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2010 Stories by R. SCOTT MOXLEY

• Todd Spitzer Keeps Digging

  published October 28, 2010

  District Attorney Tony Rackauckas has been known to use his immense authority to grant favors to friends. Rackauckas recently all but conceded... More >>

• New York Times Data: OC Elections Aren't Really Contests

  published Oct 26, 2010

  Do we have real congressional election contests in the Orange County/Long Beach area or, despite all the hullabaloo, is the whole affair preordainedrData from The New York Times, based on FiveThirtyEi... More >>

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  Jeff Lalloway: I Was Attacked For Questioning City of Irvine Spending

  published Oct 25, 2010

  Jeff Lalloway feels sucker punched tonight and his attacker wasn't the media or liberal Democrats who run Irvine, one of Orange County's two Democratic controlled cities.Lalloway, a Republican candida... More >>

• Irvine Candidate Jeff Lalloway Fired By Fellow Republican

  published Oct 25, 2010

  There are many things a rookie Republican candidate doesn't want to happen two weeks before an election.Yes, one might be to get caught pants-less with a naked minor on a roof at daybreak.Another, tho... More >>

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  Rev. Robert Schuller Wants Your Money For His Wild Spending

  published Oct 24, 2010

  It was only a matter of time before millionaire Rev. Robert H. Schuller of Garden Grove's Crystal Cathedral was once again seeking charity from those less fortunate than himself.Yep, he's got an incre... More >>

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  Sunday News Notes: Reg Slams Loretta Sanchez

  published Oct 24, 2010

  Local news highlights include:Register against Loretta Sanchez but drags out marijuana stanceThe editorial staff of the OC Register has declared itself for congressional candidate Van Tran, a Republic... More >>

• Todd Spitzer Pounds DA Tony Rackauckas in KUCI Interview

  published Oct 22, 2010

  The equation is simple and easily more verifiable than any Albert Einstein formula.Todd Spitzer plus microphone equals, well, explosive talk.And KUCI-FM gave Spitzer, the rebellious Orange County Repu... More >>

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  Todd Spitzer Calls For Polygraph In Dispute With DA

  published Oct 21, 2010

  Following Wednesday's heated, dueling press conferences between District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and Todd Spitzer, his recently fired understudy, OC Register columnist Frank Mickadeit accurately wrot... More >>

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  Tony Rackauckas & Todd Spitzer Declare Themselves 2014 Opponents for Orange County's Top Prosecutor Job

  published Oct 20, 2010

  Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and Todd Spitzer, the high-ranking prosecutor he fired in August, conducted dueling, in-depth press conferences today.After trying to groom Spitzer as h... More >>

• Todd Spitzer Prepares Surprise In Retaliation For DA's Press Conference Today

  published Oct 20, 2010

  In hopes of blunting the sting from today's scheduled district attorney's press conference detailing Todd Spitzer's alleged pre-firing shenanigans, Spitzer has prepared a surprise.Spitzer--the former ... More >>

• Can Van Tran Get Loretta Sanchez Fired?

  published October 21, 2010

  If Van Tran makes California history on Nov. 2 by upsetting Loretta Sanchez—the Democratic congresswoman who has trampled over her past five... More >>

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  Dan Choi: The Gay OC Soldier Who Won't Quit

  published Oct 19, 2010

  Dan Choi just won't give up.The 29-year-old, irrepressible Orange County resident is refusing to allow his homosexuality to block him from military service even though the Iraq War veteran was booted ... More >>

• Half-Year Lock-up For Marijuana Transporter Upheld

  published Oct 19, 2010

  Robert Victor Wayman probably thought he was safe from prosecution for the 37 Ziploc baggies containing more than 117 grams of marijuana he was carrying in his vehicle when he was stopped in Orange Co... More >>

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  DA To Blast Todd Spitzer on Wednesday

  published Oct 18, 2010

  Sources are telling OC Weekly that Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and his assistants will end their public silence on Wednesday about the controversial release of Todd Spitzer as a pr... More >>

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  Sarah Palin Excites Orange County Republicans For Van Tran

  published Oct 17, 2010

  Orange County has an endless supply of ironies.Friday, ex-President Bill Clinton held a pep rally for Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez in Santa Ana.Yesterday, Sarah Palin--a Fox News contribut... More >>

• Bill Clinton: OC Needs Loretta Sanchez in Congress

  published Oct 15, 2010

  Accompanied by a decent-sized Secret Service detail, Bill Clinton came to Orange County this afternoon to offer advice.The 42nd president of the United States told several hundred people (and at least... More >>

• Loretta Sanchez and Van Tran Slug It Out At KOCE Debate

  published Oct 13, 2010

  You might have thought Lindsay Lohan was in town.More than 30 reporters--including at least two from Los Angeles television stations--packed into the KOCE-TV studio in Huntington Beach late this after... More >>

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  Scott Baugh Enlists GOP Attacker In Hopes of Discrediting Factual Story On Lobbying Pact

  published Oct 13, 2010

  In 2006, Daystar wanted to takeover Orange County's public broadcasting channel at KOCE in Huntington Beach. The Texas-based evangelical television network hired Platinum Advisors, a California lobbyi... More >>

• OC Register Botches Rudy Giuliani Appearance for Van Tran

  published Oct 11, 2010

  I'm one of the folks who thinks the Orange County Register has gotten better in recent years--more willing to go after once sacred cows. I especially like the work of the paper's OC Watchdog section. ... More >>

• Loretta Sanchez Launches Positive TV Ad

  published Oct 11, 2010

  An emotionally bruised Van Tran can sigh in relief.Loretta Sanchez's new TV ad in Orange County's most heated congressional race is all about her. It doesn't even mention Tran, her Republican challeng... More >>

• Rapist/Killer Edward Patrick Morgan Wins Supreme Court Point

  published Oct 11, 2010

  You've probably never heard of Edward Patrick Morgan, a onetime La Palma and Anaheim resident who charmed his way into the lives of awestruck young Orange County women with smooth talk, model good loo... More >>

• Speaks for Justice, Loves Dogs

  published October 14, 2010

  Lake Forest product Farrah Emami watched her life change seven years ago in August when the then-Loyola Marymount University student began an... More >>

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  OC Gay Republican Dreams of Beating President Barack Obama

  published Oct 10, 2010

  Deep inside the anti-gay Orange County GOP curtain, Fred Karger--a 60-year-old gay Laguna Beach resident, actor and longtime Republican political consultant--has formed an official president... More >>

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  Sunday News Notes

  published Oct 10, 2010

  Happy 10-10-10 to you.rWeekend news highlights from various media sources include:Fred Phelps thinks he knows whyYou can thank UC Irvine researchers for this good news: The future "Big One" earthquake... More >>

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  Dana Rohrabacher, Gulp, Sings at Van Tran Rally

  published Oct 09, 2010

  It was billed as a Tea Party rally but today's event in a Garden Grove public park was actually nothing more than a Republican Party pep rally for Van Tran, the Republican hoping to unseat Democratic ... More >>