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Lou Correa

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Kinde Durkee, Treasurer Accused of Ripping Off Democrats, Sued by Correa, Sanchez Sisters

    ​State Senator Lou Correa (D-Anaheim) and U.S. Reps. (and sisters) Loretta and Linda Sanchez (D-Garden Grove and Lakewood, respectively) joined legal forces Wednesday in filing a lawsuit against their disgraced former campaign treasurer, Kinde Durkee.The trio is being represented in Los Angeles Co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    [UPDATED: Gov. Brown Vetoes Bill] Lou Correa Pushing New Marijuana Buffer Zone Law in Sacramento

    ​UPDATED, SEPT. 21, 2011, 2:31 pm: Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed SB847, according to this article in the 420Times. Needless to say, celebratory emails are bouncing all over the medical marijuana activist community, especially among members of Americans for Safe Access, which waged a massive call-in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    [UPDATED with Board Rejecting Plan:] Redistricting Committee Trudges On, 18 Proposals Remain

    ​UPDATE, JULY 20, 11:25 A.M.: And, back to the redistricting committee it goes.The Orange County Board of Supervisors had its first official look at the committee's redistricting recommendations Tuesday and opted to kick the proposed plan back to the panel, citing potential political harm to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Debt Collector Picked Wrong Lou Correa to Mess With

    One Lou Correa​The many, many, many laws cranked out of Sacramento every year usually come from constituents (one hopes), lobbyists (more likely) and the winds of change blowing off the Delta (likeliest of all).However, there are instances where a legislator's own experiences shape legislation. Ta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    [UPDATED:] Lawrence Joseph Brown: District Attorney and Co. Want Him Committed as 'Sexually Violent Predator' and Locked Away for Good

    OCDALawrence Joseph Brown's booking photo​UPDATE, APRIL 11, 3:46 P.M.: The Orange County District Attorney's office continues to work toward keeping convicted child rapist Lawrence Joseph Brown off the streets indefinitely, filing a new petition to have him committed to a mental institution as a s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    Lou Correa, The Inquisitor?

    Grrrrrrr!​There are probably several descriptions you could give Orange County state Senator Lou Correa, but who knew one would be watchdog?According to a Sacramento Bee article today, at a Tuesday hearing, Correa (D-Anaheim) grilled California National Guard officials about lingering and widespr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Lou Correa Lets Online Poker Bill Ride

    ​State Senator Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana) has introduced a bill that would help cut into California's budget deficit by installing an online poker system that aims to generate $1 billion in state revenues and 1,100 new jobs over the next 10 years.Vegas gives it 3-5 odds to pass--or at least Vegas d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    Lawrence Joseph Brown: District Attorney and Co. Want Him Committed as 'Sexually Violent Predator' and Locked Away for Good

    OCDALawrence Joseph Brown's booking photo​Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas held a press conference this afternoon to lay out what he and fellow OC authorities have planned to keep a violent rapist out of the community.The DA called out the Department of Mental Health (DMH) for faili ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Fate of the OC Fairgrounds Stalled Until January 2011

    ​Update, December 22, 2:15 p.m.: The non-money grubbing side won in the matter of the OC Fairgrounds. Sort of. Yesterday the Fourth District Appellate Court agreed to hear the case, which will prevent the sale of the property until at least Jan. 10, 2011.Why is this a victory? By that time the new ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Another Reason why the Democratic Party of Orange County is Pathetic: Their Official Party is at Original Mike's

    ​Although we might come across as a left-of-left lefties, people who actually read the entirety of the Weekly know that we harbor a special animus toward local Democrats, who can boast of supporting corrupt politicians (SanTana Mayor-for-Life Don Papi Pulido, Irvine boss Larry Agran, convicted fel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2010

    Sunday News Notes

    ​Highlights include:The Latest Grocery Store Scam KCBS Channel 2 in LA is promoting its Monday investigative look into an area grocery store that pretends to honor product coupons but actually credits the shopper $0.00. No word on the identity of the alleged offender. The report is scheduled to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Why is Lou Correa a Better Republican than Lucille Kring?

    Kring: Didn't get message​Why Republican Lucille Kring is even bothering to campaign for the state senate from central Orange County is beyond me.Didn't Kring get the message that many OC Republican establishment players back Democrat Lou Correa?Well, Lucille?

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Lou Correa Blasts OC Fair Deal at NRA Dinner

    ​We told you here that Assemblyman Jose Solorio (D-Santa Ana) had revealed the Legislature's Latino caucus will not block the state's sale of the Orange County Fairgrounds to Costa Mesa over displeasure with the City Council's "Rule of Law" proclamation and other moves intended to make those with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Sun Worshipping Takes On New Meaning at Anaheim Church

    ​There's no denying that at least one church in Anaheim is getting help from above.

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Mega-Connected Firm Wins Anaheim Design Contract

    Whoa! They're moving the Sydney Opera House to Anaheim!Oh wait, no. That's the newly approved design for the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, a.k.a. ARTIC.On Tuesday, the Anaheim City Council awarded architecture firm Parsons Brinckerhoff/HOK with the contract to design and lay the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2009

    Judge Steiner?

    Law enforcement here has a history of demonizing the victims of hate crimes, especially those who are gay. But though Scott Steiner is an Orange County deputy district attorney, and a conservative one at that, he breaks the callous stereotype. During his stint as head of the hate-crimes unit ... More >>

  • News

    February 19, 2009

    Orange County's Mexican Consul, Carlos Rodriguez y Quezada, Sparks Protests, Burns Bridges

    Law enforcement here has a history of demonizing the victims of hate crimes, especially those who are gay. But though Scott Steiner is an Orange County deputy district attorney, and a conservative one at that, he breaks the callous stereotype. During his stint as head of the hate-crimes unit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2008

    Is Howard F. Ahmanson Reading Navel Gazing?

