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In this week’s Orange Coast College “Coast Report,” Costa Mesa City Councilmember Katrina Foley came out against the sale of the fairgrounds saying, “…it’s not a good thing (the fairgrounds) have been put up for sale.” She also pleaded to the public to stand up against the sale saying, “It’s time for the community to [...] Article source • October 5th, 2009 • Pacific Progressive Even though they were blindsided by the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction seeming to be a done deal, the OC Fair Board pushed back hard to respect the rights of the sellers at the OC Marketplace at the September 24, 2009 meeting. The OC Marketplace is [...] Article source • October 10th, 2009 • CM Press Of course it is. Nothing has been done to reindustralize the state. To get out of the hole, both California and the U.S. as a whole have to get back to making things, and not worrying so much about the smokestacks. The CM PRESS wrote [...] The sale of the fairgrounds is a joke. With the current zoning, the sale of the fairgrounds won’t provide the state with enough money to even cover the interest on its debt for a day. This has nothing to do the state’s financial crisis (as most of us know the state has a spending problem, not a [...] Article source • October 9th, 2009 • Daily Planet, Jim Righeimer In June, I wrote in my column that we should call the state’s bluff and buy the Orange County Fairgrounds. At the time, the state argued that if the citizens didn’t vote to raise taxes, it would be forced to sell state property that [...] Article source • October 9th, 2009 • Los Angeles Times, Tony Barboza The Orange County Fairgrounds was placed on the auction block Thursday in an attempt to cut into the state deficit. The state Department of General Services issued a request for proposals for the 150-acre property in Costa Mesa, giving bidders until Jan. [...] Article source • October 8th, 2009 • Orange County Register, Ellyn Pak COSTA MESA A local nonprofit is planning to put in a bid for the OC Fairgrounds, which is officially up for sale by the state. The state’s Department of General Services has released a formal request for proposals to sell the 150-acre site [...] Beazley and Ellis have taken the next step on their efforts at a land grab. They’ve allowed the state to put the fairgrounds up for sale. Watch now as Beazley and Ellis form a “non-profit” to buy the land for pennies on the dollar, then let their friends at AEG turn the fairgrounds into LA [...] Steve Beazley’s efforts to put the OC Marketplace vendors out of business for two months during the summer may be his “bridge too far.” The Board is finally starting to question his “leadership” and should start looking at him motives. With thanks to Pacific Progressive, here is a post on their blog about the happenings [...] |
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