Subject: Larry Agran

• 2006 WORST OC Candidate: Lynn Daucher

  If I hadn't been stuck in the courthouse for the last several months, this award would probably go to Larry Agran's robot Beth Krom, a deceitful mess of a politician/hack who should shame any true progressive. More on her and Agran after their victory. I promise. But tonight the one candidate who easily earns the (dis)honor of 2006 WORST OC CANDIDATE is Lynn Daucher. She is running against OC Supervisor Lou Correa. Make sure you and all your friends and neighbors vote for Lou as State Senator.

  November 6, 2006

• Agran's Irvine Machine Gets Challenger

  A majority of Irvine voters are Republicans and yet for years Larry Agran's progressive political machine has controlled the mayor's office. It's a reality Republican city councilwoman Christina Shea hopes to shatter next year. This morning Shea announced that she will run for the job herself. Shea will face Agran's Sukhee Kang and whatever shell Republican campaign Agran also secretly sponsors to the divide GOP voters. Over the years, Shea has been the bee in Agran's bonnet, especially on et

  September 13, 2007

• This Week In The OC Weekly

  July 18, 2008

• Leisure Suited Larry and His Giant Balloon

  Don't ask me how, but I ended up at the much-ballyhooed Great Park last Saturday for an evening of Irish music, a mini-passion of mine ever since hearing the Dropkick Murphys lend sizzling tension to The Departed with their cover of Woody Guthrie's "I'm Shipping up to Boston." Can't remember the name of the mick group due to too much Jameson, but I did get a chance to ride the much-ballyhooed Great Park Balloon. Conclusion: meh. Maybe it's more exciting during the day and when, you know, an ac

  September 10, 2008

• Letters

  May 23, 2002

• Letters

  August 12, 2004

• Editing a Paper in Your Hometown

  September 8, 2005

• You Read the Irvine Election Results Here First

  Kang, Krom and Agran: staying put. Allow me to take you way, way, way back in time to last Thursday, Oct. 30, when the following was posted here (and it was in the print edition that hit the streets that day, too): [Irvine mayoral candidate Christina] Shea and fellow incumbent Sukhee Kang are the only candidates for the two-year mayor’s seat. Whoever loses still has two years remaining on his or her council seat. Among the candidates for two open, four-year council seats are outgoing Mayor B

  November 5, 2008

• Auto Industry's Demise is Orange County Great Park's Gain

  No one is buying cars in this country. That means new cars aren't leaving dealer lots. That means U.S. ports are getting backed up with cars that, at least temporarily, have no place to go. And that means ships bringing these cars into those ports are getting backed up as well.Gee, if only there was a huge expanse of land around here where nearly nothing will be going on for the next several months so these autos could be held in the short term?Well, wouldn't you know it, but there is this forme

  December 18, 2008

• It's Thursday, Must Be Time for More Irvine City Campaign Sliminess

  If you thought the man and organization behind Larry Agran's campaign slush funds was only involved in Irvine political shenanigans (as we previously reported here), now comes word that Frank Lunding is up to his eyeballs in it in the Carmel Valley as well. Jessica Lyons reports in the Monterey County Weekly that attorney Lunding and his Planning 2020 group is suing Monterey County, its supervisors and a group called Carmel Valley Forum in connection with Carmel Valley's bid to incorporate as

  January 22, 2009

• Three Local Elections Worth Watching. Call It Morbid Fascination

  October 30, 2008

• Amid Much Hoopla and Larry Agran's Speechifying, Not Much Great Happening With the Great Park

  July 17, 2008

• Agran's Pork Probed

  January 12, 2006

• Maybe Its Just Us

  July 28, 2005

• Immoral Moral Majority of One

  February 2, 2006

• Lying Larry

  New evidence suggests Irvine political boss stole elections

  January 26, 2006

• Update: Agran's Pork Probed

  January 19, 2006

• Agran Machine Blows Gasket

  December 29, 2005

• Agranistas Fire Ordinance

  December 15, 2005

• Agran on the Warpath

  Indians are the new bogeyman in the war against an already defeated airport

  October 13, 2005

• Cable Guy

  A lobbyists offer to represent Cox Cable at Irvine City Hall creates new trouble for Agran

  August 25, 2005

• During Brain Surgery, Keep Your Eye on the Ball, You Cockroach

  July 21, 2005

• All The Councilmans Men

  February 3, 2005

• O, America . . .

