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Mimi Walters

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2012

    Waiting for Righty: Hey, Kids, Three Fun Books on Conservatives!

    Young Noam with Mom and Dad​ I considered titling this week's review "Conservatism for Dummies" but that seemed unnecessarily cruel. As someone raised with your basic anti-social, self-hating, ahistorical so-called "conservative" values, I enjoy reminding myself and others of both my shame as ... 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 >>

  • News

    March 17, 2011

    Fair Games Over the OC Fairgrounds

    The huge swath of public land is in play. But is the whole thing rigged?

  • 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

    November 3, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Election 2010: Coker is Spun, Polled, Teabagged

    ​1:28 p.m.: Orange County agreed with state voters on most ballot initiatives, although more of us did want to keep choking on polluted air until the unemployment rate drops and most like the state budget approval process to remain fucked-up, thank you very much (probably because many are philosop ... More >>

  • News

    October 7, 2010

    Scott Baugh's Big, No-Bid County Lobbying Deal

    [Moxley Confidential] More than $1,000 per day? What?

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Ex-Congressman Drops Facebook Friendship with Orly Taitz; Who's Next?

    ​The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported last week that Orly Taitz--the Laguna Niguel dentist who famously claims that Barack Obama isn't eligible for the office he holds--lost one of her Facebook friends recently. On Thursday, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Nathan Deal shed his social-networki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    The Bag Monster Invades OC Today

    ​Speaking of the Surfrider Foundation, its South County chapter and the Earth Resources Foundation have brought the Bag Monster to Orange County today.Known for darkening supermarkets, the halls of power and anywhere crowds gather in the Bay Area, the Bag Monster is the symbol of the campaign to g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    FPPC: Two OC Legislators Failed to Report Gifts (Updated 1/25)

    State Senator Mimi Walters​[Originally published 1/21/2010. Updated 1/25 with response from Walters' office]Today's Supreme Court decision striking down bans on political expenditures from corporations seems like a monumental development--especially in light of how closely regulated political expe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 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. &nbs ... More >>

  • 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 3, 2009

    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 int ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 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 Comm ... More >>

  • Features

    July 31, 2008

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

    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 Comm ... 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

    May 6, 2008

    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: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 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-Sou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 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 ope ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2006

    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 invitation ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 15, 2005

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

    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 invitation ... More >>

  • News

    November 24, 2005

    Toll Road Rage: What Your Mimi Doesn't Know

    What your Mimi doesn't know could fill San Mateo Canyon, if the TCA doesn't do it first.

  • News

    July 29, 2004

    Pussies Galore!

    What local candidates dont want voters to know

  • Columns

    June 24, 2004

    The Unsuccessful Slut

    Of ladies of leisure, the gay bartender and Xs John Doe!

  • Columns

    May 22, 2003

    Diary of a Mad County

    Of ladies of leisure, the gay bartender and Xs John Doe!

  • News

    January 20, 2000

    Beautiful Lake Wilson

    One of four stops on a tour of South County toxic hot spots

  • Columns

    December 23, 1999

    Inquiring minds want to know . . .

    Is Donald Trumps Presidential Role Model Richard Nixon?

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