Court Orders Habermehl To Call AUHSD Special Election
Posted by: Jubal | 09/25/2007 12:48 PM
I just heard from Mark Rosen that OC Superior Court Judge Dennis Choate today ordered OC Superintendent of Education Bill Habermehl to call a special election to fill the vacancy on the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees. An election has to be called within 130 days of the judge's order. This is a big victory for the grassroots coalition that sprang into being when the AUHSD Board responded to the untimely death of Trustee Denise Mansfield-Reinking by appointing the controversial Harald Martin to fill her seat.
Martin resigned a few weeks later in the face of the movement, which led Habermehl to verifying petition signatures because he thought Martin's resignation rendered the special election drive moot. You can read more about the back story at our archive of stories on this topic.
Here's Judge Choate's ruling:
Mr. Ayer registered as a Republican to be electable in an interim election with no incumbents. He did...
Props to Mark Rosen for a job well done and props to Judge Choate for a common sense decision.
What was Habermehl thinking? And was he following County Counsel's advice or did he make a political decision and County Counsel struggled to try and find a legal argument to support the bonehead move?
Way to go Mark!
Now...Jordan Brandman...where do we send our checks?
Habermehl will always support the status quo -- he is the worst type of educrat.
Mark Rosen, congratulations on yet another job well done! Kudos to you!