Subject: Steve Rocco

• It's Mansore and Wendy Looney Tunes early in Mesa

  The racist-goosestepping-Stepford duo--Alan Mansoor and Wendy Leece--are outpacing the pack in the Costa Mesa City Council race with 11 of 70 precincts counted, according to the Orange County Registrar of Voters website. Elect two: Mansoor, 28%; Leece, 25.3%; Garlich, 21.1%; Scheafer, 17.4%; Burciaga, 5.3%; Bunyan, 2.8%. And in the saddest very early results of the night, Steve Rocco is getting trounced in the Rancho Santiago Community College District race. Move to Costa Mesa, Steve: no one's l

  November 7, 2006

• Rocco's Modern Life

  It's possible that, by censuring trustee Steve Rocco, the Orange Unified School District may be hastening the Second Coming. Not of Jesus, mind you, but of Andy Kaufman. The Weekly recently received the following graphic from a reader. At first we were puzzled—the first picture is clearly Steve Rocco, but the second? The bastard offspring of a Belushi and the guy from Counting Crows, maybe? Actually it's Kaufman; the image is taken from his Elvis impersonation on the cover of his 1983

  December 10, 2006

• Return of the Rocco Files: Rocco Lives!

  An article (if you can call a 10-sentence blurb, including the writer's contact information, an article) in yesterday's Orange County Register confirms that Steve Rocco, Orange County's favorite edgoo-ma-caterer, has survived the latest assassination attempt by the secret cabal that controls local politics behind the Orange curtain. Actually, assassination attempt is a bit of an exaggeration: what the Register reported is that a group of school officials and parents who have been gathering signa

  November 27, 2007

• Rocco Recall Documentary Hits the Internets

  Chapman University political science professor Fred Smoller has been fascinated by the spectacular rise to power of Steve Rocco, the wacky Orange Unified School District trustee, ever since Rocco won his election in November 2004, and particularly after parents who voted for Rocco because the ballot described him as a "teacher" and his opponent, Phil Martinez, as a park ranger, realized they'd just elected a nutbar and tried (unsuccessfully) to recall him. Unbeknownst to voters--and the nationa

  January 16, 2008

• Grand Theft Ketchup

  Last weekend, The Orange County Register reports, Steve Rocco was busted for stealing a bottle of ketchup from a cafeteria at Chapman University. He was observed taking the bottle by a security guard who alerted police, who cited Rocco for misdemeanor theft, for which he will have to pay a $250 fine if convicted by the justice system, a system that, as Rocco has personally revealed and first reported here, is secretly controlled by the Partnership, a shadowy cabal Rocco first came across back in

  September 30, 2008

• Live from the Banana Republic...

  November 4, 2008

• Ex-Orange School Trustee Steve Rocco Hits Weekly with Subpoena!

  During my lunch break today, a nice lady with the Orange County Sheriff's Department dropped by the Weekly's offices looking to serve me with a subpoena. I won't go into the myriad possibilities of pissed-off people who crossed my mind, but suffice it to say I assumed this was some crazy or disgruntled person I've written about harassing me with legal paperwork. So it was to my great surprise when, an hour later, the sheriff's employee returned again, and handed me a a subpoena to testify next m

  February 26, 2009

• The Great Ketchup Caper Trial, Day Three

  The defendant showed up for court today in the same outfit he was wearing last Wednesday: green pants, loose black loafers, a big bandage on his head and sunglasses clipped to his eyeglasses that were flipped up for indoor use. It was day three of the strange case of the People vs. Steve Rocco, the ex-Orange Unified School District trustee, also known, to readers of the Weekly's Rocco Loco archive at least, as the brave battler of the "Partnership" conspiracy, that pesky cabal made up of Alberts

  March 23, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 32

  Orange County Register: Eighth sign of the Apocalypse: Ambulances spontaneously combusting in Fountain Valley. . . . It won't be galloping from four white horses South County residents hear Wednesday and Thursday, but F-18s bombing Camp Pendleton. Don't worry, the Marine base planned it. . . .  Former La Habra resident Melissa Huckaby, 28, could face additional charges of rape and molestation in the murder of a little girl in Tracy. . . . Andrew Thomas Gallo, 22, San Gabriel, cried in court

  April 14, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  April 9, 2009

• The Bizarre Case of the People vs. ex-Orange School District Trustee Steve Rocco

  April 2, 2009

• The Best Posts of 2008, Direct From the Weekly's Parallel Universe

  January 1, 2009

• [Scariest People 2008] Orange Zombie

  October 30, 2008

• It's a Quick Read Three-Three

  Orange County Register: An Adventure City security guard shot and killed an Inland Empire man who'd roughed him up around 11 p.m. Tuesday, long after closing time. Ed Gomez, a 14-year employee of the Stanton amusement park, was taken to a hospital and treated for a gash on his head. . . . Roman Catholic priest Michael Nguyen is suing five of his fellow priests, Bishop Tod Brown and the Diocese of Orange for allegedly spreading lies about his competency. That's Nguyen's compet

  April 15, 2009

• Recall Madness!

