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Supervisor Chris Norby marries today
July 20th, 2009, 5:06 pm · 33 Comments · posted by Jennifer Muir
Saying he is very much in love, Supervisor Chris Norby married a Tustin woman this afternoon in a small ceremony at the clerk recorder’s office in Fullerton.
Norby (pictured left in a file photo) and his bride, Martha Phillips, have been dating since last fall. Phillips, who friends say is in her early 30s, and her three children will move into the supervisor’s six-bedroom Fullerton home.The kids are ages 7, 9 and 10.
“She’s the kindest, sweetest, nicest, most grateful woman I’ve known,” Norby said today, while he was driving with his bride to Laguna Beach for a one-night honeymoon. “She’s wonderful. She loves me very much, and I love her very much.”
Norby wouldn’t discuss much more about Phillips’ background when we spoke briefly today.
This is the fourth marriage for the 4th District county supervisor, who just last year came under fire for claiming $340 for a week-long stay at a hotel during the summer of 2007, when his previous marriage was on the rocks. The same week he spent at that hotel in August, he was also found sleeping under a bush at the Old Courthouse in Santa Ana.
Norby’s and Phillips wed today in a 20-minute ceremony surrounded by family and staff members from Norby’s Fourth District office. Phillips was wearing a white gown and Norby a suit. They met at El Matador for a short reception afterward. Norby’s chief of staff Phil Tsunoda is babysitting tonight while Norby honeymoons.
“They make an extremely happy couple,” Tsonudua said.
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This guy is a real true to the bone IDIOT!!!
Is she deaf, dumb & blind?
Chris is in love.
Good luck to you. I am happy for you.
How wonderfully romantic! (LMAO!!!)
ohhh lala… i am sure they deserve each other.
As Forrest Gump said, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
What’s the “sleeping under a bush” comment have to do with Supervisor Norby’s wedding? Or that he “came under fire” ? Why not mention the wedding, wish him luck and we can all be happy for him.
Four times a charm!
Congratulations!
This is a joke, right? This fool gets married 4 times, now in a sick perverted father/daughter thing, yet he thinks my partner and my 10 year relationship ( and 5 year Massachusetts marriage) is a threat to marriage? California is a joke!!!
Carlos, I wholeheartedly agree. These people that spite all of this garbage about same sex marriage being a problem for heterosexual marriages are truly out of sync. Most homosexual marriages last longer than heterosexual marriages and the heterosexual people that continue having affairs, cheat, lie and remarry and state that gays are the problem have not looked into themselves and need to do that and not to scapegoat a whole other society. It is time in the 21st century we give rights to Gays.
i partied with him that night . boy we put some down . party animal ! i wondered where he went ?
hahaha, i’m pretty confident marriage/wife # 5 is just around the corner! stop while you’re way behind, norby. . . god almighty, what a sorry loser!
No wonder OC is in trouble. The OC is governed by a bunch of incompetent people. Next time we should send all of OC supervisors home and vote people who at least knows Econ 101.
I wish them well but I also hope they got some pre-marital counseling with his record and maybe hers. If they haven’t already, hopefully they will to help avoid whatever happened before and make this one last.
Why is it that conservatives marry so many times while liberals usually get it right the first time? Oh yeah, the educated now trend left while the right becomes the party of uninformed white guys. And educated people divorce less.
Hopefully our new President’s strong marriage and close ties with his children begin to influence conservatives so that divorce rates can go down and we don’t have any more “4 times the charm” politicians pontificating about “family values”.
Which liberals get it right? Do you mean the ones in Hollywood? And they’re the educated ones? Wow, you’re making so many claims and so little sense. Maybe being liberal means that you get to exaggerate without any data and look down at anyone you disagree with and call them names.
sleeping under a bush?
I wonder which marriage that “file photo” posted above, is taken from!
This is news????????????????
I heard that’s how he met his wife, Steve.
Three time loser got someone else to marry him…how long will this one last? And she has 3 young children…..oh dear God!
Sleeping under a Bush? That must be how he got the BORED OF SUPERISORS job, it was George Bush that he was asleep under!
Why would you buy a dog that bit it’s three previous owners?
You just can’t make this stuff up!
Is he a drunk?
One more after this and you’ll be an ‘ ace ‘ !
I’m voting against every Board of Supervisor. All five Supervisors are horrible. Norby living off the taxpayer after his wife kicked him out of the house is just par for the course.
And I thought 3rd time was the charm!!
Wow, some women will do anything for a six bedroom house! Even Chris Norby! How low can you go???
Like booking a cruise on a ship that has sunk on three other voyages. Just a thought…if he ends up divorced again, does he get an automatic seat in the FIFTH District?
Norby is heading to Laguna Beach to honeymoon under a bush while drunk….that’s the word on the street from huggy bear, and it cost me a fity.
ok–
another tid bit from the “whos who” that are getting married in the big o.c.!
didnt i see that mayor ed selich just got married too??
is there some reality show “marry a lying loser and win 1 million dollars? on youtube or somthin??
i know im judging—
i got married at city hall in santa ana— and i wasnt even pregnant!
by a clerk!
it was awesome
24 years with the same non political non judgy real man
who i wouldnt trade for all of thier “portfolios” put together!!
can you imagine the guilt and stress???
uuuuuuuuggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh
thank god for allllllllllllllllllll those b.a. degrees over the last 30 years– thx usc!
too bad no one majored in world economics or human behavior or science or PHYSICS for gosh sakes!
I’m very surprised that he wasn’t driving to the Civic Center in Santa ana to spend their one night honeymoon on the lawn next to the Hall of Administration!
That picture of Norby doesn’t do him any favors. Nice one OCR! It definately fits his profile of the OC’s Forrest Gump.
I can’t wait to find out more about his “bride”. 3 young children? OMG. It’s like having the fox guard the chicken coop. If he asks those kids if they want to pet the “bunny”, they better run and run fast!!!
Holy great gobs of liberal bat guano. You folks have got to stop the hate or get a life. Living at the blogoshpere alter of peep shows and venting misguided frustrations at some schmuk who is crazy enough to get married after three failed attempts, qualifies you for induction into the County of O’s mental health services,
What an absolute waste of electrons. The only thing worse, is Jenniffer Muir’s half baked story that either was corrupted by her medically marujuana challenged editor who decided that print news is boring and we need to drag someone through some muck so you all can uncork you jollies and help sell some more banner ads.
Hey and since one of you alternative life types decided to toss your sexual orientation into this insestious trough called news, what about that lisping homosexual, give every idiot with out a job a loan, with a history of a gay prostitution ring being run out of his DC condo without his knowledge, hyperly strange beyond the subject of Muirs article, Barney Frank?!?!
To spout utterly gratutious false diarhea and call it fact, regarding homosexuals staying together, blah blah……WTF has that got to do with Jennies story?…even if what you say is true, which it ain’t.
Norby is no different than any one of us. I’m not gonna defend him but with his marriage being reported and Muir writting absolutley old news rubish about the guy in the same article, speaks volumes about her bias or completely overwhelmed with a position that was vacated by our crazy-gotta-luv-em Cuban; Norberto Santana.
Norberto would have never published she crap in the same story as a persons wedding…he would have saved it and rolled it out when it could have done more damage.
I expected the Obama love fest to take away from the real issues at hand and that these issues would be reported by those who didn’t graduate from the Jerry Springer college of journalism, alas I was sorely wrong.