California Republican Party

Will Assemblyman Allan Mansoor Challenge Michelle Steel For OC Supervisor's Seat?

Will ex-Costa Mesa mayor and current California State Assemblyman Allan Mansoor challenge Michelle Steel--a fellow but less experienced Republican office holder--for a soon-to-be open seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors? That's the energetic buzz this week in Republican circles, where St ... More >>

Gabrielle Jane Nestande Whisked Off to Texas Jail for 180 Days for Hit-and-Run Homicide

Gabrielle Jane Nestande, the former Texas capital aide, one-time Newport Beach debutante and daughter of a California GOP power player, will do some jail time connected with her being convicted of criminally negligent homicide for a hit-and-run slaying of a pedestrian after a night of beers, vodka a ... More >>

Mike Carona's Curse: Two of the Dirty Ex-OC Sheriff's Tainted Benefactors Die Within Weeks At The Age Of 61

A former Florida cocaine trafficker, who became an ultra-wealthy database guru that bought valuable gifts for corrupt Orange County sheriff-turned-convicted-felon Mike Carona, died Thursday or Friday, according to news reports.The Palm Beach Post quickly handed Hank Asher, 61 and a high school ... More >>

[UPDATED with Wife's (?) Defense:] Lawrence and Kristina Dodge, (Former?) OC Power Couple, Open Up About Financial Woes

UPDATE, NOV. 29, 1:15 P.M.: See the remarks in the Comments section from someone claiming to be Kristina Dodge, who goes into greater detail about the latest controversy swirling around her and husband Lawrence Dodge.ORIGINAL POST, NOV. 26, 12:16 P.M.: Kansas City journalist Matt Campbell includes s ... More >>

Troy Edgar Loses Key Endorsement In State Assembly Run After Cheating Revelations

At one point 10 months ago, Troy Edgar enjoyed support from a long list of Orange County Republicans in his attempts to leave the Los Alamitos city council for higher public office.But recent months haven't been kind to Edgar--especially after the Weekly revealed he'd doctored mandatory federal camp ... More >>

Jon Fleischman's FlashReport For California Republicans Gains LA Times Attention

​Orange County's Jon Fleischman, the grand daddy of powerful California Republican bloggers, earned a noteworthy news story in today's Los Angeles Times.Though he has plenty of critics, routinely treats me with outright contempt (I wasn't good for his onetime boss Sheriff Mike Carona) and strictly ... More >>

The Real Todd Spitzer Stands Up

[Moxley Confidential] Orange County's potential next district attorney makes a surprising confession in his eternal war against DA Tony Rackauckas and GOP power couple Susan and Mike Schroeder

Lady Gaga Finally Has Something in Common With Newt Gingrich and it is in Orange County!

​[UPDATED: At conclusion of the article.]Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Mike Schroeder, his decades old travel companion and buddy, adamantly disagree on which 2012 Republican candidate would make the best U.S. president. Rohrabacher despises Newt Gingrich and is backing Mitt Romney. Schroeder d ... More >>

Marilyn Davenport Ally: It's GOP Boss Scott Baugh Who Should Be Reprimanded

Anxious for next banana​The chief defender of Marilyn Davenport, the Orange County Republican Party official tied to a racist email depicting President Barack Obama and his parents as chimpanzees, is urging the party's executive committee members to focus its attention not on Davenport but instead ... More >>

Marilyn Davenport: The Evolution of a Scandal

[Moxley Confidential] How that racist Obama-family-chimpanzee email has driven the OC GOP apeshit

[UPDATED: KTLA Gets Davenport Scoop] Racist Orange County Republican Email: President Obama and His Parents Are Apes

(c) Photo by R. Scott MoxleyCA Republican Party is not happy with Davenport​UPDATE, APRIL 20, 10:18 P.M.: During the KTLA interview, a "timid, confused" Marilyn Davenport, a retired Christian book publisher, said she is "really sorry" for sending the racist email. In her view--expressed throu ... More >>

Marilyn Davenport Speaks: Author of Obama-Ape Email is Sorry

(c) Photograph by R. Scott Moxley Marilyn Davenport: Startled by her newfound political fame​It wasn't too many hours ago when there was zero chance that teams of Los Angeles television news crews would have staked out Marilyn Davenport's ranch-style home in a gorgeous hillside Fullerton ne ... More >>

DA Todd Spitzer's Latest Flip-Flop

Todd Spitzer​Five months ago, an angry Todd Spitzer took control of a public employees' local union hall in Santa Ana; called print, radio and television reporters to a press conference; and made a historic announcement. Spitzer--a former prosecutor, county supervisor and Republican stat ... More >>

Will the Real Todd Spitzer Please Stand Up?

[Moxley Confidential] The ex-prosecutor assumed he'd take over the DA's office but gets booted first

Sunday News Notes: Todd Spitzer Out! Barney Frank In! Van Tran Confused!

