Courtney Santos and Farrah Khan
There are a ton of candidates running for the Irvine City Council this year. We have done our homework – we will break them down here and endorse a few of them.
The Irvine City Council candidates include: Continue reading
Press Release, For Immediate Release: September 15, 2016
Contact: Cassius Rutherford, (949) 534-2016
Former Irvine Mayor Sukee Kang Endorses Farrah Khan for Irvine City Council
Irvine, CA – Irvine City Council Candidate Farrah N. Khan announced today that she has officially received the endorsement of former Irvine Mayor Sukhee Kang.
“Farrah is a hard worker and I trust her values and convictions, and her progressive vision,” said Kang. “She knows how to listen to people, learn about the issues and respond to the community’s needs. She is a bridge-builder and has a special talent for bringing people together to get things done. Based on her character and accomplishments, and her abilities as a leader, I know she will make an excellent representative for all residents.” Continue reading
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Former Irvine Mayor Sukhee Kang Endorses Melissa Fox for Irvine City Council
Irvine, CA Irvine Community Services Commissioner Melissa Fox announced today that she has officially received the endorsement of former Irvine Mayor Sukhee Kang.
“I’m proud to endorse Melissa Fox for Irvine City Council,” Kang stated. “As a small-business owner and city commissioner I know that she is committed to restoring Irvine’s tradition of planning and smart growth. She has a vision for unsnarling Irvine’s roads and maintaining world-class police and fire services and ensuring Irvine remains a great place to live, work, and raise a family.” Continue reading
Democrat Sukhee Kang, the former mayor of Irvine, has moved out of Irvine. He headed to Fullerton, to run for the 29th State Senate District as a carpetbagger, according to the Sacramento Bee.
Kang is however damaged goods in the wake of the brutal Great Park audit which shows that Kang, and his Democratic colleagues on the Irvine City Council, Larry Agran and Beth Krom, screwed the taxpayers by wasting millions of dollars that should have been used to develop the Great Park but were instead used to pay off lobbyists and PR hacks. Continue reading
Will Lynn Schott join her colleagues on the Irvine City Council this November?
Now that the Open Primary Election is over it is time to have a look at the upcoming November General Election. In Irvine, the November 4, 2014 Election will be held to elect a Mayor and two members of the City Council. The Irvine Mayor serves a term of two years, while City Councilmembers each serve a term of four years. The Mayor and City Councilmembers may serve no more than two full consecutive terms. The terms of the Councilmembers are staggered, according to the Irvine City Clerk.
Irvine Council Members Beth Krom and Christina Shea were elected in 2012. That means that this year Irvine Councilmen Jeff Lalloway and Larry Agran are up for re-election as is Irvine Mayor Steven Choi.
Mayor Choi should have no problem earning re-election given that his Council majority, which includes Lalloway and Shea, has done such a great job over the past two years. Since they took control of Irvine they stopped the ridiculous public relations contracts at the Great Park and have even been able to make headway on the city’s pension liability. Their success will make it very difficult for their opponents, Agran and Krom, to field much opposition in November. Continue reading
In the Left Angeles Times yesterday is Angels talk with developer about potential Irvine ballpark (outside any paywall here – we’re never sure when it’s working). Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham also picked up on it at his Anaheim Blog and offered this rubbish:
Now, if you’re a member of the torpedo-the-Angels-negotiations claque, clear your mind and repeat after me: The Angels have nowhere to go. The Angels have nowhere (sic), The Angels have nowhere to go.
Well apparently they DO. We wouldn’t doubt for a minute that Emil Haddad, the very smart and powerful developer of 4,606 homes at FivePoint Communities which borders the Great Park or the slippery Irvine Councilman Jeff Lalloway would jump at any lucrative arrangement which would bring the Angels to a new stadium at the property — to hell with the bankrupt and corrupt $220 million Great Park plan — there’s a lot of money to be made and this opportunity is a perfect solution for recovering the funds squandered by Larry Agran, Beth Krom and their cronies when they controlled the Park Board and Irvine City Council. What better way for Irvine to get itself out of the Great Park hole than by bringing a revenue-generator to town like an almost-contending Major League baseball team that has a six-year, $144.5M lock on Mike Trout, as well as two expensive, aging “superstars” in Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton? Continue reading
Irvine Great Park’s best chance
The City Council should approve a proposal from FivePoint Communities to build and maintain it.
By Sukhee Kang, Op-Ed in the L.A. Times on November 26, 2013
One of the most important decisions in Orange County history comes before the Irvine City Council o Tuesday: Whether to make the long-promised Great Park a reality.
The council is scheduled to vote on a $191-milllion proposal from FivePoint Communities. In exchange for a zoning change that would allow the company to convert industrial land to home sites, FivePoint would build and maintain 688 acres of the Great Park, with a guarantee to complete the work in five years. Continue reading
From the OC Politics Blog
We can’t find anyone who wasn’t surprised by Congressman John Campbell‘s retirement announcement this afternoon. Here’s the statement sent via email by the OC GOP earlier: Continue reading