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Ed Royce

  • Blogs

    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 11, 2012

    Rep. Ed Royce Scores City Council Endorsement

    ​Thanks to California redistricting, Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) is in the midst of the political fight of his life.In November's election, Royce--the brainiest member of Orange County's congressional delegation--faces Gary Miller, another current, Republican representative, for the right to serve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    ProPublica Blew Orange County Redistricting Story Targeting Loretta Sanchez

    ​Earlier this month, ProPublica--a respected, investigatory news agency based in New York City--issued a report that blasted Democrats for an unethical campaign to corrupt the California Citizens Redistricting Commission that was charged with designing new boundaries for federal and state election ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Richest Orange County Congressman of Them All?

    ​U.S. Rep. Gary G. Miller (R-Brea), is the eighth wealthiest Member of Congress, the 18th wealthiest when combining members of both houses and Orange County's richest congressman by far, according to numbers recently crunched by the Center for Responsive Politics. The nonprofit and nonpartisan cen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Dave Gilliard, OC Sheriff's Adviser, Caught in "Shady" $840,000 Scheme

    ​Dan Morain, one of the true jewels of mainstream journalism in California, has tied a key campaign adviser to Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, Congressman Ed Royce and state Assemblyman Jim Silva to a "shady" effort to smear Sen. Barbara Boxer in the 2010 election.Veteran political consultant Dave Gillia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Dave Gilliard Defends Secret, Anti-Barbara Boxer Campaign

    ​This morning I posted a brief story linking to Sacramento Bee coverage of a secretive, 2010 campaign effort against Sen. Barbara Boxer, and my post has been protested by a participant as inaccurate.Here's the background: According to the Bee's Dan Morain, a group called Taxpayer Network raised an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Approved Redistricting Maps Favor California Democrats, Help OC Dems, Too

    ​Well, things are looking up for California Democrats. The latest round of congressional and state legislative redistricting maps, which the California Citizens Redistricting Commission approved this morning, favor Democrats--at least according to a couple of different news sources. In h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2011

    Why Are People Surprised Orange County has Anti-Muslim Loons?

    Pauly: Pendeja​Color me jaded, cynical, or wayyyyy too in to be able to see from the outside, but I'm shocked that the anti-Muslim* rally that happened last week in Yorba Linda has made the national news. Write-ups in Salon, Good, and other national publications? Really? Sure, part of it is that t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Loretta Sanchez Goes to the Net for the Vietnamese

    ​Here in the goldarn US of A, we argue about Net neutrality, but over in Vietnam, there are citizens struggling just to get access to the Internet. It's like a mass of people who would looooooove dial-up AOL.Help for them is coming from this side of the world--in Washington, D.C., to be precise--w ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2010

    DREAM Act Supporters Keep Fighting

    From Santa Ana to Texas to Capitol Hill, OC residents prove among the most prominent advocates of the DREAM Act

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Ed Royce: Hillary Clinton Failed in Vietnam

    Clinton​News services are reporting that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressured Vietnam's leaders to improve its human rights practices during her trip to the Southeast Asian nation, but two Orange County members of Congress view her actions with opposing conclusions.Loretta Sanchez (D-Anahe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Progressive "Brownbaggers" Invite Teabaggers to Join Them in Government Spending Protests

    Tim Carpenter hammers away at the war.​Former Orange County progressive activist Tim Carpenter, who now does his agitating for the Michigan-based Progressive Democrats of America, is inviting tea partiers to protests at congressional district offices nationwide Wednesday aimed at reducing "unjusti ... More >>

  • News

    March 11, 2010

    Bloodless Execution

    [Moxley Confidential] Is GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman really Arnold Schwarzenegger with a skirt?

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    UPDATED: Afghanistan War Orphan Advocate Hasan Nouri Backs Obama Troop Increase Strategy

    Photo by John GilhooleyHasan Nouri​UPDATED WITH LINK TO VIDEO . . .Hasan Nouri, the Laguna Hills civil engineer and war orphan advocate profiled in a Weekly cover story a year ago ("War & Water"), and Nabil Miskinyar, the owner of Irvine-based, Dari Farsi-language network Ariana Afghanistan Te ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    The Liberal OC Acquires Sunny D Blogger Claudio Gallegos

    ​Likening it to the right-leaning Red County blog picking up Matt "Jubal" Cunningham's OCBlog.net years ago, the left-leaning The Liberal OC blog announced today the "media acquisition" of Claudio Gallegos' Sunny D blog. Adding Sunny D to the stable will "pump up" coverage of Santa Ana, Costa Mesa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Royce, Sanchez Blast North Korea's Harsh Sentencing of Journos

    Two Orange County representatives in the U.S. Congress came out strongly today against North Korea's harsh sentencing of 12 years hard labor for two U.S. journalists charged with "hostile acts." The other four Members of Congress were silent.Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) emailed the Weekly t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Royce, Sanchez Blast North Korea's Harsh Sentencing of Journos

    Two Orange County representatives in the U.S. Congress came out strongly today against North Korea's harsh sentencing of 12 years hard labor for two U.S. journalists charged with "hostile acts." The other four Members of Congress were silent.Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) emailed the Weekly t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    Was Ed Royce Right About His Illegal Arab Immigration Fears?

