Please refer to this chart Mayor Tait used in his State of the City address in 2012: http://www.anaheim.net/images/articles/4722/fullsize/slide24.png
Why in the heck would Tait even mildly entertain placing this high-profile Union Board Member in charge of Anaheim’s coffers??!!!! In essence, OCEA has been strategically spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to handpick the man who will sit across the bargaining table from them – Meanwhile, Leos would act as “management” for his own personal union’s contract negotiations on behalf of AMEA??!!! Huh??!!! Again, I cannot emphasize enough how extremely disastrous this would be to the future economic health of our city!

The cost of public-sector pay and benefits (which in most cases far exceeds what comparable workers earn in the private sector), combined with the hundreds of millions of dollars in unfunded pension liabilities for retired government workers, are already weighing down Anaheim’s budget. And as staggering as these burdens seem now, they are guaranteed to grow exponentially in the years ahead. Do you really think that if given the opportunity to serve on the dais that Leos would even fathom to make the cuts necessary to turn this situation around?

To serve the people of Anaheim is impossible for John Leos; he is a union man through-and-through, first and foremost. It is in his blood. Leos cannot serve two masters.

And Brian Chuchua has practically made himself Leos’ running mate for city council! The OC GOP Central Committee needs to wake up to that fact when they consider endorsing Chuchua next week.