Subject: Debbie Cook

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: An OC Blog Coward

  What did the OC billionaire do when the wife was away? Computer-chip magnate Henry T. Nicholas III won big in a 1998 public stock offering for his Broadcom Corp., and to celebrate, he built an extravagant $30 million underground “personal brothel” at his Laguna Hills estate. That's according to the latest allegations discovered by E. Scott Reckard and Kim Christensen, two Los Angeles Times reporters who dug up court documents containing the dirt. Last week, newspapers disclosed FBI interes

  July 18, 2007

• Tuesday's Headlines

  Big Google's watching you, OC: Adios, privacy. Google's added a "street view" function to Google Maps that has LA covered, as well as bits of the following parts of OC: Anaheim, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and Laguna Niguel. Long Beach is on it, too. No deal, Disney: Talks have reportedly ended between Disney officials and the developer that wants to build cheap housing by the Mouse's ritzy resort — but no settlement was made. Grab your robes, H.B.: The Huntington Beach City Council voted

  August 7, 2007

• Rohrabacher Going Down To Defeat in November?

  After pondering a posting tonight at theliberaloc.com by Gila Jones, I'm guessing that Orange County Republican pollsters have worrisome data that raises concerns about the safety of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's re-election chances in November. An enigma wrapped in lies, a temper, quixotic brain functions, shameless self-promotion, questionable personal habits, margarita breath and a dress code likely suggested by a well-meaning but drunk Frank Mickadeit, Rohrabacher is, by any reasonable me

  March 25, 2008

• Sic Semper Schroeder

  Is Mike Schroeder a bad lawyer? Or just a bad liar? R. Scott Moxley recently announced Schroeder’s hackneyed effort to kneecap Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook’s election challenge to Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Islamabad). It seems Schroeder took issue with Cook’s reference to herself on the ballot as “Mayor” because she was appointed by representatives. At the time, we had no idea just how hackneyed the effort was. In the marvelous words of the court document, prepared by Judg

  March 31, 2008

• Cooking

  Politicker's Alex Isenstadt reports that Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook outraised incumbent Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) in the second quarter. Fundraising reports show Cook took in $92,990 between April and June to Rohrabacher's $78,712 over the same period. However, Cook had only $97,392 in cash on hand at the close of the reporting period to Rohrabacher's $387,950.

  July 17, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  September 19, 2008

• 'Is it Hot in Here?'

  June 15, 2000

• Once Term Limits Champ, Rohrabacher Wants 11th Term in D.C.

  Early in his political career, Dana Rohrabacher hailed himself as a term-limits champion for federal politicians and spoke passionately about the inherent evils of one person staying in power for an extended period of time. Fast-forward 20 years: Rohrabacher, the conservative Republican seeking an eleventh term in Washington, D.C., is now mute on term limits. Several election cycles ago—when the congressman still spoke to (okay, yelled at) me, I asked him for an explanation for his change

  October 17, 2008

• Democrats Proudly Wear the Union Label

  Above the “Teamsters Local 952 Orange County and Vicinity” logo on the wall behind the speaker’s podium at the Orange union hall on Marks Way is the image of two horse heads. Instead of suggesting that represents the calling card of some syndicates that have been known to associate with labor, let us instead point out that those should have been donkey heads on Friday as Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) and the local labor movement joined forces to shore up the “down slate” cand

  October 17, 2008

• Flush TwiceIts a Long Way to Huntington Beach

  May 16, 2002

• OC's Taliban-Loving Congressman to Address OC's Taliban This Wednesday

  Ya wanna know why the California Coalition for Immigration Reform are evil, decrepit hypocrites? Because they're hosting Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Taliban) this Wednesday at their monthly Klavern at the Garden Grove Woman's Club on the corner of Gilbert and Garden Grove Blvd (starts at 7:30 pm; admission $5 for non-CCIR members). From the keyboard of CCIR head Barbara Coe: The courageous patriot Representative who always stands strong for the rights of loyal, law-abiding Americans of ever

  October 20, 2008

• Mackerel Flats' Folks Leaning Toward Obama? Who Knew?

