Curt Pringle

Gustavo's Latest "Orange County Line" for KCRW: On Anaheim's Proposed District Voting for City Council Races!

The last year or so has been muy tough on my beloved city of Anaheim, and not just because of trigger-happy cops and a nation discovering its stratified reality. There's also the matter of an ACLU lawsuit alleging the violation of voting rights against Latinos, a lawsuit I cannot stand by. Not only ... More >>

Fundraiser For Anaheim's Resort Elite Hit With Residential Picket!

Last evening's "Bold Wine with Bold Leaders" fundraiser for the political action committee of Support Our Anaheim Resort (SOAR) was met with a bold protest! About a half dozen demonstrators took to the sidewalk holding signs in front of the home of event host Mitch Caldwell in the city's historic Co ... More >>

[UPDATED: Cunningham Already Censoring!] Save Anaheim, OC Weekly's Best Blog for 2012, Inspiring Scorched-Earth Campaign From the Curt Pringle Machine

Updated, with new information on the bottom...ORIGINAL POST, OCT. 16, 6:30 A.M.: Well, this fucking rocks: the very week where we named Save Anaheim the best blog in Orange County for our annual Best Of issue, the minions of former Anaheim mayor Curt Pringle wage an all-out war on its author, Jason ... More >>

OC Weekly 2012 Election Guide: Anaheim!

One in an occasional series on the county's craziest political races...and while we don't endorse candidates, we can sure as hell tell you who's more pendejo than others!There is no municipal election that will grab more attention this year than Anaheim. This is the city, after all, that burned th ... More >>

Signs for Anaheim Council Candidates Jordan Brandman and Steve Lodge Get Tagged!

It's that time of year when political aspirants put up campaign signs on every fence, light pole, and mound of dirt that will hold them. After winners and losers are sorted out at the ballot box, candidates in search of a little name recognition usually retreat until there's no sign of them anywhere ... More >>

The Unlikeliest Great Mayor in OC: Anaheim's Tom Tait

Click here for our Anaheim police shooting archivesEveryone figured that Tom Tait was just going to be Curt Pringle's puppet when the former replaced the latter as Anaheim's mayor in 2002. He certainly fit the right profile: a Republican, and not just any Reep but from the family that officially kep ... More >>

ACLU Lawsuit Against Anaheim Over Latino Voters Distorts City History and Whitewashes Role of Vendidos

I'm all for reminding Orange County of its nasty racist past, present, and future--hell, I do a weekly series exposing all the OC pioneers who were Klan members. What I'm not for is distorting the historical facts, especially when said distortions are used to further a nebulous lawsuit, like what th ... More >>

Another Weekly Anaheim Mexi on the ACLU's Lawsuit Alleging Anaheim Mexi-Voter Disenfranchisement: It's the Economy, Pendejos

Long before the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California held a press conference announcing a lawsuit atop the steps of Anaheim City Hall on Thursday, a go-between requested my contact information on their behalf for something. I sent it along, followed up, it was communicated to me th ... More >>

Why Are Prominent 'Arabheimers' Backing Jordan Brandman's Anaheim City Council Bid?

As an extended subsidy to a hotelier was being blessed at city hall, the home of former Anaheim city council hopeful Belal 'Bill' Dalati played host to a fundraiser Tuesday evening for current candidate Jordan Brandman. The invitation for the event asked members of the Arab-American community to joi ... More >>

15,000 OC Third-Graders Pack Angels Stadium to Get Brainwashed by Corporations, Political Hacks on OC "History"

​Until yesterday, the most-infamous case of OC mass schoolkid indoctrination was a 1961 rally at Glover Stadium in Anaheim held by the Orange County School of Anti-Communism, a red-baiting machine whose members included Walter Knott and the Rev. Robert A. Schuller, and whose paranoia set the stage ... More >>

Orange County Saved NFL Great Dick Butkus?

