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Campaign Finance

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Larry Agran Must Be Laughing That State Regulators Spent 5 Years Probing Chris Norby

    How's this for outrageous BS?While Larry Agran, Orange County's most notoriously devious campaign finance violator has operated a multimillion dollar campaign scheme with impunity for more than a decade, state regulators in California spent five years investigating $340 then-county supervisor Chris ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Gov. Jerry Brown Funded By OC Unions For 2014; Loretta Sanchez Nabs Dentist Support

    Pay to play​Gov. Jerry Brown's trip to Orange County last month for a speech to Democrats nabbed $30,000 mostly from local organized labor unions, according to a report this week in the Sacramento Bee.Among those contributing were the Orange County Employees Association, which organized "a small, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2011

    Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's Wife Took 50% of Congressional Campaign Contributions

    Rohrabacher: Campaign contributions land in family bank account​Costa Mesa Congressman Dana Rohrabacher gave his wife more than 50 percent of the campaign contributions he raised mostly from corporate sources during July, August and September, according to recently filed records at the Federal Ele ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Dave Gilliard Defends Secret, Anti-Barbara Boxer Campaign

    ​This morning I posted a brief story linking to Sacramento Bee coverage of a secretive, 2010 campaign effort against Sen. Barbara Boxer, and my post has been protested by a participant as inaccurate.Here's the background: According to the Bee's Dan Morain, a group called Taxpayer Network raised an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    [UPDATED with Feinstein Fooked!] Kinde Durkee, Democratic Treasurer Accused of Fraud

    ​UPDATE, SEPT. 13, 11:05 A.M.: U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the latest Democrat claiming to have been hornswoggled by campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee. Feinstein first revealed her accounts had been totally cleaned out, but her spokesman later corrected that to say the amount of missing funds is c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    Chuck DeVore Slams Todd Spitzer on Vegas Trip & Union Support

    Spitzer: "I've done nothing wrong."​Talking to Chuck DeVore and Todd Spitzer, two men who were once pals, you get the sense that these two Republican candidates seeking the same office, the county's 3rd District supervisor's seat, don't like each other.DeVore recently produced a bombshell 30-secon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2011

    Help Feed Dana Rohrabacher's Family Today

    Dana: Fighting for his own free lunch and having fun!​In the last 32 days of 2010, Dana Rohrabacher's congressional campaign committee raised $3,400 and his wife, Rhonda, took $5,387 from it for the family under the theory that she is her husband's campaign manager, according to the Federal Electi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Van Tran Filed Inaccurate Pre-Election Disclosure Reports

    Tran: Oops​In his energetic but losing attempt to unseat Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, Little Saigon state Assemblyman Van Tran under reported pre-election money pouring into his campaign, according to amended financial disclosure reports filed at the Federal Election Commission (FEC).Size of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    City Wins One, Loses One in Supreme Week

    ​It's rare for a city to be involved in one case before the U.S. Supreme Court, let alone two. By refusing to hear Long Beach-related appeals this week, justices handed the city one loss and one victory.After serving nearly 14 years in state prison for a 1988 child rape, Leonard McSherry of Santa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    Supervisor John Moorlach Defends Crooked Ex-Sheriff Mike Carona

    Moorlach is suffering from frightening amnesia​This afternoon on a radio talk show, Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach defended former Sheriff Mike Carona who was arrested by FBI and IRS agents and convicted of public corruption in 2009 after a federal trial.Moorlach, a conservative Republican ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    Pot Tax Weighed in City That Spawned the World's Cannambassador Snoop Dogg

    ​On the same November ballot that will have Californians decide whether to legalize marijuana, Long Beach voters will decide whether the city that spawned Snoop Dogg should tax recreational marijuana.That's right, not medical cannabis but recreational pot, the kind consumed by the pride of LBC and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    At Last! Someone Holds Benefit Shows For The Gulf Coast Oil Spill

    ​Just last week, we were wondering where the musical benefit shows for the oil spill were. Well, someone's finally come up with something, and it's pretty big. On July 1, music venues all over the country will hold concerts and donate all their ticket sales to benefit those directly impacted by th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Brownbaggers and Teabaggers to Meet Goldman Sachs Attackers at Rep. John Campbell's Office

