Subject: Dan Chmielewski

• 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

• Loretta Taking Her Act to HBO

  It's true! According to Dan Chmielewski over at theliberaloc.com blog, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Anaheim), is scheduled to appear as a guest on "Real Time With Bill Maher" Friday at 11 p.m. on HBO. Chmielewski wonders how many "pet the cat" jokes humorist Maher will utter. Perhaps not many. Maher's other talkative guests will include Bradley Whitford ("The West Wing"), John "the Mike Schroeder of journalism" Fund of the Wall Street Journal, presidential candidate Senator Chris Dodd (D-

  May 16, 2007

• Friday's Headlines & Surprises: Why Did the Mayor Quote Mein Kampf at South Coast Plaza?

  Look! Up in the Sky! It's SuperFascist! Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor jumped into a phone booth, ripped off his Orange County Sheriff greens and donned something that would make him, at least outwardly, a man of substance: a fine suit, tie and shiny shoes. Yep, yesterday at a ceremony to celebrate the 40th anniversary of South Coast Plaza, Mansoor stood at a podium and began reading passages from Mein Kampf. No? All right. According to Michael Miller’s version in the Daily Pilot, Mansoor dee

  October 12, 2007

• Orange County Entering Bizarro World

  Dan Chmielewski over at The Liberal OC posted that Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama will hold a $2,300-per-plate fundraiser at Newport Beach's Balboa Bay Club but doesn't mention how much of a wrench it is to the county's political cosmology. Read the above again. Barack Hussein Obama. Holding a fundraiser. At the Balboa Bay Club. WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD?!?!?!?!? The Balboa Bay Club represents all that's reprehensible with the old Orange County, where GOP men spen

  July 3, 2008

• An Orange County with Two Democratic Congress Members?

  Make room, Loretta Sanchez?TheLiberalOC.com reported today that serious efforts are underway to elect not just Orange County's second Democrat to Congress but also its second female Democrat. Dan Chmielewski, who runs the influential progressive blog and has undeniable insider Democratic Party connections, wrote that Irvine City Council member Beth Krom (pictured during a KUCI appearance) is "putting the pieces together" to seek the 48th Congressional District seat occupied by Republican John C

  March 1, 2009

• SanTana Sports and Don Papi Pulido's Preferred Pelotas

  Don Papi Pulido in his other preferred sport: maintaining his kingdomArt Pedroza at Orange Juice! had quite the scoop last week in reporting that First District Supervisor Janet Nguyen recently allocated $170,000 to the building of a clay tennis court at Cabrillo Park in SanTana. Pedroza opined out loud that the tennis courts came at the request of mayor Don Papi Pulido, a known tennis fiend, because he's a Francophile (past media profiles have documented Don Papi Pulido's French fluency and sup

  March 10, 2009

• Noah Krom's Memorial Service is Set

  Beth Krom Congress 2010 Facebook page(From left): Hershel, Abby, Noah, Solly and Beth Krom in 2007.From the Krom Family, via Dan Chmielewski of Madison Alexander PR, Inc., The Liberal OC blog and Navel Gazing comments section fame:  The Krom Family appreciates the outpouring of love and all the thoughtful expressions of sympathy you have extended in this time of their most intense grief. The are trying hard to make sense of this tragedy. Their hearts are broken and they know that only time

  June 9, 2009

• Media Matters Gives a Nod to Weekly Cover Story on Birthers

   A Media Matters rundown on the key nutbars in the "birthers" movement that claims Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. includes a couple plugs of Spencer Kornhaber's "Birth of an Obsession" June 19 cover story. The media watchdogs focus in particular on Kornhaber's reporting on Orly Taitz, the Laguna Niguel denist, attorney, real estate agent and queen bee of the birthers, and Wiley Drake, the Buena Park Southern Baptist pastor, homeless advocate, Alan Keyes' presidential running mate in

  July 24, 2009

• The Liberal OC Acquires Sunny D Blogger Claudio Gallegos

  ​Likening it to the right-leaning Red County blog picking up Matt "Jubal" Cunningham's OCBlog.net years ago, the left-leaning The Liberal OC blog announced today the "media acquisition" of Claudio Gallegos' Sunny D blog. Adding Sunny D to the stable will "pump up" coverage of Santa Ana, Costa Mesa and Latino/a issues, according to TheLiberalOC.com blogger Dan Chmielewski. Gallegos has not posted anything new on SunnyD since May as The Liberal OC awaited a "private investment" to fund the acqui

  August 14, 2009