The SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT —
"[The] blog he developed was something that made the district better." - Tim Jemal, SOCCCD BoT President, 7/24/23
Evidently, they’re keeping Tod Burnett on ice these days.
Since 2020, former Saddleback College President, Tod Burnett, has been president of the University of Alaska Foundation and chief development officer of the U of A system (see here.)
According to Wikipedia, “the University of Alaska System is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was created in 1917 and comprises three separately accredited universities on 19 campuses. The system serves nearly 30,000 full- and part-time students and grants 400 unique degrees.”
30,000 students? According to the SOCCCD website, our district alone has more than 36,000 students.
According to Burnett’s bio, “prior to his current position, Dr. Burnett was the executive vice chancellor for advancement at Brandman University, Irvine, CA, and previously served as president of Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA, from 2008 to 2017.”
Earlier this year in her official capacity as Mayor of Irvine, [Farrah] Khan participated in a virtual event hosted by the Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles in which she astonishingly described Azerbaijan as a “secular democracy.” Yet the respected nonprofit Freedom House categorizes the country as a “Consolidated Authoritarian Regime,” and assesses it as “Not Free,” when it comes to access to political rights and civil liberties. Even Cuba and Iran rank higher than Azerbaijan on individual freedoms.
In her address at the event, Mayor Khan went on to say that Azerbaijan is a place in which different religious populations are “living peacefully, side by side, something we continue to work on in the U.S.” This suggestion that the U.S. should look to Azerbaijan as a model for peaceful coexistence of diverse populations is laughable....
NOTE: Evidently, the Local Dems did not heed Jemal and Inmon's advice: SEE
Khan is a Democrat. Jemal seems to be unaffiliated, but he leans "conservative" (anti-tax, etc.). (See his list of endorsements over the years.) Inmon is a Democrat, a former teachers' union leader, but she makes some anti-tax noises.
John Eastman represents Don Wagner in his so-called “defense of religious freedom” (against dastardly atheist faculty at SOCCCD, including yours truly)
Voice of OC: “More than 200 Chapman University faculty are demanding that school officials recommit themselves publicly to diversity and inclusion reforms, responding to a fellow professor’s [John Eastman’s] viral op-ed that questioned whether Democratic vice presidential pick, Kamala Harris, could legally become president over her parents’ citizenship status despite being born in the U.S. Faculty in an online Change.org petition called the op-ed “poorly argued, inaccurate, and racist.”
CBS: “Eastman came under fire Jan. 6 after he appeared on stage with Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani at a “Stop the Steal” rally. The pair urged supporters of the president to head to the Capitol.”
OC Reg: “On Jan. 7, in an interview, Eastman described the march as ‘a wonderful rally of people that were there to express their views that what they saw on Election Day was not right.’ … The New York Times has since reported that Eastman was in the Oval Office with Trump the day before the Capitol riot, arguing to Vice President Mike Pence that Pence had the power to block certification of Biden’s Electoral College victory. Other constitutional experts and members of congress have pointed out that the vice president has no such power….”
It’s been reported on, whispered about and hinted at since the dust was still settling on the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol: There was an effort afoot to pardon key players in the GOP attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
On Thursday, the Jan. 6 committee put some meat on the bones. It disclosed an email that showed that none other than the Trump lawyer who led the plot, John Eastman, sought to be put on what he called “the pardon list” shortly after Jan. 6.
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The way Eastman made the request also was crucial: He didn’t just say he was seeking a pardon; he indicated in the email to fellow Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani that there was a known “pardon list” circulating. That suggests that the plotters weighed the possible need for pardons in some considerable measure — that those who led the effort to overturn the election believed they might have enough legal liability that they floated the extraordinary step of obtaining rare, preemptive presidential pardons.
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At Thursday’s hearing, Greg Jacob, who was general counsel to Vice President Mike Pence, added to the evidence that Eastman knew what he was doing was illegal. He said Eastman conceded to him that his plot to overturn the election would have lost 9-0 at the Supreme Court, on the merits. But he said Eastman believed the court might punt on the merits and stay out of the dispute altogether.
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We still don’t know how extensive the pardon deliberations were. But what we do know — based on early reporting and on the evidence Thursday — is that people were pretty scared that what they had done could come back to bite them. What’s more, the Eastman email seems to be on top of other evidence to which the committee previously alluded, other evidence from “former White House personnel.” So there’s surely more to come.
