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We Defend Barbara Coe!
By now, everyone and their gardener has heard about the letter to recently registered Latino voters warning them of repercussions if they're illegal. No one is quite sure who sent the letter (read the English-language translation here), although the blame game has already begun: Democrats blame Republican carpetbagger (and 34th State Senate District candidate) Lynn Daucher, while Assemblymember Chuck Devore smells a Lou Correa operative, then gives the worst argument in history to support it. Th
October 18, 2006We Defend Barbara Coe--Again!
Told you it wasn't the CCIR who sent out the letter telling Latinos immigrants can't vote. Turns out the California Attorney General's office fingered Tan Nguyen, who seemed like the ideal Republican congressional candidate--minority, immigrant-hating, and carpet-bagging. Jail time is rumored for the man, who was running against Loretta Sanchez but is now being urged by GOP head Scott Baugh to step down. But we digress. 'Member how an alphabet soup of Latino organizations wrote a letter to U.S
October 20, 2006Unfortunate Acronym of the Day
Earlier today, representatives from the Arizona Interfaith Network, Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, Kansas City's El Centro and the United Farm Workers set up a teleconference call to argue why comprehensive immigration reform is necessary. They met under the name Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, or CCIR for short. Of course, the famous CCIR 'round these parts is the Mexican-hating California Coalition for Immigration Reform. Given that CCIR head witch Barbara Coe was recently
May 23, 2007La Raza: Know Your Know Nothings
We appreciate WeCanStoptheHate.org, a website run by perennial conservative cucuy the National Council of La Raza that documents the going-ons of various anti-immigrant pendejos. We don't agree with their efforts to boot said pendejos off the airwaves, and do they really want to eliminate one of their top reasons for existence? And while we're excited they cover some of our local Know Nothings, the NCLR should at least get their facts right--especially when it comes to the Weekly. For instance,
February 11, 2008CCIR Doesn't Just Hate Mexicans
Few groups have provided a better glimpse into Orange County conservatism's evil, noxious soul like the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, which has provided the Weekly with much fodder over the years. CCIR head Barbara Coe and her minions usually go after illegal aliens (read: Mexicans), so it was nice to see Babs also hates Muslims as well--and she makes no distinction between legal and illegal Muslims, terrorist or non-terrorist Muslims. Just Muslims. Last Thursday, Coe sent out a
April 2, 2008Barbara Coe, Sonny Bono, And the Illuminati
It must be nigh-impossible for the nicotine-stained brain of California Coalition for Immigration Reform president Barbara Coe to keep up with all the conspiracies (Reconquista, evil Muslims, the Cult of the Two Blue Shoes) she subscribes to. Nevertheless, we always dismissed her efforts and rambles as those of a bitter, hate-filled woman--until this weekend, when we received proof of Coe's beyond-the-pale mind from Babs herself. On April 5, Coe forwarded a story to her group that interviewed o
April 9, 2008Quien es Más Minuteman?
You'll be hard-pressed to ever find two sides in a lawsuit less sympathetic than the parties who are scheduled to show up in Orange County Superior Court on May 27. On one side will stand Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist, who was fired last year from the organization he founded for accusations of fraud, embezzlement and other such financial shenanigans; supporting him will be Tim "I Want to Kill Muslims When I Grow Up" Bueler. Suing him on the above charges are current Minuteman Project b
April 19, 2008CCIR Suffered Hackers, Barbara Coe Her Usual Wacky Self
Sometime last week, someone hacked into the email of California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe and started spamming the hell out of her subscribers. On June 22, she finally got the problem under control. "I know the last few days have been a nightmare of a deluge of emails coming to you non-stop," she wrote to CCIR members. "It was determined that our system was hacked by someone who wanted to cause CCIR some serious problems. However, some dear friends made it possible to i
July 2, 2008Barbara Coe's Thoughts on the Obama New Yorker Cover
Seemingly everybody and their political consultant has opined on this week's New Yorker cover that mockingly shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim imam giving a fist rap to wife Michelle, who's dressed a Hezbollah warrior princess. Even old, wretched Barbara Coe, head witch of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform. On Monday, Coe sent off a graphic of the cover to her email list, with the thought, "Is this a 'parody' or did The New Yorker share the TR
July 16, 2008When Will Muslims Start Bashing Barbara Coe?
We've already documented how California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe is anti-Muslim in addition to anti-Mexican. But while Babs always tries to differentiate between legal Mexicans and ILLEGALS, she doesn't bother with such subtleties when it comes to the sons and daughters of Ishmael. On August 5, she sent out an email to CCIR goons forwarding an article about how a Tyson Food plant in Tennessee plans to give its largely Somali work force a day off to celebrate a Muslim ho
August 14, 2008Will the Real Barbara Coe Please Stand Up?
