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Tom McClintock

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2006

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 winn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 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 ope ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2007

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2008

    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 >>

  • News

    November 7, 2002

    Endorse-O-Matic!

    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 >>

  • Columns

    September 4, 2003

    That Could Be Anyones Ass in That Photo

    There are Democrats, I tell you, lurking in our hills

  • News

    August 14, 2008
  • Columns

    October 23, 2003

    Letters

    There are Democrats, I tell you, lurking in our hills

  • News

    October 16, 2003

    Total Recoil

    The recall movies over. Now what?

  • News

    November 2, 2006

    Not a 'Stiff,' Nor a 'Loser'

    WEB EXCLUSIVE! The OC Weeklys Statewide picks

  • News

    November 2, 2006

    A Friend in Weed

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

  • Features

    September 8, 2005

    Angry Liberals

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

  • Features

    June 2, 2005

    Capitol Punishment

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

  • Columns

    January 1, 2004

    Letters

    The Year in Your Hateful Letters

  • News

    December 18, 2003

    Municide

    How Laguna Woods killed itself

  • Columns

    November 6, 2003

    Letters

    How Laguna Woods killed itself

  • Features

    October 30, 2003

    Best Politics, Art, and Outdoor Sports

    How Laguna Woods killed itself

  • Columns

    October 16, 2003

    Letters

    How Laguna Woods killed itself

  • Features

    October 9, 2003

    The Case for Governor Tom McClintock

    Why progressives should vote for the most conservative candidate in the race to replace Gray Davis

  • News

    October 9, 2003

    Ballot Pox

    Stan Stathams revenge

  • News

    September 25, 2003

    Pete Wilson on Steroids

    Cruz Bustamante on Arnold Schwarzenegger, the GOP and John and Ben

  • Columns

    September 25, 2003

    Smug As a Bug in a Rug

    Republicans, reporters preen, groom selves at congratulatory LA bash

  • News

    September 18, 2003

    We Live in Paradise!

    California Republicans want to do for you what theyve already done for Orange County

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    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 Count ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Rohrabacher Reportedly Says Most Republicans Think Iraq War Was Unlawful

    ​"This morning when we taped our show for this weekend, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a right down the middle conservative Republican from southern California, former speech writer for Ronald Reagan, looked at me and said 'almost all Republicans in the House of Representatives now believe that the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Feinstein Leads Opposition to Prop. 19, But Sting is For It and Rohrabacher's Not Sure

    Illustration by Jay Brockman​Dianne Feinstein, our U.S. senator who is not up for reelection this November, joins Reps. Darrell Issa (R-San Diego) and Lynn Woolsey (D-Marin) and gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman in coming out against Prop. 19, the marijuana legalization initiati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    Todd Spitzer Prepares Surprise In Retaliation For DA's Press Conference Today

    James Ochoa holding his little brother​In hopes of blunting the sting from today's scheduled district attorney's press conference detailing Todd Spitzer's alleged pre-firing shenanigans, Spitzer has prepared a surprise.Spitzer--the former county supervisor, state assemblyman and prosecutor who dre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Rohrabacher, Royce, Campbell and Other Doves vs. Pelosi, Waxman and Other Hawks

    ​Before shock and awe, there was just give peace a chance. The call for a surge in Iraq drew a push-back from MoveOn.orgers. Doves bristle at endless warfare.Ah, the good old days. Now, down is up, Simon Cowell is Jennifer Lopez, and hawks who once warned "You-break-it, you-fix-it" are talking pul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Five Songs for Schwarzenegger Fans to Console Themselves With

    20 years ago this summer, Pee Wee Herman got busted for indecent exposure in Florida and almost immediately and brilliantly bounced back with a surprise cameo appearance opening the MTV Music Awards a couple of weeks later with the only possible response:Based on everything that's turned up in the n ... More >>

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