Scott Baugh

Texas Senator Ted Cruz To Party With Orange County Republicans in June

Orange County Republican Party boss Scott Baugh is apparently taking diversity in politics seriously after all. Baugh--often under fire from liberal critics for running a political party of cranky, rich, caucasian businessmen--has lured a Cuban/Irish American to be the keynote speaker at the group' ... More >>

OC GOP's Apocalypse Now

The party's over for Republicans in Orange County and California

All Hail the New Fullerton Council Majority, Vanguard of Orange County's First Libertarian-Run City!

If you ask me for my political affiliation, my Facebook page says I'm a Marxist of the Groucho variety. If you press me, I'll admit to being Left left-libertarian, whatever the fuck that means. In my book, that's a distrust of all government entities, a love of open borders, a belief in no drug laws ... More >>

Did Rep. John Campbell Get Schooled by Irvine Republican Activist Allan Bartlett?

​In the aftermath of Monday night's news that John Campbell failed to win the endorsement of the local GOP Central Committee, allies of the veteran Orange County Republican congressman immediately launched efforts to find a positive public spin on the disaster. For example, Scott Baugh, boss of th ... More >>

Scott Walker to Visit Scott Baugh, Occupy to Attend

UPDATE DEC. 29, 7:30 P.M.: For those of you hoping Occupy activists at tonight's protest would have stormed the glass-encased offices of  Scott Baugh, kicked in the doors and found Wisconsin governor Scott Walker on his knees fellating the Orange County GOP Chairman while dollar bills rained fr ... More >>

Occupy OC Protesters Duped For Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Orange County Event

​About 50 liberal Orange County activists protested a Republican event here tonight for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, but rallied at the wrong location.The error wasn't necessarily the activists' fault. The Walker event was scheduled for the private, Newport Beach offices of Orange County Republica ... More >>

[UPDATED with New Pressure on GOP Donors:] OC Republican Party Censures Marilyn Davenport

​UPDATE, MAY 19, 7:17 A.M.: The Orange County Republican Party's Executive Committee earlier this month censured GOP Central Committee member Marilyn Davenport for sending out an email with a photo depicting President Barack Obama as being the child of chimpanzees.The 12-2 vote was not enough to s ... More >>

Marilyn Davenport Ally: It's GOP Boss Scott Baugh Who Should Be Reprimanded

Anxious for next banana​The chief defender of Marilyn Davenport, the Orange County Republican Party official tied to a racist email depicting President Barack Obama and his parents as chimpanzees, is urging the party's executive committee members to focus its attention not on Davenport but instead ... More >>

Marilyn Davenport: The Evolution of a Scandal

[Moxley Confidential] How that racist Obama-family-chimpanzee email has driven the OC GOP apeshit

UPDATED: Matt Cunningham, Hypocrite, Slammed From Right

Robbing taxpayers with dubious PR work​Updated at 4:45 p.m.: Cunningham responded in the comments section to this post. There was no explanation for his hypocrisy for over-billing taxpayers or his shameless shilling for OC GOP boss Scott Baugh. All he had to say was that I'm not a real journalist. ... More >>

Welcome to the Ronald Reagan Great Park

EXCLUSIVE! Super-secret plans are afoot to name Orange County's largest public-works project after the Great Communicator

Did Prayer Close a Newport Beach Abortion Clinic?

Made it!​It's often said that Southern California residents are apathetic in comparison to other areas of the nation, but for years you could drive by a building not far from the gates of John Wayne Airport and see a large group of adults on the sidewalk holding signs and hands, and praying.The ta ... More >>

Scott Baugh Gets Re-elected as Chair of OC Republican Party--Surprise, Surprise

​In the most anticlimactic vote in Orange County politics since Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez whupped challenger Van Tran, Scott Baugh easily beat opponent Tim Whitacre to retain his position as head of the Republican Party of Orange County.Much hay was made in the media--including in your humble ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Reader

Scott Baugh: The Manchurian Party Chairman?

[Moxley Confidential] Are Republican insiders mad enough at Baugh to vote in an outsider to replace him?

