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OC Deputies Union Gives to Boston Victims, Reward Funds and Lobbies Sanchez to Boost Homeland Security Dollars for Local Agencies

The Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs (AOCDS) has contributed to a fund for victims of the Boston terror attacks and to the reward for the capture of whoever planted the bombs. But the Santa Ana-based AOCDS wants to loosen up even more funding, calling on Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Gr ... More >>

Orange County DREAM Team Kicks Off a Week of Action Calling for Inclusive Legalization

While everyone in DC and their local apologists dithers about "comprehensive immigration reform," the Orange County Dream Team (OCDT), as usual, is taking action. Calling clearly for an 'inclusive legalization process,' the DREAMers are revving up for an ambitious week of action as the national deba ... More >>

John Boehner, House Speaker, to Give Irvine's Great Park Ballon a Run for the Orangey

On April 4, the orangest thing in Irvine will not be the Orange County Great Park balloon.It will be a certain speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.[INSERT BOTH FILLED WITH HOT AIR JOKE HERE.]

Maen Areikat, Chief Representative of Palestine Liberation Organization Set to Visit OC

Stationed in the nation's capital, diplomat Maen Rashid Areikat wasn't invited to President Barack Obama's second inauguration. As he told The National, the oversight was relayed as unintentional resulting from outdated contact information. Whatever the case, the chief representative of the Palestin ... More >>

More American Than Jay Chen?

Ignoring racist emails is all in a day's work for the Democratic congressional candidate

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 >>

Ed Royce Calls on USA to Stop Pampering North Korea's Plump New Dictator

Ed Royce won praise this week from a national business publication that favors the Orange County congressman's tough North Korean policy stance over the Obama administration's carrot-style diplomacy.Believing that U.S. officials are being "duped by evil" to continue to supply food to the totalitaria ... More >>

Ed Royce: Orange County's Man On North Korean Dictatorship

​For as much as he yaps about his own hilariously fabricated heroism involving international affairs, Dana Rohrabacher has nothing on fellow Orange County Republican Congressman Ed Royce.While Rohrabacher routinely employs a photograph of himself wearing Afghanistan grab and holding a weapon as in ... More >>

John Boehner to Make Orange County Oranger

​Speaker of the House John Boehner is coming to Newport Coast to raise money for Republicans by participating in the Orange County GOP's Reagan Cup golf tournament Oct. 17 at Pelican Hill Resort.Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) and Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) are also scheduled to swing by, ... More >>

[UPDATED with Sentence for Deborah Pauly Threats:] Video Captures Protesters, Politicians Berating Muslims at Yorba Linda Charity Function

Paul Dean Andrews​UPDATE, MAY 25, 3:46 P.M.: A San Pedro man was sentenced today to 97 days in jail, three years probation and an order to stay away from Deborah Pauly for threatening violence against the Villa Park city councilwoman via a Facebook message. Paul Dean Andrews, 28, was slapped with ... More >>

[UPDATED with New Anti-Muslim Rally Plans:] Video Captures Protesters, Politicians Berating Muslims at Yorba Linda Charity Function

Muzammil Siddiqi​Here we go again.Organizers of February's controversial and much-blasted anti-Muslim rally in Yorba Linda have issued an ultimatum to the Orange County Human Relations Commission: rescind the Community Leader award it is presenting to Islamic Society of Orange County Imam Muzammil ... More >>

[UPDATE: OC Democrats Blast Pauly] Video Captures Protesters, Politicians Berating Muslims at Yorba Linda Charity Function

​UPDATE, MARCH 25, 4:40 P.M.: The Democratic Party of Orange County has weighed in on Villa Park City Councilwoman's Deborah Pauly's harsh remarks at an anti-Muslim rally in Yorba Linda last month. (Welcome to the party, folks!)As you might expect from a party philosophically opposite of a teabagg ... More >>

