Loretta Sanchez

Loretta Sanchez No Longer Pussies Around with Her Holiday Card

Some may be taken aback by Rep. Loretta Sanchez's latest controversial holiday card, finding it especially snarky of a tax-and-spender to poke fun at the fiscal cliff's draconian social spending and defense cuts and tax hikes that will expose lower- and middle-class Americans to deep personal financ ... More >>

Jerry Hayden, 46th Congressional District Candidate, Truly Believes He Can Beat Loretta Sanchez in November

As the Republican candidate for the 46th Congressional District, Jerry Hayden is hoping to "retire" Rep. Loretta Sanchez from her 16-year long post.  Hayden, who has no political experience, touts his credentials as a financial and investment strategist for over 20 years--but his campaign is ne ... More >>

[UPDATED with Loretta Sanchez: "This is a Victory":] Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Paper Check Provision But Tosses Other Parts of SB 1070

See update at the end of the post with reaction to the Supreme Court ruling by Rep. Loretta Sanchez:ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 25, 8:35 A.M.: The U.S. Supreme Court this morning rejected nearly all of Arizona's controversial immigration law yet upheld SB 1070's most controversial provision: the one requiri ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez To Florida Sen. Marco Rubio: You are an Untrustworthy Poseur

Rubio: Look at the flag, not what I lie about.​Two congressional Democrats including Loretta Sanchez tag teamed Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio on MSNBC this afternoon for his fraudulent attempt to hail himself as a victim of Fidel Castro's dictatorial Cuban regime."We don't need someone wh ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher and Loretta Sanchez Joined at the Hip on Afghanistan

​There was a time during the unresolved county redistricting process when it appeared the congressional districts of Reps. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) might melt into one.Maybe that explains why these Members of Congress are starting to sound like one ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez Pushes Anti-Stalking Law With Anti-Gay Dingbat

Virginia Foxx, dingbat​In a bipartisan effort with a notorious North Carolina Republican, Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is proposing a new federal anti-stalking law that is designed to aid law enforcement in capturing offenders.The pair has dubbed their House Resolution 196 the Simpl ... More >>

House Votes to Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell; Loretta Sanchez Says Gay Soldiers Can Bolster National Security

If boys can be soldiers, why not gays?​The endless screaming you hear is from a rural Virginia estate, the home of former Orange County Congressman Robert K. Dornan, who must be quite aroused by today's events. Loretta Sanchez, the woman who ended his notable political career in 1996, today d ... More >>

Some Music to Listen to While the Loretta Sanchez-Van Tran Race Gets Decided

​Most any rational commentator has called the 47th Congressional District race for incumbent Loretta Sanchez, but hold on to your Gretsky, Lo-Lo! The Orange County Registrar of Voters say they still need to go through about 30,000 more votes in the district, and betcha bánh mìs to tortas that ch ... More >>

A Night to Dismember the Democrats

Election 2010: Scenes from some of the few races where Dems didn't get tsunami'd

Van Tran Has Already Beaten Loretta Sanchez in One Race: Public Freudian Expressions!

​Fliers, mailers, posters, and even television ads currently litter the 47th Congressional District where incumbent Loretta Sanchez is battling Republican candidate (and currently State assemblyman) Van Tran in OC's political fight of the decade. Although Sanchez has far more campaign money, it se ... More >>

Can Van Tran Get Loretta Sanchez Fired?

[Moxley Confidential] Republican challenger says he will boot OC's lone Democrat from Congress

Loretta Sanchez and Van Tran Slug It Out At KOCE Debate

Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklyVan Tran showed confidence today​You might have thought Lindsay Lohan was in town.More than 30 reporters--including at least two from Los Angeles television stations--packed into the KOCE-TV studio in Huntington Beach late this afternoon to watch Congresswoman Loretta ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez Launches Positive TV Ad

Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklySanchez says she's one of us​An emotionally bruised Van Tran can sigh in relief.Loretta Sanchez's new TV ad in Orange County's most heated congressional race is all about her. It doesn't even mention Tran, her Republican challenger, or him sleeping on the job, ignorin ... More >>

Protest Planned For Candidate Excluded From Sanchez-Tran Debate

What's she trying to say?​Nowadays, even arranging a debate involving Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is controversial.Orange Juice blog is reporting that "supporters of independent congressional candidate Cecilia Iglesias are up in arms" about KOCE-TV's decision to exclude Iglesias from next week's ... More >>

Van Tran & Loretta Sanchez Finally Agree on Something

Tran (left) and Sanchez (right)​After weeks of bitter attacks on the other candidate, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and Van Tran, her Republican challenger in November, finally have reached agreement on a single topic.That topic: There's a candidate in this allegedly narrow race whose top priority ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez on Univisión: "Vietnamese" Trying to Take Her Congressional Seat Away from Democrats

Sanchez: Needs a better helmet...​The Van Tran for Congress campaign put out a press release late last week claiming that their Moby Dick, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, blamed President Barack Obama for her dismal poll ratings in her appearance last week on Univisión's Al Punto program. If only! ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez to Obama: Slap Vietnam Now!

