Subject: Tom McClintock

• Less than an hour until the polls close...

  ... and I'm soooooo confused. I was out of town last Thursday through Sunday, and when I returned there were 17 messages on my phone from the likes of Pete Wilson, Dick Ackerman, Hillary Clinton, someone yammering about Jessica's Law, the Nguyen running for an OC school board seat and his partner in crime David Boyd, Wendy Leece (Costa Mesa City Council), Ben Stein, Alan Mansoor (Costa Mesa CC), sheriff's lieutenant Ron Cunningham (from which sheriff's agency, Lordy knows), "Don't Call Me" Shirl

  November 7, 2006

• The Natives are Getting Restless

  Remember how congenial the OC GOP gathering at the Hyatt Regency Irvine seemed a few minutes ago? Fuck that shit. Election-loss testiness reared its ugly head at 10:20 p.m., our R. Scott Moxley reports from the scene. As the giant TV screen showing CNN flashed pictures of presumed California winners Arnold Schwarzenegger (governor), Tom McClintock (lieutenant governor) and Steve Poizner (insurance commissioner), Young Republican types yelped with respectful cheers. But they filled the hall wi

  November 7, 2006

• Chuck DeVore on Hemp

  Last week there was a rumor goin' round that Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine), a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard and a Republican, was co-author of a bill to legalize industrial hemp. Not only that, but he was doing so with none other than Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), the openly gay Democrat who authored a bill to legalize gay marriages. Polar opposites. The matter and anti-matter of the California Assembly. So what gives? What exactly are they trying to do and why? Here'

  July 3, 2006

• Wherefore Late Democratic Gains?

  Interesting; two hours ago (around 9:45) Dem John Garamendi was 2.5% behind Repub Tom McClintock for Lieutenant Governor. Now, at nigh-midnight, he's up by 1.5%. His gains have been incremental, but constant and steady. Similarly, Dem Debra Bowen has creeped an eensy 0.2% above Bruce McPherson for Secretary of State. Also, Schwarzenegger has gone down steadily from a 63% lead over Angelides to--um, well, a 57% lead. Bill Lockyer and Jerry Brown, big Dems both, leapt ahead of their competition

  November 7, 2006

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Laguna prefers goats on grass

  Mexicans are safe on this one: A report issued recently to the Laguna Beach City Council found that goats will clear vegetation from fire-sensitive slopes for a cost of $198,000 per year, while juveniles working off a crime in the county’s Probation Department would require $385,000. A consultant to the city noted that goats are “advantageous in their ability to work in all types of weather and terrain conditions.” So the goats win again. But tell me recidivism rates for probation punks w

  September 10, 2007

• 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 responsibility to make that [injustice] right,” Spitzer (pictured) said in an August 18 floor speech regarding a proposed and legally sanctioned $100-per-day fee to Ochoa for time spent locked in prison

  August 21, 2008

• Endorse-O-Matic!

  November 7, 2002

• That Could Be Anyones Ass in That Photo

  September 4, 2003

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

  August 14, 2008

• Letters

  October 23, 2003

• Total Recoil

  October 16, 2003

• Not a 'Stiff,' Nor a 'Loser'

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! The OC Weeklys Statewide picks

  November 2, 2006

• A Friend in Weed

  Pot coulda been a contender in DeVore race. Then the Terminator harshed his mellow

  November 2, 2006

• Angry Liberals

  September 8, 2005

• Capitol Punishment

  How Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped worrying and learned to love selling out to special interests

  June 2, 2005

• Letters

  January 1, 2004

• Municide

  December 18, 2003

• Letters

  November 6, 2003

• Best Politics, Art, and Outdoor Sports

  October 30, 2003

• Letters

  October 16, 2003

• The Case for Governor Tom McClintock

  October 9, 2003

• Ballot Pox

  October 9, 2003

• Pete Wilson on Steroids

  September 25, 2003

• Smug As a Bug in a Rug

  September 25, 2003

• We Live in Paradise!

  September 18, 2003

• Fear of a Brown Planet

  September 11, 2003

• Move Over, OC, Placer County's Now Bastion of Conservatism

  Thomas Shaller of FiveThirtyEight--a website that takes its name from the 535 electoral college votes as it crunches polling data and other numbers--makes a compelling case that Placer County in Northern California is the new Orange County when it comes to bastions of conservatism.While Orange County is credited with giving root to Barry Goldwater's turning-point presidential campaign of 1964 and proceeding to deliver strong Republican majorities for four decades, "[n]o such political treatments

  June 19, 2009

• Norby Hopes Anti-Illegals' Darling Tom McClintock Supplies a Campaign Bump

  Tom McClintock For Congress 2009Congressman Tom McClintock is shown from his state Senate days.​Orange County sheriff candidate Bill Hunt, who gets a showy show of support from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio at the Phoenix Club in Anaheim tonight, is not the only local office-seeker hoping for a campaign bump from an out-of-town darling of the anti-immigrant crowd.Supervisor Chris Norby, who is seeking the state Assembly seat abandoned by Mike "Dripper" Duvall (R-Yorba Linda), hosts Congre

  November 5, 2009