[LWV] League of Women Voters®
of Orange County, an Inter-League Organization

Calendar of Events 2010 - 2011

We sponsor meetings and events for the public and League members

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Friday, March 19, 2010 Noon - 1:00 p.m. Coco's at Fashion Island, 151 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach 92660 March Lunch With League, Coast. A Timely Topics for Sunshine Week

Topic: A Betrayal of the Public Trust Speaker: Shirley Grindle, community activist, former OC Planning Commission Chair Known as Orange County's Watchdog since 1978, Shirley has overseen the Campaign Disclosure Statements filed by County candidates and by candidates running in Orange and Anaheim. Grindle's activism led to the landmark 1978 campaign-reform ordinance -- most often referred to as TINCUP, for Time Is Now, Clean Up Politics.

Shirley has recommended formation of an Orange County Fair Campaign Practices Commission to take over auditing and enforcement of the TINCUP Ordinance. Recently, the Board of Supervisors set up an ad hoc Committee to review the TINCUP Ordinance and to make recommendations on how to enforce it. In Shirley's talk she will reveal what the Committee members recommended and how, if implemented, these recommendations would undermine the TINCUP Ordinance. Some of the Supervisors appointed the "rats to guard the cheese" to this Committee, thereby betraying the public trust."

Thursday, March 25, 2010 12:30-2:00 pm Sizzler Restaurant
1401 N. Harbor
Fullerton		 Lunch with League - LWV North Orange County. Lunch cost is 12 dollars. RSVP to Bette Frazier at lunchwithleague@lwvnoc.org or call 562-691-2043 to request Chicken or Steak or Salad Bar

Everyone is welcome

Buy your Luncheon Booklet of six coupons for 65 dollars. Bring a friend Lunch with League: Diversity and Inclusion in Orange County. Speaker: Rusty Kennedy, Executive Director, CEO, Orange County Human Relations Commision and Council The mission of the Orange County Human Relations Commission is to foster mutual understanding among diverse residents and eliminate prejudice, intolerance and discrimination. Mr. Kennedy will report on our county's progress in fulfilling the Commission's goals.

Rusty Kennedy has served as Executive Director of the Orange County Human Relations Commission since 1981 and as the founding CEO of the non-profit Orange County Human Relations Council, established 1991.

Kennedy leads this dynamic public/private partnership that includes the nationally recognized BRIDGES: School Inter-Ethnic Relations and Violence Prevention Program, a Mediation/Conflict Resolution Program, and a Community Building Program that includes Diverse Leadership Development, Police/Community Relations Training, Collaborative Community Planning, Living Room Dialogues and civil rights.

Rusty Kennedy regularly publishes articles on civil rights, hate crime and building inter-group understanding and has received numerous awards and honors, including being selected as a delegate to the White House Conference on Hate Crime and appointed to the California Attorney General's Hate Crime Commission. He also serves on the Board of the California Association of Human Relations Organizations and the Orange County Congregation Community Organization.

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