    *Updated, with new information on the bottom... Over the Labor Day weekend, someone claiming to be Christian fundie financier Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. left the following comment on my previous post about local conservative blabbermouth Hugh Hewitt being in cahoots with Ahmanson to end gay marriage i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2008

    OC Fundie Funder Gives Money to Wacky Reeps, Homo-Haters--And Lou Correa?!

    The most influential Orange County man you've never heard of is undoubtedly Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr., heir to the Home Savings (remember that bank?) fortune. He rarely makes public appearances due to suffering from Tourette's Syndrome, but that hasn't stopped him from giving millions of dollars away ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2008

    Has Lynn Daucher been a naughty girl?

    In February 2007, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Orange County Republican Lynn Daucher as director of California's Department of Aging. At the time, Daucher--a 2006 campaign loser to Lou Correa for a state Senate seat--uttered a predictable line about the elation of public service. “I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2008

    Hispanic Bar Association Hijinks!

    With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from yesterday's Orange County Hispanic Bar Association annual fundraising dinner: *Greeting the well-dressed, well-coiffed crowd as they drove toward the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel were about ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2007

    The Renaissance Blob in Santa Ana's Redevelopment Plan

    Today, a chingo of SanTana residents met at State Senator Lou Correa's office to discuss the Renaissance Specific Plan, which seeks to transform the city's downtown in a good (according to proponents) or gentrifying-Mexicans-outta-there (says opponents) way. I'm sure the other SanTana blogs--specif ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2007

    First District Special Election

    Since Lou Correa has been elevated to the splendor that is the state Senate, the citizens in the Board of Supervisors' First District need a new Lou, and today is the day to elect one.   The polls will be open until 8pm.  If you have any questions about the how-and-where of voting, yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2006

    Down Goes Daucher

    As of half-past seven Monday night, Lou Correa has over 50% of the vote, beating opponent Lynn Daucher by 1,302 votes and winning California's 34th Senate seat. He collected more votes than opponents Daucher and Otto Bade combined, ending speculation that Bade's last-minute write-in campaign is what ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2006

    The Party's Over

    Our R. Scott Moxley reports that, by the end of the night at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, the older Republicans in the room showed on their faces exactly what they felt: worry, frustration, indignation. But the Young Republican types in their 20s and 30s were not missing a beat--or a drop of hooch--as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2006

    Nuts Come Out for Nguyen, Take Daucher Along for Ride

    Rebecca Schoenkopf reporting from . . . ORANGE, Teamsters Local Something or Other--We've been told state senate staffers are here, giving up vacation time to walk for Lou Correa, Democrat for OC's 34th state Senate District. People here are sitting in chairs, too (union thing?), looking at the Tee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2006

    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 >>

  • Columns

    November 2, 2006

    Diary of a Mad County

    Oct. 25 - Oct. 31

  • Blogs

    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 gentle ... More >>

  • Columns

    May 11, 2006

    Commie Girl

    Cinco De Me! Of meat and mariachis, Vidal Sassoon, and (ladies and gentlemen) Arnold Schwarzenegger!

  • Columns

    October 27, 2005

    Step Into Liquid, Bro!

    Starring Courtney Love, Danny Bonaduce and a guy showing his wang!

  • Features

    June 16, 2005

    Goodbye, Mr. Cross

    Dennis Cross yelled all the time. He threw Kleenex boxes at students. He constantly pounded a gavel against the chalkboard. He once smacked my friend in the back with a yardstick.
    A tribute to the best damn high school teacher I ever had

  • Unknown

    May 5, 2005

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

    Three newspapers, three parachute dispatches, three laughers

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    A Few Words on Why Tom Umberg Doesnt Want Campaign-Finance Reform

    Three newspapers, three parachute dispatches, three laughers

  • News

    March 31, 2005

    Cant We All Just Get Along?

    Why LA should love OCand why OC should let them

  • Columns

    May 6, 2004

    Letters

    Why LA should love OCand why OC should let them

  • Columns

    May 15, 2003

    Letters

    Why LA should love OCand why OC should let them

  • Columns

    April 12, 2001

    Cinderella Stories

    Amd then we have sex with Simon LeBon

  • Columns

    November 30, 2000

    Mmm-Bop!

    Smelly drunks, bad manners. Its all good

  • News

    November 16, 2000

    Fantasy Land

    Next time, for sure!

  • News

    November 2, 2000

    No Soul in this Correa

    The biggest problem with the 69th Assembly race is that theres no third choice

  • News

    September 28, 2000

    Yeah, We Want 'Bush'

    Hell is waiting for George W. Bush with Tom Fuentes as your host

  • Features

    September 14, 2000

    Excerpts: Part 2

    Hell is waiting for George W. Bush with Tom Fuentes as your host

  • Columns

    May 18, 2000

    Baked Alaska Airlines

    Hell is waiting for George W. Bush with Tom Fuentes as your host

  • News

    March 16, 2000

    You Are Surrounded by Idjits, Mostly

    Our cruel but insightful wrap-up of OC Elections

  • Columns

    July 1, 1999

    Letters

    Our cruel but insightful wrap-up of OC Elections

  • Columns

    June 24, 1999

    Shag It, Baby

    Yet another column about gay people, plus a really vicious fight

  • Columns

    June 17, 1999

    A Real Lou-Lou

    Yet another column about gay people, plus a really vicious fight

  • News

    June 10, 1999

    Loathe Thy Enemy

    County school board trustee Ken Williams joins the Reverend Lou Sheldon for good, old-fashioned gay-baiting

  • News

    September 18, 1997

    Sister Act Two

    County school board trustee Ken Williams joins the Reverend Lou Sheldon for good, old-fashioned gay-baiting

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