I devote a couple of pages of my Orange County: A Personal History (book signing Sept. 18 at the Yost!) to the Huntington Beach-based California Coalition for Immigration Reform, the single group most responsible for fanning the anti-Mexican flames in the United States over the past 15 years. One crucial moment I discuss is CCIR head Barbara Coe's self-professed epiphany regarding the illegal-alien menace, as quoted in Daniel Sheehy's 2006 book Fighting Immigration Anarchy: American Patriots Bat
September 8, 2008Barbara Coe Upset Sarah Palin Doesn't Acknowledge Her
On Sept. 15, California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe sent off a questionnaire to Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. "The California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR) is a nationally recognized nonpartisan grassroots organization representing thousands of patriots nationwide," Coe wrote to Palin. "Our goal is the enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of law-abiding Americans from illegal alien invaders and the preservation of the U.S. as a sov
October 16, 2008Letters
February 15, 2001Fox Hunt
April 5, 2001Mammaganza!
December 20, 2001Barbara Coe on Obama: "It's time to STAND UP & BE COUNTED - OR - DIE"
We already knew that California Coalition for Immigration Reform head witch Barbara Coe doesn't like President-elect Barack Obama, going so far as to compare him to Hitler. But, boy oh boy, does Barry have her goat! To the left (natch) is a doctored photo Babs sent around to CCIR's mailing list before the Thanksgiving holiday. Let the weathered, chain-smoking xenophobe take it to the bridge:This ONE PICTURE of President-Elect BARAK OBAMA & his goals "says it all" to WELL VERSED American Patr
December 2, 2008Barbara Coe Gets in Flame War With a Fellow Patriot!
Oh, the joys of being on California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe's email list! One is privy to her fevered conspiracy-minded, CAP-LOVING ILLEGAL ALIEN SAVAGES mind. But what happens if someone signs you up for her thoughts, and you don't want any more part of them? Watch out. Below is actual correspondence between Babs and some poor soul who didn't want his email box invaded with her more-than-daily rant (their name is stricken to protect their identity). Remember: the thous
December 15, 2008Looking Back at 2008: The Celeb-Reality Edition
It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who opined that a new truth is better than an old celebrity-tinged news item, or at least he would have opined that had he lived in our celeb-obsessed times. So it is in that spirit these 15 Orange County brushes with famous folks in '08 are unveiled. 1) Newport Beach city officials revealed in January they were trying to acquire the statue of their adopted Favorite Son, John Wayne, that moseys in front of the Larry Flynt building in Los Angeles. Back when
January 2, 2009Barbara Coe Ties National Council of La Raza To Notorious Salvadoran Gang
California Coalition for Immigration Reform head witch Barbara Coe keeps getting wackier and wackier. This week, she forwarded a press release to her Know Nothing nation about how National Council of La Raza presidents Janet Murguia was scheduled to testify before the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee about including homeowners as part of any bailout plan. Any reasonable person can disagree with Murguia, but Babs went balistic as usual. "Isn't it enough that La Raza has
January 9, 2009Barbara Coe Continues To Hate Muslims--And Now, Sikhs?!
This month's meeting of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform promises to be a blast, and not just because it's always a funhouse whenever CCIR head Barbara Coe (recently described by frequent commentator Baxter as "a spent cigarette butt with arms"--HILARIOUS) opens her gnarled mouth. Muslim activists have finally heeded our call and plan to protest Babs and her Know Nothings for their Muslim-hating ways because of the meeting's scheduled topic: "The Deadly Threat of Islam to America.
January 14, 2009Barbara Coe to Oregon: "Burn, Baby, Burn"
It's easy to dismiss California Coalition for Immigration Reform president Barbara Coe as an anachronism, as a relic from the days when Mexicans and whites didn't go to school together and lippy minorities got lynched. But maybe there's something to that. Maybe Barbara Coe lives in a time warp, a real-life Lost episode. Or maybe those cigarettes she chain-smokes have finally wrapped its nicotine around the area that governs one's sense of time.Let me explain. Last week, Coe sent the following vi
February 10, 2009Barbara Coe Compares Obama To Hitler (Again)
We wished California Coalition for Immigration reform head Barbara Coe wrote more often, but most of the dozens of weekly emails she send to members are usually forwarded articles with no insight offered by Babs. But not last week, when Coe sent along this ridiculous screed trying to note similarities between President Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler, something Coe has previously done. "After reading this, is there any doubt that "HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF?" Babs blabbed.Um, no.Pictured: Minuteman Pr
March 17, 2009Obama Town Hall Protesters Get Vlogged
Former Weekly managing editor Rich Kane turns vlogger as he hits the mean streets of Costa Mesa to capture protesters outside President Obama's town hall at the Orange County Fairgrounds on Wednesday.Among the pissed-off masses Rich encounters is Barbara Coe of the Huntington Beach-based California Coalition for Immigration Reform--or, as she informs Rich, "we were the Prop 187 people." Asked what she is doing there, Coe informs, "To send a message to Mr. Communist Obama, Mr. Pro-Illegal Alien
March 19, 2009Spring Breakers: Forget Cancun, El Paso Is Where It's At!