  Reflections on Election Day, 2004

  November 4, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  November 4, 2004

• AGRAN AGAIN!

  November 4, 2004

• OC's Scariest People 2004

  October 28, 2004

• A Boy Named Sue

  October 21, 2004

• Agran Trips on His Own Poll

  Irvine mayor loses one more ally in latest scandal

  September 16, 2004

• Letters

  September 9, 2004

• The Lunch From Hill

  That stench coming from Irvine City Hall? Its convicted felonand energy lobbyistFrank Hill

  August 12, 2004

• Larry Agrans Power Trip

  Irvine mayors planned public utility could enrich a political pal

  August 5, 2004

• Deja You

  February 26, 2004

• D

  October 24, 2002

• Press Clips

  October 3, 2002

• Letters

  April 25, 2002

• Mayor Moonbeam, Meet Donald Bren

  April 11, 2002

• Letters

  March 28, 2002

• Letters

  September 6, 2001

• The Great Park Is Coming Back

  December 7, 2000

• The Great Farce

  November 16, 2000

• South County: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

  November 2, 2000

• Fringe Benefits

  August 20, 1998

• As Stephen Smith Leaves Town, Irvine's "Tattler" Calls on Others to Step Up

  Stephen C. Smith calls on others to keep tabs on Irvine City Hall.CORRECTED!Lost in Santa Ana a few months ago, half paying attention to the street signs and half to Larry Mantle's KPCC interview show blaring out of the car speakers, I heard the host steer his Orange County "roundtable" guests--Orange County Register senior editorial writer Steven Greenhut; former LA Times religion writer William Lobdell and the Weekly's irrepressible Gustavo Arellano--into the topic of local bloggers. The three

  May 12, 2009

• Irvine Cops Angry at Agran Machine Scheming Plan Protest Today

  Agran: Screwing Irvine Cops?​It's always fascinated me that Irvine's Larry Agran, Orange County's most liberal (and wily) politician, has enjoyed solid political support from two groups: corporate executives and cops--especially considering most folks in those two categories sit on the other end of the political spectrum. But the law enforcement alliance might finally be over. Today, the Irvine Police Association plans a protest to draw public attention to the Agran-controlled city council's "

  August 20, 2009

• Agran Wants Your Federal Dollars for Great Park

  During his fourth annual State of the Great Park address today at Irvine City Hall, Orange County Great Park Corp. board chairman Larry Agran said federal stimulus funds from the Obama administration are being sought to help pay for $61 million worth of construction beginning there this year.Near the end of his remarks, the Irvine city councilman also mentioned he would like to register the names of everyone who has and will have worked on the 1,347-acre park for future generations.You can downl

  July 9, 2009

• OC Great Park Audit Shows Additional Signs of Public Corruption

  Someone Stinks in Irvine​Whether you're for or against the creation of the so-called Orange County Great Park, the fallback scheme to block construction of an international airport at the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, I'm guessing you'd probably want the multi-billion dollar government project to be free of waste, fraud and abuse. I say that assuming that you aren't one of the lobbyists, liars, government subcontractors, public relations clowns, campaign contributors or other v

  August 20, 2009

• Larry Agran, Then and Now

  Agran: Follow the bouncing tax dollars.THEN:January 28, 2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  #2003-10 SUBJECT:  City of Irvine Announces Funding Plan for Orange County Great Park IRVINE, CA-- Today, the City of Irvine released a detailed plan for funding the development and maintenance of a $353 million Orange County Great Park at the former Marine Corps Air Station at El Toro. The plan requires all costs to be shared among landowners and developers and does not require additional funding by fe

  July 10, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  October 29, 2009

• Larry Agran's Great Park Failure Blasted By Fellow Liberal

  Larry the Liar nailed by fellow Liberal​"We have the great balloon not the Great Park."--Acclaimed UC Irvine professor Mark Petrecca on the current episode of KOCE's "Real Orange" discussing the failure of Irvine city councilman Larry Agran, a fellow liberal and the ethics-less godfather of the city's politics, to deliver on his nine-year-old promises to convert a military airport into a "world class" public park. In the absence of building a park, Agran has shamelessly celebrated giving massi

  November 11, 2009