Subject: Harald Martin

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises

  'Biggest racist ever' back on Anaheim school board: Last week, the Anaheim Union School District appointed Harald Martin to an open board seat created by the death of Denise Mansfield-Reinking. I managed to obtain the board's top-secret qualifications checklist for Martin: Racist, check. Uneducated cop mentality, check. Nincompoop, check. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! Of course, I'm kidding. Nothing was top secret. We all know about Martin's history during his previous board service.

  July 22, 2007

• Harald Martin and Me

  By now, ustedes have no doubt heard that the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees recently appointed Harald Martin to fill a vacant seat. Martin, old-timers may recall, once compared himself to Zapatistas leader Subcomandante Marcos, refused to apologize after blaming a 13-year-old for her molestation at the hands of a teacher, said "diversity is a killer," and once tried to sue Mexico for $50 million for educating the children of illegal immigrants. The move has sparked a rightf

  July 26, 2007

• Friday's Headlines

  Revenge of the Unwanted Easter Bunnies: It's that time of year, ladies and gents, months after Easter when all those poor rabbits aren't the cute little balls of fur they were and the kids don't want 'em anymore. Abandoned bunnies in Garden Grove have taken their revenge by spawning like crazy - now, the Bunny Bunch wants you to take some home. United by dislike: Anaheim officials on team left and team right don't see eye to eye on many things, but there is one thing they can agree on: that sch

  August 3, 2007

• Harald Martin: Mexican Lover?

  Turns out everybody's favorite Mexican-suing, rape-victim-blaming, Zapatistas-supporting school trustee is actually Anaheim's only defender of poor, hopeless Mexicans--and he's getting hell for it. At least that's how Harald Martin describes himself. In a long, rambling letter sent last Friday to anti-Mexican movement madrina and California Coalition for Immigration Reform president Barbara Coe, Martin--a former trustee for the Anaheim Union High School Distict who was controversially re-appoint

  August 6, 2007

• Harald Martin Uses District Resources To Spin His Story

  Anaheim Union High School District trustees claim that they reappointed former board member Harald Martin because he was the most qualified candidate for the job. That's bull--nothing more than political payback, as I noted in the above link. But I forgot to mention something else: AUHSD trustee Brian O'Neal was also appointed while Martin served on the board the first time around. This puts the number of current AUHSD trustees appointed by Martin at two; coupled with longtime supporter (and Mis

  August 10, 2007

• Tuesday's Headlines

  Postal problemos persist: San Juan Capistrano residents have won their war with the U.S. Postal Service, and the planned 9-acre building they protested will rise in Aliso Viejo. But guess what? The folks there don't want it either. Lookin' for cheap labor: Wonder how the OC Reg plans to fill the void after the layoffs? Intern power! That's $10.63 an hour, according to a note sent out by the AAJA. Our favorite Martin: Opponents of Anaheim Union school trustee Harald Martin stomped into the count

  August 21, 2007

• Friday's Headlines

  Bye for now: Harald Martin, the Anaheim school trustee everyone loves to hate (and Gustavo likes to thank for unleashing The Mexican within) handed in his resignation letter yesterday. But don't drop the balloons just yet. He says he'll be running again next year. Ride a bus today: If you've never been on an OCTA bus, today's the day to do it. The public trans people are celebrating 35 years, and reducing their usual $1.25 rate to 35 cents for the occasion. OCTA's also rolling out a Birthday Bu

  August 31, 2007

• Gordo and Harald Sitting in a Tree...

