”Then there was Loretta
Sanchez, the colorful Orange County congresswoman. A nice person but not an
especially serious idea.”
—Huffington Post's William
Bradley yesterday in his column, “How Jerry Brown Cleared The Democratic Field
for Governor of California.” For several years, the Garden Grove Democrat has contemplated seeking different government offices, including governor, and likely would have been a presidential cabinet appointment if Hillary Clinton had won the White House in the last election.

CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.