“For 18 years, Barbara Boxer has championed big-government policies that raise our taxes and slow our economy's growth. Given these tough economic times, we need leaders and advocates in Washington who are able to put aside partisanship and ego to develop real, effective solutions to our state's and our nation's most pressing challenges. Effecting policy change begins by effecting changes in our representation in Washington. As a U.S. Senator, I will always put the needs of my fellow Californians first.”
–Carly Fiorina, Republican U.S. Senate candidate, speaking at today's Orange County Forum monthly luncheon in Irvine, deep in the heart of “DeVore Country.” A quick check of her opponent Chuck DeVore's campaign website showed no counterpunch appearance today by the termed-out Irvine assemblyman in Los Altos Hills, deep in the heart of “Carly Country.”
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.