  August 23, 2007

• It's a Quick Read 34

  Orange County Register: A hushed county awaits the jury verdict in Steve Rocco's trial for alleged ketchup theft. . . . County officials are talking settlement with ex-Sheriff, current-felon Mike Carona's former right-hand man George Jaramillo. . . . Orange County may be among the first in the state to require ignition locks to stem drunken driving. . . . Try the cockroach floating in the dishwater, it's excellent: Restaurants you can't afford--Charlie Palmer at South Coast Plaza

  April 16, 2009

• Rocco Convicted in Ketchup Heist: OC Condiments Declared Safe!

  Photo by Christopher VictorioSteve Rocco gets ready to face the music.After a three-day trial, a jury today convicted former Orange School trustee Steve Rocco of stealing a half-empty bottle of Heinz ketchup from a Chapman University cafeteria last September. Their harsh verdict brought a momentous, if perhaps tragic or comical end to a gloriously stupid trial newsworthy only for its sheer craziness.A few highlights, in no particular order: *During voire dire, public defender Erica Gambale asked

  April 16, 2009

• Another Conspiratorial Twist In the Seemingly Never-Ending Story of Steve Rocco

  April 23, 2009

• The Year in Letters

  Keep It Up. You Rock. Dont Ever Change. All That Crap.

  December 28, 2006

• Letters

  CNN couldnt do it; the LA Times couldnt do it; no other journalist or major media outlet could do it. Are we to accept that some moonbat reporter from a local free weekly actually sat down and researched the subjec

  November 30, 2006

• Commie Girl

  March 23, 2006

• Orange

  October 20, 2005

• Just a Smokescreen

  May 26, 2005

• Whos the Real Mystery Man?

  April 21, 2005

• TOC

  February 24, 2005

• Albertsons Wants Me Dead

  February 24, 2005

• You Have To Be Afraid

  January 27, 2005

• Letters

  January 20, 2005

• Letters

  January 6, 2005

• Its Puzzlementary!

  January 6, 2005

• Call Me Irresponsible

  December 30, 2004

• Letters

  December 23, 2004

• Will the Real Steve Rocco Please Stand Up?

  December 23, 2004

• Youre in Hell

  December 16, 2004

• Letters

  December 9, 2004

• Eight Days

  December 9, 2004

• The Rocco Files

  December 9, 2004

• Andy Kaufman Isnt Dead

  December 2, 2004

• Letters

  November 25, 2004

• The Rocco Horror Picture Show

  The world wants to know: Who is Oranges newest school trustee?

  November 11, 2004

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  May 7, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  April 30, 2009

• As Stephen Smith Leaves Town, Irvine's "Tattler" Calls on Others to Step Up

  Stephen C. Smith calls on others to keep tabs on Irvine City Hall.CORRECTED!Lost in Santa Ana a few months ago, half paying attention to the street signs and half to Larry Mantle's KPCC interview show blaring out of the car speakers, I heard the host steer his Orange County "roundtable" guests--Orange County Register senior editorial writer Steven Greenhut; former LA Times religion writer William Lobdell and the Weekly's irrepressible Gustavo Arellano--into the topic of local bloggers. The three

  May 12, 2009

• Rocco Sentenced in College Ketchup Heist

  Rocco reads.The Partnership scored yet another victory today when Judge Jacki Brown of the Quentin Tarantino Justice Center sentenced former Orange school trustee Steve Rocco to two years of probation for his September 2008 theft of a non-refrigerated, half-empty bottle of ketchup at a Chapman University cafeteria. The spectacular arrest was Rocco's second run-in with the Partnership--the cabal made up of Albertsons, Kodak Corp. and Smokecraft Sausage that secretly controls Orange County governm

  May 26, 2009

• This Week In OC Republican-On-Republican Homo Action

  Larry CraigThe game of hot potato being played by California republicans in response to the  state's budget crisis and recently defeated ballot measures is turning into quite a spectator sport. Actually, "hot potato" isn't quite right. More like... "smear the queer"? Or... "12-year-olds calling each other names"?As I posted yesterday, south-county professional gadfly Jim Lacy nailed State Assemblywoman Diane Harkey in the latest issue of the Dana Point Times for flip-flopping on her special

  May 28, 2009

• How Chapman University's Logo Got a Cameo in "The Fourth Kind"

  ​After generating about $15.5 million at the box office in its opening weekend, The Fourth Kind starring Milla Jovovich only took in a disappointing $4.6 million in its second, this past weekend. Adding insult to insult, Universal has been stung with criticism for fabricating news articles to bolster the alien abduction movie's "based on a true story" claim.Even if you've joined the millions and millions avoiding this steaming pile of celluloid, chances are you've see

  November 17, 2009