Scott Baugh

Will Assemblyman Allan Mansoor Challenge Michelle Steel For OC Supervisor's Seat?

Will ex-Costa Mesa mayor and current California State Assemblyman Allan Mansoor challenge Michelle Steel--a fellow but less experienced Republican office holder--for a soon-to-be open seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors? That's the energetic buzz this week in Republican circles, where St ... More >>

Gustavo's Latest "Orange County Line" for KCRW: The OC GOP's Mexican Problem!

So you know how the national GOP leadership has turned Aztlanista all of a sudden in a desperate effort for Latino votes? It's a wonderful thing to see, especially since it's a big chinga tu madre to the decades-long strategy of the Republican Party of Orange County to court Latino voters. Hell, eve ... More >>

UCI's First Law School Class Has a Better Cali Bar Exam Passage Rate Than All But Stanford

The end of our October blog post on University of California at Irvine School of Law students helping Nigerian activists present a case to the U.S. Supreme Court mentioned that the local school has its critics.The blasts to the law school and its founding dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, began in 2009, but ... More >>

A Gay Republican Elected Official Finally Comes Out to OC!

One of the great parlour games in Orange County politico circles is trying to figure out which local Republican bigwigs are closeted homosexuals, which ones have a beard, which ones are brave enough to make appearances at the LA/OC Jacks, and which ones were arrested in a Laguna Beach bar raid durin ... More >>

Tom Fuentes' Funeral a Parade of Pedophile Protectors and Apologists

We at the Weekly had enough respect for former GOP chairman Tom Fuentes to not invade his funeral yesterday and cause a scene--but we're beholden to the truth, so damn straight we're going to blast his funeral for the parade of pedophile apologists and protectors that it was.The main attraction, of ... More >>

Why the Orange County Republican Central Committee Chose Now to Dump Deborah Pauly

How ucked fup is the Orange County Republican Central Committee? The committee did nothing when its vice chairwoman and Villa Park City Councilwoman Deborah Pauly called for the death of Islamic men, women and children walking into a February 2011 Yorba Linda charity event. The committee also did no ... More >>

Deborah Pauly "Filling Big Hole" DeVore Left, Having Three-Way with Candidates Spitzer and Bucher

​When Republican former assemblyman Chuck DeVore announced Friday he was moving to Texas and not, as previously announced, running against Republican former assemblyman Todd Spitzer for an open Orange County Board of Supervisors seat, the race lost an anti-tax and pro-morality nut. When Mark Buche ... More >>

Mark Bucher to Replace Chuck DeVore in Todd Spitzer Race

Mark Bucher ​In addition to Chuck DeVore dropping out of the race for Orange County supervisor, the Weekly has learned conservative activist Mark Bucher will challenge fellow Republican Todd Spitzer for the 2012 open seat.Bucher is a successful businessman, a prominent--even outspoken--Christian c ... More >>

It's Gotten Costa Messy In Costa Mesa

Scenes from the civic dissolution of America's latest public-employee battleground

[UPDATED with Register Tongue Bath:] Rick Perry, Texas Governor and GOP Presidential Possible, Shakes the Newport Beach Money Tree

​UPDATE, JULY 1, 8:11 P.M.: The Orange County Register Editorial Board loves them some Texas Gov. Rick Perry.After the Republican met in Newport Beach's Pacific Club with big GOP donors and the likes of Orange County GOP Chairman Scott Baugh, Flash Report publisher Jon Fleischman, OC GOP Chairman ... More >>

Marilyn Davenport Expressed Anti-Muslim Sentiment Before Obama-is-a-Chimp Scandal

(c) photo by R. Scott MoxleyMarilyn Davenport ​Marilyn Davenport may have been able to escape protesters outside of her Fullerton home last Saturday, but the embattled Orange County Republican Party official might have a more difficult time fleeing her past.According to Republican Party source ... More >>

[UPDATED] Marilyn Davenport: Real Racists Are Democrats; Sees Chance to Use Her Racist Email to Win Black Votes For GOP

Repeat after me: Racist emails are actually pro-black.​UPDATE, APRIL 22, 2:05 P.M.: The executive committee of the OC Republican Party voted today 10-2 to send the Marilyn Davenport matter to the ethics committee, says the FlashReport.com's Jon Fleischman, a prominent local Republican who sup ... More >>

Kobe Bryant and Marilyn Davenport Apologies Miss Their Direct Targets

​It's been a busy couple weeks when it comes to high-profile apologies from Orange Countians. Newport Coast's Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers first half-heartedly and then full-heartedly apologized for saying "fucking faggot." Next came Fullerton's Marilyn Davenport of the Orange County Repu ... More >>

KFI Gets Marilyn Davenport On President Obama-Ape Email

(c) Photo by R. Scott Moxley / OC WeeklyDavenport set to go on KFI​Marilyn Davenport, the Fullerton grandmother and Republican official who gained national notoriety on April 15 after distributing a racist email image of President Barack Obama as a chimpanzee, has agreed to appear live Wednesday o ... More >>

[BREAKING] House Cuts NPR Funding

​UPDATE, MARCH 17, 12:41 P.M.: The U.S. House of Representatives just voted to defund National Public Radio (NPR). The matter now goes to the Senate.Start buying those tote bags.

