The price tag of the Orange County Fair keeps going up for just about everyone.

But there’s one group that continues to have easy, free access to the fair — local politicians and their guests.

A Voice of OC review of the fair’s public ticket disclosures found that fair board members used nearly $20,000 worth of free tickets last year, and that over 30 OC city council members, one state assemblywoman and one congressman also got free tickets to the fair alongside exclusive dinners.

About 300 other VIPs got free tickets to the exclusive dinners as well, which served meals including tomahawk steak and sliced pork loin and cost a combined total of over $22,000.

Those are just some of the 8,000 free tickets dispersed last year with little to no public conversation, most of which went to non

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