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Don Wagner

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    David Richard Sparks, GOP "Christian Family Man," Gets 6.5 Years for $4.3 Million Scam

    Orange County Republican insider, former Irvine planning commissioner and "Christian family man" David Richard Sparks will pray in a federal prison cell for the next 6 1/2 years. Over the recommendation of federal prosecutors, who sought 15 months less prison time for Sparks, a U.S. District Court ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Assemblyman Don Wagner Alarmed By Prop. 65 Lawsuit Abuses

    As part of a "Create Jobs; Not Lawsuits" campaign in California, Orange County state Assemblyman Don Wagner today blasted what he sees as Proposition 65's abuse of businesses by greedy plaintiff's lawyers.The voter-approved 1986 proposition called, "The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    "The Don" Wagner Sopranos Crack Leads to Rumble on the Assembly Floor

    ​On Aug. 31, 1990, state Assemblymen Gil Ferguson (R-Newport Beach) and Steve Peace (D-Rancho San Diego) famously got into a shouting match that got physical in a Capitol corridor in Sacramento, where some witnesses claim not-so-peaceful Peace slapped the retired Marine.Must be something about the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    David R. Sparks, Smooth-Talking GOP Liar and Real Estate Broker, Convicted of $4.3 Million Ponzi Scheme

    Sparks​David R. Sparks lavished the Republican Party and GOP candidates with thousands of dollars over the years. He was so well liked that when ultimate party insider Adam Probolsky was removed amid controversy from the Irvine Planning Commission, Probolsky praised his chosen replacement, Sparks, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    South Orange County Community College District Settles Prayer Lawsuit

    The South Orange County Community College District has settled a suit brought by some of its teachers and one former student over the practice of opening prayers at various official district events.The plaintiffs in Westphal v. Wagner--which references Karla Westphal, a Saddleback professor who ... More >>

  • News

    October 7, 2010

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

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

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    OC Democrat Asks Republicans To Drop 'No New Tax' Pledge

    Photo by Christopher VictorioDemocratic Assembly candidate Melissa Fox has a taxing idea.​According to Melissa Fox, a Democratic Party candidate for Orange County's 70th Assembly District, the problem with California government isn't high taxes, a bloated bureaucracy or the massive $20 billion bud ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    College District Board's Battle Cry: Send Lawyers, Hired Guns and Money

    ​The South Orange County Community College District (SOCCCD) board votes tonight on whether to pay a private lawyer $25,000 in taxpayer funds for helping negotiate what the district calls the "Mathur settlement." Why the district must settle anything with Raghu Mathur, who in January was fired/did ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Raghu Mathur Out as SOCCCD Chancellor?

    Mathur​Irvine Valley College professor Roy Bauer's Dissent the Blog is reporting that after about a decade, Raghu Mather is out as chancellor of the South Orange County Community College District. It's official. During tonight's board meeting, Board Clerk Marcia Milchiker read out board actions t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    UPDATED: College Board Sued Over Prayers Weighs Prayer Policy Tonight

    ​UPDATED WITH COMMENT FROM THE ATTORNEY FOR THE DISTRICT . . . Ever go to a school board meeting and have a tent revival break out?Trustees who lord over the South Orange County Community College District (SOCCCD) and are being sued over their frequent and apparently mandatory use of official pray ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    [UPDATED] Federal Lawsuit Targets Orange County College District Prayers

    ​UPDATED WITH RESPONSE FROM LAWYER FOR THE DISTRICT . . . A lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against the South Orange County Community College District over official prayers during public ceremonies, Americans United for Separation of Church and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2009

    Weekend Forecast for Newport Beach: Very, Very, Very Conservative

    Andrew Breitbart: From Fox News to Newport Beach​What would you do if you found out conservatives Andrew Breitbart, Jim Lacy, Tom Fuentes, Bruce Herschesohn, Sir Eldon Griffiths, Governor Tim Pawlenty, Meg Whitman, Chuck DeVore, Jeff Miller, Ralph Reed, Da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2009

    Don Wagner Kicks Off Assembly Bid With a Little Help From His Far-Out, Far-Right Friends

    Don Wagner, in charge.​Irvine's Don Wagner, the hard-core conservative president of the South Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees, kicks off his bid for state Assembly this evening with the help from one of the other hard-core conservatives on the college board's dais, "Chai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2006

    "Libertarian" not Libertarian on Library

    Our pals at Dissent the Blog have a new post today following up on South Orange County Community College District trustee Don Wagner, at the board's January meeting, leading a vote to remove the American Library Association from its list of memberships. Wagner called the ALA "liberal busybodies" for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2006

    Have you impugned your local librarian today?

    Those wascally wabble wousers at Dissent the Blog, your duly elected South Orange County Community College District watchdogs, have posted for our listenting pleasure a snippet from a recent Board of Disgustees meeting where (Dis)Trustee Don Wagner calls the American Library Association, based on hi ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 27, 2003

    Driving Through the Valley of Malls

    Those wascally wabble wousers at Dissent the Blog, your duly elected South Orange County Community College District watchdogs, have posted for our listenting pleasure a snippet from a recent Board of Disgustees meeting where (Dis)Trustee Don Wagner calls the American Library Association, based on hi ... More >>

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