Teddi Lorch: a curious career

     Ah, Teddi Lorch. 

     I'll try to be kind. Teddy's not bright. She's some kind of awful Republican. In her youth, she was a "Breck girl."

     The article below, from the August 5, 1993 Tustin News, explains, or at least describes, Lorch's entry into board politics. I had heard that she was unhappy doing the part-timer slog at Saddleback, that she had cozied up to the Faculty Association, then dominated by some serious rat bastards.

     Teddi's odd appointment as a trustee (what was Richard Sneed thinking?) was part of a grand plan, hatched by union leadership, to control the SCCD board. It came to fruition three years later (Nov. 1996), when the FA managed to get its majority, including Teddi, seated, thanks to homophobic campaign literature and various dirty tricks against the opposition. (Sharon MacMillan seemed to be behind much of that, as she had been in the campaign to get rid of Chancellor Stevens a few years earlier.)

     The infamous "Board Majority" of December 1996 included Holocaust denier Steve Frogue, renegade Democrat and female wrestler Dot Fortune, clueless, motherfucking rat bastard and future "OC corruption poster child" John Williams—and Teddi, who came across as a pretty dizzy dame. A dolt. An airhead.

Cedric Sampson (on wheels)

     Soon thereafter, the board majority went from four to five, with the addition of far-rightsters Nancy Padberg and Don Wagner—and the exit of Teddi Lorch in 1998.

    At the time we reported that the word around the campuses was that Teddi coveted the chief HR job and she expected her pal Nancy Padberg to pull strings for get it for her.

     They put that plan into action. But, by then, Cedric Sampson had become the new chancellor. He thought Teddi was an idiot. He wouldn't hire her. "Over my dead body," he said (in my mind at least).

     So Teddi commenced litigatin'. The district settled, natch, giving Breck Girl the chief HR job.
     Remember the time the district settled with Raghu Mathur, who sued because the district didn't protect him from me? Yep, I sued him, but it was a counter-suit. He had sued me first, claiming my publications--which reported only what was true and demonstrable--violated his "privacy," when I reported, in Dissent and the 'Vine, his violations of a student's privacy, in violation of FERPA. My countersuit resulted in Mathur owing Terry Burgess and I about $40k (reduced to $34k). Mathur shit a brick. He cried to the district, which covered his cost. (See The day that Mathur sued me for telling the truth about him, and so I sued him back and won, and then he sued the district for not protecting him from me, and so they gave Raghu a prize.)

     You can't make this shit up.

     That settlement was part of a pattern all right.

     Despite manifest incompetence, Teddi's kept the HR job now for many years. Recently retired. 

     She's an idiot.

Tustin News, August 5, 1993