Incestuous & cronyistic South OC politics: Street visits SOCCCD

This video illustrates the incestuous and cronyistic nature of South County politics. Treasurer Chriss Street is introduced by Don Wagner, who has his sights on the 70th AD seat—and who will rely on board colleague (and former OC GOP chief) Tom Fuentes' assistance. Street is accompanied by his underling, Anna Bryson, who happens to be on the notorious Capistrano Unified School District Board, which is importantly backed by Education Alliance, the right-wing, anti-union "back to basics" group on whose board Wagner sits. Among the speakers here is trustee John Williams, who, with Fuentes' assistance, became the OC Public Administrator/Guardian in 2003. Williams immediately hired fellow-Republican Nancy Padberg, who can be seen here on the Board—along with Dave Lang, who has his sights on Street's office. No doubt the plan is to promote Lang as soon as Street moves to higher office. On and on it goes.
In this video: in his effort to prevent a raise for the faculty of the South Orange County Community College District, notorious anti-unionist trustee Tom Fuentes invited OC Treasurer Chriss Street to paint a gloomy picture of future tax revenues, upon which the SOCCCD depends. Ignored in the discussion is the fact that SOCCCD has been swimming in dough for years, owing to its dependence on local property tax revenues.

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