Thursday, October 7, 2010

Williams on TV; Moorlach and the County CEO are agin 'im


     The latest KOCE-TV interview of trustee and OC Public Administrator/Guardian John Williams is now available here.
     It looks pretty bad for Williams. Reporter David Nazar speaks with OC Supervisor John Moorlach, who now states that Williams just isn’t qualified to do the job. Further, he is concerned about Williams’ action of hiring real estate auction firm LFC (that’s Tom Fuentes’ pal’s firm).
     He has two questions: was it a sole source contract?* And was the hire approved by the Board of Trustees?
     The scene then switches to Williams’ office. Williams asserts that “the PAPG departments in California are exempt under the probate code from having to go through their county-approved vendor lists and all of those restrictions.”
     You can tell that John worked really hard to memorize that sentence. His hair looks perfect.
     —So I guess that’s a "yes" and a "no" to Moorlach’s two questions. Uh-oh.
     Next: cut to a shot of legal books. Reporter Nazar states that, on the contrary, “according to California State law, the probate code does not exclude PGPA offices from complying with county regulations regarding who they contract with." Oh-oh again.
     Back to Williams: he declares that, after the investigation is over, he will be vindicated.
     Next: we see an official from the County CEO office who says that there is cause for concern and for a review of Williams’ office.
     Uh-oh #3.
     How come no interview of Tom Fuentes?
     Not bad, though.

     *“Sole source contract” is variously defined as (1) a contract in which only one company can provide the service in question or (2) a non-competitive hire after contacting only one source/vendor, thus precluding competition.

• KOCE Grills Orange County Public Administrator

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great cartoon!

Anonymous said...

Oh man!

Anonymous said...

Egads. Williams really needs a better stylist - that hair, that tie. Yikes.

Anonymous said...

Where's link to Fuentes and LFC? Where's the Reg on this?

Anonymous said...

I hope he doesn't resign - I hope he stays and the net gets larger. They all need to be found out.

Anonymous said...

In any other milieu, the nepotism ring - T-rack, his "girlfriend" in William's office, Mike Schroeder's wife in T-Rack's office, Williams himself, Fuentes and his fingers in it all, the shilling for their friends' companies (and their own), using the college board (someone check out THAT) - well, in any other context this would be SCANDAL but they have bought and SOLD everybody down here.

It's is a BIG Bell.

Anonymous said...

I am sure that they are all very well qualified to do their jobs which is to help each other profit and protect each other and their cronies.

Anonymous said...

Anybody remember when Eric Norby was appointed to the board while his brother Chris was a county sup?

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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