Diane Harkey

Diane Harkey Seeks State Tax Board Seat as Husband's Company Goes Belly Up to Stop Suits

After many starts and stops, the day in court seemed to finally arrive Thursday for 80 investors who felt they'd been hornswoggled by the husband of Assemblywoman Diane Harkey (R-Dana Point).But now a fatal blow to the $43 million lawsuit against Dan Harkey and his Point Center Financial has likely ... More >>

Assemblywoman Diane Harkey's Husband Dan Harkey Due in Court as Fraud Lawsuit Begins

Lawyers for disgruntled investors in Point Center Financial, the Aliso Viejo company owned by Dan Harkey, husband of Assemblywoman Diane Harkey (R-Dana Point), have told their clients the trial is a go this morning.The investors essentially allege that Dan Harkey lied to them when he sold them on fu ... More >>

Diane Harkey Faces Assembly Voters Tuesday, Those Suing Her for Fraud and Abuse Always

Those suing state Assemblywoman Diane Harkey and her husband for alleged elder abuse and investor fraud learned last week the civil court trial has been delayed yet again. That spared the Dana Point Republican the indignity of having to face jurors while facing voters Tuesday, when she seeks reelect ... More >>

Diane Harkey, State Assemblywoman, Sees Return of Point Center Financial Scandal

When Diane Harkey ran for state Senate (unsuccessfully) and Assembly (successfully), she claimed she financed her campaigns with her own money, earned during her "six-figure" banking career.But later came disclosures that some of the Dana Point Republican's campaign funds--$16,000 worth--came from t ... More >>

Diane Harkey, Dana Point Assemblywoman, Helps Kill Bill That Would've Banned Lobbyist Gifts of Tickets to Politicos

Wow, we haven't checked in on Dana Point-area Assemblywoman Diane Harkey in a couple of years--really, ever since former Weekling (and current Atlantic guy) Spencer Kornhaber took her down a couple of notches some years back. But when you're a self-professed small-government zealot who rails against ... More >>

[UPDATED with Kreep Wins!] Did Dirty Trickster James Lacy Help Minuteman-Birther Gary Kreep Win Judge Race?

See update at the end of this post clarifying that Gary Kreep won the judge's race outright.Batshit birthers Gary Kreep and Orly Taitz famously split like Dick and Liz while trying to prove Barack Obama was born outside the U.S. While South County's birfer queen went on to lose her recent bid for a ... More >>

Scott Baugh's Big, No-Bid County Lobbying Deal

[Moxley Confidential] More than $1,000 per day? What?

Former Weekling Tracks Potential High-Speed Rail Boondoggle

​Former OC Weekling Anthony Pignataro is now doing the Lord's work at the independent, non-profit journalism outfit CalWatchdog that is overseen by former Orange County Register editorial writer Steven Greenhut (who Moxley just wrote about here). What is it with the Pig and un-built, controversial ... 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 >>

Funds Pulled for Anaheim-to-Las-Vegas Choo Choo

Metrolink trains: At least they already exist.​It's been a bad week for unbuilt trains.

On Harkeys' Watch, a Golf Course Rots

Diane Harkey​Two Saturdays ago, the Palm Springs-based Desert Sun ran a story about a once-great golf course fallen into disrepair:It was one of the Coachella Valley's oldest courses, where famous golfers like former President Dwight Eisenhower and Rat Pack royalty Frank Sinatra once teed off agai ... More >>

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 Yor ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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

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 o ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 th ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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% L ... More >>

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: ... More >>

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 Re ... More >>

Recall Madness!

The nuts and bolts (with extra nuts) of direct democracy gone wild

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-Sou ... More >>

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 >>

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Who Is 'Jubal'?

Republican activists engage in right-wing circle jerk on the Net

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 f ... More >>

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 offender ... More >>