Subject: Michael Schroeder

• DA's office: Use "Extreme Caution" with LA Times reporter

  The on again, off again war between the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County District Attorney's media affairs office is on again. Today, DA spokeswoman Susan Kang Schroeder sent an agencywide email "warning" staff about Times investigative reporter Christine Hanley. Schroeder claims that Hanley is "unethical," "reckless," "harasses people and their families," and wastes taxpayers dollars by filing "frivolous" public records requests. She advised prosecutors to use "extreme caution" with the

  September 26, 2006

• Sheriff Mike Carona Finally Reduces OC crime

  Those who know Sheriff Mike Carona might be skeptical that a man with no street cop experience can impact local crime statistics in a dramatic, positive way. Though Carona hails himself as "America's Sheriff," he's never solved a crime, endured a stakeout or made an arrest. He served as a court bailiff and political hack before the local Republican Party ran him for sheriff in 1998. But Carona--in his third term at California's second largest sheriff's department despite promising to limit hims

  April 11, 2007

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Hiii Chemerinsky!

  The Government has gone Plasma TV crazy: Even though they have an entire cable television channel to carry their lame communications, Santa Ana city officials are spending at least $242,000 more to install 10, 42-inch flat screen TVs at 10 public locations. These TVs will have no sound, and will broadcast city-inspired videos. City Manager David Ream told the Register's Doug Irving that videos will promote "projects we're really proud of." Ream mentioned the privately-owned City Place developme

  September 13, 2007

• Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: Calling Nurse Ratched

  UCI Cluster Fuck: News emerged today that Michael J. Schroeder, OC GOP heavyweight, participated with a group of 20 fellow Republicans to pressure the UCI Chancellor from hiring liberal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky as dean of the university's first law school. Michael V. Drake offered the job to Chemerinksy last month and this week withdrew the offer under murky circumstances. Now, Garrett Therolf and Maura Dolan at the LA Times write this morning that UCI is working on a plan to rehire Chemerinsk

  September 15, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: Register UCI Panic!

  OC Gym Crook Arrested in LA: Police arrested Ronald James Navarrette Jr. of Mission Viejo Friday in El Segundo for breaking into men's lockers at the Spectrum Athletic Club not far from LAX. Gym employees had been on the lookout for the 45-year-old crook they knew from surveillance video taken at other incidents. His dark glasses and black beanie disguise (to cover his bald spot) apparently didn't fool anyone this time. Police say Navarrette, already on parole for burglary, stole wallets from l

  September 16, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: OC Inspired Space Travel?

  California's Police State: Imagine you are a suspect and the police take your entire statement out of context by secretly recording only snippets that seem to incriminate you in a crime. Can’t happen? Think again. California police officers have won the right to selectively tape you. It’s the Rush Limbaugh method of police work and by any fair measure it’s disgraceful. Today, Register opinion writer Steven Greenhut slams Orange County state representative Todd Spitzer (R-Brea) for his att

  September 30, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: The Shame of Wayne Gross

  Dana Point Gets a Celebrity! Earvin “Magic” Johnson and his wife, Cookie, have purchased a $7.6 million gated-community “vacation” home in Dana Point, according to the Times. Though “Hot Property” reporter Ruth Ryon didn’t share more details about the location, you can assume it’s at the oceanfront Headlands, property owned for decades by the Chandler family, longtime owners of Ryon’s employer. Anyhow, real estate agent Shelley Brown told the paper that Johnson, who lives most

  November 18, 2007

• Nguyen vs. Nguyen: Janet Wins!

  Ok, so the timing sort of sucks for us, since we'd have liked to include the information in our story, but it's good news for Janet Nguyen: the California Court of Appeals ruled today, the same day our cover story hit the streets, that Janet did win her election, and therefore does get to stay in office. Last November, the Orange County Registrar ruled that Trung Nguyen, a Garden Grove school board member backed by State Assemblyman Van Thai Tran, the most powerful Vietnamese-American elected o

  January 17, 2008

• Rohrabacher Going Down To Defeat in November?

  After pondering a posting tonight at theliberaloc.com by Gila Jones, I'm guessing that Orange County Republican pollsters have worrisome data that raises concerns about the safety of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's re-election chances in November. An enigma wrapped in lies, a temper, quixotic brain functions, shameless self-promotion, questionable personal habits, margarita breath and a dress code likely suggested by a well-meaning but drunk Frank Mickadeit, Rohrabacher is, by any reasonable me

  March 25, 2008

• Another Win for Nguyen

  Despite facing numerous lawsuits and an incredibly nasty public relations campaign by her Republican opponents in the past several months, Janet Nguyen sailed through yesterday's election to seal her supervisorial seat. Nguyen easily beat Westminster city councilwoman Dina Nguyen and Hoa Tran, a rare Vietnamese-American Democrat most famous for employing gang members as campaign workers. Far more surprising than Nguyen's victory, however was who wasn't even on the ballot: Trung Nguyen, the fav

  June 4, 2008

• Compromising Positions

  March 23, 2000

• Is OC GOP Shill Jon Fleischman Goofy, a Moron and a Shakedown Artist too?

