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Steve Rocco

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    Steve Rocco, Ex-Educator, Andy Kaufman Reincarnator and Ketchup Thief, Now Running For OC Supervisor!

    ​It'll take more than a lifetime of failed election bids (not including one wildly successful, from a comedic point of view, tenure as a school trustee), and repeated arrests for shoplifting to stop Steve Rocco. On March 8, one day after Janet Nguyen filed her own declaration of candidacy for a se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    [UPDATED with Denial:] NO New Trial for Steve Rocco, Ex-Orange School Trustee, in Ketchup Heist

    ​UPDATE, AUG. 8, 8:38 A.M.: Game, set and match, The Partnership? Steve Rocco lost his bid for retrial of his ketchup theft conviction Friday when Judge Jacki Brown refused the ex-Orange Unified School Board trustee's request for court-appointed counsel and, thus, a continuation of the nonsense.

  • News

    September 2, 2010

    Killer Quince

    Happy Quinceañera to us! A look back at 15 years of telling the other side (that is, the real side) of OC's story

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Today's Important Unimportant Election, From My TV Screen to Your Computer/Phone Screen

    ​11:15 p.m.: Don't be surprised if KOCE is accused of turning over its election coverage to that rare Orange County bird known as the "Democrat." The "live, election night edition of Real Orange" came from the Artists Village in Santa Ana, OC's version of Havana. Their election expert was the Voic ... More >>

  • News

    December 31, 2009

    [Year In Review] OC Weekly's News Blog, Navel Gazing, Gazes Back at 2009

    ​11:15 p.m.: Don't be surprised if KOCE is accused of turning over its election coverage to that rare Orange County bird known as the "Democrat." The "live, election night edition of Real Orange" came from the Artists Village in Santa Ana, OC's version of Havana. Their election expert was the Voic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    No Fast Times at Obama High for Orange Unified Trustees

    ​The Orange Unified School District is known for racking up national academic honors, three of its high schools consistently making Newsweek's "1,000 Best Public High Schools in America," and elementary and middle schools there continually scoring above average on standardized tests.The district i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 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 Unive ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 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--Oran ... More >>

  • Columns

    May 7, 2009

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    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--Oran ... More >>

  • News

    April 23, 2009

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

    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--Oran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    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. . . . ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 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. . . .  ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 9, 2009

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    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. . . .  ... More >>

  • News

    April 2, 2009

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

    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. . . .  ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    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 disgrunt ... More >>

  • News

    January 1, 2009

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

    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 disgrunt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Live from the Banana Republic...

    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 disgrunt ... More >>

  • News

    October 30, 2008

    [Scariest People 2008] Orange Zombie

    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 disgrunt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2008

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2007

    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 p ... More >>

  • News

    August 23, 2007

    Recall Madness!

    The nuts and bolts (with extra nuts) of direct democracy gone wild

  • Features

    December 28, 2006

    The Year in Letters

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

  • Blogs

    December 10, 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 ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 30, 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

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2006

    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%; Burciag ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 23, 2006

    Commie Girl

    And the People, They Danced
    Danced to the sweet, sweet music of impeachment!

  • Features

    October 20, 2005

    Orange

    And the People, They Danced
    Danced to the sweet, sweet music of impeachment!

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Just a Smokescreen

    Remember the 1999 Little Saigon protests? They were a conspiracy against Steve Rocco

  • Unknown

    April 21, 2005

    Whos the Real Mystery Man?

    Not me, says Orange school trustee Steve Rocco

  • Contents

    February 24, 2005

    TOC

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    THE COUNTY
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  • News

    February 24, 2005

    Albertsons Wants Me Dead

    Orange school trustee Steve Rocco charges supermarket with murder attempt

  • News

    January 27, 2005

    You Have To Be Afraid

    Orange Trustee Rocco Unveils The Partnership

  • Columns

    January 20, 2005

    Letters

    Orange Trustee Rocco Unveils The Partnership

  • Columns

    January 6, 2005

    Letters

    Orange Trustee Rocco Unveils The Partnership

  • News

    January 6, 2005

    Its Puzzlementary!

    Internet company linking Rocco, Kaufman claims no link between Rocco, Kaufman

  • Columns

    December 30, 2004

    Call Me Irresponsible

    Yes, Its Undeniably True

  • Columns

    December 23, 2004

    Letters

    Yes, Its Undeniably True

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    Will the Real Steve Rocco Please Stand Up?

    Internet mystery surrounds Orange school trustee

  • News

    December 16, 2004

    Youre in Hell

    Whos Crazier: Rocco or his fans?

  • Columns

    December 9, 2004

    Letters

    Whos Crazier: Rocco or his fans?

  • Columns

    December 9, 2004

    Eight Days

    Whos Crazier: Rocco or his fans?

  • News

    December 9, 2004

    The Rocco Files

    Whos Crazier: Rocco or his fans?

  • Features

    December 2, 2004

    Andy Kaufman Isnt Dead

    Hes serving on the Orange School Board

  • Columns

    November 25, 2004

    Letters

    Hes serving on the Orange School Board

  • News

    November 11, 2004

    The Rocco Horror Picture Show

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

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