Subject: Tom Fuentes

• What Could Go Wrong

  Here in Orange County we've got every reason to fear voter fraud. There's that time back in 1988 when Tom Fuentes, then head of the OC Republican Party, authorized the use of poll guards to scare off Latinos. There's the 1996 election when Loretta Sanchez won from nut-bar Bob Dornan (now with extra nuts!), in which Dornan demanded (and Tom Fuentes encouraged) a fruitless, frivolous investigation into whether unregistered Latino voters had tipped the scales. The words "sore loser" spring to mind.

  November 4, 2006

• I Have a King Day

  Our pal Rebel Girl at Dissent the Blog has a dream: it is a dream for a week worth of activities at Irvine Valley College dedicated to Martin Luther King, Jr., and kicking off on his birthday today. Those activities include: a new on-campus Peace and Justice Center; an institutional adoption of Amnesty International's Prisoner of Conscience; a campus-wide re-creation of the 1963 March on Washington, D.C.; school Trustee Tom Fuentes (the former Orange County Republican Party chairman) reciting Ki

  January 16, 2006

• Film Flam

  Your favorite Co-ed Dorm Wall Clock was shocked--SHOCKED!!!--to read our fresh-pressed copy of the Monday edition of the Chapman University Panther student newspaper (where, little known factoid, we twice toiled as a fill-in faculty advisor, until a certain former LA "By God" Times slacker slid in and put a spell under head honchoess Sue Paterno. Damn you, Jerry Hicks, damn your shapely thighs!) It was this headline that had our just-chewed Special K flying across the breakfast nook: "Racy Stud

  April 26, 2006

• Tom Fuentes Taking 2000 Florida Vote Nationwide?

  Our buddies at Dissent the Blog are following up on announcement made at the most recent South Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees' meeting that former Orange County Republican Party chairman Tom Fuentes has been appointed to the agency that "certifies" electronic-voting systems. As DtB so eloquently put it: "Uh-oh." The spot for Fuentes on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission board may have opened up due to its vice chairman's recent resignation. Dtb cites the follow

  May 23, 2006

• Spot the Pedophilia in YouTube Mater Dei Video!

  You know those quizzes where folks post the same photo except with tweaks (different-striped tie, etc.)? This isn't one of those--no this is better! Start with viewing this 1987 Mater Dei promotional video: Now, list the different associations with Mater Dei pedophiles! Answers after the jump!

  July 11, 2008

• Ralph Crammed In

  November 2, 2000

• Letters

  November 9, 2000

• Year in Review

  January 4, 2001

• Landslide 2002

  November 14, 2002

• Are OCs Democrats Dunn?

  February 20, 2003

• Must-See TV Producer

  December 11, 2003

• Dear Mr. Fuentes

  August 17, 2000

• John Taylor Describes His Last Day on the Job at Nixon Library

  John H. Taylor, who left his longtime gig as the executive director of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation to lead St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church and School as the Rancho Santa Margarita church's vicar, describes the events of his last day on the job in Yorba Linda here.It was highlighted by a visit from Edward Nixon, Dick's younger brother and the sole survivor among Hannah and Frank Nixon's five boys, who recounted childhood tales, hawked his new book The Nixons: A Fami

  February 18, 2009

• Unknown

  A steaming pile of maudlin tripe.

  May 26, 2005

• Ryan's Hope

  March 30, 2006

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 25, 2005

• Needs More Stabbing

  April 7, 2005

• Letters

  March 17, 2005

• Northern Exposure

  March 3, 2005

• Boy-Buggering Bingo!

  10 unlikely winners and losers in the Orange Diocese sodomy sweepstakes

  December 23, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  December 9, 2004

• Deposition Men

  November 18, 2004

• The Gospel According to the GOP

  October 28, 2004

• Letters

  January 8, 2004

• The 2003 Great Park

  January 1, 2004

• I Would Have Nothing to Offer

  November 27, 2003

• Queer Eye for the GOP Guy

  October 2, 2003

• Driving Through the Valley of Malls

  March 27, 2003

• Primary Madness

  March 14, 2002

• Slim Pickins

  March 7, 2002

• Remembering the Future of Orange Countys Great Park

  February 28, 2002

• Lovett or Leave It

  October 4, 2001

• Dick Nixons Revenge

  September 6, 2001

• I Went to My Kids Soccer Game and an English Soccer Game Broke Out

  July 12, 2001

• LA? No Way?

  March 29, 2001

• LA? No Way?

  February 15, 2001

• Year in Review

  January 4, 2001

• The Year in Bits:July - December

  January 4, 2001

• Bray New World

  November 16, 2000

• Hey! We're all Liberals Now!

  November 16, 2000

• Yeah, We Want 'Bush'

  September 28, 2000

• Letters

  August 31, 2000

• Five Latinos We Really Like

  April 6, 2000

• You Are Surrounded by Idjits, Mostly

  March 16, 2000

• Weak Imitation

  February 4, 1999

• Jerque Du Soleil

  May 1, 1997

• Cirque du Socccd

  October 19, 2000

• Weekend Forecast for Newport Beach: Very, Very, Very Conservative

  Andrew Breitbart: From Fox News to Newport Beach​What would you do if you found out conservatives Andrew Breitbart, Jim Lacy, Tom Fuentes, Bruce Herschesohn, Sir Eldon Griffiths, Governor Tim Pawlenty, Meg Whitman, Chuck DeVore, Jeff Miller, Ralph Reed, Dana Rohrabacher, Ed Royce, Steve Poizner, Barry Goldwater, Jr., Gary Kreep, Don Wagner, John Ziegler, John Eastman, Michelle Steel, Matt/Jubal Cunningham and Jon Fleischman were going to be i

  October 15, 2009

• Don Wagner Kicks Off Assembly Bid With a Little Help From His Far-Out, Far-Right Friends

  Don Wagner, in charge.​Irvine's Don Wagner, the hard-core conservative president of the South Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees, kicks off his bid for state Assembly this evening with the help from one of the other hard-core conservatives on the college board's dais, "Chairman Emeritus of the Orange County Republican Party Central Committee" Tom Fuentes.Wagner hopes to win the GOP nomination for the 2010 race for the Assembly seat currently filled by Chuck DeVore (R-Ir

  September 30, 2009

• Separated at Birth? Ask a Mexican's Logo, Saddleback College's Gaucho

  ​Sorry to say I don't know much about Saddleback College in Mission Viejo. I went there once with a cute Vietnamese girl in 2001 to hear Nobel Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu speak, and I once asked South Orange County Community College District trustee and longtime GOP head Tom Fuentes about his feelings regarding the Diocese of Orange sex-abuse scandal (the very first Ex Cathedra story) after a board meeting at the hilly campus. And my chica once presented there, so I had to drop her off.My

  November 10, 2009