Subject: Nativo Lopez

• La Voz de Nativo

  About a month ago, I went to a mixer celebrating the Latino OC 100, a list honoring the 100 most influential Latinos in Orange County (full disclosure: this wab made the list). At the mixer, I was accosted by various Chicano All-Stars who took issue with my article criticizing Nativo Lopez, he of the fabulous cow lick and self-promoting ways. One pendejo, in particular, assured me Nativo does all his camera-mugging for a cause greater than he. "He's really a humble person," Nativo's friend insis

  June 16, 2006

• Friday's Headlines & Surprises

  FBI targets one of OC's richest: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the FBI served subpoenas at the Newport Coast home of Henry T. Nicholas III, ex-chairman of Irvine-based, electronics giant Broadcom Company. According to the paper, the investigation involves drugs and other potential crimes such as back-dating financial documents. It hasn't been a good year for the man worth more than $600 million. Kenji Kato, his bodyguard from 1999 to 2006, filed a civil suit in Los Angeles claiming

  July 13, 2007

• Time to Give Santa Ana's Mayor a Nickname!

  Today, bad-ass Los Angeles Times reporter Jennifer Delson writes about the idiotic Measure D, the SanTana ballot measure that would extend city council term limits from eight years to 12 years. She reveals that Measure D originally started as an attempt by residents and councilmembers to install term limits for the mayor's seat, but eventually devolved into another power-grab by loony SanTana councilmembers--scratch that. Let's turn it over to Jennifer: [Councilmember Sal] Tinajero said two rec

  January 9, 2008

• Bistro 400 As Rich as Ever

  Bistro 400 in downtown SanTana has a unique advantage over Memphis and Jason's Downtown in trying to nab dinner eaters: it's actually open. Whereas Memphis is open for dinner Wednesday through Sunday while Jason's entertains Thursdays through Saturdays, Bistro 400 operates every day except the Lord's día. That's where the lady and I found ourselves last night, famished and looking for booze. I tend to stay away from Bistro 400, not because of its food--delicious, fancy--or its ever-affable own

  September 9, 2008

• Yo Quiero Contract

  April 13, 2000

• Excerpts: Part 2

  September 14, 2000

• Nativo Lopez Organization Cowardly Stays "Neutral" on Propositions 8 and 4

  Remember Nativo Lopez? Guy called Larry who became radicalized during the 1960s, led renter strikes against SanTana slumlords during the 1980s, served on the SanTana Unified School Board during the 1990s, then was recalled for his conflict-of-influenza, amongst other sins in early 2004? He's spent the last couple of years trying to remake himself as the next great Chicano Movement leader by heading the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), a once-great group that now has the moral weigh

  October 14, 2008

• Welcome to Orange County, Now Go Home

  March 15, 2001

• Heebie Jeebies

  October 3, 2002

• El Dia de Nuestro Senor Nativo

  December 26, 2002

• !Ask a Mexican!

  January 27, 2005

• [This Hole-in-the-Wall Life] Guatemalan Gluttony at Panaderia La Chapina

  December 11, 2008

• A CLOCKWORK NARANJA

  August 11, 2005

• Preventing Care

  May 25, 2000

• Upon Further Review . . .

  May 16, 2002

• A Fiesta in Your Mouth

  The Offsprings Dexter Holland and his bueno Gringo Bandito hot sauce
  

  November 16, 2006

• The Return of the Nativo

  April 20, 2006

• The Don King of Cockfights

  October 6, 2005

• Embrace the Mexican

  October 6, 2005

• Stories That Made a Difference

  And some we regret

  September 8, 2005

• !Ask a Mexican!

  September 1, 2005

• Letters

  April 28, 2005

• Chuck Not Amuck

  April 7, 2005

• Diary of A Mad Year

  2004 regurgitated

  December 30, 2004

• Loretta-Lite

  February 26, 2004

• Florence Got Nice Paintings

  February 12, 2004

• Schools Out Forever

  January 1, 2004

• The Year in Girl

  January 1, 2004

• Singing a different 'toon

  December 18, 2003

• Cry of the Lone Wolf

  May 29, 2003

• The Liberator of Santa Ana Unified

  April 10, 2003

• Just added to the Up in Smoke Tour: Great White!

  March 6, 2003

• Letters

  February 20, 2003

• Letters

  February 13, 2003

• ?Debe de Ser Revocado Nativo Lopez?

  February 6, 2003

• Recall Nativo Lopez?

  February 6, 2003

• Letters

  January 30, 2003

• Ron Unz Says Recalling Lopez Will Finally Kill Bilingual Education

  January 23, 2003

• Chicken Scratcher

  January 23, 2003

• Letters

  January 16, 2003

• Old School Politics

  January 9, 2003

• Let Them Eat Pastel

  August 29, 2002

• Little White Man

  June 7, 2001

• El Valiente Chicano

  February 1, 2001

• Subcomandante Martin

  August 5, 1999

• Making Dornans Enemies List

  May 28, 1998

• All Tricks, No Treats

  November 6, 1997

• Yes! Dornan is Completely Nuts!

  March 6, 1997

• The Mexican No-Show Show

  January 9, 1997

• Nativo Lopez Compares Himself to Gandhi

  Gandhi: The Nativo Lopez of India?​As an Aztlanista, I always wince when reconquistadores go over the top with illogical arguments justifying amnesty for illegals. I'll never forget when the usually genteel, always sharp Larry Mantle of Airtalk on KPCC-FM 89.3 once ripped into a Chicana activist because her response to some immigration matter was pablum about families. When Mantle pressed, the woman rambled even more.But when I recently read that longtime O.C. yaktivist Nativo Lopez compared h

  October 8, 2009