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November 8, 2006
The Party's Over
Our R. Scott Moxley reports that, by the end of the night at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, the older Republicans in the room showed on their faces exactly what they felt: worry, frustration, indignation. But the Young Republican types in their 20s and 30s were not missing a beat--or a drop of hooch--as ... More >>
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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 >>
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October 31, 2006
Support Your Local Right-Wing Bloggers
Enough, enough, I say, to those who are chastizing various local GOP bloggers and GOP blog responders over their inadequacies and mealy mouthedness when it comes to calling out the racists and racism swirling around doomed congressional candidate Tan Nguyen. First, you left fielders criticize Republ ... More >>
Blogs
October 16, 2006
David Dreier: In and Out
Kevin Naff raises an interesting observation in his New York Blade editorial "Gay Republicans in the Hot Seat": WITH THE MAINSTREAM media engaged in wall-to-wall Mark Foley scandal coverage for a solid week, attention turned awkwardly (and predictably) to the subject of gay Republicans. Who are the ... More >>
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August 24, 2007
Muslim Bashers of Orange County Unite!
Want to start a jihad against jihadis? You'll get your chance this October, when the David Horowitz Freedom Center plans to organize "the biggest conservative campus protest ever" with something called Islamo-Facism Awareness Week in college campuses across America. It didn't surprise us that UC Irv ... More >>
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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 >>
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December 12, 2007
CA GOP Sure Knows How to Pick OCers
The Republican Party of Orange County's Weekly Squeeze e-letter (guys: drop the cutesy orange metaphor, por favor) tells me today that longtime local GOP activist Kathy Tavoularis is now Executive Director of the California Delegation to the 2008 Republican National Convention. "A well organized del ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2008
Survey Says...Not Much
We recently heard from a reader in Santa Ana who received a copy of the "Republican Party Census Document," along with an introductory letter from the RNC stating that "your answers will represent the views and opinions of ALL Republican voters living in your voting district...Unless we hear from YO ... More >>
News
November 14, 2002
Landslide 2002
What we saw on election night
Blogs
November 4, 2008
The Party's Over
State GOP chairman Ron Nehring: "Lease, don't buy..." The state GOP's "Victory Night Party" (hah!) was over before it started. Driving over to the Hyatt Regency Irvine to make the 8:30 p.m. start time, I was talking on my Bluetooth to my brother in San Francisco when he informed me John McCain was ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2008
Presidency by Numbers: Orange County Edition
Gramps is just gonna rest his eyes some... Orange County Democrats are justifiably happy today as their presidential candidate will be sworn in on Inauguration Day Jan. 20, 2009. And they can take some pride in the Barack Obama-Joe Biden Democratic ticket's 401,605 votes being only 28,755 votes shy ... More >>
Blogs
March 3, 2009
Read Curt Pringle's Lips: He'll Take New Taxpayer Dollars
Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle has long been the golden boy among Orange County Republicans. He got elected to the party's Central Committee in 1986, and two years later became the GOP nominee for the Garden Grove area state Assembly seat. The party, under the leadership of then-Chairman Tom Fuentes ... More >>
News
February 7, 2008
A Bluer Shade of Orange
The raw vote totals in OC tell the real—and really amazing—story of Super Tuesday
Columns
May 11, 2006
Commie Girl
Cinco De Me! Of meat and mariachis, Vidal Sassoon, and (ladies and gentlemen) Arnold Schwarzenegger!
News
March 31, 2005
Tom Fuentes,
An open letter to the former GOP chairman, current college trustee, forever self-destroyer
News
March 3, 2005
Northern Exposure
By trashing Spitzer, Register protects GOP, Catholic Church
News
October 2, 2003
Queer Eye for the GOP Guy
Gay activist sets the record straight about Log Cabin Republicans
News
September 18, 2003
We Live in Paradise!
