California Republican Party

The Short Shelf Life of Rev. Lou's Man

What's a frothing-at-the-mouth preacher, who's been named one of the Top 10 Power Broker of the Religious Right and can squeeze more than $6 million a year out of the faithful (and/or gullible), got to do to get a public display of affection from the California Republican Party? If you know, you sh ... More >>

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Pumping Dollars

In a state which has had as governor both Pete Wilson and Gray Davis, two men who could squeeze campaign contributions out of a stone, it would take a very special politician to set a new standard for money grubbing. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a very special politician. A story from The Associated P ... More >>

Ackerman Wins

At the end of last week, it appeared that OC's Dick Ackerman was about to lose his position as Minority Leader in the State Senate. He stood accused by many of his fellow Republicans of being too ready to cut deals with Governor Schwarzenegger and too pro-infrastructure bonds. Sure, voters had alr ... More >>

Rohrabacher Comes Out Against Meetings

The Los Angeles Daily News reported yesterday that the "newly empowered California House Democrats are extending an olive branch to a group that has shunned them for years: California Republicans." A meeting is scheduled for this afternoon when, in the basement of the U.S. Capitol, members of the tw ... More >>

CAIR blasts GOP fear mongering

The Southern California office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has accused two politicos of smear campaigning and fear mongering in separate Orange County races. Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the CAIR office based in Anaheim, cited the remarks by former California Republican Pa ... More >>

Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Dirty Cop Sting

Catch a crooked cop: Nope. Sorry. Not here in the USA. No way. But in Mexico, authorities want a no corruption zone for the the five-mile road from the Tijuana border south to the beach. Officials are “installing cameras to catch extortion attempts, publicizing that people can pay tickets with cr ... More >>

Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: Register UCI Panic!

OC Gym Crook Arrested in LA: Police arrested Ronald James Navarrette Jr. of Mission Viejo Friday in El Segundo for breaking into men's lockers at the Spectrum Athletic Club not far from LAX. Gym employees had been on the lookout for the 45-year-old crook they knew from surveillance video taken at o ... More >>

CA GOP Sure Knows How to Pick OCers

The Republican Party of Orange County's Weekly Squeeze e-letter (guys: drop the cutesy orange metaphor, por favor) tells me today that longtime local GOP activist Kathy Tavoularis is now Executive Director of the California Delegation to the 2008 Republican National Convention. "A well organized del ... More >>

Sic Semper Schroeder

Is Mike Schroeder a bad lawyer? Or just a bad liar? R. Scott Moxley recently announced Schroeder’s hackneyed effort to kneecap Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook’s election challenge to Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Islamabad). It seems Schroeder took issue with Cook’s reference to herself ... More >>

Crystal Fur Ball

Psychic Kitty on stuff that matters

Diary of a Mad County

Psychic Kitty on stuff that matters

Is OC GOP Shill Jon Fleischman Goofy, a Moron and a Shakedown Artist too?

Don Haidl: Is somebody paying that goofy bastard [Jon Fleischman]? Mike Carona: Big bucks. Big bucks. You and I had a difference of opinion on him. I just think he was a moron on his best day, but . . . Well, apparently . . . (Laughs) They're willing to pay morons a lot of money because I was probab ... More >>

Sandra, Say It Ain't So!

The deep, angry, artificial breathing you hear in the distance?No, Jim Silva is chewing happily on apple sauce. It's not even James Earl Jones on the set of an upcoming Star Wars flick. It's Orange County's dark political lord Mike "Vader" Schroeder (pictured). At Gulfstream in Newport Beach. In bet ... More >>

A Bluer Shade of Orange

The raw vote totals in OC tell the real—and really amazing—story of Super Tuesday

Attention, Anaheim!

WEB EXCLUSIVE! Your guide to some of the locals in the Happiest City on Earth

Diary of a Mad County

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Drunk With Power

Totally leading the world to a tremendous tomorrow!

Letters

Totally leading the world to a tremendous tomorrow!

Queer Eye for the GOP Guy

Gay activist sets the record straight about Log Cabin Republicans

Smug As a Bug in a Rug

Republicans, reporters preen, groom selves at congratulatory LA bash

Letters

Republicans, reporters preen, groom selves at congratulatory LA bash

Gag Order

The war inside the DAs media department

We Must Be Butter Cause Were on a Roll

The war inside the DAs media department

Diary of a Mad County

The war inside the DAs media department

Ball Busting

And does anyone pray to the Lord of the Dance?

Leaving for Spain, Developer Takes a Moment to Grab Newport City Hall

And does anyone pray to the Lord of the Dance?

Cesar Salud

And does anyone pray to the Lord of the Dance?

Party Crashers

Republicans trash their own in battle for control of the county GOP

Che Argyros

El Toro Airport Watch No. 129

Lightning Rod

El Toro Airport Watch No. 129

Letters

El Toro Airport Watch No. 129

Dueling Videos from SEIU, State GOP Over Cali Budget

The new California Republican Party video at the top says union bosses are coming after your wallet, trying to protect state programs in their interest from budget cuts--even if it means raising your taxes. Among the union thugs the GOP singles out is the Service Employees International Union (SE ... More >>

Orange County-Born Bid to Recall Inland Empire Legislator Fails

Assemblyman Anthony Adams​Corona del Mar attorneys Mike Schroeder and Lee Lowrey have lost their bid to recall fellow GOP member and Hesperia Assemblyman Anthony Adams. The Orange County Register reports that Secretary of State Debra Bowen threw out the measure because not enough valid signatures ... More >>

Who Besides Dana Rohrabacher Is Calling Us Liars on Twitter?

