Burying Tom Fuentes' Secrets

I stood there semi-paralyzed, waiting for the punch line or a cocktail to the face.

"No, I'm not kidding. You guys go after everybody—Republicans, Democrats, everybody," he continued. "That's what a newspaper should do."

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Fuentes: One nattily dressed man

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• Thomas Fuentes
• Bob Dornan
• Will Swaim
• U.S. Republican Party Politics
• U.S. Conservative Politics

In the wake of those unexpected statements, I might not have been fully convinced of his sincerity, but I enjoyed one of the oddest, interesting conversations I've ever had with an OC power player. He even shared some secrets. (Poor Dana Rohrabacher.)

At the end of the talk, he reminded me that our discussion had been entirely off-the-record.

In Fuentes' world, it's best to take some secrets to the grave.