Subject: Chris Norby

• Less Than a Year Since She Was Appointed Sheriff, Sandra Hutchens Has Made Some Powerful Enemies

  March 26, 2009

• Pains, Past and Future

  Advising Sheriff Mike Carona to suspend his election rival Lt. Bill Hunt may turn out not to have been a brilliant career move for attorney Martin Mayer. As the Los Angeles Times reports: Orange County supervisors decided Wednesday to review their hiring of the lawyer who advised Sheriff Michael S. Carona that he could suspend his chief political opponent from the department. At the end of a two-day hearing on the county's next budget, Supervisor Chris Norby asked that the board review the contr

  June 15, 2006

• Punishing Prevatt, Flailing Fleischman

  Chris Prevatt is a local blogger, an employee of the County Health Care Agency, and a man without a computer. The County took Prevatt's computer as part of an investigation as to whether he used county time to post a blog entry on TheLiberalOC. The post in question displayed a photoshopped image of Supervisor Chris Norby as "Darth Norby", wielding a light-saber and garbed in the robes of a Sith Lord. The investigation is ridiculous—Prevatt has already explained how he wrote the post in h

  November 27, 2006

• Civilian Review of Sheriff Passes 5-0

  Steven Greenhut at the Register's Orange Punch Liberty Blog attended today's Board of Supervisors meeting and reports that Sheriff Mike Carona lost his bid to kill the concept of a civilian review panel. Thanks to a surprising last-minute switch by Supervisor Bill Campbell, the vote was 5-0, according to Greenhut. In 60 days, a detailed proposal will come back to the all-Republican board for consideration. Led by Supervisors John Moorlach and Chris Norby, the board has worked to increase scr

  May 22, 2007

• Is There an ECCO in Here?

  Interesting June 6 election endorsements from the Elections Committee of the County of Orange (ECCO), a political action committee aimed at mainstream (change to:) Democrat Party hacky gay lesbians Democrats: GOVERNOR Steve Westley (D) - endorsed Phil Angelides (D) - acceptable Arnold Schwarzenegger (D, er, R) - unacceptable ATTORNEY GENERAL Rocky "The Liar" Delgadillo (D) - endorsed Jerry Brown (D) - acceptable 69th ASSEMBLY DISTRICT Armando "Not My Real Last Name" de la Libertad (D) - en

  June 1, 2006

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Total Idiot

  Fatal Femmes! In the July 30 issue of Time, Sean Gregory reports on the Fatal Femmes Fighting Championship for all-female mixed-martial arts caged combat. Need I say more? Well, okay. In an enjoyable read based on the event in a Compton casino earlier this month, Gregory describes the brutality and “the raucous Femmes crowd, an eclectic, testosterone-heavy mix of bachelor-party drunks, white-collar MMA fans and even a few young girls, ooohed every choke hold and kick to the face.” These fig

  July 25, 2007

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: A Real Saint in OC

  While Politicians Yap, Strickland Performs: The current issue of People celebrates Orange County’s Alena Strickland, 49, for taking in 112 foster children. Yes, 112. Even more impressive? According to the article, each child has had special needs such as autism, blindness and deafness. She doesn’t do it alone. Strickland has her retired restaurateur husband Philip Pedone by her side. What motives her? "I was faced with a need, I can [help], so what's my excuse not to?" she told the magazine.

  October 24, 2007

• Sheriff Carona Takes Two-Month Vacation

  Halfway through today's intensely dull OC Board of Supervisors meeting, during which the supes hemmed and hawed about whether to allow county voters to demand elected officials under indictment take a paid leave of absence, board chairman Chris Norby paused to read a letter from Sheriff Mike Carona, who, in case you didn't know, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury for a slew of corruption charges. In his letter, Carona announced he was—you guessed it—taking a two-month paid leave

  November 6, 2007

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Another Carona Monster?

  Did Carona Create Yet Another Monster? If I was indicted Sheriff Michael S. Carona, I might be getting tired of Jo Ann Galisky, Kool-Aid Queen. This acting sheriff bit has swelled her mullet. Six weeks after she became temporary head honcho, she's still telling everyone she can that Carona's absence "has had no impact" at the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Galisky (pictured busy at work) barked the line again yesterday, according to Peggy Lowe at the Register. Galisky's wrong again. At a m

  December 12, 2007

• And The Sheriff is. . .

