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February 22, 2012
Did Rep. John Campbell Get Schooled by Irvine Republican Activist Allan Bartlett?
In the aftermath of Monday night's news that John Campbell failed to win the endorsement of the local GOP Central Committee, allies of the veteran Orange County Republican congressman immediately launched efforts to find a positive public spin on the disaster. For example, Scott Baugh, boss of th ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2012
OC's Happiest Pro-Tax Increase Cheerleaders Are Democrats, Right?
Those of you who don't believe that Orange County is loaded with ironies aren't paying attention.We've got vociferously anti-gay public figures who are secretly gay or bisexual. We've got Democrats who are more Republican than, well, Republicans. And, perhaps most amazingly, we've got self-descri ... More >>
Blogs
October 10, 2011
Ronald Reagan Statue is Not Enough: 5 More Ways Park Can Honor the Gipper
A bronze statue of Ronald Reagan was dedicated at Bonita Canyon Sports Park in Newport Beach Sunday. (Bonita Canyon Sports Park, where have I heard that name before? Oh yes, HERE, in a post about Newps dumping its former city attorney for allegedly getting in a DUI wreck near the park.)Dana Rohra ... More >>
Blogs
September 15, 2011
Foothill-South Toll Road Foes Call Bullshit on TCA's Jobs Creation and Economic Stimulus Ploy
Foes of the 241 Foothill-South toll road carving through San Clemente are calling bullshit on the Transportation Corridor Agency's latest ploy to win public support: propping up their unpopular project as a statewide job creator, economic stimulus and deficit buster.
Columns
July 14, 2011
This Elephant Never Remembers
[Hey, You!] Trunk off, GOP push-pollster!
Blogs
April 18, 2011
MoveOn.org Comes to the Rescue of Taxes Today
Taxes must be suffering from battered women's syndrome about now. We're all like, "Aw come on, baby. You know I loves ya," Then--BAM!--corporations and rich people rap taxes upside the head, saying they ain't returning to Clinton-era levels. Then we get all lovey-dovey again and--WHAM!--House Rep ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2011
Loretta Sanchez Defends Obama Attack on GOP Budget Plan
Obama finally gets Sanchez backingAppearing this afternoon on MSNBC, Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez defended President Barack Obama's morning speech declaring that he will not allow Republicans to continue to force the poor and middle class to pay for massive tax cuts for the rich.In ... More >>
Blogs
April 9, 2011
Rep. John Campbell: USA Close To 'Collapse'
Campbell pulling a NostradamusDespite $38 billion in federal budget cuts last night, Orange County Congressman John Campbell told Fox News on Saturday morning that the United States soon faces a financial doomsday."Really big changes are needed" to future federal government spending habits o ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2011
Barney Frank Drops Octobomb (Again)
Is Rep. Barney Frank becoming like your grandpa who keeps repeating the same story, over and over?The Massachusetts Democrat elicited some laughs and headlines last week for comparing the largest country on the planet to La Habra's world-famous mother of 14, Nadya Suleman.But, while getting the l ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2011
Steven Greenhut Left The Orange County Register for Sacramento, But His Poison Pen Still Stings Jim Silva
The Orange County Register's longtime columnist and senior editor Steven Greenhut left the Santa Ana daily in 2009 to open a Sacramento news bureau for the Pacific Research Institute, a free-market, individual liberty think tank based in San Francisco. But it's obvious he misses Orange County, o ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2010
Will Michael Steele Still Be RNC Chairman When He Keynotes Financial Forum in Irvine?