  Around 11 this morning, KPCC 89.3 FM's AirTalk show presented a call-in segment called "I Didn't Know My Neighbor Was Voting For (Fill In The Blank)!" Host Larry Mantle wanted to know whether anyone's neighbors put political signs on their front lawns that surprised the listener. First caller Garrett of Newport Beach said he is seeing a lot more Obama for President signs in front of houses in his neighborhood (including his own) than he would have expected in the heart of conservative Orange C

  October 21, 2008

• Freaking Pissed Beyond Belief

  August 19, 2004

• Sexploitation Producer, Rocker Among Those Who Flood Rohrabacher Coffers

  Dana Rohrabacher, Vietnam War, combat duty, House of Representatives, Huntington Beach, Wall Street, PACs, Debbie Cook, Sammy Hagar, Sierra Club, oil drilling, California, Robert F. Kennedy, assassination, R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly, presidential candidate, Los Angeles hotel, Lloyd Kaufman, NSA

  November 3, 2008

• Debbie Cook to Be Interviewed on KPFK

  Sorry for the last-minute notice, but I'll be interviewing Huntington Beach mayor Debbie Cook--who's running against Dana Rohrabacher (R-Did Not Serve in Vietnam) in the 46th Congressional District race--today at 2pm on KPFK-FM 90.7 for about 20 minutes. You can hear it on the Internet at KPFK.org. If you want to hear all of Dana's sins as covered in the Weekly, tune in!

  November 3, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  September 25, 2008

• Orange County Sings the Obama Blues

  November 6, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  October 23, 2008

• Surf City Mayor Debbie Cook Takes on Dana Rohrabacher, OC's Weirdest Republican Congressman

  September 18, 2008

• Jingo Fever

  YAFfers try to strangle Surf City council member with yellow ribbons

  May 15, 2003

• Back up to Speed

  February 8, 2001

• Letters

  'Give us all a breakthe Mexican wetback has become the majority.'

  March 1, 2007

• Sexy Sexies!

  Orange Countys Sexiest People

  February 8, 2007

• Shameless

  May 25, 2006

• Scoring the Quiz

  November 25, 2004

• Putting the Con in Condo

  Councilwoman may have illegally converted apartments

  May 6, 2004

• Fire Foxes in the Hen House?

  April 22, 2004

• Power Politics

  February 26, 2004

• Crude Attitude

  January 29, 2004

• The Poseidon Misadventure

  December 11, 2003

• Where Have All the Blowhards Gone?

  November 20, 2003

• Turning Water into Whine

  November 20, 2003

• Letters

  May 29, 2003

• Letters

  May 22, 2003

• Letters

  May 15, 2003

• Run It Up the Poop Poll

  May 9, 2002

• Surf City Gets New Launderer

  November 8, 2001

• Redumpvelopment

  December 28, 2000

• Hey! We're all Liberals Now!

  November 16, 2000

• Nothin to See Here, Folks!

  August 3, 2000

• Tim Carpenter Returns Home to Push Single-Payer Healthcare

  Progressive Democrats of AmericaTim Carpenter makes his single-payer pitch.Tim Carpenter had been the longtime face of progressive politics in Orange County before leaving in 2002 to become a top organizer for Dennis Kucinich's presidential bid followed by his current post: national director of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), which is based in Carpenter's new home state of Massachusetts. The PDA's "Health Care NOT Warfare" campaign brought him back home to Orange County in October, w

  April 20, 2009

• Where Will Surfin' Congressman Stand on Long Beach Breakwater?

  The surfin' congressman. As Louis Sahagun blogged on the LA Times' L.A. Now, Long Beach has released the long-awaited results of a study aimed at reconfiguring the breakwater to create bigger waves, cleaner water and beaches, and more surf tourism. According to the study, the city could gain $52 million a year in local spending--and $7 million annually in taxes and fees. The engineering firm Moffat & Nichol is scheduled to present details of the $100,000 report to the Long

  July 24, 2009

• Despite Obnoxious Protesters, OC Gay Marriage Rally Inspires Crowd

  Photo by Christopher VictorioRich Cook leads Men Alive at gay marriage rallyWhile famed conductor Rich Cook directed his singing group Men Alive in the harmonious, sweet sounds of "Marry Us," an overly-tanned and hairy, fat, middle-aged bald man wearing shorts and a tank top held a handmade poster ("No parking in rear any time; Penal Code: Lev 18:22") and screamed into a bullhorn:--"You will not turn Orange County into Rainbow County!"--"Get with the program, Sodomites!"--"Idiots! Why won't you

  May 26, 2009