Such a momentous little election. Usually a primary in a non-presidential year elicits less interest than a CHiPS marathon on MeTV. This year is different, since Il Douche in the White House is becoming increasingly unhinged and autocratic by the day (He’s above the law because he IS the fountainhead of the law, see?) and […]
Lou Correa
Lou Correa Builds Support In Race To Replace Loretta Sanchez
Federal campaign finance disclosure reports filed in late January for the Democratic Party race to replace Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Anaheim) show the most conservative candidate, Lou Correa, is stockpiling not only large contributions but is the favorite of Orange County’s power players. The reports, which cover activity through December 31 and were filed at the […]
Kinde Durkee, Who Ripped Off Democrats for $7 mil, Should Do 8 Years: U.S. Attorney
When Kinde Durkee pleaded guilty in March to embezzling at least $7 million in campaign funds from Orange County Democrats such as Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove), state Sen. Lou Correa (D-Anaheim) and Assemblyman Jose Solorio (D-Santa Ana), as well as other California politicians like U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, she was looking at up to […]
California Liberals Are Killing Food Truck Businesses, Says Steven Greenhut
Steven Greenhut, the onetime editorial writer at The Orange County Register and a man loathed by public employee union bosses, and state Senator Lou Correa recently met with 12 food truck owners who claim Santa Ana police and California tax officials are harassing their businesses. According to Greenhut's July 13 Reason.com report of the encounter, […]
Lawmakers Vote to Prohibit Anaheim Schools' 'Demoralizing' Practice of Color-Coding Student IDs Based On Test Scores
Last year, two schools in the Anaheim Union High School District tried a new academic incentive program. Students were given identification cards in colors that revealed how well they performed on standardized tests. Those with the “best” colors were given freebies and perks, like getting to stand at the front of the line in the […]
Lou Correa, The Inquisitor?
There are probably several descriptions you could give Orange County state Senator Lou Correa, but who knew one would be watchdog? According to a Sacramento Bee article today, at a Tuesday hearing, Correa (D-Anaheim) grilled California National Guard officials about lingering and widespread corruption. A Bee investigation found evidence of fraud topping $100 million in […]
Sen. Lou Correa Praised for Proposed Online-Gambling Bill
Orange County state Senator Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana) is better than a handful of aces, if you ask the California Gaming Association. The group is praising Correa's proposed Senate Bill 40, which would legalize online poker in California and is opposed by–one guess–yes, greedy Nevada casino executives. U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-The Bellagio) has been […]
Bill Clinton: OC Needs Loretta Sanchez in Congress
Accompanied by a decent-sized Secret Service detail, Bill Clinton came to Orange County this afternoon to offer advice. The 42nd president of the United States told several hundred people (and at least 60 reporters) gathered under a cloudy sky and outside Santa Ana's historic old red courthouse that local voters need to re-elect Congresswoman Loretta […]
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 air Monday during the 11 p.m. […]
Why is Lou Correa a Better Republican than Lucille Kring?
Kring: Didn't get message Why Republican Lucille Kring is even bothering to campaign for the state senate from central Orange County is beyond me. Didn't Kring get the message that many OC Republican establishment players back Democrat Lou Correa? Well, Lucille? ] Her hearing probably suffers from some abnormality due to sitting in close […]
Has Lynn Daucher been a naughty girl?
In February 2007, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Orange County Republican Lynn Daucher as director of California's Department of Aging. At the time, Daucher–a 2006 campaign loser to Lou Correa for a state Senate seat–uttered a predictable line about the elation of public service. “I am excited that Governor Schwarzenegger has chosen me to serve aging […]
Carona's dirty but Is Lou Correa retarded?
In preparation for an upcoming corruption story, I’ve been reviewing dozens of files I’ve maintained for nine years on Sheriff Michael S. Carona (pictured at a Newport Beach bar celebrating with Rick Rizzolo, a convicted felon tied to the Chicago Mafia and a man who thought so much of our sheriff he contributed to his […]
Diary of a Mad County
Wednesday, Oct. 25 Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is stopped in Boise, and not for the usual reason that someone named Sanchez would be stopped in Boise—i.e., their name is Sanchez . . . oh, wait, yes, it is. The Orange CountyRegister's Peggy Lowe reports on the paper's blog that Sanchez was stopped because her name appeared […]
Cinderella Stories
Once upon a time—okay, last Tuesday—booker-to-the-stars John Pantle gave me superduper, VIP, loge-section seats to Duran Duran at the House of Blues. Why? Because I have all kinds of dirt on him, and he will pay and pay and pay. You hear me, Pantle? Because I didn't become a teenybopper until well into my 20s, […]
Mmm-Bop!
Photo by Jack GouldSo Lou Correa, Jim Silva and Cynthia Coad walk into a bar. . . . In this case, it was the bar at Chapman University's American Celebration on Nov. 18, they didn't walk in together, and there's really no punch line for the joke. I could take the Steve Lowery Easy Way […]
Fantasy Land
Disneyland Hotel: the food was gone by 9:20 p.m., not an hour into the OC Demo cratic Party's Election Night gathering. But the party faithful's political appe tites weren't nearly as voracious. Seven teen national and state seats were up for grabs in the county, but OC's Dems won just two: Lou Correa in the […]
No Soul in this Correa
Photo by Keith MayNear the corner of Halladay Street and Warner Avenue in Santa Ana is an old city yard, now overgrown with weeds. Next door is an elementary school, and next to that is a razor-wire enclosure around camouflaged trucks and trailers belonging to a California National Guard infantry battalion. Surrounding all this is […]
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A Real Lou-Lou
Assemblywoman Sheila Kuehl failed last week in her effort to ban discrimination against public school students and employees on the basis of sexual orientation. On June 4, the Santa Monica Democrat's bill, AB 222, fell just one vote short of the 41 needed for passage. Holding one of those votes was none other than Assemblyman […]
Loathe Thy Enemy
Photo by Keith May”Civil magistrates are to put people to death who practice [homosexuality].” —Costa Mesa-based Christian radio talk-show host Rich Agozino, Aug. 29, 1997 Less than a half-dozen reporters and an OCN cameraman stood alone in the parking lot outside Assemblyman Lou Correa's Santa Ana office on May 26, waiting for the Reverend Lou […]
Sister Act Two
Sanchez drafts sis for Assembly run? It's not enough that she will go down in California history as the underdog who knocked off the Darth Vader of American politics. Loretta Sanchez now wants her family to become Orange County's next political dynasty. In recent weeks, multiple sources say, the first-term congresswoman has intensified her behind-the-scenes […]