  My colleague R. Scott Moxley loves to paint an aura of homoeroticism around Orange County Register columnist Gordon Dillow whenever the crank writes about men in uniform, but the Dillow-nator (as former Weekly managing editor Matt Coker loved to call him) also has a hard-on for Know Nothings. Yet nothing Dillow has ever published will ever compare to the spilled load that was today's piece on deposed Anaheim Union High School District trustee Harald Martin. Martin, you may recall, was appointed

  September 2, 2007

• Thursday's Headlines

  iPhone or iFlop? Apple slashes $200 off the $599 8-Gig iPhone price tag. Christmas in September for some, and bah humbug for those who waited in line overnight...either way, investors are worried. Still...more...Martin: School trustee Harald Martin has resigned, but the anti-Martin camp still wants its signature-collecting to count for something (a special election to fill his seat, as we noted the other day). Yesterday, an Orange County Superior Court judge said the sigs would be counted, but

  September 6, 2007

• Monday's Headlines

  History for sale: Items salvaged from the dismantled Pride of Newport riverboat are on eBay starting today - the proceeds will go to the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum. Pieces up thus far: a door to the riverboat's restaurant, the grand staircase chandelier (pictured), several smaller antique table lamps and more. Back to school: The madness at Mayflower Preschool in Los Alamitos - which was abruptly closed around a month ago amidst the unpopular firings of two veteran administrators, followed

  September 17, 2007

• The Stupidest Voters in Orange County...

  ...live in SanTana. Measure D, the ballot measure funded by developers which claimed it would weaken their own grip on City Hall, passed by a 54-46 margin last night. No excuses, SanTaneros: the lot of your are pendejos* who don't mind living under Papi Pulido and his band of conflict-of-influenza-infected City Council, don't bother to read your local papers (whether in English or español) to learn the truth behind robo-calls and idiot fliers, and don't even bother to vote. Consider the story

  February 6, 2008

• Welcome to Orange County, Now Go Home

  March 15, 2001

• God Loves Losers

  December 13, 2001

• This Is Your Life: A Companion Guide/Shameless Propaganda for 'Orange County: A Personal History'

  September 11, 2008

• Orange Countys 31 Scariest People

  November 4, 1999

• OC's Scariest People

  Our Congressional delegation tops this year’s list of 33 villains (31 for October, plus two more to get to the Dia de los Muertos, ese)

  October 25, 2007

• Their Favorite Martin

  Chased from the Anaheim school board, Harald Martin feels the love at a meeting of the CCIR

  October 4, 2007

• Grave Error

  December 12, 2002

• Letters

  January 24, 2002

• Recall Madness!

  August 23, 2007

• The Martin Chronicles

  August 16, 2007

• Almost Famoso

  May 3, 2007

• Upon Further Review . . .

  May 16, 2002

• Attention, Anaheim!

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! Your guide to some of the locals in the Happiest City on Earth
  

  November 2, 2006

• Anything Could Happen

  March 23, 2006

• The Thin Boo Line!

  Orange Countys 31 scariest cops!

  November 6, 2003

• Resolved

  January 9, 2003

• The Year In Failed Latino Leadership

  January 2, 2003

• Way Out There With Them!

  December 12, 2002

• Letters

  December 5, 2002

• My Favorite Martin

  November 21, 2002

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  October 24, 2002

• M

  October 24, 2002

• Theres a Specter Haunting Garden Grove

  May 9, 2002

• To Protect and Slur

  April 18, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 21, 2002

• Driving Miss Kathy

  January 17, 2002

• Diary of a mad county

  January 3, 2002

• Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Anaheim Angels

  November 8, 2001

• One Hand Clapping

  February 8, 2001

• Rude Reception

  February 1, 2001

• Censorship With a Happy Face

  January 25, 2001

• The El Cargadero Social Club

  November 30, 2000

• Standing Up to the Mouse

  November 2, 2000

• Harald Martins Army

  August 10, 2000

• Letters

  April 20, 2000

• Five Latinos We Really Like

  April 6, 2000

• No Apologies

  October 7, 1999

• Counter Culture

  September 30, 1999

• In Defense of Klanaheim

  The Los Angeles Times story published this Monday telling the world Anaheim is now majority-Latino has drawn nothing but derision from the Latino Anaheimers I know (read this musical takedown by Weekly contributor and KPFK-FM 90.7 Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman). "Oh no, they didn't put in a picture of lucha libre!" another pal cracked, referring to the Mexican wrestling matches that have been occurring every Sunday at the Anaheim Indoor Marketplace for so long that the second piece I ev

  May 15, 2009