Rohrabacher, Royce, Campbell and Other Doves vs. Pelosi, Waxman and Other Hawks

​Before shock and awe, there was just give peace a chance. The call for a surge in Iraq drew a push-back from MoveOn.orgers. Doves bristle at endless warfare.Ah, the good old days. Now, down is up, Simon Cowell is Jennifer Lopez, and hawks who once warned "You-break-it, you-fix-it" are talking pul ... More >>

Sarah Palin Fingers Ed Royce For Powerful House Financial Post

Royce​Ed Royce, the Fullerton Republican congressman dreaming of taking over Rep. Barney Frank's House financial services committee, has captured a powerful ally: Sarah Palin.The new alliance apparently wasn't based on Royce's competence but because he is not Spencer Bachus, a more senior Alabama ... More >>

Article: Ed Royce Could Nab Top Financial Post in DC

Royce​For 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 >>

Election 2010: Moxley Watches The OC Republicans

Jonathan Ho / OC WeeklyTran: Not time to concede. ​1:00 a.m.: Van Tran Remains HopefulInside the converted Garden Grove Blockbuster store, Van Tran continues to hold onto his dream of defeating Loretta Sanchez. Tran is trailing by more than 5,000 votes--and the gap seems to be getting larger. But ... More >>

New York Times Data: OC Elections Aren't Really Contests

Ed Royce: Shoo-in elections are fun.​Do we have real congressional election contests in the Orange County/Long Beach area or, despite all the hullabaloo, is the whole affair preordained?Data from The New York Times, based on FiveThirtyEight Forecasts, shows the answer isn't necessarily uplifting. ... More >>

Ed Royce Slams Hillary Clinton For Coddling Vietnam

Royce doesn't like Ho Chi Minh's legacy​Republican Congressman Ed Royce must be getting tired of U.S. officials ignoring what he sees as Vietnam's "ugly human rights record."The latest offender to Royce's sensibilities on the subject is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.According to the veteran F ... More >>

Progressive Counterparts to Teabaggers Brown Bag It at Local Congressional Offices Today

​House members are being criticized for leaving Washington, D.C., without a federal budget vote to campaign in their districts before the November election. Some Orange County Congress people, like their brethren around the country, can escape the scorn by sharing a brown bag lunch at their distri ... More >>

Ed Royce Worries Hillary Clinton is Soft on Vietnam Human Rights Abuses

Royce to Clinton: Don't be a wimp in Hanoi​Demonstrating his concern over ongoing human rights abuses by Vietnam's rulers, Congressman Ed Royce has sent a letter to Hillary Clinton asking the secretary of state to pressure the communist nation on the topic during an upcoming trip to Hanoi. "W ... More >>

Raise a Candle for Murdered Children Tonight

​The father of a man who was murdered after he returned from a tour of duty in Iraq and a woman whose sister and grandfather were murdered at different times are scheduled to appear at tonight's 18th annual Parents Of Murdered Children (POMC) "A Candlelight Vigil and Names Dedication Ceremony."Th ... More >>

Ed Royce Brings House GOP Leader Boehner to OC But Not His District

johnboehner.house.govHouse minority leader (and future speaker?) John Boehner.​It costs $200 to join Rep. Ed Royce's Congressional Club, but membership has its privileges. Among them, an invitation to the Fullerton Republican's April 6 "private briefing" on the 2010 elections with House minority l ... More >>

Rep. Ed Royce Nails Olympic Backflip!

Royce: Olympic-size fickleness​Ed Royce, the Orange County congressman who claims blocking consumer financial protections from sneaky Wall Street bankers is actually a pro-consumer stance, has found another topic to fumble. This month at Red County blog, the Fullerton Republican blasted President ... More >>

How Many Anti-Illegals, Anti-Liberal Buzzwords Can Royce Work Into His Anti-Healthcare Rant?

Rantin' Royce!​It's the home game sweeping the Republic: Count how many anti-liberal/anti-illegals/pro-hater buzzwords and references are in the latest email to supporters from Rep. Ed Royce (R-The White Side of Fullerton).The email (Punctuation, capitalizations and boldface intact) follows after ... More >>

Register Report on State Dinner for India Leader Is Bombayboozled

Rep. Ed Royce loves Indiana food.​Not that yours truly would want to get into a pissing match with the Orange County Register over typos, but Washington Bureau chief Dena Bunis' "Total Buzz" blog post on Congressman Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) attending President Barack Obama's first State Dinner--in ... More >>

Want to Take Part in the Ed Royce Healthcare Survey? Too Bad.

