Saddle Sores: Supervisor John Moorlach hasn't been in office long but he could be the most revolutionary county politician since . . . well . . . we haven't had any revolutionary politicians on the board of supervisors. On Friday, Moorlach announced plans to cut pension benefits retroactively for certain members of the Orange County sheriff's deputies union. He says the payments are an illegal gratuity of as much as $500 million in local taxpayer funds. Peggy Lowe at the Register posted two use
Shoot 15 times, ask softball questions later: The parents of Ashley MacDonald, the 18-year-old Huntington Beach girl killed by two police officers, filed an excessive force lawsuit yesterday in U.S. District Court, according to Christine Hanley at the Times. According to their suit, Kenneth MacDonald and Lisa Marie Guy claim that the officers didn't need to shoot Ashley 15 times--apparently, even as she was on the ground--for their own safety last August. Of course, Ashley hadn't been an angel.
Sarah Palin invigorated the conservative base with her surprisingly poised speech to GOP delegates last night, kicking new life into what had been a ho-hum convention previously “highlighed” by the Dead Man Talking triad (George W. Bush, Fred Thompson and Joe Lieberman). Clockwork's favorite scene: delegates sporting “The Hottest VP From the Coolest State” buttons berating the media for being sexist toward America's favorite hockey mom.
Palin's performance certainly perked up Hugh Hewit
Former Weekly managing editor Rich Kane turns vlogger as he hits the mean streets of Costa Mesa to capture protesters outside President Obama's town hall at the Orange County Fairgrounds on Wednesday.Among the pissed-off masses Rich encounters is Barbara Coe of the Huntington Beach-based California Coalition for Immigration Reform--or, as she informs Rich, "we were the Prop 187 people." Asked what she is doing there, Coe informs, "To send a message to Mr. Communist Obama, Mr. Pro-Illegal Alien