    Because they were busy with other coyotes they'd pulled over on the side of the highway, Border Patrol agents didn't flag down Karim Hussein Al Nasser in October 2003, though they suspected that he too was transporting illegal immigrants from Mexico into the U.S. through an Arizona Indian reservatio ... More >>

  • News

    March 12, 2009

    [Moxley Confidential] Clint McCall Gets His Man, Again

    Because they were busy with other coyotes they'd pulled over on the side of the highway, Border Patrol agents didn't flag down Karim Hussein Al Nasser in October 2003, though they suspected that he too was transporting illegal immigrants from Mexico into the U.S. through an Arizona Indian reservatio ... 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

    December 2, 2008

    Are OC Congressmen Blasting the Same Janet Napolitano?

    U.S. Reps. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) blasted incoming President Barack Obama's selection of Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano as secretary of Homeland Security. To hear Royce and Rohrabacher tell it, Napolitano will position herself at the Mexican border, hand ... More >>

  • News

    November 6, 2008

    Orange County Sings the Obama Blues

    U.S. Reps. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) blasted incoming President Barack Obama's selection of Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano as secretary of Homeland Security. To hear Royce and Rohrabacher tell it, Napolitano will position herself at the Mexican border, hand ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    The Party's Over

    State GOP chairman Ron Nehring: "Lease, don't buy..." The state GOP's "Victory Night Party" (hah!) was over before it started. Driving over to the Hyatt Regency Irvine to make the 8:30 p.m. start time, I was talking on my Bluetooth to my brother in San Francisco when he informed me John McCain was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2008

    Democrats Proudly Wear the Union Label

    Above the “Teamsters Local 952 Orange County and Vicinity” logo on the wall behind the speaker’s podium at the Orange union hall on Marks Way is the image of two horse heads. Instead of suggesting that represents the calling card of some syndicates that have been known to associate with labor ... More >>

  • News

    September 11, 2008

    [Moxley Confidential] The Strange Case of the Deputy-Confiscated Videotape

    Above the “Teamsters Local 952 Orange County and Vicinity” logo on the wall behind the speaker’s podium at the Orange union hall on Marks Way is the image of two horse heads. Instead of suggesting that represents the calling card of some syndicates that have been known to associate with labor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2008

    God Squad Blasts Congressman Royce

    No one ever criticizes Congressman Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) for the things he says because no one has ever heard him speak. But he apparently sends out emails that have caught the attention of a cross-denominational group of clergy folk who today sent Royce a letter asking him to stop using the phras ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2007

    Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Carona Camp Says FBI Case "Trash"

    Hookers take cash too, Mikey: Dana Parsons writes today that “the good news for [indicted OC Sheriff Mike] Carona is that the government doesn’t always win.” But Parsons says the “bad news” for Calamity Mike is that the feds take their “sweet time putting public corruption cases togethe ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 5, 2007

    Letters

    Allow me to write a similar column to !Ask a Mexican! called Ask an American, and lets see which column people like more

  • News

    June 28, 2007

    Protesters Don't Rattle Vietnam's President

    In OC, an affable Nguyen Minh Triet seeks to heal ‘old wounds’

  • 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 >>

  • Columns

    August 31, 2006

    Commie Girl

    Real Live Boys: The snowflakes make us crazy

  • Columns

    December 29, 2005

    !Ask a Mexican!

    The year in Mexican-bashing

  • News

    August 25, 2005

    the Little Train Project That Couldn’t

    Four reasons Placentia’s OnTrac development died

  • News

    March 10, 2005

    Whirlybird Brained

    LA Sheriffs plan to PLOP air fleet in OC infuriates locals

  • News

    November 14, 2002

    Landslide 2002

    What we saw on election night

  • News

    November 7, 2002

    Endorse-O-Matic!

    What we saw on election night

  • Columns

    October 31, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    What we saw on election night

  • Columns

    July 11, 2002

    A Clockwork Orange

    Diary of a Mad County

  • Columns

    March 21, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    Diary of a Mad County

  • Columns

    March 7, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    Diary of a Mad County

  • News

    November 16, 2000

    Bray New World

    OCN reporter delighted with Bush 'Victory,' nearly wets self!

  • News

    November 16, 2000

    Fantasy Land

    Next time, for sure!

  • News

    December 16, 1999

    Son of Dornan

    Coming soon to a campaign near you

  • Columns

    November 18, 1999

    Letters

    Coming soon to a campaign near you

  • News

    November 4, 1999

    Were Gonna Puke

    Patients rights? Not if Chris Cox gets his way

  • News

    October 21, 1999

    C-SPAM

    D.C. gets a dose of what we deal with daily

  • News

    March 11, 1999

    The Jesus Virus

    And other perils of modern life

  • News

    February 25, 1999

    Constitutional Cuisinart

    OC congressmen try to chop U.S. birthright out of the 14th Amendment

  • News

    February 11, 1999

    Star Wars, the Sequel

    OC firm still chasing Reagan's (costly) dream

  • Columns

    September 11, 1997

    Singled Out

    GOP, Dems join to screw Generation X

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