Subject: Diane Harkey

• 35th Senate Race - A Road to Nowhere?

  Diane Harkey and Tom Harman are both running for the 35th District Senate seat. Harkey is the Republican's Republican, toeing the party line in her Dana Pointed way, while Harman has the misfortune of being a from-all-appearances honest politician in Huntington Beach (unlikely enough) as well as a fairly weak environmental voting record, versus the Republican-preferred nonexistent environmental voting record. Power to the people, as long as those people drive bulldozers... Still, it's not up to

  April 6, 2006

• Jubollocks, Part II

  I need to clarify one point in Will Swaim's previous post about Matt Cunningham finally coming out of the Jubal closet, and Cunningham's disingenuous defense of the uses he was making of his secret identity. It's easy to confuse which version of Cunningham is which sometimes (it could have been even more confusing if I had included in the story the other pseudonyms Cunningham publishes under on the internet– one of which, it probably won't surprise you to learn, has also been singled out f

  April 27, 2006

• Mimi's Influence Cafe

  Assemblywoman Mimi Walters (R-73, 241, 133) is a class act. And like any act, she can be yours if you can afford the hiring fee. Just ask Big Tobacco. Hell, just ask Rancho Mission Viejo; she's really going the extra mile for them. Sixteen miles actually—the length of the proposed Foothill-South toll road extension. Let's warm up with tobacco. RJ Reynolds and Phillip Morris are both opposing Proposition 86, the Tobacco Tax initiative. It would add $2.60 of additional excise tax per pack, d

  October 17, 2006

• Harmin' Harman

  Another law the Fullerton-based California Rifle and Pistol Association sponsors, and had introduced by Assemblyman Tom Harman (R-Huntington Beach) would allow those brought up on non-violent weapons charges to enter a "pre-trial diversion program," like traffic school for minor vehicle law offenders, except instead of getting bored to tears by a monotone speaker explaining the intricacies of California's vehicle code, you'll be bored to tears by a monotone speaker explaining the intricacies of

  March 12, 2006

• OC Blog Spins for Urell (And Spins and Spins...)

  Bear with us, gentle readers--this is a long post... Though the Weekly anointed Orange Juice as the county's best blog, even the Juicers would admit that the king of the county blogosphere is OC Blog, started and administrated by Jubal, the nom de plume of political consultant and longtime local Republican activist Matt Cunningham. Its politics are unapologetically center-right--it says so on the banner. But we had no idea that OC Blog would also evolve into a mouthpiece for the pedo-priest pro

  October 1, 2007

• This is What Measure D Will Bring To Santa Ana

  Today, SanTana voters will vote on Measure D, a ballot initiative that proposes to extend term limits from two four-year terms to three and whose supporters have waged one of the most misleading campaigns since the Iraq War. We won't know if Measure D passes until tonight, but one thing is certain: if it passes, SanTana residents can expect its leaders to want to rev up those redevelopment bulldozers pronto. Both Orange Juice and The Liberal OC reported about a curious incident that happened y

  February 5, 2008

• Primary Election Results

  Here are the latest, unofficial results from interesting primary races in Orange County: 29th Senate District Bob Huff 68.4% Dennis Mountjoy 31.6% 33rd Senate District Mimi Walters 73.6% Harry Sidhu 26.4% 60th Assembly District Curt Hagman: 59.8% Larry Dick: 40.2% 71st Assembly District Jeff Miller 57.7% Neil Blais 42.3% 73rd Assembly District Diane Harkey 73.3% Mark C. Patlan 26.

  June 4, 2008

• OC Fundie Funder Gives Money to Wacky Reeps, Homo-Haters--And Lou Correa?!

  The most influential Orange County man you've never heard of is undoubtedly Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr., heir to the Home Savings (remember that bank?) fortune. He rarely makes public appearances due to suffering from Tourette's Syndrome, but that hasn't stopped him from giving millions of dollars away to some of the craziest causes imaginable: creationism, anti-gay marriage, anti-gay clerics in the Episcopalian Church, and so many others that in its list of America's most influential evangelicals a

  June 19, 2008

• The Lawsuit Against the Husband of Assemblywoman Diane Harkey Has Generated an Internet Shitstorm

  April 2, 2009

• This Week in Reasons To Be Embarrassed About Dana Point

  Diane HarkeyNow, I love Dana Point, my sleepy, crusty, adorable harbor-village-that's-trying-to-dress-up-as-Newport hometown. But its legal cityhood is only a little bit younger than I am, and so I can relate to the public embarrassments it has had in the last week or so. You turn 20, you're told that you're an adult, you go out into the world, and you end up making an idiot of yourself. Three Dana Point residents in the news of late: -- OC Sheriff Sandra Hutchens. Yes, we were quite proud when

  February 19, 2009

• The Harkeys' Shamu-Size Scandal May Be More Than A Fluke

  Let's get the obvious out of the way. Someone over at the Register took my advice. How else to explain that their headlines about Dana Point Festival of Whales have evolved from the predictably punny triteness of last week's "Whale of a Festival" to yesterday's far more excellent "Festival of Whales isn't fin-ished"? This really represents a sea change for the newspaper.Diane Harkey. This is the best the Weekly paparazzi (me) could do.Anyways, at the kick-off for the festival last Saturday, your

  March 12, 2009

• Diane Harkey Protects Us From Accidental Terrorism

  Assemblywoman Diane Harkey put forth a resolution back in February to keep ex-Guantanamo detainees out of Camp Pendleton. With Barack Obama set to close the notorious, quasi-constitutional prison some time next year, Harkey wants to make sure the administration doesn't even think about putting any of the maybe-terrorists in her district's military base.Last week, she explained her reasoning to the Sacramento Statehouse Examiner:"It is very, very important that they are in maximum security and no

  April 2, 2009

• Recall Madness!

  August 23, 2007

• Commie Girl

  April 13, 2006

• Who Is 'Jubal'?

  April 13, 2006

• The Spirit of Cooperation Prevails in Diane Harkey's Hometown?

  Diane HarkeyThe latest "Soapbox" page in the Dana Point News provides a nice little study in contrasts. The bulk of the page goes to a column from Joel Bishop, Dana Point's jolly, Twittering councilman. He's all about "the power of collaboration": "I get weary of people in power blaming one another for problems and issues instead of grabbing the horns of the dilemma, and collaboratively fixing them."To illustrate the "power of collaboration," Bishop offers quotes from Ronald Reagan and Washingt

  May 27, 2009

• Prepare For The Untold Disasters In South County's Future

  The St. Regis adopts policy banning bailed-out banker parties: Are you ready for this South County disaster?​Do your best to imagine the following:The year is 2010. I Love Bagels has run out of shmear. Golden Spoon only offers gummy bears as topping. Lauren Conrad L.A. Candy has fallen off of the Amazon Top 1000 list. Dana Point Harbor no longer smells like cigarettes, fish and ice cream. The roots have begun to show in Diane Harkey's bang highlights. Laguna Beach High School has switched its

  October 16, 2009

• Diane Harkey Stink Smeared on Linda Ackerman, Who Seeks "Dripper" Duvall's Vacated Assembly Seat

  Harkey's ethical challenges produced recall calls. Assemblywoman Diane Harkey (R-Dana Point) has endorsed Linda Ackerman to fill the vacancy left by ex-Assemblyman Mike Duvall, who resigned in disgrace quickly after the Weekly's R. Scott Moxley and KCAL/KCBS reporter Dave Lopez exposed the Yorba Linda Republican morality cop and married father of two bragging about banging female lobbyists.Not only did at least one lobbyist have business before Duvall's panels, he sat on the Assembly

  October 21, 2009