Another follow-up from the Reg’s Tony Saavedra on the Orange County Fair Board’s action last week…
A Brea businessman has filed a complaint with county prosecutors accusing the Orange County Fair Board of violating state open meeting laws.
Jim Porterfield, 45, complained that he wasn’t allowed to speak Thursday before the board approved a new policy for doling out free concert and fair tickets to board members.
Porterfield, in a letter to Deputy District Attorney Dan Hess, said he had rehearsed his three-minute speech, but wasn’t allowed to address the board until after directors voted to scale back their concert tickets to 10 apiece per show, down from 26.
Porterfield said the board did not cut back enough and would have said so — had he been allowed to speak before the vote. The state Bagley-Keene act requires state bodies to take public comment before or during the body’s discussion of the item.
Read Tony’s earlier story here.
The OC Fair Board Members are a bunch of dirty rotten scoundrels.
BOYCOTT THE OC FAIR. Make 2008 the lowest attendance on record.
Send the Board Members a message. BOYCOTT THE OC FAIR.
Here are the names of the pigs at the trough:
Dale Dykema ~ President (Orange)
Julie Vandermost ~ V.P. ( Laguna Niguel)
DEBORAH CARONA ~ YIKES (Orange)
Gary Hayakawa ~ (Irvine)
David Padilla ~ (Costa Mesa)
Kristina Dodge ~ (Monarch Beach)
Joyce Tucker ~ (Newport Beach)
David Ellis ~ (Newport Coast)
Mary Young ~ (Aliso Viejo)
Their e-mail can be found at: http://www.ocfair.com/ocf/AboutUs/board.asp
BOYCOTT THE OC FAIR:-[
These people are greedy. Add to that, the fair was to CHEAP to hire The Eliminators. I am boycotting.