Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Party Apparatus) and the Orange County Republican Party Central Committee are doubling down on their backing of a controversial Huntington Beach school board candidate in the wake of heated criticism of the endorsements. The same OC GOP that routinely craps on Latinos plays the Latina card in the following statement defending […]
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The National Union of Healthcare Workers Shows Orange County How to Get Organized
Dozens of healthcare workers marched in front of Kindred Hospital in Brea last Friday with signs in hand reading “We deserve a living wage” and “A hospital should not be an assembly line.” The spirited informational picket drew elected officials to the picket line and continued for hours, undeterred by the relentless summer sun. In […]
Dana Watch: Doggone Dana
Softball question to a sitting member of the House of Representatives from a Voice of America (VOA) China interviewer: “So Chinese New Year is just around the corner; is there any message you want to say to our audience in China?” Answer from Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Concubine): “Well, let me just note . . […]
Political Football: Dallas Cowboys vs. Seattle Seahawks
Dallas update: You’ve no doubt heard the tragic story of Botham Jean, shot to death in his own apartment by a Dallas cop who claimed she mistakenly thought it was her apartment. Now, it would be unfair to say this was something that could only happen in Dallas, as it could, of course, happen anywhere […]
SoCal Conservatives List Proposed “Noxious” Veto-Worthy California Laws
Calling the state legislatures current session in Sacramento “over-the-top with noxious legislation,” Orange County-produced The FlashReport this month published a list of the “Top 20” proposed new state laws conservatives view contemptuously. The list is the work of state Senator John Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa) and assemblywoman Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore), both known in their political circles […]
School Board Candidate Tied to White Supremacists Poised to Get OC GOP Nod
The Orange County Republican Party Central Committee is poised tonight to endorse a school board candidate who has curated a “Holocaust hoax?” YouTube playlist, promoted Islamophobic conspiracy theories on Facebook, referred to African Americans as “colored people” and protested a white privilege workshop alongside alt-right agitators who were scheduled speakers at Charlottesville’s Unite the Right rally days later. My […]
It’s an Eat Dog Eat World, Starring Dana Rohrabacher
Softball question to a sitting member of the House of Representatives from a Voice of America (VOA) China interviewer: “So Chinese New Year is just around the corner; is there any message you want to say to our audience in China?” Answer from Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Concubine): “Well let me just note … uh […]
OCDA Cuts Deal to Thwart Public Hearing into Jail Phone Surveillance Scandal
Days after OC Weekly’s August revelation that ethical issues tied to jailhouse telephone surveillance by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) for two years had stalled the severe pending punishment of a defendant, prosecutors quietly gave a sweetheart deal rather than surrender subpoenaed records and undergo public hearings into potential law enforcement perjury. As a result […]
Dana Watch: Throwing Some ‘Shady’
Harley Rouda, the Democrat challenging 15-term incumbent Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Slim Jim), “outsourced American jobs to China”; made “millions of dollars from sweatshop labor”; paid those workers “$5 a day,” amounting to $35 per week because they toiled “seven days a week”; and “got rich while Americans lost their jobs.” Those are the allegations […]
Political Football: Indianapolis Colts v. Washington Say-It-to-My-Face-I-Dare-You’s
Indianapolis update: Indiana is, of course, the “Hoosier State.” What’s a Hoosier? No one seems to know. Oh, the answer is probably out there, it’s just that who wants to take the time to find out something about Indiana. It’s an odd state. Though it lays claim to being a bastion of rock-ribbed Midwestern values, […]
Dana Rohrabacher Gets “Handeled” by the Tune “Har-ley Rou-da”
In these very pages (virtual and otherwise), Vern Nelson has been referred to as “a humorless, knee-jerk Democratic Party loyalist.” As everyone knows, we have never been wrong. However, we must admit to getting a chuckle out of Nelson’s latest project. I know, snowflakes. The source of the guffaw involves Nelson’s lyrics and piano playing, […]
Hardball California Republican Strategist Jimmy Camp Takes on the President
For decades, Orange County’s Jimmy Camp has served as a prized political consultant not only for California’s conservatives, but also for the likes of Utah Senator Orrin Hatch and the National Republican Congressional Committee. Camp’s Democrat counterparts see him as a triple threat: inexhaustible, creative and fearless. He once donned a chicken outfit to publicly […]
You Can Help Make California Its Own Country
No man is an island, but the California National Party wants this state to be its own country. The secessionists, who have been recognized as “a political party attempting to qualify” by California’s Secretary of State, say they are petitioning Governor Jerry Brown “to start negotiations for California to become independent from the United States.” “We […]
Political Football: Jacksonville Jaguars v. New York Giants
JACKSONVILLE UPDATE: Last week, Ron DeSantis, who represents the suburbs outside Jacksonville, won Florida’s Republican primary for governor utilizing TV ads showing him helping his daughter “build a wall” made of paper bricks and reading Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal to his infant son; we assume junior will next be introduced to the beloved […]
Dana Watch: R.I.P., GOP?
The FBI, Secret Service and U.S. intelligence agencies in 2015 blamed sophisticated attacks of computers at the State Department and other sensitive parts of the White House on Russian hackers who were likely working for that country’s President Vladimir Putin. A year later, after Wikileaks released emails belonging to the Democratic National Committee and other […]
Todd Spitzer’s New TV Ad Campaign Blasts DA Tony Rackauckas
Two months before November’s general election, Supervisor Todd Spitzer announced the launch of a “seven-figure” television advertising campaign in his effort to unseat 75-year-old Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas. Spitzer’s campaign highlighted one ad that focuses on the supervisor’s “work to keep kids out of crime and homeless off the streets.” A second ad […]
We Nominate Christina Ignatius of Asian Racism Fame for Trump Cabinet Gig
Amazing: an Orange County attorney posting a racist rant against Asians on Facebook. Amazinger: the swift and stinging backlash against said attorney that said post produced. Amazingest: the partial scrubbing of said attorney’s bio from her law school’s alumni page and her own business. Christina Ignatius–who goes by “Tenacious Ignatius” on social media and has […]
Tonight’s OC Needle Exchange Town Hall Meeting: A Political Preview
Tonight, the Orange County Needle Exchange Program (OCNEP) will host its second town hall information session since the California Department for Public Health (CDPH) approved the OCNEP’s plan for a mobile needle exchange on August 6. If tonight’s town hall at the Delhi Center in Santa Ana is anything like the OCNEP’s public forum […]
Dana Watch: My Man Manafort
Because of the multiple felony convictions of Paul Manafort, Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Slime Bucket) says he will donate to a local charity the $1,000 Donald Trump’s former campaign manager donated to the congressman . . . in 2013. The timing filled Harley Rouda, the Democrat facing Rohrabacher in November’s race for the 48th Congressional […]
Orange Countians Accused of Spying or Bucking Sanctions for Iran
This region has suddenly become a hotbed for spies for the Islamic Republic of Iran. A hearing is set for Sept. 6 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where Ahmadreza Doostdar, 38, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen born in Long Beach, and Majid Ghorbani, 59, who has lived and worked in Costa […]
OC Needle Exchange: Arguments Fly at Anaheim Town Hall
It didn’t take long for an Anaheim town hall meeting, hosted by the Orange County Needle Exchange Program (OCNEP) on August 23, to devolve into vicious arguing. OCNEP’s mission at the town hall was to build a rapport with the communities of Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Santa Ana and Orange where the needle exchange will be […]