Subject: Mimi Walters

• Will Walters Wescue the 241 Toll Woad?

  Assemblywoman Mimi Walters (R-73, 241, 261, 133) had a little get-together this morning with the Transportation Corridor Agencies, the Marines, and Oceanside Chamber of Commerce. Only a select group of normal Chamber meeting attendees received invitations for the so-called "workshop". The invitations were sent out by Keena Communications, to whom Mimi Walters for Assembly 2006 has already paid over $30,000 for campaign consultancy this year. Mimi W. was there for one purpose: to recruit the Oce

  June 16, 2006

• Chuck DeVore on Hemp

  Last week there was a rumor goin' round that Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine), a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard and a Republican, was co-author of a bill to legalize industrial hemp. Not only that, but he was doing so with none other than Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), the openly gay Democrat who authored a bill to legalize gay marriages. Polar opposites. The matter and anti-matter of the California Assembly. So what gives? What exactly are they trying to do and why? Here'

  July 3, 2006

• Prop 90: Enriching the Rich, Making Us Their Bitch

  Congressman John Campbell (R-Irvine Company) has signed on to support Proposition 90, the Taxpayer Trap Initiative (or Save our Homes, if you're gullible). This is no surprise; back in September 2005, Prop 90's main backers poured $120,000 into Campbell for Congress, the campaign committee formed to help Campbell seize the seat left vacant by Christopher Cox's appointment to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Campbell's cash windfall came in a matter of days from over 850 separate donations

  October 13, 2006

• GOP $ Man: Stoning No Longer "A Necessity"

  Ever committed adultery? Are you homosexual? Prop 90 supporter Howard Ahmanson Jr. wouldn't mind stoning you. Yesterday we discussed Howard S. Rich, a wealthy fellow from New York, and his intense desire to screw with California government by financing groups that back Proposition 90. And Prop 90 is likely to bleed the state dry like a vampire on a binge. But vampires have to be invited in, which leads one to wonder—who invited Rich out here anyway? For the answer, look no further than our

  October 14, 2006

• Mimi's Influence Cafe

  Assemblywoman Mimi Walters (R-73, 241, 133) is a class act. And like any act, she can be yours if you can afford the hiring fee. Just ask Big Tobacco. Hell, just ask Rancho Mission Viejo; she's really going the extra mile for them. Sixteen miles actually—the length of the proposed Foothill-South toll road extension. Let's warm up with tobacco. RJ Reynolds and Phillip Morris are both opposing Proposition 86, the Tobacco Tax initiative. It would add $2.60 of additional excise tax per pack, d

  October 17, 2006

• The Reconquista Reaches Sacramento

  With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from yesterday’s sojourn to Sacramento, where I received a Latino Spirit Award (honoring Latinos who have made a positive contribution to California) from the California Latino Legislative Caucus: *Hosting me for two days was the saintly, ever-hilarious Matt Coker, longtime managing editor of the OC Weekly, currently editor at the Sacramento News and Review. Clockwork Coker remains as trouble

  May 6, 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 to some of the craziest causes imaginable: creationism, anti-gay marriage, anti-gay clerics in the Episcopalian Church, and so many others that in its list of America's most influential evangelicals a

  June 19, 2008

• The Return of Toll Road Foister Jerry Amante

  Here were told you about our question to Tustin City Councilman Jerry Amante, the chairman of the Orange County Transportation Authority, the Transportation Corridor System Board of Directors and the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency (TCA) who was all over the news last week after Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez upheld the California Coastal Commission's rejection of the TCA's preferred route for the Foothill/South toll road extension through San Onofre State Park. (Amante i

  December 22, 2008

• Supremes' Prop. 8 Oral Arguments Generate Vigils, Viewing Parties, Rallies

  Okay, Prop. 8, supporters, be honest: Would you rather attend a party thrown by gays or straights? If you answered the latter, well, then, you haven't been to a party thrown by gays, have you? Think of all the collected knowledge of Martha Stewart, the Queer Eye guys and Chelsea Handler funneled into a single event, and you get an idea of what kind of fab do you'd be in for.  So, perhaps you should put away your hateful signs and come on out to Eve of Justice, which refers to the evening be

  March 3, 2009

• Ed McKie Has Been Stymied in His Efforts to Create a Safe Space for Gay Meth Addicts in Santa Ana

  July 31, 2008

• 'In My Book, Rod Stewart . . . Kicked the Bucket in 1977'

  December 15, 2005

• Toll Road Rage: What Your Mimi Doesn't Know

  November 24, 2005

• Pussies Galore!

  July 29, 2004

• The Unsuccessful Slut

  June 24, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 22, 2003

• Beautiful Lake Wilson

  January 20, 2000

• Inquiring minds want to know . . .

  December 23, 1999

• 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 groundwork for ARTIC, a regional transportation hub that's been more than 15 years in the making. The dollar total for the job could reach $24.3 million. According to the Register, Parsons Brinckerho

  May 27, 2009

• Mimi Walters Neglects to Tell Full Story on School Funds

  Mimi Walters writes off $7.9 billion.State Sen. Mimi Walters (R-Laguna Niguel) spouts off in today's Sacramento Bee about a Democratic proposal to commit $7.9 billion to schools--even though California voters last month shot down Prop. 1B, which would have sent educators that exact same amount.   "The voters have spoken and we need to listen," Walters tells Beekeeper Jim Sanders. "Unfortunately, the majority party in Sacramento isn't listening."Of course, as with most things involving money

  June 22, 2009