Orange County Human Relations Commission "Call to Action" to Defend Their Perks

The "Rusty Award"

Here is a notice from the web site of the Orange County Human Relations Commission. Once again, their annual budget is under review, and this useless agency, under the useless Rusty Kennedy, is fighting to keep its $300,000 per year budget so they can exaggerate "hate crime" stats in Orange County, produce an annual report full of more filler than a bad sausage, and hand out their annual Rusty Awards to liberal "community leaders" like Muzammil Siddiqi.

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OC HUMAN RELATIONS HOME PAGE

A Call to Action for Friends of OC Human Relations

Tuesday, June 12, 2012, Supervisor Shawn Nelson presented an idea to cut the OC Human Relations Commission by $200,000 of our $302,000 budget.

Even though we signed a 5 year fixed rate contract one year ago, it can be reviewed each year.  When the 5 year contract was signed by all of the current Supervisors, the staffing and structure were the same as today

This will be decided at 9:30am on Tuesday, June 19 (this coming Tuesday).  Please make your voice heard about the importance of keeping the Board of Supervisors commitment to maintaining OC Human Relations.

JOIN us at the Hall of Administration on the NW corner of Broadway and Santa Ana Blvd. on Tuesday at 9:30am to urge the Board of Supervisors to live up to their contract, and support OC Human Relations.

What would be very helpful RIGHT now would be messages of support addressed to the Board of Supervisors...

Please click here to read more of the Call to Action, including Board of Supervisor contact information and talking points .

Thanks,
Marcus Gonzalez, President of OC Human Relations Board

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The last I heard of Kennedy and his bunch, he was in charge of trying to clean up the mess in Fullerton (Rusty's home town), where cops had beaten a mentally ill homeless man to death. And how is Rusty supposed to clean up the mess? By giving sensitivity classes to the cops when it comes to dealing with homeless people.

Actually, the voters started to clean up the mess themselves this month by recalling three members of the city council including Rusty's pal and former member of the OCHRC, Pat McKinley, who was chief of police when the bad cops in question were hired. If the OCHRC is supposed to be a clearing house for complaints against police, then what were they doing all these years about Fullerton? Probably the same they were doing when I sent Kennedy a letter complaining about anti-Semitism at UC Irvine-nothing. except sending me a nasty gram back for criticizing the university leadership for their inaction.

I won't bore my regular readers by repeating all the comments I reported on last year's OCHRC Community Leader award to Siddiqi, who is up to his neck in suspicious associations with Islamists, and who is a master dissembler when it comes to selling sharia to the gullible among us. I am also informed that a regular nominee for the prestigious Rusty Award is attorney Gregory Palmer, who is representing the Fullerton Police Department. Palmer drew recent criticism for his slow responses to the request from a mental health activist organization for records pertaining to the police department's policies in dealing with mentally ill suspects.


So now Rusty's gang is sending out a "call to action" for all its supporters to tell the Board of Supervisors how much the county needs this $300,000 a year white elephant.


If you think differently, you can show up too.


Here is a reaction from Friends of Fullerton's Future, which spearheaded the recall effort.

http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/2012/county-supervisor-wants-to-take-budget-axe-to-human-relations-commission/#comment-112262

Below is the LA Times predictable bleeding-heart report on the issue.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-human-relations-20120615,0,5132570.story

And below is what one member of the Board of Supervisors, John Moorlach, had to say about the Times' article.

Date:	[Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:08:06 +0000]
From:	Moorlach, John
To:	Moorlach, John
Subject:	Fwd: MOORLACH UPDATE -- LA Times -- June 15, 2012

It’s great to have the LA Times covering the OC again.  But, it’s not the old LA Times.  I used to rave about the professional journalism at the old LA Times.

What sounds worse to you?  A two-thirds cut?  A $200,000 cut?  A $100,000 cut?  Or a 5 percent cut?

Did the Board of Supervisors eliminate positions from the Orange County Human Relations Commission or the Orange County Human Relations Council?

Do I support a $100,000 cut?  Or a $200,000 cut?

Would a minor reduction in overall funding really “devastate” the services provided by the Orange County Human Relations Council?

Before coming to the County I was a partner in a C.P.A. firm, with a strong emphasis in nonprofit organizations.  I prepared a lot of exempt organization tax returns (Form 990).  The 2008 Form 990 for the Orange County Human Relations Council can be found athttp://irs990.charityblossom.org/990/200906/330438086.pdf.  Now I know that it is a few years old, but it shows annual revenues of $1.5 to $1.9 million and assets (mostly cash) of $2.3 to $2.5 million.  The Council (nonprofit) and the Commission (Orange County) are a joint venture, earning a combined $1.8 to $2.2 million per year.  A cut of $100,000 on $2.2 million is only a 4.5 percent cut.  I would hardly call that “devastating.”  It certainly would not harm their mission of fostering “mutual understanding in order to make Orange County, California a better place for all people to live, work and do business.”

It is a joint venture, the reporter did not understand the differentiation.  The County eliminated positions for the Commission (not the Council).  And at Tuesday’s Budget Hearing, I recommended a cut of $100,000, not $200,000.  Small details, I know, but the old LA Times focused more on precision than sensationalism.

The OC has a model of a County Commission that has been very successful in self-funding.  I’m just encouraging the continuance of the migration toward independence.  In an era where the County has not provided raises to its bargaining units (other than performance bonuses) for several years, and probably won’t for several more, it is proper to ask one division of a department to make a minor cut.  The Orange County Human Relations Council has the wherewithal to make it up through fund raising, and has a proven track record of doing so.  Now we need to replicate the Council’s success in other areas in the County.