Don Bankhead

[UPDATED with Correction Regarding Roland Chi:] OC Weekly 2012 Election Guide: Fullerton!

See the end of this post for a correction regarding a County of Orange Health Care Agency  investigation into a Garden Grove supermarket owned not by Roland Chi, but rather his family.ORIGINAL POST OCT. 11, 2012 3:34 P.M.: It's tempting to qualify the Fullerton political scene as a live- action ... More >>

Orange County Election Results Trickle In But Todd Spitzer is Back on His Path to the White House

As we approach midnight, our Orange County Registrar of Voters claimed that in four hours he was only able to tabulate 2.7 percent of today's election votes and, because of that incompetence, I'm slightly pissed that I missed most of NBC's "Love in the Wild."Yet, I will go to sleep with a satisfied ... More >>

Fullerton Residents: Vote Out Three Lousy City Councilmen Today

Attention Fullerton residents:You've eaten breakfast. You've eaten lunch. But before you eat dinner please make sure you've given the boot to three incumbent city councilmen who are facing a critical recall election today.Why?When the world was watching Fullerton in the wake of the July 2011, police ... More >>

Kelly Thomas' Dad: I Want to be Fullerton's Mayor

Ron Thomas, the man whose 37-year-old son was savagely killed by Fullerton police last July, announced tonight that he eventually wants to be named the city's mayor.Thomas told the Weekly's Brandon Ferguson that he hopes Fullerton can reorganize as a charter city where the mayor runs the government ... More >>

Bootlicker David Whiting and the Footwear of Justice

This week Orange County Register columnist David Whiting changed things up. Instead of licking the boots of brutal police officers, he licked the loafers of the three Fullerton councilmembers facing recall in June: former Mayor Dick Jones, former Fullerton cop Don Bankhead and former Fullerton Polic ... More >>

Is Tony Bushala OC's Newest Kingmaker?

The founder of Friends for Fullerton's Future blog says his war on bad government didn't start with the Kelly Thomas beating, and it's not over yet

Kelly Thomas Related City Council Recall in Fullerton Advances

​The Friends For Fullerton's Future blog is reporting overwhelming success in massive community efforts to recall three city councilmen who arrogantly downplayed the gruesome police killing of Kelly Thomas, a homeless man, last July.According to the popular blog, more than 50,000 Fullerton residen ... More >>

Fullertonians Plan To Read Weekly's Cover Story About Their Police Department's Culture of Violence At Tomorrow's Council Meeting

​The Friends For Fullerton's Future blog is asking people to show up to tomorrow's city council meeting with a copy of the OCWeekly in hand.In the FFFF blog post, they ask people to be there for the public comment portion of the meeting, where they will "read into record," the recent&nbs ... More >>

The Fullerton Police Department Are the Bullies In Blue

Long before officers beat Kelly Thomas to death, the city's cops ran roughshod over anyone and everyone

David Whiting: The Register's New Bootlicker

[Moxley Confidential] Gordon Dillow may have left the building, but his cop-loving spirit lives on

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Anti-Recall Group Hosts Event In Fullerton To Raise Money, Show Support For Mayor, Two Councilmen Being Recalled

​About 100 Fullertonians -- a rather homogenous crew of sexagenarians and older -- gathered at a pricey fundraiser tonight to support three beleaguered city leaders.Mayor F. Richard Jones, Mayor Pro Tem Don Bankhead and Councilman Pat McKinley have faced sharp criticism recently, following what ma ... More >>

OC's Scariest People 2011

Celebrating the Day of the Dead with some of the county's worst offenders

Where Things Stand A Day After The D.A. Charged Two Fullerton Policemen In The Beating Death of Kelly Thomas

R. Scott MoxleyDistrict Attorney Tony Rackauckas​It's been about 28 hours since the D.A. charged two Fullerton cops in the brutal beating death of Kelly Thomas.In some ways what happened yesterday changed things, and in others it didn't. Marcellus McRae, a former federal prosecutor who now wo ... More >>

Fullerton Police Chief Reacts to Charges in Kelly Thomas Case

Ed CarrascoFullerton Acting Police Chief Kevin Hamilton​In response to Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas' announcement of a second-degree murder charge against Fullerton Police Officer Manuel Ramos and an involuntary manslaughter charge against Corporal Jay Cicinelli in the death of ... More >>

[UPDATED with Fullerton Police Cite People For Honking At Protest:] Kelly Thomas' Story Goes National

​UPDATE, SEPT. 10, 6:27 P.M.: Fullerton police officers have had little to no presence at the Kelly Thomas protests outside their building for the past several weeks. Today, however, they stepped up enforcement and issued citations to three motorists who honked as they drove past the protest. ... More >>

[UPDATED with Photos:] Fullerton Hires Independent Probe Into Kelly Thomas Beating, Dozens Speak At City Council Meeting

Michael Gennaco​At last night's meeting, the city council voted to hire Michael Gennaco to conduct an independent review of the Kelly Thomas beating and the police department's practices. Earlier in the meeting, more than 50 Fullertonians spoke during the public comment section, many&nb ... More >>

[UPDATED with Protest's Emotional Conclusion:] Hundreds Protest Kelly Thomas' Death, Demand Answers From Fullerton PD

Ed CarrascoA protester goes right up to the door of the Fullerton Police Department.​​UPDATE, AUGUST 8, 1:07 P.M.: After most of the crowd had left for the day, the remaining 100 or so protesters congregated directly outside the Fullerton Police Department and the tone of the protest intens ... More >>

Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Rollin Marsden and Roy Davis, Fullerton Councilmembers

​My apologies to my loyal white-supremacist audience for not doing one of these last week--I'm busy putting the final touches on...something, so had to skip a week. But fear not, skins: this week's a two-fer, and we return to Fullerton in honor of the civic malfeasance that plagues the city, espec ... More >>

Calls for Resignation, Recall in Fullerton over Kelly Thomas Beating

Ed Carrasco​Hundreds of people showed up at the Fullerton City Council meeting last night--as did mobile television vans from every major local station. The overwhelming majority of people present were there to physically and demonstrate their outrage over the July 5 beating of Kelly T ... More >>

The Orange County Interwebs Horror Show Reviews Are In

​This week's collection of things on the Interwebs from or about Orange County includes netizen reviews of a car shop, a sandwich shop, UC Irvine dorms, hotspots for meet-ups, Fullerton City Council candidates, San Clemente's immigration checkpoint and Huntington Beach white boys who refer to them ... More >>

Gunk Science

Ocean study says . . . nothing

Run It Up the Poop Poll

Slanted survey supports sewage waiver