California Republicans want to do for you what theyve already done for Orange County
News
March 14, 2002
Primary Madness
An OC election time line
News
March 16, 2000
You Are Surrounded by Idjits, Mostly
Our cruel but insightful wrap-up of OC Elections
Columns
November 19, 1998
The Weekly's Week in Review
Our cruel but insightful wrap-up of OC Elections
Blogs
October 20, 2009
More Republi-Drama at OC GOP Meeting
Chris Norby, in the frayAfter a not-so-harmonious Western Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend and amidst a downright ugly state assembly race in north county, Red County's Alan Bartlett reports that last night's OC GOP Central Committee contained a few moments of strife and hand ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2009
Washington Post Lays GOP Woes at Manicured Feet of Mike Schroeder
Michael SchroederToday's top viewed story on the online edition of the Washington Post essentially blames Corona del Mar attorney and former California Republican Party chairman Michael Schroeder for the fractured state of the GOP."The Republicans' War Within: In California, repercussions of one ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2010
Hot Air, Mad Men and Hog Slopping at the California GOP Convention
Carly Fiorina--the former Silicon Valley CEO and current U.S. Senate candidate who ruffled the feathers of Irvine assemblyman and fellow Republican nomination seeker Chuck DeVore with her campaign's "demon sheep" ad--apparently scored a big hit at this past weekend's GOP state convention in Santa Cl ... More >>
News
April 29, 2010
Tea Party On!
The county's GOP central committee is in hot water with the tea party movement
Blogs
May 20, 2010
OC Democrat Asks Republicans To Drop 'No New Tax' Pledge
Photo by Christopher VictorioDemocratic Assembly candidate Melissa Fox has a taxing idea.According to Melissa Fox, a Democratic Party candidate for Orange County's 70th Assembly District, the problem with California government isn't high taxes, a bloated bureaucracy or the massive $20 billion bud ... More >>
News
May 27, 2010
Tea Time!
Will the boiling-mad tea-party crowd sweep sheriff's candidate Bill Hunt to victory?
Blogs
August 31, 2010
New York Times Gets Orange County Laughably, Stupidly Wrong
Never forget what's in our DNA...As someone who collects any and all articles, dissertations, and books on Orange County history, this past Sunday's Page One New York Times story on how our fair land "is no longer Nixon country" was the literary equivalent of Rick Bayless talking about Mexican cu ... More >>
News
September 2, 2010
Barney Frank Rallies Dems for Loretta Sanchez
[Moxley Confidential] Does she really need his help?
Blogs
October 3, 2010
Sunday News Notes
Highlights include:The Latest Grocery Store Scam KCBS Channel 2 in LA is promoting its Monday investigative look into an area grocery store that pretends to honor product coupons but actually credits the shopper $0.00. No word on the identity of the alleged offender. The report is scheduled to ... More >>
News
October 7, 2010
Scott Baugh's Big, No-Bid County Lobbying Deal
[Moxley Confidential] More than $1,000 per day? What?
News
October 21, 2010
Can Van Tran Get Loretta Sanchez Fired?
[Moxley Confidential] Republican challenger says he will boot OC's lone Democrat from Congress
Blogs
November 3, 2010
Election 2010: Moxley Watches The OC Republicans
Jonathan Ho / OC WeeklyTran: Not time to concede. 1:00 a.m.: Van Tran Remains HopefulInside the converted Garden Grove Blockbuster store, Van Tran continues to hold onto his dream of defeating Loretta Sanchez. Tran is trailing by more than 5,000 votes--and the gap seems to be getting larger. But ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2010
Another Reason why the Democratic Party of Orange County is Pathetic: Their Official Party is at Original Mike's
Although we might come across as a left-of-left lefties, people who actually read the entirety of the Weekly know that we harbor a special animus toward local Democrats, who can boast of supporting corrupt politicians (SanTana Mayor-for-Life Don Papi Pulido, Irvine boss Larry Agran, convicted fel ... More >>
News
December 23, 2010
Return to Sender
What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?
News
January 6, 2011
Scott Baugh: The Manchurian Party Chairman?
[Moxley Confidential] Are Republican insiders mad enough at Baugh to vote in an outsider to replace him?
