Orange Juice

• Inmate Timothy L. Redman Tortured to Death at Ely State Prison, Nevada

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  Yesterday morning, Timothy Redman, a death row inmate at Ely State Prison hung himself in his cell after being tortured for 2-2 1/2 hours, sprayed repeatedly with mace, until he couldn’t take it anymore and hung himself. [...] [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:52pm EST
  by Red Vixen

• Tim Whitacre led the failed campaign to recall Assemblyman Anthony Adams

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  We reported yesterday that the campaign to recall Anthony Adams failed – and that it was the fault of former GOP powerbroker, now miserable loser, Mike Schroeder.  But it gets better! None other than nutter Tim Whitacre was at the helm of the failed campaign! “Recall campaign manager Tim Whitacre and recall [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:40pm EST
  by Admin

• Who Is Mimi Walters and How Did We Get Stuck With Her?

  Mimi is the senator representing most of Fullerton in the 33rd State Senate District – so bequeathed by Dick Ackerman who made sure that some (but not all) of Fullerton was kept in his 33rd when redistricting occurred in 2001. Walters lives somewhere down near the beach but is our [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:52am EST
  by Tony Bushala

• The 2009 Republican Orgy of Bedwetting

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  Getting wrapped up in local issues can be so time-consuming -  I just noticed that I’ve been missing out on the hilarious spectacle of Republican politicians all across the country (including Joe Lieberman, R – duped state) publicly soiling themselves with fear over the very idea that our great nation is capable of putting [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:31am EST
  by Vern Nelson

• Plunder: How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation

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  The public employee unions are plundering and bankrupting California and the nation. That's the bottom line of Steve Greenhut's new book, Plunder: How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation. KFI radio's Bill Handel interviewed Greenhut, former editor of the Orange County Register, earlier [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:56am EST
  by Rogue Elephant

• Sat Nov 21, 2009 @ 10 AM PT: Humor cuts to the chase. Be political activists or have fun with friends? Do both! & Jack Dean on Taming the Pension Tsunami

  Join me on the air, Saturday at 10 AM PT on CRN Digital Talk Radio, & on CRNtalk.com CRN 1 Call in number: 1-800-336-2225 Tony Bushala is one of the founders of a gem blog, Friends for Fullerton’s Future Blog, a.k.a. FFFFB, an effective local blog and guerilla marketing strategy to whip elected [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:01am EST
  by Martha Montelongo

• Perplexed “Pamette” Posse Pluviates Pilaver

  You want funny? We got funny. Just listen to this nincompoop try to promote Pam Keller’s mayoralty – while waving around a copy of the widely discredited Fullerton Observer! Enjoy! Read “Perplexed “Pamette” Posse Pluviates Pilaver” on [...] [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:25am EST
  by Tony Bushala

• Obama Official Admits Stimulus Jobs Numbers Unreliable

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  Since advancing the idea of a stimulus President Obama has touted the expenditure of stimulus dollars as a job creator. As the months have gone by since the stimulus funding was approved by Congress and the President, the President and other Democrats have repeatedly thrown out numbers of jobs created, [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:53pm EST
  by Over But Not Out

• Mike Schroeder fails to recall Assemblyman Anthony Adams

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  Mike Schroeder hasn’t been the same since he had to turn in his Reserve Sheriff Deputy badge and gun… “An anti-tax recall movement against Assemblyman Anthony Adams, R-Hesperia, has failed to gather enough valid signatures to go to the ballot, the California Secretary of State’s office announced Friday,” according to the [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:48pm EST
  by Admin

• Was stimulus money awarded for a completed Hollywood project?

