Subject: California Coalition for Immigration Reform

• 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, 2006

• We 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, 2006

• Exclusive: Sergio Ramirez Speaks!

  Sergio Ramirez is a double major in environmental studies and political science at Long Beach State. In March, Ramirez and a friend attended a meeting of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform for one of their classes. The two signed in, talked to some folks and took some pamplets back to their professor. They were the only Latinos. Last week, that Long Beach State professor called Ramirez and asked if he was the Sergio who signed the infamous Tan Nguyen "immigrants can't vote" letter

  October 25, 2006

• Because Even Bigots Need to Rest...

  ...You should join them this Saturday in Anaheim. The California Coalition for Immigration Reform--authors of the infamous Proposition 187 and architects of the modern Know Nothing movement--will hold a potluck for all members and interested individuals in lieu of their usual monthly Nuremburg rallies at the Garden Grove Women's Club. "YOU just played a major role in DEFEATING the treacherous, life-threatening illegal alien Amnesty (S.1639) which welcomed foreign robbers, rapists, killers, smugg

  July 23, 2007

• La 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, 2008

• ¡Ask a Mexican! As Extinct as Kudzu

  To paraphrase a paraphrase of Mark Twain, reports of my deportation have been greatly exaggerated. Yes, I know I announced last Thursday that I was ending my ¡Ask a Mexican! column, but few people seemingly bothered to read the line where I stated my self-deportation was "effective the feast day of St. Melito," which happens to fall today. April Fools'! In this day of Google and instant knowledge, I must admit I was shocked that only two people called me on my bluff: Diego Renteria, an 18-yea

  April 1, 2008

• CCIR 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, 2008

• Barbara 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, 2008

• Getting Ready to Battle the Illegals

  Tomorrow is May Day, celebrated by socialists across the globe and by illegal immigrants in the United States to march for amnesty (as an Aztlanista, I can tell you the shared dates ain't no coincidence, I tell ustedes what). Locally, pro-amnesty folks will meet at SanTana's Civic Center Plaza at 2 p.m., while the loyal opposition known as the California Coalition for Immigration Reform will protest outside the Mexican Consulate off Broadway and Civic Center Drive at eight in the morn. Of cours

  April 30, 2008

• Rosie's Riveting Fabulists

  It's always entertaining to see which sacrificial lamb the Orange County Republican Party offers to Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez every two years, but the 2008 election is already proving to be particularly fun. Running unopposed as the Republican nominee for the 47th Congressional District is Santa Ana Unified School District Trustee Rosemarie Avila, whom we'll always remember for telling her pastor, Calvary Chapel's Chuck Smith, that her school district was planning to become the first in Oran

  May 13, 2008

• CCIR 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, 2008

• When 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, 2008

• Barbara 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, 2008

• Californias Misadventures

  February 22, 2001

• Welcome to Orange County, Now Go Home

  March 15, 2001

• Fox Hunt

  April 5, 2001

• God Loves Losers

  December 13, 2001

• Mammaganza!

  December 20, 2001

• OC's Taliban-Loving Congressman to Address OC's Taliban This Wednesday

  Ya wanna know why the California Coalition for Immigration Reform are evil, decrepit hypocrites? Because they're hosting Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Taliban) this Wednesday at their monthly Klavern at the Garden Grove Woman's Club on the corner of Gilbert and Garden Grove Blvd (starts at 7:30 pm; admission $5 for non-CCIR members). From the keyboard of CCIR head Barbara Coe: The courageous patriot Representative who always stands strong for the rights of loyal, law-abiding Americans of ever

  October 20, 2008

• Silence Is Golden

  September 8, 2005

• Barbara 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, 2008

• Barbara 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, 2009

• The Only Scene You Need From Inside CCIR's Anti-Islam Pow-Wow

  The clamor outside is made scarier by the fact that it's muffled, as if the kids next door are watching a slasher-flick at full blast. Felt in the stomach and feet: an incessant, pulse-heightening pound, bass-heavy and rhythmic from the stomping and drumming. Leaking through the doors into the ears: unintelligible barking, harsh talk, car horns and the occasional awful shriek. To the "patriots" at the California Coalition for Immigration Reform's special meeting about "THE DEADLY THREAT OF ISLAM

  January 29, 2009

• The Godfather of Mexican-Haters to Visit CCIR Tomorrow!

  What an exciting couple of days it's been for members of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform! They held a rally this past Saturday at their little slice of Nuremburg, the Garden Grove Women's Club, in which a Who's Who of Know Nothings was scheduled to rally geriatrics against amnesty for illegals: Jeff Schwilk of the San Diego Minutemen (a group so goofy they despise Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist), CCIR head witch Barbara Coe, "Chicana" activist Lupe Moreno, Save Our State

  February 23, 2009

• Barbara 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

  April 14, 2009

• This Is Your Life: A Companion Guide/Shameless Propaganda for 'Orange County: A Personal History'

  September 11, 2008

• Bush Victory Evidence of God's Existence

  December 14, 2000

• Their Favorite Martin

  Chased from the Anaheim school board, Harald Martin feels the love at a meeting of the CCIR

  October 4, 2007

• Grave Error

  December 12, 2002

• Painters of the World Unite!

  October 21, 1999

• What I Want to Kill When I Grow Up

  July 1, 2004

• Fight Club

  How I learned self-defense from an anti-immigrant group and lived to write about it

  April 5, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 4, 2006

• Commie Girl

  February 2, 2006

• How I Spent My thanksgiving Vacation

  December 1, 2005

• THE RIGHT IS RIGHT

  Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist has it all figured outexcept for one little thing

  June 2, 2005

• The Disorder at the Border

  March 31, 2005

• Shutter Buggers

  June 26, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 10, 2003

• See Tombstone, Nab a Mexican

  March 13, 2003

• Way Out There With Them!

  December 12, 2002

• Waiting for Barbara Coe

  September 5, 2002

• I Witness

  May 30, 2002

• Harald Martins Army

  August 10, 2000

• Lights! Camera! Reaction!

  May 13, 1999

• Anti-Immigrant Racist Group Will Protest at HB Pier This Saturday

   Last Saturday a bunch of anti-immigration activists from a group called Freedom14.org gathered at the Huntington Beach pier to, in the group's own words, "inspire White people to take up its cause." They'd appeared there a few times in the past few months without incident, but this time were met by a small group of anarchist counter-protesters led by Naui Huitzilopochtli, a local immigrant- and indigenous-rights activist and the best YouTube blogger around.Now, we've just received word tha

  July 23, 2009

• Another 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, 2009

• The 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, 2009

• Barbara 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, 2009

• Orly 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, 2009