They’re dropping like flies! It’s time for some of that sweet dancing music.
Sheila Calabro, Regional Director for the Southern Regional Office, she who piloted the good ship CCMS into the rocks has chosen to retire effective June, 2011.
After fourty years with the California Court System, Bill Vickrey announced today the impending retirement of Ms. Calabro. While she may be remembered for the good she did for the branch, her cement shoes were the way she treated and managed her staff and her gross mismagament of what will inevitably be the worlds most expensive software program when/if it is rolled out some time in 2016.
On behalf of AOC and court employees everywhere,
Good Riddance! Enjoy your retirement PLEASE!
(jcw thanks FK for the fast breaking information..)
Breaking news courtesy of Courthouse Mouse
KQED’s news radio is having a forum discussion with Tani C-S tomorrow morning at 9AM. I believe they might also post a transcription of it on their
site, but they definently have an audio clip available after airing.
A forum discussion on KQED sometimes implies answering questions from forum participants that are calling in. (hint, hint..)
By the wonders of internet technology we give to you the streaming audio from KQED and this morning’s Forum segment.
Judicial Council Watcher 
wendy darling
March 28, 2011
Seems like an appropriate occasion for another chorus of “ding dong the witch is dead” …
JusticeCalifornia
March 28, 2011
Woo hoo. Great tune, JCW!
Now let’s see some of the brutal, down and dirty JC/AOC “cleaners” thrown out– Fuentes, Judnick, and Turner (for starters).
wendy darling
March 28, 2011
Posted late this afternoon from Cheryl Miller on Legal Pad, the on-line blog of The Recorder and CalLaw:
Judges Band Together Against Trial Court Rights Act
[Cheryl Miller]
Assembly Majority Leader Chuck Calderon, D-Montebello, said in a Recorder story last week that he might be willing to temporarily shelve his AB 1208, the Trial Court Rights Act, if there was no organized opposition to the legislation.
Doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.
More than 100 judges — many from Santa Clara County Superior Court — have signed a letter of opposition to AB 1208, saying the bill “would transform the judiciary from a cohesive and co-equal branch of government into 58 fragments.” Presiding judges from some 24 counties signed on.
This follows a storm of emails from judges in support of AB 1208 that flooded branch inboxes on Friday. The presiding judges of at least four trial courts have offered their benches’ backing.
A hearing date has not been scheduled yet for the bill.
Given this concerted judicial assault and lobbying effort against SB 1208, especially since it appears the majority of the judges are from the Santa Clara County Superior Court, former fiefdom of Kiri Torre, it would seem that phone calls, legislative office visits, letters, e-mails, text messages, and or tweets from the ACJ, JCW readers, and the public are called for to every member of the State Legislature, and especially to the members of the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee.
And the voters should be informed of the names of every elected judge who signed this letter of opposition, and informed that these elected judges are opposing transparency, accountability, and fiscal responsibility in the judicial branch, even in the face of clear evidence of gross mismanagement and misconduct as evidenced by the audit report of the State Auditor.
The Trial Court Bill of Rights is 13 years overdue. The time for enactment of this legislation is now, and the place that needs to happen is the State Legislature.
Long live the ACJ and JCW.
courtflea
March 28, 2011
OMG! Yes another chorus Wendy D! I never thought I would see THIS day. On the other hand, what took so long? I mean how much abuse could that woman take for her deeds in the CCMS debacle? I guess you don’t get to this level with a heart beating in your body or having the skin of a shark.
antonatrail
March 28, 2011
Wow! Long time comin’! One small, humble household is celebrating tonight! Dropping like flies are the fly droppings. What will the hag do without her huge income stream? One thing the power-hungry, ambitious cow can be sure of: she WILL go down in history. Be careful what you wish for, Sheila. Buh-bye.
Nathaniel Woodhull
March 29, 2011
Yes Virginia, there really is a God in Heaven!
JusticeCalifornia
March 29, 2011
And if anybody REALY thought anything was going to change:
The CJ has announced her appointed members of the SEC:
Talk about thumbing her nose. . .at everyone. . . .
Click to access OC23-11.PDF
judicialcouncilwatcher
March 29, 2011
A link has been added to the audio of this morning’s KQED Forum segment to the primary post. If you happen to click here first, here is another link.
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201103290900
courtflea
March 29, 2011
Hey, JCW, can you please post Randy Quaid’s “Star Wackers” video from youtube. I think that is how the AOC Dirketors feel about their plight 🙂 Imagine Bill V or Ron the O singing instead of Randy….
judicialcouncilwatcher
March 29, 2011
courtflea
March 29, 2011
Dawg, this is all cool but you did not get the song!!!
judicialcouncilwatcher
March 30, 2011
The only video I can find on youtube is of really, really poor quality. Here is a link to a CTV news story about the song. http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110319/bc_randy_quaid_town_pants_110319/20110319?hub=BritishColumbiaHome