"The City of Orange held its annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the Orange circle this weekend."

Do you guys in Orange get to call it a Christmas Tree, in public and everything?! In Fullerton, it's a Winter Tree.

*sigh*

Patricia...

Are you serious... a Winter Tree????

That is rediculous. We need to call it a Christmas tree. Where will it all end?

I thought the "Witches" only took part in all hollows eve

Jubal: You don't have an issue that the City of Orange requires a permit to hand out candy canes?

I was wondering about that, too.

I certainly would not want some strange bitter woman handing candy to my children at a city sponsored event. The city has a duty to protect children from people like Dave and Carol Rudat. Imagine the liability.

I hope certain members of the council weren't caught collecting candy that had been handed out just because she hadn't pulled a silly permit.

You can hand out as many candy canes as you like -- just not within the event "lines."

Perhaps your opinion of Mrs. Rudat is clouding the issue?

I wouldn't want somebody just handing out things to my children without any type of city approval at a city function. If this woman was handing out items at a "City" event are thy not liable if the candy is tainted?

I think they did the right thing to have remove.

Sounds like the city should be looking at a free speech lawsuit here. "Political speech" is very well protected in this land.

I think if I was Ms. Rudat, I would be suing the crap out of the city. These little thugs that work in government need to be kept in their place as servants of the people and not KINGS".

DeadBeatPoliticalHack ~ I think you missed the point; Ms. Carpetbagger (excuse me, Ms. Rudat), was not exercising her right to political speech. Instead, she was advertising her out-of-town real estate business. Commercial speech does not benefit from the same protections as political speech.

she is such a joke. is rudat really so bored she needs to get on the cc and be a busy body? go sell real estate in the 949 guy...

I think she was thrown out for who she was rather than what she was doing. I suspect if Scott Graves had shown up handing out copies of Red County with a pack of smokes taped to it without a permit they wouldn't have thrown him out.

And the bitter woman handing out candy is a liability doesn't fly either. She is going to hand out tainted candy with her business card taped to it?

The city has a duty to protect children from people like Dave and Carol Rudat.

This is a great idea. We should apply it to a wider circle of politicos.....

p.s. Is the real estate market in Newport Beach really so awful that a Orange city council seat is a now seen as a step up the career ladder?

Here is the truth,

2 people were asked to leave the event the other night. Both for handing candy out to children.

While yes it sounds harmless, the need to control who is handing items to children with the event needs to be controlled.

Both parties asked to leave were actually instructed where they actually were allowed to gather at the event, which is at the barriers at the begining of each street.

As for the earlier statement of the Red County being passed out, yes even that would be asked to leave if they did not get earlier premission and be associated with a local non-profit.

hope this clears it up

Carol could have had a free ride in the City of Los Alamitos, as Dave in now the City Manager in that fair city. They thirst for candy canes and crazy politics, just ask for the manicurist Councilwoman Geri Graham-Mejia who will pave the way for Carol, while providing pedicures for the well healed in Los Alamitos.

Wow, if a manicurist can become a city council person, then a Manager at a local University for 28 years should be able to become a city council person too. Humm....