Press Releases 2008

November 4, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee - Four Reform Candidates Expected To Win Election; Monumental Election Will Mark End of Corrupt “Fleming-Era” in Troubled District

October 14, CUSD Recall Committee - Union Leadership and Candidates are Illegally Coordinating Campaign Efforts; Union Trying to Buy the Election with $72,797.49 Spent So Far

September 22, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee - Brick, Maddox, Palazzo & Maddox Score Key Endorsements for November Election

September 9, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee - Superintendent Woodrow Carter and Old Guard Trustees Implicated; Recently-Elected Reform Trustees Praised For Exposing the On-Going Corruption

June 24, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee

June 17, 2007, Tony Rackauckas, Orange County District Attorney

May 27, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee - Committee Also Calls for Public Censure of Superintendent and Board President

May 21, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee - Party Also Endorses Reform Candidates Palazzo and Maddox

May 9, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee - Superintendent Carter and Old Guard Trustee Executed and Delivered Secret Agreement Purporting to Give Controversial Superintendent Huge Salary Increase and Golden Parachute; Superintendent Had Publicly Rejected the Contract Offer

April 28, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee - Recall Targets Had Been Sued Over False, Misleading and Illegal Statements

April 25, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee - Lawsuit Asks Court To Sanction Trustee Draper and Benecke for Illegal Campaign Statements

April 24, 2008, Todd Spitzer - Republicans commit to uphold funding for Proposition 98

Aprill 22, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee - CUSD Recall Committee Members Ask Superior Court To Sanction Trustee Draper and Benecke

March 27, 2008, CUSD Trustees Ellen Addonizio, Anna Bryson and Larry Christensen, the "ABC Reform Trustees"

March 24, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee - Sue Palazzo & Ken Maddox Endorsed by CUSD Recall Committee

March 24, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee

March 24, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee

March 10, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee - Group Leading Effort to Recall Marlene Draper and Sheila Benecke Received Approval Today From Orange County Registrar of Voters

March 7, 2008, Full Disclosure Network - Special cable series: Orange County Cox Cable Channel 31

February 13, 2008, RSM Republican Assembly

February 10, 2008, CUSD Trustees Ellen Addonizio, Anna Bryson and Larry Christensen, the "ABC Reform Trustees"

January 28, 2008, Orange County Registrar of Voters

January 28, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee

January 27, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee - More than 66,000 Recall Petition Signatures Gathered; Press Conference Will Take Place Just Before Final Submission to Registrar

January 18, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee - Signed Recall Petitions To Be Displayed; Last Chance for Recall Targets to Resign Before Signatures Are Submitted

January 14, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee - Admitted Law Breakers Authorized Bidding for Millions – With No Public Notice

January 8, 2008, CUSD Recall Committee - District Officials Systematically Targeted CUSD Committee Members; District Officials Illegally Accessed Confidential Records on Multiple Occasions; Action Seeks to Hold Wrongdoers Accountable and to “Send Message” to Future Leaders; Plaintiff’s Pledge to Return Net Proceeds to Cash-Strapped School District

January 8, 2008, CUSD Trustees Ellen Addonizio, Anna Bryson and Larry Christensen, the "ABC Reform Trustees"