While more than two thirds of Orange County voters resoundingly reelected Shari Friedenrich for Treasurer/Tax Collector in the June primary, she’s increasingly protesting being shut out of her office by county supervisors.
Just this past week, as county budget deliberations got underway in public, supervisors didn’t allow Friedenrich to finish her public remarks about her concerns on proposed budget cuts to her office after they limited public comment on the budget to one-minute, given an unusually large amount of speakers.
It’s the first time I can remember watching that happen to an independently-elected official addressing colleagues during a public supervisors’ meeting…