OC Political

Now that we have had some April Fools Day fun on to the real business for the day. Here is a post that has no pranks or jokes in it.

Tomorrow evening we will likely have a new Orange County Clerk-Recorder in place after what I am sure will be a lengthy and intriguing deliberation by the Orange County Board of Supervisors. I will be in attendance live blogging all of the interviews for our readers and giving my take on what is happening. be here with us at OC Political at 9:00 AM to follow along.

To explain how it will be formatted I will start with a post that details the opening of the meeting. After my original post I will have a separate post for every single interview up until the end of the meeting. After the interviews are done I will have a separate post for the deliberation and appointment. With any luck I might even get an interview with the individual who gets nominated. My suggestion to readers in order to be able to follow along live is to click on each post as it goes up and hit refresh to get a live update on what is going on with that interview.

We have had some of the best coverage of the Orange County Clerk-Recorder saga over the past few weeks often being the blog to breaks stories on this subject. Let’s take a moment to recap the process from the beginning.

Due to the length of the post I am cutting it off here. Click the link to view the rest of it.

1) It all started on March 5th when I live blogged the first step in the process of appointing someone to the position. At thus meeting the procedure of putting names forward was discussed and procedure was also debated.

https://ocpolitical.com/2013/03/05/live-blogging-orange-county-clerk-recorder-appointment-meeting-1/#more-6396

2) We then did a post recapping the 25 names that were selected at the meeting:

Dick Ackerman
Dale Anderson
Larry Bales
Andrew Calderon
Alicia Campbell
William Copulos
Ron Davidson
Stewart Davis
Linda Dixon
Elizabeth Fleming
Michael Fox
Ellis Ghasemi-Fazeli
Lydia Lake
Nora Lesnet
Francis Licata
Steve Madoff
Tanya Mayweather
Hieu Nguyen
Chris Norby
Bruce Peotter
Renee Ramirez
Roy Reynolds
Steve Rosansky
Harry Sidhu
Steve Waechter

https://ocpolitical.com/2013/03/06/heres-the-updated-clerk-recorder-list-3-5-2013/

3) Then on March 8th we ran a post thanks to the newsletter released by Supervisor Todd Spitzer that gave info on the occupations of all applicants for the office of Orange County Clerk Recorder:

Here’s the updated list with more detailed information:

-Dick Ackerman (attorney, former state senator and assemblyman)

-Dale Anderson (attorney)

-Larry Bales (FDIC settlement agent)

-Andrew Calderon (law firm managing partner)

-Alicia Campbell (Administrative Manager II at OC Public Works)

-William Copulos (retired law firm managing partner)

-Ron Davidson (retired corporate CEO)

-Stewart Davis (corporate program contracts manager)

-Linda Dixon (former Costa Mesa mayor and council member, retired university assistant vice chancellor)

-Elizabeth Fleming (contract attorney)

-Michael J. Fox (attorney)

-Ellie Ghasemi-Fazeli (legal assistant at Office of Orange County Counsel)

-Lydia Lake (attorney)

-Nora Lesnet (Administrative Manager at OC Community Resources)

-Francis Licata (attorney)

-Steve Madoff (consultant, former executive vice president of Paramount Pictures)

-Tanya Mayweather (regional credit/collections manager)

-Hieu Nguyen (assistant clerk of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, former OC chief deputy recorder)

-Chris Norby (former state assembly member and supervisor)

-Bruce Peotter (attorney, former assistant public administrator/public guardian)

-Renee Ramirez (assistant clerk-recorder)

-Roy Reynolds (transportation consultant)

-Steve Rosansky (real estate company president, former Newport Beach council member and mayor)

-Harry Sidhu (business owner, former Anaheim council member)

-Steve Waechter (sales manager/computer consultant)

https://ocpolitical.com/2013/03/08/more-info-occupation-on-clerk-recorder-candidates/

4) After a computer melt down I used old-fashioned pen and paper to take notes on the Orange County Clerk-Recorder meeting to be able to type up this post later in the day on March 12th.

The 11 finalists for Clerk-Recorder who will be interviewed publicly at a Board of Supervisors meeting will be:

Dick Ackerman, 4 nominations (Moorlach, Spitzer, Nelson, Bates)
Larry Bales, 3 nominations (Spitzer, Nelson, Bates)
Michael J. Fox, 2 nominations (Nguyen, Spitzer)
Steven Madoff, 2 nominations (Moorlach, Bates)
Hieu Nguyen, 5 nominations
Chris Norby, 4 nominations (Nguyen, Spitzer, Nelson, Bates)
Bruce Peotter, 5 nominations
Renee Ramirez, 5 nominations
Roy Reynolds, 2 nominations (Nguyen, Spitzer)
Steve Rosansky, 3 nominations (Moorlach, Spitzer, Bates)
Harry Sidhu, 2 nominations (Nguyen, Bates)

Janet Nguyen nominated:
Alicia Campbell
Michael J. Fox
Hieu Nguyen
Chris Norby
Bruce Peotter
Renee Ramirez
Roy Reynolds
Harry Sidhu

John Moorlach nominated:
Dick Ackerman
Ron Davidson
Stewart Davis
Linda Dixon
Lydia Lake
Steven Madoff
Hieu Nguyen
Bruce Peotter
Renee Ramirez
Steve Rosansky

Todd Spitzer nominated:
Dick Ackerman
Larry Bales
Michael J. Fox
Nora Lesnet
Hieu Nguyen
Chris Norby
Bruce Peotter
Renee Ramirez
Roy Reynolds
Steve Rosansky

Shawn Nelson nominated:
Dick Ackerman
Larry Bales
Hieu Nguyen
Chris Norby
Bruce Peotter
Renee Ramirez

Pat Bates nominated:
Dick Ackerman
Larry Bales
Steven Madoff
Hieu Nguyen
Chris Norby
Bruce Peotter
Renee Ramirez
Steve Rosansky
Harry Sidhu
Steven Waechter

https://ocpolitical.com/2013/03/12/oc-clerk-recorder-3-12-2013-live-blogging-sort-of/

5) On March 18th I wrote a comprehensive post on all finalists for the position entitled “Clerk-Recorder Bios, Statistics, and Occupations Oh My!” and it is a long one so click the link to read it.

https://ocpolitical.com/2013/03/18/clerk-recorder-bios-statistics-and-occupations-oh-my/

6) Finally on March 26th we posted the information released about the County of Orange regarding the meeting details for tomorrows meeting which is finally upon us.

https://ocpolitical.com/2013/03/26/clerk-recorder-resumes-in-depth-bios-and-schedules/