Scott R. Baugh, Chairman of Orange County Republican Party, Gets a Challenger

Chairman Baugh​Scott R. Baugh, chairman of the Orange County Republican Party, won't get another term in office without a fight.Longtime party activist Tim Whitacre has announced that he will challenge Baugh for the top slot at the county's most powerful political party.The news came this morning ... More >>

Irvine Candidate Jeff Lalloway Fired By Fellow Republican

lallowayforirvine2010.comLalloway: Give me some Excedrin!​There are many things a rookie Republican candidate doesn't want to happen two weeks before an election.Yes, one might be to get caught pants-less with a naked minor on a roof at daybreak.Another, though less dramatic, might be to get fired ... More >>

Scott Baugh Enlists GOP Attacker In Hopes of Discrediting Factual Story On Lobbying Pact

Scott BaughIn 2006, Daystar wanted to takeover Orange County's public broadcasting channel at KOCE in Huntington Beach. The Texas-based evangelical television network hired Platinum Advisors, a California lobbying outfit, to block legislative attempts to thwart the company's desire. I'll let Rick Re ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher, Gulp, Sings at Van Tran Rally

​It was billed as a Tea Party rally but today's event in a Garden Grove public park was actually nothing more than a Republican Party pep rally for Van Tran, the Republican hoping to unseat Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez on Nov. 2.Don't believe it? Well, explain why Scott Baugh, the chai ... More >>

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

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

Tea Party On!

The county's GOP central committee is in hot water with the tea party movement

Sheriff's Candidate: OC Register Botched Anti-Union Story

Hunt slams the Register​Bill Hunt, a conservative Republican candidate hoping to lead the Orange County Sheriff's Department, tonight blasted The Orange County Register for allegedly botching his response to a recent call from OC Republican boss Scott Baugh that all GOP candidates should reject en ... More >>

More Republi-Drama at OC GOP Meeting

Chris Norby, in the fray​After a not-so-harmonious Western Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend and amidst a downright ugly state assembly race in north county, Red County's Alan Bartlett reports that last night's OC GOP Central Committee contained a few moments of strife and hand ... More >>

UPDATED: Mike Duvall Resigns From State Assembly

Assemblyman Mike Duvall apparently heeded a powerful call for his resignation.​Several media outlets are reporting that Assemblyman Michael D. Duvall (R-Yorba Linda) has resigned amid the scandal uncovered last night by OC Weekly and KCBS/KCAL about his inadvertent admissions of adultery with a ut ... More >>

Orange County Sings the Obama Blues

The Party's Over

State GOP chairman Ron Nehring: "Lease, don't buy..." The state GOP's "Victory Night Party" (hah!) was over before it started. Driving over to the Hyatt Regency Irvine to make the 8:30 p.m. start time, I was talking on my Bluetooth to my brother in San Francisco when he informed me John McCain was ... More >>

[Moxley Confidential] Senator Dick Ackerman Does the Right Thing In the Case of James Ochoa

Diary of a Mad County

Nov. 15 - Nov. 21

Boy Crazy

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

The Book of Judges

WEB EXCLUSIVE! An incomplete guide to obscure races

Diary of a Mad County

Oct. 18 - Oct. 24

Tan Nguyen Wants to Have it Both Ways

Our favorite xenophobic Vietnamese hasn't yet renounced his Republican candidacy for the 47th Congressional District, even though GOP chair Scott Baugh has demanded his resignation and Nguyen blasted Baugh at yesterday's press conference. Yesterday, Nguyen also passed out his latest mailer to the pr ... More >>

Diary of a Mad County

Sept. 9 - Sept. 12

Privatize This!

Ever wonder where your local tax dollars go?

How OC Are You When It Comes to "S.E.X."?

Our sexy sex quiz

NAMBLA Fantasy

Republican activist Jeff Nielsen says he didnt know the object of his affection was a 14-year-old boy

SEX!

Now that the OC Republican Party has your attention, heres our story about sex inside the Sheriffs Department

Letters

Power Politics

AES and Scott Baugh want to make HB a company town

Compromising Positions

Is the DAs office too partisan to be trusted to investigate HB Republicans?

Compromising Positions

Is the DAs office too partisan to be trusted to investigate HB Republicans?

Guilty Pleasures

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Talking Shit

Words speak louder than action in cleaning OC beaches

Money Talks, Feces Disappears

Did politicians put tourism money ahead of public health in HB?

Reg Spanks Spanky

And Daily Pilot gives new meaning to press release

Same Time, Last Year

Three Strikes foes behind count in Sacramento

The Straight Guy at the Gay Pool Party

And other tales from the political season

Three Strikes Stinks!

Death, taxes and the self-inflicted stupidity of Three Strikes

The Abortionist Who Funds Pro-Life Republicans

Rohrabacher: 'I Am Not a Homosexual'

Angry Republican stirs up OCN