Despite Republicans gaining 63 House seats and six Senate seats in the November elections, its National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, the USA Today says, had a worse year than President Barack Obama, MSNBC and the National Review agree Steele is a baffoon and all indications are he ... More >>
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November 12, 2010
Article: Ed Royce Could Nab Top Financial Post in DC
RoyceFor a quirky reason, Fullerton Congressman Ed Royce has a chance to leapfrog over more senior Republicans to become chairman of the powerful House financial services committee, according to a new article in Mother Jones magazine.Royce and Spencer Bachus, an Alabama Republican with more senio ... More >>
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October 12, 2010
The Super Rich Aren't Like You and Me ... They're Whinier
A letter to the Wall Street Journal by a Newport Beach real estate executive who believes it would be unfair if the Bush tax cuts were not extended for those who make over $250,000-a-year certainly set off McSweeney's writer Edward Murray. "The Poor Top 2 Percent" on the Huffington Post is Murray ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
[UPDATED:] Irvine Does Shuffleboard Shuffle in Response to Grand Jury Report Blasting Great Park Funding
UPDATE: As expected, the Irvine City Council approved its fuck-off response to an Orange County Grand Jury report critical of Great Park financing (see end of post) . . .The Orange County Register's Sean Emery gets great quote from Irvine City Councilwoman Christina Shea, who was reacting to the ... More >>
Blogs
August 7, 2010
Bruce Whitaker Launches Fullerton City Council Campaign
WhitakerLike most regions, Orange County has a shortage of honest political figures. Perhaps that's because public office commonly entices two-faced characters. Of course, journalists like myself rely on these slimy folks for a steady stream of stories. (Thanks for being you, Mike ... More >>
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July 7, 2010
Lawrence Dodge, Prominent OC Philanthropist, Owes $2.5 mil for Lying, Violating Laws: Feds
CORRECTION: Previous details on acquisition of American Sterling Bank were incorrect. A federal agency has concluded former bank president and co-CEO Lawrence Dodge violated the law, breached his fiduciary duties, engaged in unsound business practices and filed false and misleading reports, includin ... More >>
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June 16, 2010
Rep. John Campbell Targeted in House Ethics Probe
The Newport Beach Republican who represents much of south Orange County is among a group of congressional lawmakers being scrutinized in a House of Representatives ethics investigation, according to Washington, D.C. newspaper the Hill. The probe apparently centers around financial regulation ... More >>
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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
January 27, 2010
Experts Kick Around Obama's State of the Union Speech
Photo by Pete SouzaThe PrezIf you drop what you're doing and head over to Fullerton right now, you can catch a live viewing of President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech followed by a forum examining what the leader of the free world just said.The global anti-poverty group ONE in Orange C ... More >>
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October 27, 2009
iPhone App Shows Recovery Money Spent Before Your Eyes
If we were the iPhone app-acquiring sort -- actually, just if we had a coveted iPhone 3G -- we'd snap up this thingy from public-disclosure advocacy org Sunlight Labs. It's one of baced on Layar's "augmented reality" doohickeys, whereby you point your phone a certain direction and see, on the dis ... More >>
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October 7, 2009
Republican Assemblyman Republicans Are Targeting for Recall Blames Orange County Republicans, Newport Beach Insiders
Local Republicans are gunning for Assemblyman Anthony Adams (R-Hesperia). Assemblyman Anthony Adams (R-Hesperia), who has been targeted for a recall election because he voted for a state budget that included billions of dollars in new taxes, swung back at his opponents today, b ... More >>
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September 3, 2009
We've Got Your Stimulus Package
Old World
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August 20, 2009
Where Have All the Anti-Tax Crusaders Gone?
When he wasn't running for governor, Fountain Valley's George "Nick" Jesson was associated with the We the People Congress, an anti-tax group that bought an ad in USA Today in 2001 challenging the government's right to tax income. Indeed, Orange County used to be crawling with anti-tax crusade ... More >>
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August 6, 2009
More Federal Brownfields Cleanup Funds Coming Long Beach's Way
EPA.govMiller's Childrens Hospital in Long Beach previously received federal brownfields cleanup funds.A proposed Long Beach job training resource has been awarded a chunk of nearly $2 billion in federal grant money aimed at cleaning up contaminated sites in California known as "brownfields," the ... More >>
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July 9, 2009
Agran Wants Your Federal Dollars for Great Park
During his fourth annual State of the Great Park address today at Irvine City Hall, Orange County Great Park Corp. board chairman Larry Agran said federal stimulus funds from the Obama administration are being sought to help pay for $61 million worth of construction beginning there this year.Near th ... More >>
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June 11, 2009
St. Regis Monarch Beach Scheduled For Foreclosure Auction; But What Happens To Stonehill Tavern?
