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U.S. Republican Party

  • Columns

    February 17, 2012

    Where Can I Find the Mexico of Donkey Shows?

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] And will Mexicans support Marco Rubio?

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Democrats and Republicans Alike Make Pendejos Out of Themselves Over Chimichangas "Controversy"

    ​To continue on this morning's cylindrical god theme is a ridiculous story coming out of Washington, D.C. involving that legendary borderlands offspring, the chimichanga, a clueless Washington Post, columnist and pendejo Democrats and Republicans fighting over the tamale pie that is the Latino ele ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    [POLL CLOSES THIS FRIDAY] How Orange County Has Sex

    ​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 actor (and Newport ... 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

    December 29, 2011

    ProPublica Blew Orange County Redistricting Story Targeting Loretta Sanchez

    ​Earlier 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 federal and state election ... 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

    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

    October 5, 2011

    Carlos Bustamante, Santa Ana Councilmember, 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

    September 23, 2011

    Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Admits He's a "Coward"

    Rohrabacher calls himself "chickenshit;" public nods​The 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

    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

    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 >>

  • 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

    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

    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

  • 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

    December 23, 2010

    Return to Sender

    What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?

  • 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

    October 21, 2010

    Can Van Tran Get Loretta Sanchez Fired?

    [Moxley Confidential] Republican challenger says he will boot OC's lone Democrat from Congress

  • News

    October 7, 2010

    Scott Baugh's Big, No-Bid County Lobbying Deal

    [Moxley Confidential] More than $1,000 per day? What?

  • 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

    September 2, 2010

    Barney Frank Rallies Dems for Loretta Sanchez

    [Moxley Confidential] Does she really need his help?

  • 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

    May 27, 2010

    Tea Time!

    Will the boiling-mad tea-party crowd sweep sheriff's candidate Bill Hunt to victory?

  • 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

    April 29, 2010

    Tea Party On!

    The county's GOP central committee is in hot water with the tea party movement

  • 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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Washington Post Lays GOP Woes at Manicured Feet of Mike Schroeder

    Michael Schroeder​Today'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

    October 20, 2009

    More Republi-Drama at OC GOP Meeting

    Chris Norby, in the fray​After 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

    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 >>

  • 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

    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

    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

    February 7, 2008

    A Bluer Shade of Orange

    The raw vote totals in OC tell the real—and really amazing—story of Super Tuesday

  • Blogs

    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

    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

    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 >>

  • 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

    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 >>

  • 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

    November 14, 2002

    Landslide 2002

    What we saw on election night

  • 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

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