Ed Royce​Yuh oh. A Washington Post poll published last week said that  57% of American support a public option as part of health insurance reform. This has appeared to unnerve U.S. Representative Ed Royce -- or at least pique his curiosity. "The Washington Post claims that 57% of all American ... More >>

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 >>

As Cranks Get Town Hall Time With Royce, Websites Help the Rest Struggling With Healthcare

Congressman Ed Royce​Cranks who wouldn't know true socialism from extreme botulism get to take some swings at Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) beginning this afternoon. Royce holds a 1 p.m. town hall in the Buena Park Senior Activity Center, 8150 Knott Ave. (just south of La Palma), Buena Park. It's ac ... More >>

"Press Conference" Against Iran Government Produces No News, Much Political Support in Irvine

Rep. Laura Richardson (inset), Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Rep. Ed Royce, together at last.If the goal of a press conference is to produce a "big announcement" that makes news and warrants coverage--the usual reason one calls a press conference in the first place--then the Iran Sup ... More >>

Ed Royce Puts On Greenface

Ed Royce (R)We all know that lead is bad stuff. Kills babies. Makes bullets. So there's plenty of reason to be glad that Orange-based Continuous Coating Corp. is shedding 70,000 pounds of lead from its production process. The firm, which makes continuous coil electro-zinc line (probably very essenti ... More >>

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 >>

Hasan Nouri Pitched Plans to Stabilize Aliso Creek and His Native Afghanistan, But No One Listened

[Moxley Confidential] OC Media Asked to Ignore Still-Emerging Dirt on Mike Carona's PSR Mess

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Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: Pampering Predators

To Catch--and Pamper!--a Predator: Where the hell is Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC? Why do I ask? Well, in Orange County, authority figures--particularly cops--nabbed for outrageous sexual conduct either get re-elected, promoted or pampered. The latest example is Jason David Rosewarne. The marr ... More >>

Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: 'Stinky' White House

777: The Gabrielino-Tongva tribe is coming to Garden Grove with a huge bag of Halloween goodies. What's the treat? $78 million-a-year to city coffers, 10,000 permanent new jobs and college scholarships to every graduating high school student in the city. The trick? Let the tribe--and some guys name ... More >>

OC congressman: Japan must apologize for WWII sex

KNBC is reporting today that Orange County Republican Congressman Ed Royce thinks the Japanese government hasn't adequately apologized for converting 200,000 Asian women into sex slaves — or "comfort women" — for its soldiers during World War II. Though Japan's prime minister has already apolog ... More >>

Ed Royce Makes a Run for the Border

The San Diego Union-Tribune, whose editorials typically lean solidly to the right, has come out firmly against mixing illegal immigration with the war on terror--and with "The Wrong Mix," they more specifically chide OC's own Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) for chairing an Imperial Beach congressional h ... More >>

The Anti-Immigrant All-Stars--Live!

If you're not doing anything today, drive down to San Diego, where Fullerton Republican Congressman Ed Royce will chair hearings on the illegal-alien menace. Scheduled to appear, according to the Orange County Register, will be our Anti-Immigrant All-Stars, the folks (of all ethnicities, as they lov ... More >>

Drilling Bit Players

Further proving that otherwise politically conservative Newport Beach has an environmental streak when it comes to its own shores (but no one else's): Rep. John Campbell (R-The Arches) joined Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) as the only members of the Orange County congressional delegation to v ... More >>

Confused Voters, Stupid Congressmen

How far do you have to go in trying to stomp on the huddled masses yearning to breathe free before even Congressman James Sensenbrenner, the man whose draconian immigration bill sparked all those protests, calls bullshit? As far as trying to gut part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. And unfortunately, ... More >>

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