ZereshkEl Paso: Better than Cancun?The pages of Navel Gazing have long narrated the increasingly crumbly and futile efforts by OC's loose network of immigrant haters to work Americans up into a fit of rage over illegal immigration. But this latest effort by the usual suspects (Barbara Coe, CCIR, the Minutemen) marks a kind of milestone for just how desperate they've grown. They've now set out to attack spring breakers and middle-aged, fanny-packed, cruise-ship bound tourists with -- fliers? App
March 23, 2009Barbara Coe And Friends Use Adenhart Tragedy to Troll for New Members to CCIR
Was CCIR head once a Chinese singer?As Clockwork Coker inadvertently showed in his post on the death of Anaheim Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and his friends caused by some dipshit drunk driver, the Know Nothing nation will seize any opportunity to bash Mexicans and exploit any tragedy if it means furthering their cause. Last Thursday, San Diego Minutemen head Jeff Schwilk sent out an email to folks asking they try to confirm the immigration status of killer Andrew Thomas Gallo. "If he is by chan
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Video of elementary schoolkids chanting on May Day becomes YouTube hit as immigration-debate propaganda
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May 13, 1999Barbara Coe Wishes Swine Flu on Barack Obama
The latest Mexican pathogen is invading the United States: swine flu. The United States government has issued a public health emergency. Cases emerge worldwide, and deaths have already passed the 100 mark. So what does Barbara Coe, head of the Huntington Beach-based, Garden Grove-meeting California Coalition for Immigration Reform do? Openly call for God to infect President Barack Obama and other elected officials with this potentially fatal disease. "As many Christians have often spoken, 'The
April 26, 2009Barbara Coe Falls for Stupid Human Cell Phone Tricks!
It's always debatable whether California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe and her followers are senile, stupid or both. Forget their Know Nothing rants, and refry the following email Coe sent to followers.Some guy sent the video below, which purports to show that cell phones can make popcorn kernels pop once they receive phone calls. "Wow!" the man wrote to Coe. "Well, this should answer the debate about if using cell phones can affect our brain tissues. Scary."Coe forwarded his
May 1, 2009Barbara Coe Continues to Believe in Discredited "Doctor"
If I was given a penny for every time California Coalition Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe passed off lies as truths, I'd be richer than Henry T. Nicholas pre-government investigation and Don Bren pre-recession combined. Her latest gaffe proves probably better than ever why Coe's nicotine-stained brain is blacker than her heart. In the same email where Coe tells followers to avoid ethnic restaurants, she forwarded an article written by one Madeleine Cosman about how illegals are shutting dow
May 21, 2009Barbara Coe Tells Followers to Stay Away from Ethnic Restaurants
I know a lot of you foodies out there like to concentrate on grub, like to pretend that the food on your table appears deux ex machina with no political back story behind it, and prefer not to wade into the real world. I'm one of those: that's why I review restaurants, as a respite from the insanity of my regular job as an investigative reporter. Sometimes, though, the two worlds collide, and this is one of them.Barbara Coe is the head of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, an organ
May 21, 2009La Voz de Aztlan Blames Swine Flu on--Of Course!--The Jews
If you're a run-of-the-mill conspiracy-obsessed lefty, you're blaming the swine flu on corporate farming practices, operations that stuff livestock into dens of feces to create horrible humane condition ripe for all types of pathogens to mutate and infect humans. But if you're Hector Carreon, the former Buena Park city employee and fulltime pendejo who runs the gay-bashing, Jew-trashing La Voz de Aztlan, you blame the Jews.In a May 20 post writing under his pseudonym "Ernesto Cienfuego," Carreon
May 27, 2009Barbara Coe Going Batshit Loca Over Jim Gilchrist
The legal and verbal back-and-forth between Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist and California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe has gone on for so long one doesn't even know where to begin. The only conclusion I can make is that Coe is the true evildoer of the former allies; after all, it was a CCIR meeting that inspired Gilchrist to start his effort, and while Gilchrist says wacky things from time to time, Coe's words are pure, hideous venom.Coe has especially gone bonkers
July 8, 2009Know Nothing Leaders Jeff Schwilk and William Gheen Add Homophobic Slurs to their Rolodex of Racism
We're all accustomed to hear anti-immigrant loons rail: illegal alien SAVAGES, PRESS 1 FOR ENGLISH, TWO FOR SPANISH, and other priceless couplets. But, until this new wave of Know Nothings, there was at least a bit of class. Sure, Barbara Coe and her minions would spew all sorts of vitriol about Mexicans and other immigrants, but never in a decade of covering her have I heard Barb cuss or use bona fide slurs. The same, sadly, can't be said for William Gheen and Jeff Schwilk.Gheen is the he
July 14, 2009Barbara Coe Now a Birther--Hooray!