    ​As mentioned here, the Progressive Democrats of America and their fellow "Brownbaggers" have invited tea party activists to join them at Afghanistan war spending protests at noon today in front of congressional district offices around the country, including that of Rep. John Campbell (R-Newport B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    [UPDATED WITH SENTENCE:] 3-Time GOP Congressional Candidate Delecia Holt Convicted for Defrauding Hotels, Stealing Car

    Courtesy of Orange County District AttorneyDeleica Holt's booking photo.​Delecia Holt, the 48-year-old Aliso Viejo Republican who ran three times for Congress in Orange and San Diego counties, was released from the jail she's been sitting in since her Oct. 7, 2008, arrest for defrauding Orange Cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    Ed Royce: He Works Hard For His Money

    Congressman Royce, center​In an alarming "Accused Fraudster Allen Stanford Consorted with Lawmakers," BNET.com's Alain Sherter worked off a recent Miami Herald investigation and noted how just hours after Stanford was charged this year with bilking $7 billion from investors he received a sappy lov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    Riverside County Corruption Probe That Snagged Mission Viejo Developer Widens

    ​A government corruption and money laundering case that includes among more than a dozen defendants a former vice president of operations with three of Orange County's biggest development companies--the Mission Viejo Co., the Irvine Co. and Arnel Development--is growing like the waist ... More >>

  • News

    December 3, 2009

    Shirley Grindle Runs Out of Patience With TINCUP Reform Committee

    ​A government corruption and money laundering case that includes among more than a dozen defendants a former vice president of operations with three of Orange County's biggest development companies--the Mission Viejo Co., the Irvine Co. and Arnel Development--is growing like the waist ... More >>

  • News

    February 12, 2009

    [Moxley Confidential] DA Tony Rackauckas Wins Civil Suit, Does Not Cry

    ​A government corruption and money laundering case that includes among more than a dozen defendants a former vice president of operations with three of Orange County's biggest development companies--the Mission Viejo Co., the Irvine Co. and Arnel Development--is growing like the waist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2008

    Indicted Sheriff Mike Carona Corruption Trial Quote of the Day!

    "Yes . . . yes"--Indicted ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona's defense team tried to prove in trial today that a wealthy Carona campaign contributor's relative, serving a jail sentence, had not received preferential treatment, but Kim Markuson--onetime assistant sheriff for OC jails--provided the ... More >>

  • News

    November 13, 2008

    Longtime OC GOP Legislator Ross Johnson Finds New Life As a Campaign-Finance Watchdog in Sacramento

    "Yes . . . yes"--Indicted ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona's defense team tried to prove in trial today that a wealthy Carona campaign contributor's relative, serving a jail sentence, had not received preferential treatment, but Kim Markuson--onetime assistant sheriff for OC jails--provided the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Sheriff Mike Carona Gave A Badge to His Favorite Restaurant Owner

    "Nobody was going to admit anything." --Ex-Assistant Sheriff Don Haild testifying today in the federal corruption trial of indicted Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, who allegedly ordered silence about the department giving badges, guns, concealed weapon permits and police powers to unqualified i ... More >>

  • News

    October 23, 2008

    Defense Contractor Airtech, a Big Rohrabacher Contributor, Is Under Investigation for Fraud

    "Nobody was going to admit anything." --Ex-Assistant Sheriff Don Haild testifying today in the federal corruption trial of indicted Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, who allegedly ordered silence about the department giving badges, guns, concealed weapon permits and police powers to unqualified i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2008

    Women Beater Aids Steve Young's Campaign?

    Relax. It's not what it seems. New campaign-finance disclosure reports filed today in Washington, D.C., show that Irvine attorney Steve Young, a Democrat, has collected an impressive amount of contributions in his uphill bid to unseat Representative John Campbell. Included in the $64,555 Young ( ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2008

    Baby Hewie Firmly Aligned With Howard Homophobe Ahmanson

    In the couple of years I've been listening to local conservative blabbermouth Hugh Hewitt, I've seen the two causes he most firmly aligned himself with fail miserably: the 2006 mid-term election and the laughable presidential primary effort of Mitt Romney. Let's hope Hewie makes it a losing trifecta ... More >>

  • News

    March 20, 2008

    [Moxley Confidential] Notes on Lifeguard Sex, Loretta Sanchez, the Rohrabachers and DNA

    In the couple of years I've been listening to local conservative blabbermouth Hugh Hewitt, I've seen the two causes he most firmly aligned himself with fail miserably: the 2006 mid-term election and the laughable presidential primary effort of Mitt Romney. Let's hope Hewie makes it a losing trifecta ... More >>

