Larry Agran

Larry Agran's Sabotage Squad

[Moxley Confidential] The sneaky campaign to save Democrats' control of the Great Park failed but kept Beth Krom on the Irvine City Council

Gustavo's Latest "Orange County Line" for KCRW: The Great Park Lunacy

Crazy but true story: years ago, a source approached me about all sorts of alleged insanity regarding the Great Park, Larry Agran, and his cronies. The editor at the time was thrilled at the story--then promptly took me off the story and gave it to Schou. Schou was thrilled to get on the story--then ... More >>

Tony Rackauckas Is a Robo Cop

[Moxley Confidential] DA's election-eve robocall for Irvine Democrat Larry Agran angers Orange County Republicans

Adam Probolsky Orange County Register Journalistic BJ for Larry Agran--Explained!

The same day we published R. Scott Moxley's damning story on the cozy financial relationship Orange County Republican politicos like Adam Probolsky (who was pictured there and here) has with Larry Agran, Irvine's supposedly liberal Boss Hogg, the Orange County Register published Probolsky's column t ... More >>

Larry Agran's Great Irvine Election Robbery

[Moxley Confidential] Yet more evidence emerges in the Democrat's Republican-vote-splitting caper

Larry Agran Blasted By Three Former Close Allies As Corrupt & Unworthy of Irvine Mayor's Job

Three prominent Orange County men who spent years as close allies to Larry Agran have joined together in a campaign mailer to declare him a corrupt politician unworthy of winning the mayor's job in the City of Irvine's Nov. 6 election."He's betrayed his values--Agran does not deserve our vot ... More >>

Larry Agran is Stealing Another Election in Republican-Heavy Irvine

Documents obtained by the Weekly prove Larry Agran's liberal, Democrat political machine, the one that has ruled over Republican-heavy Irvine for 12 consecutive years, already secretly stole next month's election so it can keep power for at least two more years. The documents--a series of emails sp ... More >>

[UPDATE: Council action:] Will Larry Agran Block Pervert-in-the-Park Ordinance?

Agran can't decide on sex offender issue?​Update: At last night's council meeting, an annoyed Larry Agran argued that Irvine parks are sex-crimes free (against minors) and so any ordinance banning convicted sex offenders from entering the properties is unnecessary. An even more annoyed Beth K ... More >>

Larry Agran, It's Time for You to Go

[Moxley Confidential] Recent interview inadvertently reveals the slimy side of Irvine's most powerful politician

New Zealand Blogger Paints Larry Agran Red

​A New Zealand libertarian blogger who has compiled an online list of socialist politicians in the U.S. ("Red Reps" as he calls 'em) has at No. 6 Irvine City Councilman Larry Agran.And, no, this is not another April Fools joke.

Paper Further Exposes More Dirt On Larry Agran's Political Machine in Irvine

Agran: OC's biggest unindicted scoundrel?​Is there more evidence that Irvine political boss Larry Agran is a criminal?According to an online column published tonight by Orange County Register columnist Frank Mickadeit, that scenario might be the case.Mickideit reports that local folks ti ... More >>

Election 2010: Who's In and Who's Out in Irvine?

​Updated throughout the night, with the freshest post on topLate: Oy. Squeezed my way through the madness (good-looking madness) that was the OC Republican election night party in search of some Irvine players to chat with. No luck. Instead, I got to wander through a sea of boos when Presiden ... More >>

Anti-Larry Agran Website Emerges in Irvine

Sukhee Kang (left) and his master, Larry Agran​Though a majority of Irvine's voters are registered Republicans, they've repeated supported the decidedly liberal political alliance controlled by Larry Agran, a onetime Democratic Party presidential primary candidate.That fact has had Republican insi ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Money Bags

A sampling of the 2011 Great Park budget

The Great Park: Hot Air?

Thanks to Larry Agran, a few people have gotten very rich from the county's proposed $1.2 billion, still-not-built park

Poll: OC Great Park Idea Losing Support

New homes will be the main component of Agran's "Great" park​Despite a local government spending at least $100,000-a-month to win favorable public relations on the unbuilt Orange County Great Park in Irvine, most residents have a negative opinion about the project, according to a VoiceofOC.com pol ... More >>

Agran Makes His Moves at Great Park

Photo by Christopher VictorioA familiar role for Larry Agran on Wednesday: moving chess pieces at the Great Park. ​When Great Park Corp. board members several months ago were chewing the fat at one of their monthly board meetings at Irvine City Hall, chairman Larry Agran mentioned how he envisione ... More >>

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 ci ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

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 o ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 mi ... More >>

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 th ... More >>

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--Oran ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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. She ... More >>

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 e ... More >>

Immoral Moral Majority of One

Self-righteous Agran leaves paper trail in voting scandal

Update: Agran's Pork Probed

Grand jury eyes OC Great Park shenanigans

Agran's Pork Probed

WEB EXCLUSIVE! Grand jury launches investigation of OC Great Park shenanigans

Agran Machine Blows Gasket

Death of the man they called The Knife raises questions about Larry Agrans political future

Agranistas Fire Ordinance

Proposed law takes aim at political consultants, advisers and the media

Editing a Paper in Your Hometown

Cable Guy

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

Maybe Its Just Us

Diary of a Mad County

AGRAN AGAIN!

Newport Beach, 12:14 a.m.

OC's Scariest People 2004

A Boy Named Sue

Irvine Mayor Agran attempts to muzzle his critics with legal threats

Agran Trips on His Own Poll

Irvine mayor loses one more ally in latest scandal

Letters

Larry Agrans Power Trip

Irvine mayors planned public utility could enrich a political pal

Deja You

Agran and Kucinich could be twins . . . very wee twins

Letters

Mayor Moonbeam, Meet Donald Bren

The Irvine Co. backs its old nemesis: Larry Agran

The Great Park Is Coming Back

El Toro Airport Watch No. 149

South County: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

Times gives developers a chance to pound Agran over Great Park proposal

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