The Bear's Butkus​You can blame Orange County for many things: Laguna Beach, The Hills, TBN, professional Holocaust deniers, Allan Mansoor, Public Enemy Number One Death Squad, Curt Pringle.But a Chicago newspaper is reporting this morning that OC might have actually made a positive contribut ... More >>

Now Jerry Brown Says Curt Pringle in Conflict Serving on OCTA and Bullet Train Boards

​Poor Curt Pringle: Termed out as Anaheim's mayor, no longer in demand as a Howdy Doody impersonator and now this: A second state legal authority has found it is a conflict for him to serve on the boards of the Orange County Transportation Authority AND California High-Speed Rail Authority simulta ... More >>

Micky Mouth on Facebook: the Hottest City Council Campaign Site in Anaheim

​Gustavo Arellano wrote and provided video earlier in the week of Micky Mouth, the costumed write-in candidate for Anaheim City Council that Mayor Curt Pringle had tossed from a recent council meeting.Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle Gets Mickey Mouse Impersonator Booted from City Council MeetingMr. MM' ... More >>

Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle Gets Micky Mouse Impersonator Booted from City Council Meeting

Another famous Mickey impersonator...​The race for Anaheim City Council--both for the council positions opening up, and the mayoral seat that two-term mayor Curt Pringle is about to vacate before getting rich off of trying to bring high-speed rail to California--took a turn for the weird last week ... More >>

Why is Lou Correa a Better Republican than Lucille Kring?

Kring: Didn't get message​Why Republican Lucille Kring is even bothering to campaign for the state senate from central Orange County is beyond me.Didn't Kring get the message that many OC Republican establishment players back Democrat Lou Correa?Well, Lucille?

Sunday News Notes

News highlights include:Relax, sir. It's only .000034 percent of your wealth.​Is OC's Biggest Billionaire Stingy?Two of Donald L. Bren's children are expected to take their father to court this week in Los Angeles in hopes of winning $800,000 in retroactive monthly child support payments because, ... More >>

High-Speed Rail Plan Slammed by Berkeley; Curt Pringle in Senator's Cross Hairs

​California's planned high-speed rail system has been the target of varied criticism, including from Orange County state assemblywoman Diane Harkey who wants to kill the thing outright. Now, a study from UC Berekely--funded by the high-speed rail authority--says the entire project is based on ride ... More >>

Unnerving Blinking Speed-Limit Signs to Take on Cell Phones in Anaheim

forteltraffic.com​Anyone else get a dirty thrill from gently speeding past one of those electronic signs that tell you how fast your car is going? Break the speed limit by even one mile per hour and something cool/guilt-inducing happens, like the numbers turning red or the words SLOW DOWN appearin ... More >>

John Eastman and Tom Harman Dealt Legal Blows in GOP Race for State AG

Photo by Christopher VictorioState attorney general wannabe John Eastman's Kodak moment at the California Republican Assembly convention in Buena Park last month.​The two Orange County Republicans who want to be California's next attorney general lost their respective ballot-designation disputes-- ... More >>

Anaheim International Film Festival to Roll in October

​The Anaheim International Film Festival (AIFF), not to be confused with the ongoing movie-promoting theme park at Harbor and Katella, debuts in October, "marking the addition of a world-class cultural event to Orange County and the international film festival circuit," according to organizers. Th ... More >>

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 po ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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

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 t ... More >>

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Attention, Anaheim!

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

Diary of a Mad County

Oct. 18 - Oct. 24

Dumbo and Dumber

Handlers give circus Elephants the bullhook

Commie Girl

Che Who? Social justice at the Nixon Library

Good Grief!

Curt Pringle, our biggest loser

Diary of a Mad County

Jan. 4 to Jan. 10. And tired.

Diary of a Mad County

Awwww hell. Angels owner Arte Moreno tells Bill Shaikin...

The Pringle-Spanos Tango

Close ties between Anaheim mayor, Chargers owner might land OC a football team

!Ask a Mexican!

Apples and Oranges

Pringle to convention protesters: Bring it on

Diary of a Mad County

My City Kicks Your Citys Dining Ass

Dont trust the Times or Pringle: Anaheim is OCs best dining burg

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

The GOP gets funky, by which of course we mean they smell

The Myth of St. Curt

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

One Gigante Mess

How a multibillion-dollar corporation played the victim and got its liquor license

Let Them Eat Pastel

Gigante markets its market

Diary of a mad county

Reg Spanks Spanky

And Daily Pilot gives new meaning to press release

Still Hazy After All These Years

The Reg still ain't talking about its role in the Baugh scandal

Fondle Your Local Politician

Let the Web feed your mind before Election Day

Dad Must be So Proud

El Vez has left the building

And GOP boys will be boys

The Abortionist Who Funds Pro-Life Republicans