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2010 Stories by R. SCOTT MOXLEY

• Santa Ana Councilman Blasts New Arizona Immigrant Law

  published May 03, 2010

  "We will get the last laugh over Arizona."--Santa Ana City Councilman David Benavides tonight discussing his approval of a winning city resolution declaring opposition to Arizona's new law that gives ... More >>

• OC's Mega-Mansions Slammed

  published May 03, 2010

  "Most people tend to overdo it out here, but it doesn't have to look like a mega-mansion from Orange County."--Successful technology company entrepreneur Bill Nguyen, 39, in this month's WSJ magazine ... More >>

• Register's Watchdog Team Nabs Honor

  published Apr 30, 2010

  The folks over at The Orange County Register's OC Watchdog team submitted just four of their journalist accomplishments to a California Newspaper Publishers Association public service contest and dese... More >>

• New Poll: Bill Hunt Erased Gap with Sheriff Sandra Hutchens

  published Apr 29, 2010

  A new poll conducted by Lewis Consulting Group shows that Bill Hunt's campaign is enjoying a "surprising surge" in recent weeks and now the race for Orange County sheriff is "essentially a dead heat."... More >>

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  Supervisors To Spend Additional $750,000 On Recycling PRr

  published Apr 29, 2010

  Though it has previously approved spending $1.25 million in taxpayer funds since 2008 for public relations to improve recycling participation, the Orange County Board of Supervisors is now considering... More >>

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  Doh! Whiny Haidl Gang Rapists Appeal Denied Again

  published Apr 27, 2010

  This afternoon justices at the California Court of Appeal based in Santa Ana denied a formal request to second guess their recent decision to uphold the convictions of three men found guilty of sexual... More >>

• News Flash! Dana Rohrabacher is Spontaneous!

  published Apr 27, 2010

  Monday must have been an exceptionally slow day over at The Hill, a publication that covers politics in the nation's capital. Reporter Christina Wilkie wrote a sweet little post ("Rohrabacher's T... More >>

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  Tanya Nelson Irks Judge Frank F. Fasel, Who Sends Double-Killer to Death Row

  published Apr 26, 2010

  Retiring Frank F. Fasel is the type of no-nonsense Orange County judge who appreciates people who make their points quickly. But Fasel wasn't impressed by Tanya Jaime Nelson's pithy pre-sentencing mes... More >>

• Poll: OC Great Park Idea Losing Support

  published Apr 24, 2010

  Despite a local government spending at least $100,000-a-month to win favorable public relations on the unbuilt Orange County Great Park in Irvine, most residents have a negative opinion about the proj... More >>

• Citizen of the Week!

  published Apr 23, 2010

  When Ashley Meeks entered an Orange County restaurant's bar at 6:30 p.m. on September 17, 2007, he was jovial. But three hours--and multiple cocktails--later the paralegal was calling bartender Katie ... More >>

• Arnold Schwarzenegger's Indian Tribe Tax Idea Slapped Down

  published Apr 22, 2010

  "We find all of the state's arguments unpersuasive."--From the Ninth Circuit's ruling this week that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's made strong-arm efforts to force the Rincon San Luiseno... More >>

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  Bill Hunt Calls For "Constitutional Revolution" in DC

  published Apr 20, 2010

  The Washington Times has posted an article featuring Orange County sheriff's candidate Bill Hunt and his pro-gun speech yesterday at the Washington Monument in the nation's capital."The Second Amendme... More >>

• Reg: Dirty Ex-Sheriff Mike Carona Wants Disability Pay Too

  published Apr 20, 2010

  While he ran California's second largest police agency, Mike Carona had sex with a county secretary in a car while his wife and young son sat oblivious nearby in an SUV. That fact, first revealed at O... More >>

• Loretta Sanchez to Obama: Slap Vietnam Now!

  published Apr 14, 2010

  OC Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez has a personal message today for President Barack Obama: Confront the Vietnamese prime minister over human rights violations in Vietnam.Yesterday, Sanchez announced th... More >>

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  Sheriff's Poll: Sandra Hutchens In Big Lead

  published Apr 14, 2010

  The first public poll of voter support in the Orange County sheriff's race found that Sandra Hutchens is far in the lead but significantly short of winning the necessary 50 percent plus vote to avoid ... More >>

• Who Is Craig Hunter?

  published April 15, 2010

  It was near the end of his April 10 presentation to a political group in Los Alamitos when Craig Hunter, a candidate for Orange County sheriff,... More >>

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  OC Republicans Think Tom Campbell Is Running For Governor!

  published Apr 13, 2010

  Earth to Republican Party of Orange County Chairman Scott Baugh. Your current online poll at the party's official website reads: "Who of the three leading GOP candidates for California's Governor... More >>

• Vietnam Shoots Down Loretta Sanchez's Travel Hopes

  published Apr 13, 2010

  Saving itself a couple of news cycles of international embarrassment, Vietnam has denied a visa to Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, who had been traveling in Asia and hoped to enter the co... More >>

• CA Candidate: Stop Indoctrinating Kids For Barack Obama

  published Apr 12, 2010

  "Most people don't know that the unions control this country."--Diane A. Lenning, a Republican candidate for California's state superintendent of public instruction, at a recent candidate forum in Ora... More >>

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  Dana Rohrabacher Attacks The President

  published Apr 09, 2010

  Delores Barr over at OC180News.com reports that Dana Rohrabacher twice called President Barack Obama a "Marxist" Thursday at the Seal Beach Chamber of Commerce breakfast. The line must have come after... More >>

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  Prosecutors Enthusiastically Endorse Sheriff Sandra Hutchens

  published Apr 09, 2010

  Out on the campaign trail it often looks like Dana Point's Sandra Hutchens doesn't enjoy politics, but today the appointed sheriff has reason to smile after receiving the "enthusiastic and uncond... More >>

• Ninth Circuit Okays 19 Cents Per Hour Pay

  published Apr 09, 2010

  The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit this morning rejected the notion that federal inmates who work must be paid "fair wages" or their constitutional rights are violated. The ... More >>

• Citizen of the Week!

  published Apr 07, 2010

  Jeffrey Blue Miller's crimes were heinous, but he thought he had a great excuse. The reason that he broke into an 85-year-old Los Alamitos woman's home in July 2006, threatened to kill her, slugged he... More >>

• Haidl Gang Rapists' Last Stand, We Think

  published April 8, 2010

  Let’s start with the obvious for any ignorant Southern California men: It’s unlawful to have sex with an unconscious person. That... More >>

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  Quang Pham's Memoir Is Coming Out In Paperback

  published Apr 06, 2010

  In time for the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon at the end of the month, Random House is publishing a $15 paperback version of "A Sense of Duty: Our Journey from Vietnam to America" by Mission ... More >>