-- Coalition partners rate three vying to replace Mike Duvall
Date: 10/22/2009
CSLEA President Alan Barcelona joined fellow members of the Orange County Coalition of Police and Sheriffs (OC Cops) for candidate interviews in the open Assembly District 72 seat, which was abruptly vacated by Mike DuVall last month.
Orange County Supervisor Chris Norby, Republican National Committeewoman and local water board member Linda Ackerman, and public school teacher John MacMurray all sat for interviews by the OC Cops coalition.
Assembly District 72 includes parts of the cities of Anaheim, La Brea, and Orange and all of the communites of Brea, Fullerton, Placentia, and Yorba Linda. In voter registration, it is 43 percent Republican, 34 percent Democrat, and 23 percent independent.
Orange County is Ground Zero in a lawsuit on pension formulas. Like CSLEA-member sworn peace officers, Orange County deputy sheriffs also receive 3 percent at age 50. But the Orange County Board of Supervisors is challenging an element of the contract that it negotiated and approved, and if it prevails, it could have repercussion throughout law enforcement in the entire state of California. (See the "Pension Update" story in the September 4-September 18 CSLEA Alert on this Web site.)
"The deputy sheriffs of Orange County are not only on the front lines of crime, but are also on the front lines in an ugly battle to alter their pensions, which is why CSLEA is heavily involved in helping them defeat an unfair attack on their honestly negotiated and deserved retirement formula," said Barcelona. "For that and other reasons, CSLEA is a member of OC Cops."
[Main Page photo from left to right: (not pictured) E. Kim from the Costa Mesa Police Officers Association, consultant Pete Mitchell, (pictured) M. Nichols of Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs, G. Palmer of the Anaheim Police Association, A. Rieckhof of the Costa Mesa Police Officers Association, Alan Barcelona of CSLEA, Wayne Quint, president of OC Cops, R. Hilton of the deputy sheriffs association, and R. Kirk of the Fullerton Police Officers Association interview candidate Linda Ackerman (center).]
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