As if California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe couldn't get any more out of the mainstream--and if we've done anything in our years at this rag, it's to show that Babs is one of the vilest people to ever live in Orange County (think about that for a bit)--there's this: Coe is a Birther!In an e-mail sent yesterday to her minions, Coe forwarded an email with a link to CNN liar Lou Dobbs ranting about President Barack Obama and wondering if he was, indeed, born in the Unit
July 23, 2009Barbara Coe Adds Another Jewel to Her Crown of Conspiracies
It would take me a while to list all the vile things and views California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe believes, but a short list includes: Reconquista, Sikhs and Muslims deserve deportation, Obama wasn't born in the United States, Sonny Bono was murdered because he knew too much, and on and on the beat don't stop until the break of dawn. Here's the latest: Babs is urging her followers not to take any vaccines because the government is using them to kill you!In a August 1
August 5, 2009Another Know Nothing Turns Against Barbara Coe
Notice the Iron Cross on Coe's T-shirt...The Beer Hall Putsch of America's modern-day Know Nothing movement keeps turning more hilarious by the day. Earlier this week, we reported on how California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe tried to put murders at the hands of Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist. Now emerges a scathing July 9 email in which Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) head William Gheen calls Babs a "two-faced backstabber"--and that's one of the
July 11, 2009The OC Register Needs to Stop Respecting CCIR
The Orange County Register did another immigration story over the weekend, this one interviewing Know Nothings and saints on opposite sides of the issue. I understand that reporter Cindy Carmaco has to adhere to trying to antagonize the Know Nothings as little as possible lest she receive dozens of nasty phone calls and email like every Reg reporter who ever covers SanTana and immigration, and thus must refer to any anti-immigrant loon as "anti-illegal-immigrant." But seriously, Cindy's edito
September 8, 2009Barbara Coe on Barack Obama: "Worse, Much Worse" Than Hitler
If Obama is worse than Hitler, what does that make Coe?I once had an argument of sorts with a prominent O.C. newsman who basically told me to give it a rest on the Barbara Coe beat. "She's just an old, paranoid woman who barely has a following," he said of the head of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, and that's why he works for his outlet and I work for mine. You gentle readers need no introduction to the profound influence she's had on the modern-day Know Nothing movement.But
October 2, 2009Barbara Coe Finally Hates the Gays
Why is this woman smiling? Right: because she just talked to her boss, Lucifer...California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe hates Mexicans. She hates immigrants. Muslims. Thinks Obama wasn't born in this country and won't take vaccines. She's not an anti-Semite or anti-black, unless they're liberal. Really, the only group I could never find any evidence Coe was against were the gays...until last week.She forwarded an email urging her minions to oppose an Assembly bill seekin
September 24, 2009Orly Taitz and Barbara Coe, Together Again
Well, this isn't shocking. Laguna Niguel's Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq., the key anti-Obama lawyer that has had every single one of her lawsuits challenging the President's eligibility dismissed, will be speaking at an upcoming meeting of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform.You remember CCIR, Gustavo's favorite bashers of Mexicans, Muslims, gays, vaccines and reality. It's actually where Taitz first met Rev. Wiley Drake, one of the first plaintiffs in her lawsuits (they've since become es
November 4, 2009Bill Hunt Now Officially Batshit Loco
Arpaio, Coe, and Hunt: Pendejos in a pod? For sure, the first two...It was bad enough that Orange County Sheriff's candidate Bill Hunt invited a man as controversial as Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to shill for him at a fundraiser. But for Hunt to allow California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe into the fest means he has just sealed his fate with the rational people of Orange County. Bill: that picture. Why? Do you really want to be associated with the godmother of th
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