They’ve found plenty to argue about, but Pat Bates and Cassie DeYoung echo each other on at least one issue: Whoever wins their contentious, big-bucks race for South County supervisor will provide Chris Norby and John Moorlach with the swing vote to rein in pension costs and other county spending. Both made the promise on “Inside OC”…
Incumbent Congresswoman and presumptive favorite Loretta Sanchez has picked up $4,200 from Hugh Hefner this election season, according to CampaignMoney.com. Since 1999 the Playboy founder has contributed $16,200 to the Santa Ana congresswoman, almost half of his political giving, all of it to Democrats …
Ingram Micro marks its 10th year as a public company Wednesday by presiding over the close of the New York Stock Exchange. Company brass will participate, but bell-ringing honors will go to warehouseman Donata Garcia of Garden Grove, at 24 years the company’s longest-serving employee (for Ingram’s financial numbers, see page 31) …
More milestones: The OC/Long Beach region of the Anti-Defamation League is 25. Engineering exec and former Anaheim Councilman Tom Tait and Irvine employee benefits consultant Robert McIsaac are 50 …
UCI’s Merage school has the top California-based executive MBA program and the 24th best in the world (up five notches from last year), according to Financial Times. But in FT’s overall MBA rankings, Merage inexplicably fell from 64th to 82nd. UCLA’s Anderson school ranked 19th and USC’s Marshall school 54th overall …
The Diamond & Pearl Ball at the Balboa Bay Club raised $1.16 million for the Beckstrand Cancer Foundation …
An Evening Under the Stars at Antonello Ristorante netted $135,000 for Canyon Acres, an Anaheim Hills home for abused and troubled kids …
Editorial writer John Seiler, 51, has taken the OC Register buyout and plans to do free-lance writing …
Tim Salmon is retired to Scottsdale, but the Angels great returned as grand marshal for the Anaheim Spooktacular Halloween Parade and stole the show in a Vladimir Guerrero costume. Baseball trivia: Not only did Salmon fall one home run short of 300, but his 299 lifetime homers is the most for any player who never made an All-Star team (excepting Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby, who hit 301 home runs but doesn’t count because he was washed up by the time the All-Star games began in 1933) …
EE RR out-debated Curt Pringle, Lucy Dunn and Ruben Smith on the question, Does Orange County have an identity crisis? to win a lovely desk clock from the OC Forum and British American Business Council …
Orange County wise man Sir Eldon Griffiths discusses “How to Deal with Iran,” at a World Affairs Council dinner Nov. 9 at the Irvine Marriott. Call (949) 253-5751.