News
April 21, 2011
Marilyn Davenport: The Evolution of a Scandal
[Moxley Confidential] How that racist Obama-family-chimpanzee email has driven the OC GOP apeshit
Blogs
May 13, 2011
10 Reasons to Love Ron Paul 2012
Anti-war, pro-pot, anti-tax, libertarian, foe-of-foreign-aid cranks unite!Teabagger No-bi Wan Kenobi Ron Paul has announced he's running for president again."Time has come around to the point where the people are agreeing with much of what I've been saying for 30 years," the 75-year-old said thi ... More >>
News
June 2, 2011
In Fred Karger's Presidential Run, GOP Stands for Gay Old Party
The OC resident and onetime Republican hatchet man hopes his quixotic campaign can push his party to become more gay-friendly
Blogs
June 14, 2011
When Will OC Republicans Apologize to California for Pushing Arnold Schwarzenegger on Us?
Kudos to former OC GOP head Tom Fuentes for cracking jokes about his terminal cancer last night during the local Reeps' annual Flag Day dinner last night in Irvine. Of course, for him--who supported more pedophiles, corrupt politicians, and plain old scum than the entirety of Law and Order: SVU h ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2011
Drop By Rep. Loretta Sanchez's Office At Noon To Tell Her How You Feel About The Debt-Ceiling Debate
As the debt-ceiling debate trudges on in Washington, a liberal political action committee is taking to every nook and cranny of the country--including Garden Grove. In emails sent to their members, Moveon.org urges "every patriotic American" to show up outside Democratic congressional ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2011
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Admits He's a "Coward"
Rohrabacher calls himself "chickenshit;" public nodsThe Hill newspaper is reporting today that Costa Mesa Congressman Dana Rohrabacher switched a budget vote this week because he feared the political consequences of not voting in lockstep with Orange County's other Republicans in the House of Rep ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2011
Santa Ana Councilmember Carlos Bustamante Resigns from County Job Over Sexytime Allegations
The big political news of the day happened yesterday: SanTana councilmember Busty "Carlos" Bustamante resigned from his job at the county while it investigates allegations that Busty had mucho sexytime explosions on the job with multiple colleagues. There are already calls for Busty to resign his ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2011
Delecia Holt, 3-Time Candidate for Congress, Loses Appeal of Felony Fraud Conviction
UPDATE, AUG. 23, 5:18 P.M.: The state appeals court in Santa Ana rejected three-time congressional candidate Delecia Holt's appeal of seven of the nine fraud felonies that have her locked up at the state prison in Chowchilla (say hi to Omaima Nelson!). The 49-year-old Republican who has floated b ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2011
[UPDATED: Picture Removed, But...] Loretta Sanchez Dresses as Sexy Angel for Halloween, Shows Off Not-Bad Rack
Sanchez: Show that cha-cha!UPDATE: Sorry, folks, but you're going to have to wait until the 2012 election season to see a picture of Loretta wearing a Halloween costume of what was essentially her version of an angel: wearing a see-through nightgown. As you'll notice below, someone left a comment ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2011
ProPublica Blew Orange County Redistricting Story Targeting Loretta Sanchez
Sanchez on the big screenEarlier this month, ProPublica--a respected, investigatory news agency based in New York City--issued a report that blasted Democrats for an unethical campaign to corrupt the California Citizens Redistricting Commission that was charged with designing new boundaries for f ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2012
Fred Karger, Gay GOP Presidential Candidate, Left N.H. in Bachmann-Burner Overdrive
Fred Karger's goal heading into the New Hampshire presidential primary was to better a major candidate who campaigned against gay marriage, something the GOP insider accomplished by beating Michelle Bachmann by 137 votes. Of course, Bachmann had dropped out of the race before the N.H. primary, b ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2012
[POLL CLOSES THIS FRIDAY] How Orange County Has Sex
Swing, baby: SWING!Gentle Readers: in our never-ending quest to document this infernal county county of ours, behold our sex survey, in which we'll try to determine at which end of the spectrum OC falls: the chaste promise rings of the Saddleback Church crowd, or the cock rings of legendary porno ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
Fred Karger Makes Home State's GOP Ballot
Many California gays (and non-gays) celebrated this week's federal appellate court ruling upholding a district court decision that found Prop. 8 violates the U.S. Constitution.Those waving rainbow-colored flags have another reason to celebrate: a gay man made the presidential ballot in California ... More >>
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