Duane Roberts

Anaheim's Citizens Advisory Committee Angers Curt Pringle By Doing the Right Thing!

Late last week, Anaheim's 11-member citizens advisory committee (CAC) on district elections wrapped up its final meeting, and its draft report of recommendations set to be delivered to the city council by the end of this month will suggest that the issue be put before the vote. When the previous A ... More >>

Gustavo's Latest "Orange County Line" for KCRW: On Anaheim's Proposed District Voting for City Council Races!

The last year or so has been muy tough on my beloved city of Anaheim, and not just because of trigger-happy cops and a nation discovering its stratified reality. There's also the matter of an ACLU lawsuit alleging the violation of voting rights against Latinos, a lawsuit I cannot stand by. Not only ... More >>

Anaheim PD Paid Extra $5,000 to OC Human Relations Commission for Anaheim Anna Drive Work...at Suggestion of Commission

Nice work if you can get it: in September of last year, OC Human Relations CEO/Executive Director Rusty Kennedy wrote an email to Anaheim Police Department Chief John Welter about invoicing their Police Community Reconciliation Program for the year to the previously agreed-upon amount of $5,000. ... More >>

Anaheim Police Chief Accuses Longtime Watchdog Duane Roberts of "Bullshit Lies" in Public Meltdown

The issue of assessing models for a potential police oversight commission was on the agenda during last night's meeting of the Anaheim city council. An impromptu encounter between former council candidate Duane Roberts and Anaheim Police Chief John Welter in the chamber lobby was not. It was there t ... More >>

Anaheim Voters Prove to be Loyal Pendejos in City Council Election

The eyes of the world were once fixated for a brief moment on Anaheim, the supposed "Happiest Place on Earth," as the facade was torn apart by controversial officer-involved shootings and days of social unrest erupting in its Latino communities this summer. With the attention of the national and int ... More >>

Gustavo's Mother, the Assimilated Voter

My ballot cast for Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson this year wasn't the first time I've voted Libertarian. The Republican and Democratic parties in Orange County are so fetid that I've split my votes between Green and Libertarian Party candidates (with the occasional bone tossed to the Peac ... More >>

Anaheim City Council Candidates Forum Takes Place on Anna Drive

Over the course of two hours, candidates vying for two open seats on the Anaheim city council fielded questions Tuesday evening from residents of Anna Drive, the neighborhood where an officer-involved shooting claimed the life of unarmed 25-year old Manuel Diaz earlier this summer. The killing and t ... More >>

OC Weekly 2012 Election Guide: Anaheim!

One in an occasional series on the county's craziest political races...and while we don't endorse candidates, we can sure as hell tell you who's more pendejo than others!There is no municipal election that will grab more attention this year than Anaheim. This is the city, after all, that burned th ... More >>

Upcoming Anaheim City Council Candidate Forum at Ember Cafe Implodes!

Ember Cafe & Music Club was set to play host to the next candidates forum in the race for Anaheim City Council on Wednesday, but the event has been promptly canceled. Deeming the whole affair as ridden with conflict of interests and unethically structured, Duane Roberts had planned on boyco ... More >>

Anaheim Council Candidates Gather for First Electoral Forum

Seven of nine candidates vying for two open seats on the Anaheim city council gathered last night for the first--and hopefully not the last--forum in the lead up to the November elections. Hosted by the West Anaheim Neighborhood Development Council (WAND), the event, which took place at the Magnolia ... More >>

Anaheim Family Wins Eviction Stay and Loan Modification for Their Wrongfully Foreclosed Home!

As gazes were fixated on the space shuttle Endeavour flight in the skies above, the Gutierrez-Perez family and their Occupy allies announced a key victory this morning in the struggle to keep their Anaheim home. Earlier this month, an eviction notice was served effective September 2 on their residen ... More >>

Anaheim City Council Didn't Approve Ward Elections Last Night--And That's a Good Thing

Click here for our Anaheim police shooting and subsequent desmadre archivesI'm far away from my beloved Anaheim right now, in the salt mines working on...something...but I couldn't help but to check in on the Kabuki theater that was last night's city council meeting held at my alma mater, Anaheim Hi ... More >>

Duane Roberts, Longtime Anaheim Activist, Pulls Papers for City Council Race

Click here for our Anaheim police shooting archivesWith officer-involved shootings and angry protests in Anaheim exposing its race and class divisions across national and international headlines, Duane Roberts feels that the timing is right to make a bid for city council. In taking the first step, t ... More >>