  Sandra Hutchens! The Orange County Board of Supervisors earlier this morning appointed the retired LA County Sheriff's Department division chief to replace Mike Carona as Orange County Sheriff. The vote was 3-2 in favor of Hutchens. Supervisors Chris Norby and Bill Campbell supported Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Walters. Patricia Bates, John Moorlach and Janet Nguyen voted for Hutchens. More new-sheriff stuff to come on this very blog. Stay tuned!

  June 10, 2008

• Free Bus Passes

  The gas prices nowadays stink to high heaven. So The Orange County Transportation Authority has decided to encourage people to leave their cars at home by offering free one-day bus passes during Dump the Pump week, June 16 - 20. That's right folks. Bus passes. Absolutely free of charge. "But why?" you ask. Chris Norby, chairman of OCTA will answer you: “Dump the Pump week encourages people to explore alternative modes of transportation and our free passes gives them an opportunity to hop o

  June 17, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  April 2, 2009

• See the "Supe Snoop" Footage for Yourself

  Surely by now you've heard about the latest scandal to rock the Orange County Sheriff's Department: "Supe Snoop." If you haven't heard about it, you owe it to yourself to read R. Scott Moxley's cover story on Sheriff Sandra Hutchens this week. The footage above that opens over the shoulder of county Supervisor Chris Norby is referenced in this paragraph:On Jan. 13, Hutchens sent more than 20 armed deputies to a Board of Supervisors public meeting, reasoning that protesters of her CCW policy po

  March 26, 2009

• Tom Daly Gets Unanticipated Support in Supervisor Bid

  Orange County GOP insider and former state Sen. John Lewis' early endorsement of Democrat and current Orange County Clerk-Recorder Tom Daly in the race to replace Chris Norby as the Fourth District county supervisor has got some local Republicans fuming. But there is one high-profile, controversial, Republican endorsement of Anaheim's former Mayor Daly that has escaped similar criticism. And it is such a shocking revelation that Tony Bushala felt compelled to post in not only on 

  April 1, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  June 26, 2008

• Meet the New Sheriff . . .

  Taking a wait-and-see stance toward OC’s new top cop

  June 19, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] Don Bren Plays Rough With Businesswoman, His Kids-But Courts Play Rough, Too

  June 5, 2008

• Dammit, Janet!

  Why do Supervisor Janet Nguyen's former supporters in OC's Republican power structure hate her so much?

  January 17, 2008

• Letters

  July 27, 2006

• German Healthcare, Santa Ana Politics

  December 18, 2003

• Dude, Where's My Pot?

  Ten years after California legalized medical marijuana, OCs war on cannabis continues

  May 17, 2007

• No Class

  September 14, 2006

• Commie Girl

  April 20, 2006

• Girls Trouble

  Happy New Year: now youll pay for the sheriffs alleged sex romps

  January 5, 2006

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 4, 2005

• Go Time

  January 13, 2005

• Center Bind

  December 9, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 17, 2004

• Listen Here, Pilgrim

  June 10, 2004

• German Healthcare, Santa Ana Politics

  December 25, 2003

• Boycott!

  October 23, 2003

• A Road Runs Through It

  July 3, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 19, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 6, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  February 27, 2003

• OC Weekly Marks the Passing of . . .

  January 2, 2003

• The Ride of Their Lives

  June 20, 2002

• Mega-Connected Firm Wins Anaheim Design Contract

  Whoa! They're moving the Sydney Opera House to Anaheim!Oh wait, no. That's the newly approved design for the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, a.k.a. ARTIC.On Tuesday, the Anaheim City Council awarded architecture firm Parsons Brinckerhoff/HOK with the contract to design and lay the groundwork for ARTIC, a regional transportation hub that's been more than 15 years in the making. The dollar total for the job could reach $24.3 million. According to the Register, Parsons Brinckerho

  May 27, 2009

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

  May 28, 2009

• Open Wide Sacramento Lobbyist Ho's: Here Comes Chris Norby

  Norby: Manmeat Hey, Sacramento lobbyist ho's: Slap on a new coat of makeup, spray on some designer perfume and dry the previous assemblyman's drippings out of your panties: Manmeat Chris Norby is on his way.  Fiest your eyes above, ladies. Awwwwwwwww yeah!

  September 10, 2009

• Another Day, Another Dropped Mike Duvall Investigation

  "Open Mike" Duvall​A day after the Assembly Ethics Committee and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass announced they will not go after disgraced former Assemblyman Mike Duvall, California Attorney General Jerry Brown revealed today he doesn't plan to investigate the Yorba Linda Republican either.In other Duvall news, five candidates have reportedly qualified to run in a November special election for the Assembly seat he vacated.

