Likening it to the right-leaning Red County blog picking up Matt “Jubal” Cunningham's OCBlog.net years ago, the left-leaning The Liberal OC blog announced today the “media acquisition” of Claudio Gallegos' Sunny D blog. Adding Sunny D to the stable will “pump up” coverage of Santa Ana, Costa Mesa and Latino/a issues, according to TheLiberalOC.com blogger Dan Chmielewski.
Gallegos has not posted anything new on SunnyD since May as The Liberal OC awaited a “private investment” to fund the acquisition, Chmielewski said.
“We're making an effort here to shore up areas we need to shore up with
resources,” Chmielewski said. “Claudio is a respected voice. We've been
criticized for not going after bad Democrats. Claudio goes after bad
Democrats in Santa Ana, Anaheim or anywhere. He'll call them on the
carpet.”
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Earlier this month, The Liberal OC welcomed new blogger Deborah White, the editor/writer of Liberal Politics for About.com, which is part of the New York Times Co. White has already reported from her congressman's health-care town hall on Aug. 8, writing that Rep. Ed Royce and the Fullerton Republican's staff sat back and watched as 16-page magazines were distributed with a “ludicrous cover” depicting Adolf Hitler
casting an admiring glance at President Barack Obama, who is surrounded
by adoring throngs of Third Reich adherents.
Chmielewski said the goal is to make The Liberal OC “an advertising
destination for Democrats” in a county where half a million registered
voters cite that party as their own. “Gavin Newsom just talked
about Orange County becoming a blue county. There are more Democrats
here than in San Francisco. They're trending favorably while
Republicans are stagnant or declining.”
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.