Historian Stan Oftelie: “The 68.5% vote to renew Measure M is the biggest pro-transportation vote in Orange County since 1912, when the Good Roads program received a 70.3% positive vote. The biggest supporters of the 1912 plans were a familiar bunch: the Auto Club, the Associated Chambers of Commerce (predecessor of the OCBC) and The Irvine Company.” Comedian Oftelie: “I believe Reed Royalty was a major spokesman for the 1912 plan, too” …
Per Oftelie, the 1912 measure raised about $1.3 million (to pave 117 miles of dirt roads), one-hundredth of 1% of the estimated $11.8 billion that will be raised by the M renewal. And the vote total 94 years ago was about 1% of last week’s tally …
Campaign managers Jeff Flint and Frank Schubert went 9-0. Among their Anaheim firm’s wins were the above-mentioned Measure M, no on Newport Beach’s anti-development Measure X, no on state Props 86 (cigarette tax) and 89 (campaign reform) and two ballot measures in Oregon …
Whittier Law School Associate Dean Mario Mainero, 51, is a political novice. And that’s just fine with incoming OC supe John Moorlach, who has tapped Mainero to be his chief of staff. Mainero says the problems of county government require “reasoned analysis” that play to his strengths,he has a background in statistics and practiced law for 21 years prior to teaching it. Besides, Mainero says he’ll have underlings with political know-how. Moorlach says Mainero represents a commitment to “recruit ‘the best and brightest'” …
Tiffany Haugen, who brought flair and glamour to UC Irvine in the early and mid-1990s as director of a business incubator program, Accelerate, died recently of non-smoker’s lung cancer in Durango, Colo. She was 57. Haugen was a model who made the cover of Vogue before earning an MBA and entering academia. She is survived by husband Robert Haugen, a retired UCI finance prof …
It took ageless Debbie Reynolds and opera’s John Nuzzo, a Chapman U alum, to upstage high-kicking cowboy Jim Doti at the university’s 25th Anniversary American Celebration. The 800-guest gala, co-chaired by Marybelle and Paul Musco, raised a record $2 million for scholarships …
This week on “Inside OC”: a joust between friendly rivals Mark Robinson, Newport Beach trial lawyer, and Tom Malcolm, corporate defender with Jones Day in Irvine. And David Nazar interviews Clinton special prosecutor Ken Starr, now dean of Pepperdine’s law school …
As of this week, smoking is banned everywhere at UCI Medical Center, as the American Cancer Society marks the 30th anniversary of its Great American Smokeout …
The Fullerton-based founding chapter of Toastmasters International honored EE RR with its Communication and Leadership Award, given annually to a non-Toastmaster. Past recipients include Rev. Dr. Robert Schuller, Peace Corps chief Gaddi Vasquez and the Dodgers’ Tommy Lasorda. EE RR also received, you know, constructive criticism from the Toastmasters on his, you know, acceptance speech.Historian Stan Oftelie: “The 68.5% vote to renew Measure M is the biggest pro-transportation vote in Orange County since 1912, when the Good Roads program received a 70.3% positive vote. The biggest supporters of the 1912 plans were a familiar bunch: the Auto Club, the Associated Chambers of Commerce (predecessor of the OCBC) and The Irvine Company.” Comedian Oftelie: “I believe Reed Royalty was a major spokesman for the 1912 plan, too” …
The Fullerton-based founding chapter of Toastmasters International honored EE RR with its Communication and Leadership Award, given annually to a non-Toastmaster. Past recipients include Rev. Dr. Robert Schuller, Peace Corps chief Gaddi Vasquez and the Dodgers’ Tommy Lasorda. EE RR also received, you know, constructive criticism from the Toastmasters on his, you know, acceptance speech.
