Subject: Curt Pringle

• Harald Martin: Mexican Lover?

  Turns out everybody's favorite Mexican-suing, rape-victim-blaming, Zapatistas-supporting school trustee is actually Anaheim's only defender of poor, hopeless Mexicans--and he's getting hell for it. At least that's how Harald Martin describes himself. In a long, rambling letter sent last Friday to anti-Mexican movement madrina and California Coalition for Immigration Reform president Barbara Coe, Martin--a former trustee for the Anaheim Union High School Distict who was controversially re-appoint

  August 6, 2007

• Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: Anaheim Subsidizes Private Tennis Club

  Slow Road to China: Officials at the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) are puzzled as to why a private construction company is repeatedly missing deadlines to finish the $550-million road-widening project, according to a story by Ellyn Pak at the Register. The delays aren't just costing commuters time. They are also losing money. Taxpayers have already shelled out $1 million in delay-related expenses. So why the delays? Well, the construction company apparently isn't required to ex

  September 18, 2007

• "We Do Gentrification Right!"

  The Measure D gap has shrunk--a tiny amount, but shrunk. The No on Measure D crowd are getting more optimistic. They have no other choice. "We already saw the bulldozers driving up Flower Street," Orange Juice blogger Thomas Anthony Gordon cracks. I tell them to pray hard, or to at least move to Anaheim. "We do gentrification right!" I offer, which the semi-drunk Measure D folks think is the funniest thing in the world. "We should put that on a bumper sticker with Curt Pringle's face on it!" Go

  February 5, 2008

• Firecrackers, Rats and Some GOP guy's Mansion

  On a cool evening in the heart of Little Saigon loud firecrackers periodically exploded as Vietnamese Americans celebrated the coming of Tet (Vietnamese New Year) and something that should comfort Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle: the launching of the Year of the Rat. Of course, I'm kidding. According to Wikipedia, “rats can be terribly obstinate and controlling." Pringle is just the opposite: controlling and obstinate. I’d thought of Pringle because as I worked my way through a traffic jam in

  February 6, 2008

• Reg Spanks Spanky

  July 29, 1999

• Gigante Mess

  May 22, 2003

• Pussy Galore

  January 15, 2004

• !Ask a Mexican!

  January 27, 2005

• Read Curt Pringle's Lips: He'll Take New Taxpayer Dollars

  Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle has long been the golden boy among Orange County Republicans. He got elected to the party's Central Committee in 1986, and two years later became the GOP nominee for the Garden Grove area state Assembly seat. The party, under the leadership of then-Chairman Tom Fuentes, hired uniformed security goons to stand outside Latino-heavy polling places in Santa Ana and demand identification from the mostly Democratic voters while carrying signs in English and Spanish that

  March 3, 2009

• Allen Raymond's 'How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative' Entertaining, Flawed

  May 15, 2008

• Sublime! Ridiculous!

  April 10, 2003

• It's Your Money

  But the government spends it

  August 16, 2007

• The Year in Letters

  Keep It Up. You Rock. Dont Ever Change. All That Crap.

  December 28, 2006

• Attention, Anaheim!

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

  November 2, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  October 26, 2006

• Open, Sesame

  October 19, 2006

• Dumbo and Dumber

  August 3, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 25, 2006

• Commie Girl

  April 6, 2006

• Good Grief!

  March 30, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  January 12, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  December 1, 2005

• Fine Chicken

  November 24, 2005

• The Pringle-Spanos Tango

  June 2, 2005

• Battle of the Boondoggles!

  January 27, 2005

• Apples and Oranges

  Pringle to convention protesters: Bring it on

  September 23, 2004

• Good Choo-Choo, Bad Choo-Choo

  September 9, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  July 15, 2004

• My City Kicks Your Citys Dining Ass

  July 1, 2004

• Crunched!

  May 20, 2004

• The Times They Are A-Changin . . . Back!

  March 4, 2004

• Florence Got Nice Paintings

  February 12, 2004

• OC Weekly Marks the Passing of . . .

  January 2, 2003

• The Year In Failed Latino Leadership

  January 2, 2003

• The Myth of St. Curt

  Mayor Pringle wasnt a racist then, and he aint Cesar Chavez now

  November 21, 2002

• None of the Above

  November 7, 2002

• One Gigante Mess

  September 5, 2002

• Let Them Eat Pastel

  August 29, 2002

• Diary of a mad county

  March 28, 2002

• Mickey Mite Club

  June 21, 2001

• Still Hazy After All These Years

  April 8, 1999

• Fondle Your Local Politician

  November 5, 1998

• Dad Must be So Proud

  September 17, 1998

• El Vez has left the building

  August 27, 1998

• Blood Money

  July 9, 1998

• No Ace with Taxes: Santa Ana Mayor Don Papi Pulido and His Family Muffler Shop

  Not scheduled for gentrificationThere is perhaps no business more fundamental to an Orange County politico's creation myth than Ace Muffler Shop, on First Street in downtown SanTana and belonging to the family of SanTana Mayor Don Papi "Miguel" Pulido. It was the city's planned demolishing of Ace Muffler through eminent domain that spurred the young Don Papi to enter politics in 1986. It was the fight to preserve Ace Muffler that earned Don Papi Pulido the coalition that elected him to the city

  May 7, 2009

• 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

• Affordable Housing Advocates Face Anaheim City Council

  The Anaheim City Council, led by Mayor Curt Pringle, loves to crow about the luxury housing that has and (someday) will continue to pop up within and around the Platinum Triangle, the fabled area near Angel Stadium, Honda Center and the Grove of Anaheim that the city envisions blending "leading-edge business, high-salary employment, world champion entertainment and exciting residential neighborhoods, creating a unique opportunity in the heart of Orange County."Swell.But there are some townfolk w

  June 9, 2009

• Railing For and Against Pringle, Umberg, High-Speed Rail

  Curt PringleIf they go to their graves winning no more recognition for their years of public service, Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle and ex-Assemblyman Tom Umberg can be comforted by the fact that they at least received a shout out from the California High Speed Rail Blog, which applauds both in the post titled "Orange County Takes Over the CHSRA Board."The CHSRA would be the California High Speed Rail Authority, the state agency planning a future high-speed rail network in the Golden State. Pringl

  July 6, 2009

• Anaheim "High Speed" Mayor Pringle vs. Cerritos "Maglev" Mayor Barrows

  Bruce BarrowsThis post about Curt Pringle being elected chairman of the California High Speed Rail Authority board mentions how a commenter on the California High Speed Rail Blog suggested Anaheim's mayor will now be in a position to formally kill the competing magnetic-levitation (Maglev) line that's also envisioned to pass through town.Well, not if Cerritos Mayor Bruce Barrows has anything to say about that. Barrows, who heads the Orangeline Development Authority that aims to develop a Maglev

  July 8, 2009