m., and isn't that as bullshit an excuse as you'll ever hear, especially given that Mass at the picturesque chapel is said on weekdays at 7:45 a.m.? Whatever; let Larry the Louse sink back into his depraved multimillion-dollar Balboa home. Besides, t

  January 13, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 14: Weekend and Monday B.S.

  Orange County Register: Octo-Mom took spawn from her oldest litters to Knott's Berry Farm on Saturday and Disneyland the day before, and all she got were crummy t-shirts reading: "More kids have passed through my log fume than Knott's" and "Your Kaiser co-pays helped pay for the 8-pack I just dropped, so what am I doing now? I'm going to Disneyland!" TMZ's got pics of the getaway, which allowed volunteer contractors to finish getting her La Habra home

  March 16, 2009

• Say You Will Build It, and They Will Come . . . If the 'It' Is a Toll Road Over Trestles Parkland

  September 25, 2008

• Meet the New Sheriff . . .

  Taking a wait-and-see stance toward OC’s new top cop

  June 19, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] Don Bren Plays Rough With Businesswoman, His Kids-But Courts Play Rough, Too

  June 5, 2008

• Dammit, Janet!

  Why do Supervisor Janet Nguyen's former supporters in OC's Republican power structure hate her so much?

  January 17, 2008

• Bad Moves

  September 27, 2007

• Hassle-free Bankrolling

  Public board lavishes OC GOP sugar daddy with $61,000 per month

  March 29, 2007

• The Wretched of the Wretches

  November 9, 2006

• Girls Trouble

  Happy New Year: now youll pay for the sheriffs alleged sex romps

  January 5, 2006

• Crunched!

  May 20, 2004

• The Times They Are A-Changin . . . Back!

  March 4, 2004

• Where Have All the Blowhards Gone?

  November 20, 2003

• What a Rush!

  November 6, 2003

• Stonewall Rackauckas

  September 4, 2003

• Good Luck on Your War

  March 27, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 27, 2003

• Please Tear Up Our Journalist in Space Application

  February 13, 2003

• Earth Mover

  Supervisor candidate Jim Potts wants to shake up county, dig tunnel under mountain

  January 30, 2003

• Capitol Idea!

  August 15, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 7, 2002

• Taming the Beast

  September 17, 1998

• John Urell Gets Punked!!!

  John Urell, pastor to the powerful (see: Supervisor Bill Campbell, blog king Matt "Jubal" Cunningham), pedo-priest protector supreme, was the victim of a brilliant prank this past Sunday at St. Timothy in Laguna Niguel. Someone created the flyer above, which details at length Urell's role in the Diocese of Orange's sex-abuse scandal, and inserted it into nearly all the church bulletins after morning Mass. Even better, the same prankster slipped the flyer under the windshield of every car in St.

  July 2, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  July 9, 2009

• Embattled County Planning Director Announces Retirement

  Bryan Speegle, director of Orange County Public Works and head of a planning department that was recently lambasted in a government audit and blasted by county supervisors, has announced his retirement, according to a statement from the county CEO's office."County Executive Officer Thomas G. Mauk has named Jess Carbajal to serve as Interim Director of OC Public Works, effective immediately," reads the statement. "Carbajal, previously the department's Chief Deputy Director, has served in manageme

  August 10, 2009

• UPDATED: The Irvine Co. Gift That Keeps on Giving

  UPDATED WITH PHOTOS FROM THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING . . . Photo by Keith MayCounty Supervisor Bill Campbell, whose district includes the Irvine Co. land in question, is amused by a speaker at Tuesday's board meeting in Santa Ana.​He's got a gift. Donald Bren, the secretive, aging multi-billionaire who chairs The Irvine Co., has an undisputed gift for preservation. He sets aside, and preserves, and then preserves yet again the mostly steep, landslide prone, unbuildable portions of his spr

  September 30, 2009

• OCTA Committee Recommends Slightly Less Painful Bus Cuts--For Now

  WikicommonsBye bye buses.​County Supervisor Patricia Bates may have said it best today: "You can't send these people off a cliff, in a bus."The remark came amidst some low-heat sparring between her and Tustin Mayor Pro Tem Jerry Amante at this morning's meeting of the OCTA Finance and Administration committee. They were talking, of course, about how much they should recommend that the OCTA board of directors cut bus service in response to a budget shortfall.The recommendation that came out of

  October 28, 2009

• Arpaio Raises Howls Inside, Heckles Outside Bill Hunt for Sheriff Dinner

  ​I went to a Bill Hunt for Sheriff fund-raiser tonight, and a Joe Arpaio Dinner Show broke out.

  November 5, 2009

• Joe Arpaio Helps Inject Some Mexican-Hater Money Into Bill Hunt's Campaign for Sheriff

  November 12, 2009