As you may have already heard, the St. Regis Monarch Beach is on the verge of being auctioned off in a foreclosure sale. LA Times had the scoop.The ritzy hotel, as many have noted, is infamous for hosting a certain AIG boondoggle. You know the one: The bash they held after accepting government b ... More >>
News
June 4, 2009
[Summer Guide] Proposed Theme Park Celebrates OC's Part in Bringing the Global Economy to Its Knees
As you may have already heard, the St. Regis Monarch Beach is on the verge of being auctioned off in a foreclosure sale. LA Times had the scoop.The ritzy hotel, as many have noted, is infamous for hosting a certain AIG boondoggle. You know the one: The bash they held after accepting government b ... More >>
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May 6, 2009
OC Politicos Harsh San Mateo County's Bailout Mellow
Campbell, financial cock blockerSan Mateo County officials who went to Congress Tuesday seeking a federal bailout of funds lost in its investment portfolio with Lehman Brothers, which the Bush administration allowed to fail in what would become the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, got the financi ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2009
It's a Quick Read 34
Orange County Register: A hushed county awaits the jury verdict in Steve Rocco's trial for alleged ketchup theft. . . . County officials are talking settlement with ex-Sheriff, current-felon Mike Carona's former right-hand man George Jaramillo. . . . Orange County may be among the first in ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2009
DeVore Now Bugs Henley, Boxer AND Scrooge McDuck (Updated)
Barbara BoxerWe vowed to be more sparing in our blog coverage of Irvine Assemblyman/2010 senatorial candidate Chuck DeVore's publicity campaign to seem like the most affably goofy nuclear-power lobbyist in the state. But it's time for an update, because DeVore's gone and made another Don Henley paro ... More >>
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March 24, 2009
John Campbell Targeted By Withering Democrat Copy-Pasting
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent out a press release yesterday pointing out that South County U.S. representative John Campbell, by opposing the federal stimulus bill, opposed funding for local transportation projects:Representative Campbell Votes Against Major Road Improvements ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2009
John and Ken Go After Red County Blog (Again)
*Originally posted on March 13; moved up by Gustavo 'cause the conversation is HOT!The hosts of KFI-AM 640 The John and Ken Show are ripping Orange County's right-tilted Red County blog once again. (You can listen here.) What set off the anti-tax crusaders--whose recent live Tax Revolt 2009 broadcas ... More >>
Blogs
March 3, 2009
Read Curt Pringle's Lips: He'll Take New Taxpayer Dollars
Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle has long been the golden boy among Orange County Republicans. He got elected to the party's Central Committee in 1986, and two years later became the GOP nominee for the Garden Grove area state Assembly seat. The party, under the leadership of then-Chairman Tom Fuentes ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2009
Will Obama's Stimulus Plan Help Make the OC Great Park a Reality?
Calling the action "momentous," the Great Park Corp. Board of Directors voted unanimously today to recommend the Irvine City Council adopt the Great Park Design Studio's Comprehensive Park Plan, the final planning piece required before the building phase can begin--as soon as March 20--on the ambiti ... More >>
Blogs
December 31, 2008
True Liar: Gov. Schwarzenegger brings deceit to real life
"All [California lawmakers] know how to do is spend, spend, spend . . . Then they realize they are spending too much and so they tax, tax, tax. I will not raise your taxes. I will not cut education."--Arnold Schwarzenegger in October 2003, while campaigning to unseat then-Gov. Gray Davis in a recall ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2008
The Return of Toll Road Foister Jerry Amante
Here were told you about our question to Tustin City Councilman Jerry Amante, the chairman of the Orange County Transportation Authority, the Transportation Corridor System Board of Directors and the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency (TCA) who was all over the news last week after Comm ... More >>
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December 4, 2008
The Reaganomics
The Reaganomics
Blogs
November 8, 2006
The Party's Over
Our R. Scott Moxley reports that, by the end of the night at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, the older Republicans in the room showed on their faces exactly what they felt: worry, frustration, indignation. But the Young Republican types in their 20s and 30s were not missing a beat--or a drop of hooch--as ... More >>
Blogs
October 31, 2006
Speaking of congressional races ...
Check out this little ray of sunshine from Bloomberg (the news service, not the mayor): Candidates Ignore $1.35 Trillion Minimum Tax `Bomb' By Ryan J. Donmoyer Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Congressional candidates this fall are furiously debating Iraq, Medicare and extending tax cuts. Most are staying qu ... More >>
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September 7, 2006
The OC GOP Way: extending taxes is NOT raising taxes
Besides spam for our riches locked in a Nigerian prince's bank vault, a better head of hair and just plain better head, Clockwork's virtual mailbox has been filling lately with messages from the Committee to Renew Measure M. Now, normally when PR maven Meg Waters, Congressman John Campbell (R-Newpor ... More >>
News
July 8, 2004
Burning Bush
The presidents conservative critics
Columns
November 6, 2003
Letters
The presidents conservative critics
Culture
September 4, 2003
Wholly Without Merit
Al Franken makes me mad!
Columns
April 10, 2003
Mr. Bigs Sack
Al Franken makes me mad!
Columns
January 30, 2003
Letters
Al Franken makes me mad!
News
January 16, 2003
Fool's Gold
Al Franken makes me mad!
Columns
June 14, 2001
Now You See It, Now You Don't
Al Franken makes me mad!
Columns
May 3, 2001
Tax day: A Diary of My Pain
Al Franken makes me mad!
News
January 18, 2001
Bail Me Out, Too!
One ratepayers plea for government assistance
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