With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from yesterday’s sojourn to Sacramento, where I received a Latino Spirit Award (honoring Latinos who have made a positive contribution to California) from the California Latino Legislative Caucus:
*Hosting me for two days was the saintly, ever-hilarious Matt Coker, longtime managing editor of the OC Weekly, currently editor at the Sacramento News and Review. Clockwork Coker remains as trouble
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, hired uniformed security goons to stand outside Latino-heavy polling places in Santa Ana and demand identification from the mostly Democratic voters while carrying signs in English and Spanish that
Dean of state Assembly speakers Wille BrownIf Mike Duvall took his marching orders from Willie Brown instead of Scott Baugh, the disgraced Yorba Linda Republican would still be a member of the state Assembly.
Baugh, chairman of the Orange County GOP, immediately called on Duvall to resign amid the sex-with-lobbyists scandal, and Duvall dutifully obliged.
But Brown, the liberal dean of California state Assembly speakers, says, "Republican Assemblyman Mike 'Spanky' Duvall's decision to
Orange County isn't exactly "Brown Country," but ol' Governor Moonbeam himself, Jerry Brown, is coming here to speak about his 40-year political career and California's future.That could be helpful, seeing as how your state Attorney General--Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr. is the full name, in case you've missed it--just happens to be running for governor again.