​We try to keep up with the tweets of our elected officials in Orange County, but sometimes we get distracted by Facebook. That's the only plausible explanation for how we missed the above gem from Dana "Mr. Taliban" Rohrabacher (R - Leviticus).This blunder--overlooking prime tweets from OC mover/ ... More >>

Washington Post Lays GOP Woes at Manicured Feet of Mike Schroeder

Michael Schroeder​Today's top viewed story on the online edition of the Washington Post essentially blames Corona del Mar attorney and former California Republican Party chairman Michael Schroeder for the fractured state of the GOP."The Republicans' War Within: In California, repercussions of one ... More >>

GOP Assemblyman OC Republican Power Brokers Targeted for Recall Won't Seek Reelection

​The Inland Empire Republican state assemblyman who blamed "Orange County Republicans" and "Newport Beach activists" for an unsuccessful recall attempt against him will not win reelection this year.That's because Anthony Adams (R-Hesperia) won't be on the ballot."The decision to leave the Legislat ... More >>

OC Republicans' Choice for First Lady Comes Out... Against Prop. 8

NOH8 CampaignTale of the tape​In the November 2008 election, 579,064 Orange County voters wanted John McCain to be president of the United States right now (versus 549,558 for Barack Obama). By extension, Cindy McCain was 50.2 percent of the electorate's choice for first lady (versus 47.6 percent ... More >>

Orly Taitz to Run for Office?

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen to be replaced by Orly Taitz?​ Anti-Obama crusader Orly Taitz may be finished with her lawsuit in the Orange County federal courthouse, but that doesn't mean we're done seeing her around here.In fact, Californians may get to know her even better in 2010- ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez: I'll Fight Obama Spending Cuts If Necessary

Sanchez: Not necessarily joining in Barry's party​Balancing the awkward stance that she craves fiscal responsibility from the wild-spending federal government and simultaneously demands no cuts to federal grants to Orange County, Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez announced today that she'll ... More >>

California Republican Negative Nabob of Negativity Party Opposes Pot Legalization

Compassionate use conservatism​The California Republican Party has made it official: no on legalization of the devil's weed.

Chuck DeVore's Latest Endorsement: Barbara Coe?

Coe, in center, between two of her other pet candidates, Joe Arpayaso and sheriff's candidate Bill Hunt​Now that Irvine state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore is fully behind Arizona's anti-illegals SB 1070, the extremists are coming out of their muck to support his quixotic campaign for Senate. Take the ... More >>

[UPDATED] Primary Election 2010: Media Forces Unite, and the GOP Senate Parties

The blurry end.​12:56 Downstairs, in the lobby bar, there is still a decent sized crowd of very well dressed people clutching cold drinks. The general idea is that government as business is back, and it's riding on the backs of women. Though I don't hear much political banter and as far as I can t ... More >>

Orly Taitz Featured in MSNBC Documentary Premiering Tonight

John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​One of the sharpest birther-watchers around, David Weigel of the Washington Post, recently swore off any further coverage for Laguna Niguel's Orly Taitz. "As far as I'm concerned, the Taitz trainwreck ended on Tuesday when she rode a wave of publicity to 26% in Cali ... More >>

Today's Best Quote

Goodbye guv​"He calls himself the green governor and I would agree with that. He's molding."--Irvine insurance broker Ira Forkish in today's Washington Post article, "Arnold Schwarzenegger on the outs in California's Republican Party." Among other points, Sandhya Somashekhar's story notes that Sch ... More >>

Lawrence Dodge, Prominent OC Philanthropist, Owes $2.5 mil for Lying, Violating Laws: Feds

CORRECTION: Previous details on acquisition of American Sterling Bank were incorrect. A federal agency has concluded former bank president and co-CEO Lawrence Dodge violated the law, breached his fiduciary duties, engaged in unsound business practices and filed false and misleading reports, includin ... More >>

Are Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina Giving Sarah Palin Cold Padded Shoulders?

​As Bubba ties up Santa Ana traffic and rallies the Democrats behind his former foe Jerry Brown, his brown amiga Loretta Sanchez and that San Francisco mayor with the hair today, Anaheim is bracing for a traffic/media/politico crush Saturday with the arrival of Sarah Palin, plain and tall.

[UPDATED:] Election 2010: Coker is Spun, Polled, Teabagged

​1:28 p.m.: Orange County agreed with state voters on most ballot initiatives, although more of us did want to keep choking on polluted air until the unemployment rate drops and most like the state budget approval process to remain fucked-up, thank you very much (probably because many are philosop ... More >>

Mike Schroeder Did WHAT Last Night With Lady Gaga?

Schroeder: Walks on the wild side?​He dines with judges, travels on vacation with congressmen, and is known as an expensive red-wine connoisseur who can lecture on the intricacies of corporate tax policy and obscure voting regulations.But who knew Michael J. Schroeder is also, gasp, a Lady Gaga fa ... More >>

Marilyn Davenport Expressed Anti-Muslim Sentiment Before Obama-is-a-Chimp Scandal

(c) photo by R. Scott MoxleyMarilyn Davenport ​Marilyn Davenport may have been able to escape protesters outside of her Fullerton home last Saturday, but the embattled Orange County Republican Party official might have a more difficult time fleeing her past.According to Republican Party source ... More >>