  October 6, 2009

• Is Linda Ackerman Sliming Chris Norby With Dirty Sex Tales?

  Linda Ackerman uses Dick to rub Norby​It's potentially the most lethal weapon in Linda Ackerman's campaign to defeat Republican county Supervisor Chris Norby for Mike Duvall's open state Assembly seat: sexual misconduct innuendo. The reason is simple. Duvall resigned in September after the Weekly and KCAL revealed that the self-styled Christian conservative and vice chairman of the Assembly utilities committee had bragged about having sloppy sex with two Sacramento-based lobbyists--one of whom

  October 12, 2009

• OC Blogosphere Good At Twittering, Name-Calling

  ​We were impressed to see Red County find a use for Twitter that we don't feel even a little guilty about wasting time with: a feed for updates about the Assembly District 72 race. You know, the election to replace The Big Dripper, "Open Mic" Mike "Spanky" Duvall (There's a raging controversy here in the Weekly offices as to what to call him. More accurately, there's just a lot of rage on our part that everyone else seems to be opting for the ultra-tame "Spanky" over the far more evocative "Bi

  October 16, 2009

• UPDATED: The Irvine Co. Gift That Keeps on Giving

  UPDATED WITH PHOTOS FROM THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING . . . Photo by Keith MayCounty Supervisor Bill Campbell, whose district includes the Irvine Co. land in question, is amused by a speaker at Tuesday's board meeting in Santa Ana.​He's got a gift. Donald Bren, the secretive, aging multi-billionaire who chairs The Irvine Co., has an undisputed gift for preservation. He sets aside, and preserves, and then preserves yet again the mostly steep, landslide prone, unbuildable portions of his spr

  September 30, 2009

• More Republi-Drama at OC GOP Meeting

  Chris Norby, in the fray​After a not-so-harmonious Western Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend and amidst a downright ugly state assembly race in north county, Red County's Alan Bartlett reports that last night's OC GOP Central Committee contained a few moments of strife and hand-wringing as well.First up: AD 72 candidate Linda Ackerman reportedly has filed an ethics complaint with the GOP against primary challenger and current county supervisor Chris Norby over one of his ca

  October 20, 2009

• 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 powerful legislative utilities committee and worked in the California GOP's leadership. But in September a joint KCBS/OC Weekly probe uncovered that Duvall--a married, self-described Christian conserva

  October 21, 2009

• AD 72 Race Get Racier over Weekend

  Mikey​Rounding up the recent developments in the race to replace Mike "The Dripper" Duvall:-- Linda Ackerman's campaign has dropped a press release announcing that the OC GOP is reprimanding Chris Norby for campaign ethics violations. Norby himself filed his own ethics complaint against Ackerman, but his complaint, according to Ackerman's campaign, was found to be without merit. We don't yet know what the GOP considers to be Norby's specific violation. But previously, Ackerman was carping abou

  October 26, 2009

• Attention North-County Voters! Register to Replace The Dripper!

  Dearly disgraced Mike "The Dripper" Duvall​Monday is your last day to register to vote in the Assembly District 72 special primary. Info on registration is at the OC Registrar of Voter's site.If you're unsure of whether you're an AD72 constituent, you can use the State Assembly's ghetto website to figure it out. If you live in Brea, Fullerton or Placentia, you're in. If you live in Anaheim, La Habra, Orange or Yorba Linda... you might be in. Better check.Why's it a "special" election?1. It's n

  October 30, 2009

• Norby Hopes Anti-Illegals' Darling Tom McClintock Supplies a Campaign Bump

  Tom McClintock For Congress 2009Congressman Tom McClintock is shown from his state Senate days.​Orange County sheriff candidate Bill Hunt, who gets a showy show of support from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio at the Phoenix Club in Anaheim tonight, is not the only local office-seeker hoping for a campaign bump from an out-of-town darling of the anti-immigrant crowd.Supervisor Chris Norby, who is seeking the state Assembly seat abandoned by Mike "Dripper" Duvall (R-Yorba Linda), hosts Congre

  November 5, 2009

• Next 72nd District Assemblyman Norby Gets Fit for Cakewalk Shoes

  Your next 72nd District assemblyman (after an unnecessary run-off election), Chris Norby!​Like standing for the national anthem before the game starts, nodding at the uniformed officer before zooming through the border checkpoint or throwing toast at a movie screen flashing a sweet transvestite from Transylvania, the formality of a Jan. 12 special election is all that stands between Chris Norby and California's 72nd Assembly District seat.Though outgoing county Supervisor Norby belongs to the

  November 18, 2009