Palace intrigue erupts in 401​Highlights from the local media today include: Susan Kang Schroeder Announces She'll Be DAOkay, okay. I'm kidding. So the real news isn't that dramatic, but there's nevertheless been a major development in Orange County's criminal justice system. Former state ass ... More >>

Orly Taitz Suggests that Chuck DeVore is Corrupt

Christopher Victorio / OC WeeklyOrly Taitz speaks at CRA, where evil Chuck DeVore and Damon Dunn also spoke.​Irvine State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore has seen his U.S. Senate run criticized for being futile because of DeVore's pretty-far-to-the-right policy stances. But maybe the guy's electable ... More >>

DA Tony Rackauckas: I'll Be Back

Beth StirnamanRackauckas and Susan Schroeder​For more than six months, persistent rumors have circulated in Orange County legal circles that Tony Rackauckas, the district attorney since 1999, would not seek a fourth term this year. Numerous individuals including Rackauckas employees, defense attor ... More >>

One Paper Questions Poizner's Fitness to Govern, Another Makes Same Case Against Whitman

Steve Poizner photo by Jack GouldWhitman for sale; heil, Poizner!​From Los Angeles Times Capitol Journal columnist George Skelton: Steve Poizner's Wild-Eyed Accusations Against Meg Whitman Don't Bode Well: The GOP gubernatorial candidate alleges his opponent used attempted bribery and extortion to ... More >>

What Does the Mayan Calendar Say About Three H's Running for OC Sheriff?

Sheriff Craig Hunter?​Hang onto your seats, disaster lovers! The dynamics of the 2010 race for Orange County sheriff changed this week with the candidacy of Craig Hunter, second in command at the Anaheim Police Department. No need to consult your astrological chart or the Mayan calendar for a de ... More >>

KCBS: Another Woman Caught in "Compromising Position" with Disgraced OC Pol

Mike Duvall spread more than the word of God​Until recently, Irvine-based Republican fundraiser Desiree Mouzoon prominently listed a testimonial on her business website from Mike Duvall. Why not? Until recently, Duvall had been an Orange County state assemblyman who served as vice chairman of a po ... More >>

[Moxley Confidential] Cameron Jackson Says Mike Schroeder is Just Too Damn Powerful

[Moxley Confidential] What Tied the Tongue of Mike Schroeder, Janet Nguyen's Biggest Nemesis?

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 >>

Moneyopoly

Who are the OC players who contributed to the 2008 presidential candidates?

They Got the Sheriff

OC Sheriff Michael S. Carona’s reign has been equal parts tragedy and comedy. With his indictment, it enters its final act.

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 >>

The Reporter vs. the Republican Power Couple

Will an upcoming LA Times profile unravel or bolster Mike Schroeders empire?

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 >>

Attention, Anaheim!

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

A Friend in Weed

Pot coulda been a contender in DeVore race. Then the Terminator harshed his mellow

DA's office: Use "Extreme Caution" with LA Times reporter

The on again, off again war between the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County District Attorney's media affairs office is on again. Today, DA spokeswoman Susan Kang Schroeder sent an agencywide email "warning" staff about Times investigative reporter Christine Hanley. Schroeder claims that Hanley ... More >>

Diary of a Mad County

Orange County developers snared in hot lesbo love in!

Don't know if you caught this buried in the LA "By God" Times' Jan. 12 front-pager on Governor Big Lippy sending his chief-of-staff out to court his big-money Republican donors: their first get together will be this coming Wednesday, Jan. 18, at the Irvine Co.'s "Fantasy" Island Hotel (formerly the ... More >>

Capitol Punishment

How Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped worrying and learned to love selling out to special interests

OC Law Enforcement 'Poisoned'

Assemblyman Todd Spitzer questions the District Attorneys judgment, fairness

Out of His Skull

What do you get when you combine paranoia, ego and almost limitless power?
Answer: DA Tony Rackauckas

Letters

Gary Mendoza: Consumer-Rights Warrior?

A daily reporter endorses GOP candidate for insurance commissioner

The Grainy Face of Corporate Evil

Does Bill Simon really believe hes been exonerated by a Republican judge?

Good Gaddi Almighty!

Even as Edison was claiming it was nearly bankrupt, it paid the new Peace Corps chief more than $300,000 in bonuses

Remembering the Future of Orange Countys Great Park

Last Call

Lindas Doll Hut, 1989-2001

Lou Sheldon's Nightmare

If Proposition 22 fails, we're all going gay!

Orange County's Scariest People!

Hey! It really IS the Year of the Woman!

GOP Smutmongers

When you wish upon a Starr report

Party's Not Over Yet

GOP insider maneouvers for DA's office

Off With Its Head!

Nottingham's out, La Guire's 'fresh eye' is in at the Times

Schroeder Plays the Times Like a Piano

Dornan attorney says Times reporters worked for him

Hart Attack

Jerque Du Soleil

Bob Dornan's Circus Comes to SoCal and Leaves Once More Without Making Its Case