  Don Haidl: Is somebody paying that goofy bastard [Jon Fleischman]? Mike Carona: Big bucks. Big bucks. You and I had a difference of opinion on him. I just think he was a moron on his best day, but . . . Well, apparently . . . (Laughs) They're willing to pay morons a lot of money because I was probably paying him when he left $90,000 a year. He made four times what I was paying him in a year, he made it in six months. And, uh, it's all through that silly ass Flash Report. He was doing consulting

  November 14, 2008

• Is OC's Political Dark Lord on the Run?

  Spotted Michael J. Schroeder--the black Hummer driving dark lord of Orange County Republican politics--in public lately? Legal process servers certainly haven't and they're a bit frustrated. They've been repeatedly foiled at Schroeder's Xerox Centre offices in Santa Ana and at the hillside Corona del Mar home he shares with wife Susan Kang Schroeder, public affairs counsel to District Attorney Tony Rackauckas.The servers want to hand Schroeder, a lawyer and close adviser to Mike Carona, a subpoe

  February 20, 2009

• OC's Dark Political Lord Wants to Expand Influence Where?

  Michael J. Schroeder, one of California's most effectiveRepublican Party operatives, has been telling me for months that he's finally tiring of politics and is eager for a new challenge--something more enjoyable. What's been catching Schroeder's interest? Go ahead and guess.No. Killing liberals and moderates is illegal and, besides, he's been doing that figuratively in elections anyway.No. He's already polluting the environment daily by driving his massive black Hummer.Nein. The owner of a

  March 11, 2009

• [Moxley Confidential] Times are Tight

  February 26, 2009

• A Bluer Shade of Orange

  The raw vote totals in OC tell the real—and really amazing—story of Super Tuesday

  February 7, 2008

• Dammit, Janet!

  Why do Supervisor Janet Nguyen's former supporters in OC's Republican power structure hate her so much?

  January 17, 2008

• Who (almost) Dunnit?

  The world may never know who leaned on UCI's Michael Drake to unhire Erwin Chemerinsky

  September 27, 2007

• Now Take My Wife . . . Please

  August 22, 2002

• Boy Crazy

  The sad chronicles of a man who wants a boy to love him

  November 23, 2006

• Accused GOP Pedophile Ties DA to Blackmail Plot

  Jeff Nielsen says mentored seventh-grade boy sought apology, $100,000

  October 5, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  Sept. 20 - Sept. 26

  September 28, 2006

• Laughing His Way to Victory?

  Despite scandals, Sheriff Carona still seducing voters

  March 30, 2006

• A Fox in the Henhouse

  November 17, 2005

• Gracious

  September 15, 2005

• SEX!

  April 28, 2005

• Out of His Skull

  August 21, 2003

• Access for Ass Kiss

  July 24, 2003

• Cronyism Maximized

  April 10, 2003

• Lockyer Dances the Dipsy-Do, Tricky-Lawyer Thing With DA

  November 14, 2002

• Flashes of Lunacy

  September 5, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 29, 2002

• Missing Wives, Lousy Lies & Mob Ties

  July 11, 2002

• Way Far Right

  February 11, 1999

• Letters

  November 19, 1998

• Orange County's Scariest People!

  November 5, 1998

• Off With Its Head!

  March 12, 1998

• Schroeder Plays the Times Like a Piano

  December 18, 1997

• Hart Attack

  May 22, 1997

• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

  May 1, 1997

• OC Deputies Outraged That DA Attacked Their Honesty; Demand Top Resignation!

  Something rare happened on Friday, April 17--and it wasn't just that the Orange County Register was pretending it had broken news about a trial it's reporters hadn't attended. On that date in 6 B.C., so I'm told, the sun, Jupiter, Saturn and our moon were aligned. I won't pretend to know what astrological activities were in place yesterday, but something bizarre happened here on Earth: usually in lockstep, Orange County law enforcement bitterly split ranks.Specifically, the Orange County Distric

  April 18, 2009

• [Moxley Confidential] Cameron Jackson Says Mike Schroeder is Just Too Damn Powerful

  May 28, 2009