Bruce Nestande

Your editorial welcoming the governor's appointment of Gaddi H. Vasquez to the 3rd District Board of Supervisor's seat was appropriate and timely. The governor had several very qualified people to choose among and, naturally, each had their own supporters. Given the choices, it would have been irresponsible to leave the seat open any longer than necessary. Though a young man, Vasquez is wise for his years and all who know him recognize his natural leadership abilities. Vasquez trained under two proven problem-solvers, Bruce Nestande and George Deukmejian, and brings their type of moderate, people-oriented decision making to a seat that desperately needs it. We in the 3rd District are fortunate to have a governor like Deukmejian who provides us a supervisor like Vasquez.

Former Orange County Supervisor and Assemblyman Bruce Nestande was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail and three years' probation in connection with a drunk-driving accident last year. Nestande, 69, had pleaded guilty to misdemeanor driving under the influence and hit-and-run, as well as filing a fraudulent insurance claim, a felony. Under a plea agreement, the felony charge will be dropped if he completes his confinement and probation, his lawyer said.

Former Orange County Supervisor Bruce Nestande, now vice president of Costa Mesa-based Arnel Development Co., has been named chairman of the California Transportation Commission. Nestande, a Republican who joined the commission in 1982, previously served as the panel's chairman in 1985. His selection was made at Friday's commission meeting in Sacramento.

With the March 5 election just days away, Bruce Nestande and Irvine Mayor Larry Agran, the two foremost speakers on either side of Measure W--the countywide initiative that would replace an El Toro airport with zoning for a park--faced off Wednesday in a debate in Newport Beach. Agran, aware he was in pro-El Toro airport country, joked about how his supporters wondered whether he needed a bodyguard.

After nine months of campaigning for the job of lieutenant governor, Bruce Nestande, a Republican supervisor from Orange County, made a mid-course correction Thursday: he announced he would run for secretary of state this June instead. Nestande, who at 48 was making his first bid for statewide office, said the decision was forced on him because an unusually strict Orange County campaign ordinance hindered him in raising the $4 million he would have needed to campaign for lieutenant governor.

County Supervisor Harriett Wieder cries out that "few average citizens arrange a house rental by personally calling a building company president," as supervisor Bruce Nestande did. "That's blatant, and I would not touch what he did with a 10-foot pole," she said. Supervisor Ralph B. Clark said he "would never mix his personal life with the people he has got to do business with." Supervisor Thomas F. Riley says about the Nestande affair: "I am always conscious of this type of thing.

After a decade of service, Bruce Nestande said he will announce his resignation today from the California Transportation Commission, the state's top transportation panel. Citing the press of business, the former Orange County supervisor said he is quitting "because the time is right" and he wants to avoid any potential conflicts of interest between his commission duties and his job as a consultant for various Orange County developers.

Former Orange County Supervisor Bruce Nestande has been named vice chairman of the California Transportation Commission, which oversees statewide highway and transit funding priorities. The panel's action in selecting Nestande earlier this week in San Diego means he will become chairman in 1991, when California will have a new governor.

By a vote of 184 to 54, the California Republican Assembly, California's largest conservative Republican volunteer organization, endorsed Orange County Supervisor Bruce Nestande for secretary of state in the June primary over Ralph E. Winkler, retired Air Force major. The vote by delegates of the 12,000-member group, which met in Fresno over the weekend, was a boost to Nestande's month-old campaign.

Orange County Supervisor Bruce Nestande, whose departure had been rumored for weeks, resigned Wednesday midway through his second four-year term. A former GOP assemblyman and one-time aide to then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, Nestande said he will leave office Tuesday to pursue an unspecified career in the private sector. Nestande, who has been under investigation by federal and local authorities in connection with the political corruption probe involving Anaheim fireworks manufacturer W.

Former Orange County Supervisor Bruce Nestande, who bowed out of elective politics in 1986 after a losing bid to become secretary of state, is back in it again--this time as a paid political campaign manager in one of the state's hottest congressional races. Republican Michael Huffington has hired Nestande, a consultant to several developers and the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, to coordinate his campaign to unseat Rep. Robert J.

Gov. Pete Wilson on Wednesday appointed former Orange County Supervisor Bruce K. Nestande and Kathryn G. Thompson, one of the county's most influential builders, to the State Bar of California Board of Governors. Nestande, 53, now a self-employed land-use consultant, recently resigned from the California Transportation Commission to avoid conflicts of interest involving developer-clients and to concentrate on his new business.

After a decade of service, Bruce Nestande said he will announce his resignation today from the California Transportation Commission, the state's top transportation panel. Citing the press of business, the former Orange County supervisor said he is quitting "because the time is right" and he wants to avoid any potential conflicts of interest between his commission duties and his job as a consultant for various Orange County developers.

Ending a decade on the state's top transportation panel, former Orange County Supervisor Bruce Nestande said Wednesday that he will announce his resignation today from the California Transportation Commission. Citing the press of business, Nestande said he is quitting effective June 30 "because the time is right" and he wants to avoid any potential conflicts of interest between his commission duties and his job as a consultant for various Orange County developers.

Former Orange County Supervisor Bruce Nestande, now vice president of Costa Mesa-based Arnel Development Co., has been named chairman of the California Transportation Commission. Nestande, a Republican who joined the commission in 1982, previously served as the panel's chairman in 1985. His selection was made at Friday's commission meeting in Sacramento.

Former Orange County Supervisor Bruce Nestande has been named vice chairman of the California Transportation Commission, which oversees statewide highway and transit funding priorities. The panel's action in selecting Nestande earlier this week in San Diego means he will become chairman in 1991, when California will have a new governor.

Gov. Pete Wilson on Wednesday appointed former Orange County Supervisor Bruce K. Nestande and Kathryn G. Thompson, one of the county's most influential builders, to the State Bar of California Board of Governors. Nestande, 53, now a self-employed land-use consultant, recently resigned from the California Transportation Commission to avoid conflicts of interest involving developer-clients and to concentrate on his new business.

Embattled Orange County tollway chief John Meyer resigned Thursday, explaining that he is "burned out" and fed up with hostile landowners who complain about project delays but offer "no solutions." The 57-year-old Meyer also cited a desire to return to mass-transit planning, his specialty before becoming the executive director of the San Joaquin Hills and Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agencies 2 1/2 years ago. Meyer, who will remain at his post until a successor is hired, said he will become a full-time, independent transportation consultant and expects to continue doing some work for the two corridor agencies overseeing the three planned tollways in eastern and southern Orange County.

A Costa Mesa councilwoman said Thursday that an Orange County-based member of the California Transportation Commission may have a built-in conflict of interest on matters involving planned freeway ramps in her city. Councilwoman Sandra L. Genis said Thursday that she is concerned about planned on- and off-ramps that will benefit current and planned commercial and residential projects of Costa Mesa-based Arnel Development Co. next to the northbound lanes of the San Diego Freeway between Bear Street and Fairview Road.

A Costa Mesa city councilwoman has called into question the role of state Transportation Commissioner Bruce Nestande in seeking changes in a city traffic improvement program that could save money for his employer. Councilwoman Sandra L. Genis said that, beginning in 1987, Nestande "lobbied" city officials to create a community facilities district that would allow his employer, Costa Mesa-based Arnel Development Co.