  • Features

    January 24, 2008

    Moneyopoly

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

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2008

    When a Conflict of Interest Isn't But Should Be: The Carlos Bustamante Story

    First of three parts... There are political hacks, and then there is SanTana councilmember Carlos Bustamante, the Orange County Republican Party's Great Brown Hope and a man who seemingly never met a political donation he didn't accept and subsequently vote for his donor's interests. Seriously, pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2007

    Sheriff Loses Battle To End Federal Case

    A U.S. District Court in Los Angeles has refused Sheriff Michael S. Carona’s demand to dismiss a First Amendment complaint filed by former Carona challenger, ex-sheriff’s Lt. William Hunt, according to a press release issued this morning by Silver, Hadden, Silver, Wexler & Levine. Hunt attorne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2007

    Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Rhinotillexomania

    A U.S. District Court in Los Angeles has refused Sheriff Michael S. Carona’s demand to dismiss a First Amendment complaint filed by former Carona challenger, ex-sheriff’s Lt. William Hunt, according to a press release issued this morning by Silver, Hadden, Silver, Wexler & Levine. Hunt attorne ... More >>

  • News

    April 26, 2007

    Angry Asian Rap Stalls Case

    VA Tech murders give OC Sheriff pal excuse

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2007

    Va Tech Murders Give OC Sheriff Pal Excuse

    At the insistence of John Barnett, OC 's legendary defense lawyer, a San Bernardino County judge refused to allow opening statements Monday in the jury trial of Raymond K. Yi, a former OC reserve deputy who faces six felony charges for a 2005 gun-related temper tantrum on a golf course. Barnett, fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2006

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2006

    Let the Schwarzenegger Dirty Tricks Begin

    Like any good Republican--and only good Republicans--we got to participate in a telephone poll last night. One of the first questions the young lady on the other end of the line asked was, if the election was held today, who would I support, "Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California, or Phi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2006

    MoveOn vs. Rohrabacher

    This just in, from MoveOn.org: Rep. Rohrabacher Accepts $40,785.00 From Drug Companies; Puts Drug Company Profits Ahead of Seniors Huntington Beach MoveOn Members Urge Rep. Dana Rohrabacher to Cancel May 15th Medicare Sign-Up Deadline Constituents will hold "Caught Red-Handed Check Deliveries" out ... More >>

  • News

    March 30, 2006

    Laughing His Way to Victory?

    Despite scandals, Sheriff Carona still seducing voters

  • News

    December 29, 2005

    Agran Machine Blows Gasket

    Death of the man they called The Knife raises questions about Larry Agrans political future

  • News

    November 17, 2005

    A Fox in the Henhouse

    Why wont DA Tony Rackauckas do his job?

  • News

    September 15, 2005

    Gracious

    Your DA declines to prosecute his friends

  • News

    June 16, 2005

    Benched

    Instead of chastising him, Gov. Schwarzenegger transforms scandal figure into an OC judge

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    A Few Words on Why Tom Umberg Doesnt Want Campaign-Finance Reform

    Instead of chastising him, Gov. Schwarzenegger transforms scandal figure into an OC judge

  • News

    October 28, 2004

    Rohrabacher Gets a Taste of the Lash

    OC Republican booed in his own district

  • News

    December 19, 2002

    Slate Nailer

    Conservative James Lacy plays turncoat to sway elections

  • News

    November 9, 2000

    We Proposition You

    Your guide to the propositions in less than 300 words

  • News

    November 11, 1999

    Ed Royce Is Your Friend!

    But he likes bankers, too

  • Columns

    June 17, 1999

    Letters

    But he likes bankers, too

  • News

    April 29, 1999

    Live Like a God!

    How Supervisor Bill Steiner used a phantom political campaign to fund his lavish lifestyle

  • Columns

    November 5, 1998

    Things That Really, Really Scare Me

    Rescinded invitations

  • News

    September 3, 1998

    Fed Said: Ted Dead

    FBI sting pops Santa Ana City Councilman Ted Moreno

  • Features

    August 27, 1998

    How Bob Dornan Turned Political Defeat into a Windfall for his Family

    How to feed your children on political contributions

  • News

    August 27, 1998

    The Loser Wins

    How Bob Dornan turned political defeat into a financial windfall for his family

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