Subject: Joe Dunn

• Protecting California from Grannies

  State Senator Joe Dunn's (D-Garden Grove) investigation into the California National Guard's spying on political activists was featured on the KGO evening news yesterday. Whether the story on San Francisco's ABC affiliate will help raise the profile of the investigation remains to be seen, but this does answer the question of how long it takes news from Orange County to reach the world of San Francisco television– seven months– because Nick Schou wrote about this investigation in the

  March 1, 2006

• Political Transvestism, Puma Killing, and The Blotter's Clairvoyance

  Political transvestism and puma killing are in the news today, and both were implicit in posts on The Blotter yesterday. Coincidence or clairvoyance? Yesterday's first Blotter post dealt with the investigation by State Senator Joe Dunn (D-Garden Grove) into the California National Guard's spying on political activists and ended with a reference to the man who combined illegal political spying with a flair cross-dressing, J. Edgar Hoover. And today in the LA Times, there's a story on Democrats

  March 2, 2006

• Election Results

  Since the world didn't live up to the expectations of nervous Christians and end yesterday, we now have to turn our attention to counting the ballots from yesterday's primary. (Lazy goddamn Antichrist, always making more work for me...) Matt Coker's bold electoral prediction proved corrected. Assessing the state of the Republican gubernatorial primary, Matt wrote, "Schwarzennegger, in a landslide. Don't forget you read it here first."– and sure enough, Arnold walked off with 89.9% of the

  June 7, 2006

• Dem Bones

  First there was yesterday's Election Day lunch--the GOP-heavy shindig where Weekly editor Will Swaim only got halfway through the hilarious speech I wrote for him because he was shuffling back and forth between pages and so lost my text and thus never got to the payoff, "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen! Don't forget to tip your waitstaff and then have them all deported!" Then there were last night's Dem fiestas in Santa Ana. I LOVE ELECTION DAY! I do! I stopped into Proof first; the OC Dem Found

  June 7, 2006

• Black Gloves, Brown Camry, Bad Case.

  The Orange County District Attorney's office has declined to prosecute a Santa Ana health care activist for a bizarre case of road rage. Dr. Michael Fitzgibbons, a mild-mannered whistleblower who had criticized patient care at Santa Ana's Western Medical Center, was arrested two weeks ago for waving a loaded gun during a traffic altercation as he drove to work. He was in a celebratory mood this afternoon, just hours after the DA refused to charge him. "I believe this vindicates my statements th

  July 17, 2006

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Safer Teen Sex in OC?

  Lots of Unprotected Fornications in SD: The San Diego Union-Tribune reports this morning that youths ages 15 to 24 in our southern neighbor county had a whopping 85,000 cases of chlaymdia, gonorrhea and AIDS in 2005. How’s that rank? Well, according to the newspaper, researchers at the California Wellness Foundation found what they called “an oddity” while reviewing statewide STD activity: “Orange County, similar to San Diego County in population and many other demographics, repor

  October 10, 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 together.” He interviewed former assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Greenberg who says his old office is cautious and thorough “in cases like this where you’re trying to take down the county sheriff.” The

  November 8, 2007

• Get Liberally Thrashed this Thursday

  What with a Sheriff retiring, a Governor supporting a toll road through a reserve AND a state beach, not to mention the imminent thumping of the Chargers by the as-yet undefeated Patriots. . . . . .who doesn't have a reason to drink liberally? Stop by Memphis Bar in Santa Ana at or around 8:30 to wax politic and wane alcoholic this Thursday night. Items on the agenda include: * The resignation of Sheriff Carona * The hypocrisy of the Board of Supervisors * Joe Dunn's decision not to run; and

  January 16, 2008

• Drinkin for Jesus

  December 28, 2000

• Mammaganza!

  December 20, 2001

• In the Sewage Pipeline

  July 4, 2002

• Endorse-O-Matic!

  November 7, 2002

• Landslide 2002

  November 14, 2002

• Are OCs Democrats Dunn?

  February 20, 2003

• That Could Be Anyones Ass in That Photo

  September 4, 2003

• This Is How They Do It About the O.C.

  May 5, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK NARANJA

  August 11, 2005

• Not a 'Stiff,' Nor a 'Loser'

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! The OC Weeklys Statewide picks

  November 2, 2006

• Commie Girl

  June 8, 2006

• Commie Girl

  May 18, 2006

• Commie Girl

  April 20, 2006

• Tax Man Tran

  July 14, 2005

• Tour of Booty

  June 30, 2005

• Now With Less Chaudhuri!

  January 27, 2005

• Boy-Buggering Bingo!

  10 unlikely winners and losers in the Orange Diocese sodomy sweepstakes

  December 23, 2004

• Not a Dunn Deal

  December 23, 2004

• Letters

  May 6, 2004

• The Times They Are A-Changin . . . Back!

  March 4, 2004

• The Case for Governor Tom McClintock

  October 9, 2003

• Pete Wilson on Steroids

  September 25, 2003

• Letters

  August 7, 2003

• Letters

  May 15, 2003

• Capitol Idea!

  August 15, 2002

• Drugs Are Bad, Mmmmkay?

  March 28, 2002

• Clubbed!

  March 21, 2002

• United We Brand!

  October 11, 2001

• Letters

  November 16, 2000

• Behind the Smoke

  November 9, 2000

• The Kid is Free!

  August 31, 2000

• You Are Surrounded by Idjits, Mostly

  March 16, 2000

• Way Far Right

  February 11, 1999

• And Out the Door You Went

  February 11, 1999

• October-December

  January 7, 1999

• Letters

  November 19, 1998

• 'Jeeeeeezuz Christ!'

  November 12, 1998

• 'YOU'RE A SCUMBAG!'

  October 8, 1998

• Despite Obnoxious Protesters, OC Gay Marriage Rally Inspires Crowd

  Photo by Christopher VictorioRich Cook leads Men Alive at gay marriage rallyWhile famed conductor Rich Cook directed his singing group Men Alive in the harmonious, sweet sounds of "Marry Us," an overly-tanned and hairy, fat, middle-aged bald man wearing shorts and a tank top held a handmade poster ("No parking in rear any time; Penal Code: Lev 18:22") and screamed into a bullhorn:--"You will not turn Orange County into Rainbow County!"--"Get with the program, Sodomites!"--"Idiots! Why won't you

  May 26, 2009

• Another Voice May Enter OC Investigative Journalism Fray

  State senator-turned-media-baron Joe Dunn With the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times experiencing shrinking staffs and budgets, another player may fill the perceived investigative news vacuum. The Times reports: A group that includes former state lawmakers, high-profile attorneys and veteran former newspaper reporters plans to launch a nonprofit online news organization to provide watchdog and investigative journalism in Orange County.It's called "The Voice of OC," i

  September 16, 2009

• [BEST OF OC] El Profesor (the Professor): Erwin Chemerinsky

  October 8, 2009

• Has the Decline of the Register Created Space for Nonprofit Site the Voice of OC to Put Down Roots?

  October 22, 2009