Sanchez is playing hardball with Vietnam​OC Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez has a personal message today for President Barack Obama: Confront the Vietnamese prime minister over human rights violations in Vietnam.

Register: There's Finally A Candidate Who Can Beat Loretta Sanchez

Pham with Meg Whitman​Over at the Orange Punch blog for the OC Register opinion writers, columnist Brian Calle wonders aloud today if local Republicans are closer to "no more Loretta Sanchez" because of the emergence of Quang Pham.Pham is a Republican who is attempting to defeat Republican state A ... More >>

Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

​ Headline: Former Challenger to Rep. Sanchez Battles ChargesComment: Hey, if you want to defend those morons go ahead. Thats why we should [sic]* even pay for schools for any of those mexicans, illegal or not. They should all go back to their country. And if they don't we should put them in immig ... More >>

Sanchez Opponent Says the Congresswoman Has Wrong Priorities

Pham, left, and ex-Gov. Pete Wilson​"If I were serving on the House Armed Services Committee, I would focus more on pressing issues such as the training of Afghan forces and the recent [sex] scandal aboard the USS James E. Williams."--Quang X. Pham, the Orange County businessman and ex-Marine who ... More >>

Disgraced Santa Ana Republican Congressman More Aztlanista than Loretta Sanchez!

Busty: More liberal than Loretta?​Only in the Bizarro world that is Orange County Latino politics can you have a brownie Republican be more Aztlanista than a brownie Dem, yet that's what happened last week. In a symbolic resolution, the SanTana City Council expressed their support for the DREAM Ac ... More >>

Will Little Saigon Bring Down Loretta Sanchez?

Sanchez Slayer?North Orange County state Assemblyman Van Tran announced thru the Register's Martin Wisckol today that he hopes to be the 2010 Republican challenger to OC's lone Democratic member of congress: Loretta Sanchez. The news is as surprising as a six-hour traffic jam on the 55 or four-year ... More >>

Women Beater Aids Steve Young's Campaign?

Relax. It's not what it seems. New campaign-finance disclosure reports filed today in Washington, D.C., show that Irvine attorney Steve Young, a Democrat, has collected an impressive amount of contributions in his uphill bid to unseat Representative John Campbell. Included in the $64,555 Young ( ... More >>

[Moxley Confidential] Notes on Lifeguard Sex, Loretta Sanchez, the Rohrabachers and DNA

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)

Sanchez: Whore or not? Colbert decides.

Truthy and hard-hitting as ever, last night Stephen Colbert took on the burning question: is OC Congressional Rep. Loretta Sanchez a whore? You can find his answer (no) here. Look for Last Night's Highlights, and scroll down to California Values Watch: Sanchez. Those interested in Stephen's answ ... More >>

Their Man Tan

Nguyen addresses his true believers

Diary of a Mad County

Oct. 25 - Oct. 31

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

Three newspapers, three parachute dispatches, three laughers

Tom Fuentes,

An open letter to the former GOP chairman, current college trustee, forever self-destroyer

Coming Up Roses

Learning to love Loretta Sanchez . . . mmm, maybe not

OC Weekly Marks the Passing of . . .

Point and Laugh!

Our post-election guide to the scoundrels of Campaign 2002

Landslide 2002

What we saw on election night

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Upon Further Review . . .

Sanchez staunchly supports Harald Martins INS jail program

Theres a Specter Haunting Garden Grove

Lefties plan May Day protest of . . . Loretta Sanchez?

No, Gracias

GOP bailing out of congressional race against Sanchez

Naked Lunch

Party Pooper

Labors New Face

Linda Sanchez becomes first Latina to head OC labor movement

Letters

Sanchez vs. Dornan

The Rematch

How Low Will Dornan Go?

Onward Christian Gay-Bashers

It's hip to be intolerant at religious gatherings

All Tricks, No Treats

Loretta Sanchez's very scary Halloween

A Wylie Strategy

Keeping a Sanchez skeleton in the closet

The Dems' Wine-and-Cheese Whiz

Wylie Aitken shows how an RFK lover makes it big in OC politics

The Painful Truth

The Selling of Bob Dornan