Another Weekly Anaheim Mexi on the ACLU's Lawsuit Alleging Anaheim Mexi-Voter Disenfranchisement: It's the Economy, Pendejos

Long before the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California held a press conference announcing a lawsuit atop the steps of Anaheim City Hall on Thursday, a go-between requested my contact information on their behalf for something. I sent it along, followed up, it was communicated to me th ... More >>

How Doritos Were Born At Disneyland

Adapted from 'Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America'

[UPDATED:] Election 2010: Coker is Spun, Polled, Teabagged

​1:28 p.m.: Orange County agreed with state voters on most ballot initiatives, although more of us did want to keep choking on polluted air until the unemployment rate drops and most like the state budget approval process to remain fucked-up, thank you very much (probably because many are philosop ... More >>

OC GOP is the "Marijuana Party": Duane Roberts, Green Party's U.S. Senate Candidate

​That wascally Duane Roberts is at it again.Last time we checked in on the Green Party nominee for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Barbara Boxer and coveted by Republican Carly Fiorina, Roberts was labeling Boxer's party "anti-immigrant."Now, the Anaheim resident is saying the Republican Par ... More >>

Sunday News Notes

​News highlights include:Meg Whitman's cash is buying her second placeCathleen Decker of the LA Times reports that new polling shows Jerry Brown gaining a "slight edge" over Meg Whitman and that Barbara Boxer has "opened a wider margin over GOP nominee Carly Fiorina in the race for U.S. Senate. ... More >>

Duane Roberts, Green Party Nominee for U.S. Senate, Says Democrats are "Anti-Immigrant"

​Duane Roberts sounds downright Republican."Beware of the Democrats" warns the Anaheim Green Party member running in November for the U.S. Senate seat held by a Democrat, Barbara Boxer.However, when Roberts explains his proclamation, he does not sound very Republican at all. He accuses Dems of bei ... More >>

Duane Roberts, Green Party Candidate for Senate, Endorses Prop 19

​As election day nears, we'll be running more and more coverage of what will likely be the most contentious ballot initiative this November: Proposition 19, which would legalize recreational possession and cultivation of marijuana for residents over the age of 21. Or at least that's what supporter ... More >>

U.S. Senate Candidate Suggests Orange Be Declared a "Ruled By Clowns" City

​Anaheim community activist Duane Roberts--the Green Party nominee for the U.S. Senate seat that only Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina, Edward C. Noonan (American Independent), Gail K. Lightfoot (Libertarian), Marsha Feinland (Peace and Freedom) or a write-in candidate can prevent him taking in the No ... More >>

Duane Roberts, Anaheim Activist, Announces U.S. Sentate Run

Roberts​If a former community organizer can become president of the United States, why can't a community organizer become a U.S. senator?Longtime Anaheim activist Duane Roberts announced that he will file papers with the Orange County Registrar of Voters today to put his name on the June primary b ... More >>

Sun Worshipping Takes On New Meaning at Anaheim Church

​There's no denying that at least one church in Anaheim is getting help from above.

Polite Dinner Topic is "Racist City Ordinances" in Orange County

Photo by Beth StirnamanWill work for . . . work, in the City of Orange.​When last Clockwork Ernest Hemingwayed on the Potluck for Progressives, this scratch-resistant sidewinder told of how the kibosh had to be put on the Nov. 13 gathering because the scheduled speaker from the regrouping Californ ... More >>

Legal Cannabis Initiative Woes Tweak Event for OC Progressives

​What would have been tonight's topic for the Potluck for Progressives at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Orange County really put the "pot" in Potluck for Progressives.But a change in strategy for gaining voter approval of the California Cannabis Initiative, which is more formally known as t ... More >>

The Gilchristification of OC

Mondays student walkout shows the past aint dead. It isnt even passed

Razin' La Raza

Whether posing as protesters or cutting off speeches, OC police clamp down on immigrant-rights activists

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Toots is older than Mick but smokes twice as much herb as Keith Richards.

A Clockwork Orange

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Who Dunn It?

Activists call on Garden Grove legislator to broaden spying probe

Anarchy in the C.M.

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Bring Me the Head of Donald Garcia

How a Green Party activist tracked an Anaheim trustee to Corona del Mar

Upon Further Review . . .

Sanchez staunchly supports Harald Martins INS jail program

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Standing Up to the Mouse

Roberts runs as a Green in Disneylands back yard

Pauper Chase

Rich man John Seymour discovers he likes poor people just fine

Code Enfarcement

As Jeffrey-Lynne rental units crumble, Anaheim targets residents' cars