23rd ANNUAL TASTE OF NEWPORT
To celebrate the community and another great Newport Beach summer. Year after year, locals and visitors look forward to this September bash that uniquely brings fine dining and great live entertainment together for this three day party. The Taste of Newport has featured some of the greatest performers from the world of rock n roll, pop and dance, jazz and more. Southern California ’s premier food, drink and music festival will take place at Newport Center Drive at Fashion Island from September 16 is Joan Jett, an originator, an innovator, and a visionary. As the leader of the hard-rocking Blackhearts, she’s had eight platinum and gold albums and nine Top 40 singles, including the classics “Bad Reputation,” “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll”, and “Crimson and Clover.” Jett has the honor of being one of only two women named to Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 greatest guitar players of all time. Not one to sit still, she even sits at the head of her own label, Blackheart Records and has acted in movies and in the Broadway musical, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”.Barenaked Ladies will command the stage on Saturday, September 17 ! By combining humor, well-crafted songs, and an eclectic mix of folk and pop/rock, Barenaked Ladies rose to universal status with 1998′s “One Week”. Their hits also include “If I Had a $1,000,000 ”, “Pinch Me” and “It’s All Been Done”. Launched as a traveling acoustic act, they began injecting their performances with humorous exchanges to hold their audiences’ attention. The trick worked, and the band’s mixture of humor and musicianship was forever cemented. Their albums Gordon, Rock Spectacle, Stunt and Maroon went multi-platinum in theU.S., and Barenaked Ladies is now a top-selling, award-winning concert draw acrossNorth America and The U.K. with their recognizable blend of high-energy melodic-pop, crack musicianship and spontaneous repartee.
Sunday, September 18 features even more variety with ABBA: The Concert and Taylor Dayne.
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The Wikipedia entry for the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce proudly states, “It should also be noted here that the Newport Beach Chamber receives no subsidy from the City (Newport Beach). Total support is through membership dues and special event income.”
OK … let’s get back to that later.
So, back in November 2010, voters in the City of Newport Beach overwhelmingly voted, 61.5 percent to 38.5 percent, for Measure V, which amended the City Charter and eliminated a few outdated City ordinances. One of these “outdated” ordinances that was repealed was a $2,400 maximum amount of funds (important notation) the City could give the Chamber.
Well, according to Wikipedia, and Newport Beach Chamber President and CEO Richard Luehrs, the Chamber never had to receive actual hard money cash from the City, which might have been true, instead, the Chamber had been getting In-Kind funds in the form of Fee Waivers/City Support to the tune of $50k – $75k a year for its various events (Newport Beach Boat Parade, Taste of Newport, etc).
So if the Chamber proudly boasts that it never had to receive any subsidies from the City, why then was it so important to include that particular repeal in Measure V?
And why would the Chamber now be asking the City of Newport Beach for $75k cash (plus $18k inkind) for the Taste of Newport and $50k cash (plus $8,500 inkind) for the Newport Beach Boat Parade if “Total support is through membership dues and special event income,” once that ordinance was repealed?
But how the Chamber spends its member’s funds for its special events is not the gist of this column.
What concerns me is how the Chamber spends its member’s funds on the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce’s Business and Community Political Action Committee or BACPAC.
You see, the Chamber funds it’s Political Action Committee on an as-needed basis to the tune of $11,724 in 2010, $3,892 in 2008, and $15,530 in 2006 for the sole purpose of supporting their endorsed candidates for Newport Beach City Council.
And while other Political Action Committees – like the Newport Beach Firefighter’s Association’s – ITEMIZE their contributors, the Chamber’s BACPAC doesn’t, instead lumping them into one, or sometimes two, contributions directly from the Chamber.
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