The Top 2010 OC Story That Didn't Make the Register's Year-End List

​Veteran Orange County Register reporter Martin Wisckol has named his "Top 10" political events of 2010.It's a thorough list, except for one thing: it omitted arguably the top local political story of the year.Oops.

Election 2010: Moxley Watches The OC Republicans

Jonathan Ho / OC WeeklyTran: Not time to concede. ​1:00 a.m.: Van Tran Remains HopefulInside the converted Garden Grove Blockbuster store, Van Tran continues to hold onto his dream of defeating Loretta Sanchez. Tran is trailing by more than 5,000 votes--and the gap seems to be getting larger. But ... More >>

OC Republicans Think Tom Campbell Is Running For Governor!

R. Scott MoxleyNote the lower left corner of the OCGOP website​Earth to Republican Party of Orange County Chairman Scott Baugh. 

Bill Hunt's Remarkable Rise

[Moxley Confidential] Will Mike Carona's ex-punching bag be Orange County's next sheriff?

County Blocks Register Request on Deputy Pay-Perk Details

The public don't need no documents, understand?​Next week, the Orange County Board of Supervisors is set to vote on a new labor agreement with the politically powerful Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs (AOCDS). But while county officials are hailing the deal as a $4-million-plus savings ... More >>

If Duvall Heeded Willie Brown's Advice, He'd Still Be in Assembly

Dean of state Assembly speakers Wille BrownIf Mike Duvall took his marching orders from Willie Brown instead of Scott Baugh, the disgraced Yorba Linda Republican would still be a member of the state Assembly. Baugh, chairman of the Orange County GOP, immediately called on Duvall to resig ... More >>

Chuck DeVore's Quixotic Attempt to Twitter and Parody-Video His Way Into the U.S. Senate

Cruel and Unusual Punishment for Child Molester Who Worked For Dana Rohrabacher?

Singing & Dancing in Prison?At least twice a month, someone asks me: Where is Jeffrey Ray Nielsen, the Orange County conservative activist who worked for years as a Washington, D.C. aide to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) and is now a convicted serial child molester?Answer: McFarland, ... More >>

Gay Marriage Foes Find Latino Mouthpieces in OC

Where should a conspicuously anti-family, anti-civil rights, anti-gay marriage political “coalition” go when it's looking for Latinos to sound alarms and corral other Latinos to vote for their anti-gay marriage proposition in November? None other than Orange County, of course, where hatred does ... More >>

Add Todd Spitzer to heroes list in wrongful conviction case

The last hints of Republican opposition to pay a Latino man wrongfully imprisoned for a robbery/carjacking he did not commit disappeared this week in the California legislature after Assemblyman Todd Spitzer (R-Orange) called on his colleagues to do the right thing. “As a society we have a respo ... More >>

A Bluer Shade of Orange

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

Firecrackers, Rats and Some GOP guy's Mansion

On a cool evening in the heart of Little Saigon loud firecrackers periodically exploded as Vietnamese Americans celebrated the coming of Tet (Vietnamese New Year) and something that should comfort Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle: the launching of the Year of the Rat. Of course, I'm kidding. According t ... More >>

Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: That Sneaky Chuck DeVore

Doctor No: The public hospital crisis has placed nearly two dozen private hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange counties “in dire financial straits and in danger of bankruptcy or closure,” according to a depressing report in today’s Times. Reporters Daniel Costello and Susannah Rosenblatt found ... More >>

Rohrabacher, Baugh GOP Operative Charged in Another Man-Boy Sex Case

Jeffrey Ray Nielsen, a former Washington, D.C. aide to Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (pictured) and OC GOP boss Scott Baugh, was charged Thursday with 10 additional felonies in a second man-boy sex case, according to court records obtained by the Weekly. Nielsen already faces pedophile-related charg ... More >>

The New Bob Dornan

Tan Nguyen channels the spirit of OC's favorite congressman

We Defend Barbara Coe--Again!

Told you it wasn't the CCIR who sent out the letter telling Latinos immigrants can't vote. Turns out the California Attorney General's office fingered Tan Nguyen, who seemed like the ideal Republican congressional candidate--minority, immigrant-hating, and carpet-bagging. Jail time is rumored for th ... More >>

Accused GOP Pedophile Ties DA to Blackmail Plot

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

Dont Let This Happen To You

The Year In Suburban Decline

Drunk With Power

Totally leading the world to a tremendous tomorrow!

Million-Dollar Munchikins

How a councilwomans taxpayer-funded multiple childbirth complicated HBs budget crisis

Ball Busting

And does anyone pray to the Lord of the Dance?

See No Evil Republicans

Blackouts at the Times

People I Havent Slept With

You and you and probably you!

Part 14: Index-O-Rama!

The Garofalo Blackout

Why hasn't the Times picked up its own reporters' stories on HB scandal?

Gay-Baiting Brown

Did a smear campaign force Republican ''caveman'' out of key Assembly race?

My So-Called Political Life

Diary of a mad Libertarian

Letters

Letters

Man On the Beach

Commie Girl: The Decoy

Now, how do you make gay-bashing funny?

Letters

El Vez has left the building

And GOP boys will be boys

Merrill Lynched? Hardly

Capizzi Let the Big Boys Off

All In The Family

Register family values I