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  I have been under the impression that  “stimulus money” was being provided for the sole purpose of job creation. As I drove to a dinner meeting last night I heard a radio commentator report that the Obama administration has just provided $10 million in “stimulus” money for the “W” hotel on [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:31pm EST
  by Larry Gilbert

• The Highlight of the 72nd Primary Election

  Dear Friends, we have received the following e-mail from Joe Sipowicz: The last couple of months have been a lot of fun for me as I followed the doings in the 72nd Special Election primary. This was really the first time I have paid close attention to a state election, and [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:56am EST
  by Tony Bushala

• The 72nd Assembly District Election Highlights Possibility for Restoration for the Soul of the Republican Party

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  This great post  was written the other day right here in Fullerton by our good Friend and fellow blogger Martha Martelongo, about the 72nd election as a watershed for the OC GOP. Enjoy! This past Tuesday night, I was in Orange County for the special election to fill the seat vacated [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:08am EST
  by Tony Bushala

• Is Costa Mesa Councilwoman Katrina Foley running for O.C. Clerk-Recorder?

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  One of our pajaritos just gave us an interesting tip.  Apparently Costa Mesa Councilwoman Katrina Foley, who this week voted to install an “In God We Trust” sign in her Council Chambers, is considering running for Orange County Clerk-Recorder. Foley would be the second Democrat in the race for Clerk-Recorder.  Termed out Buena [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:39am EST
  by Admin

• Couple BUSTED for refusing to pay the Tip

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  If youre frustrated by poor service at a restaurant, think twice before you decide to not tip. You may be in for a bit more than just a dirty look from the [...] [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:30am EST
  by Red Vixen

• Just Keep The Noise Machine Going

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  On a post today at the dismal Liberal OC blog (almost as self-righteous and irrelevantly noisy as Red Klownty) our old pal and sanctimonious prig Matthew J. Cunningham shares these gem-like comments, reiteration of charges he made against me a few weeks ago. Great post, Dan. A portrait of Pedroza’s true, amoral nature in action. Among [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:41pm EST
  by Tony Bushala

• Mammograms for 12 year olds?

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  The recent huge flap about a report on mammograms for women under 50 and over 40 has caused quite a stir.  What they are not talking about is what constitutes a real life mammogram.  A woman’s individual breast is currently being squished between two huge blocks and then radiologically looked at.  [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:54pm EST
  by Ron & Anna Winship

• Obama’s Third World Vision for America

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  One can imagine a number of motives President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder might have for making such an egregious choice to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and al-Qaida terrorists to New York for civil trial. But the bow to political correctness and the refusal to try enemy combatants in [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:30pm EST
  by Terry Crowley

• State Senator Lou Correa invites you to his Holiday Open House

  Senator Correa played Santa Claus last year when he delivered toys to the kids at the Multicultural Center at St. Anselm’s State Senator Lou Correa is hosting a “Holiday Open House,” on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009, from  4:00 – 6:30 pm, at 2323 North Broadway, Santa Ana. Here is Lou’s invitation to [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:24pm EST
  by Admin

• “A three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S”

  It seems like the Vice-Presidential motorcade is as nutter as he is. The man who thinks JOBS is a three letter word has a Presidential detail that has been involved in THREE accidents in the last two weeks. On November 11, a taxpayer was struck and killed by two of Bidens [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:36pm EST
  by Terry Crowley

• County Counsel Fires Shot Across Fair Board Bow; Will Ackerman Get Hit?

  We’ve been tracking the Sell the Fair (To Us) Movement recently and noted that Dick Ackerman had already admitted to being hired by an insider Board cabal whose intent was to get the State to sell the Fair – to themselves. A couple days ago word leaked out that the County [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:58pm EST
  by Tony Bushala

• Supervisor Janet Nguyen to co-chair carpetbagger Sue Perez’ campaign against Senator Correa

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  Mimi Walters and Janet Nguyen are co-chairing carpetbagger Sue Perez’ campaign against Senator Correa The sad sack OC GOP has recruited a nutter to run against State Senator Lou Correa – and now it turns out that Sue Perez is also a carpetbagger! “Perez doesn’t live in the 34th State Senate District. [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:26pm EST
  by Admin

• Campbell gives Krom a helping hand

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  A little birdy tells me that a recent John Campbell  campaign mailer  listed the campaign website as http://campbellforcongres.com/.  An alert Krom staffer noted typo, secured the domain name, and now that link goes to the Krom website.  Oops! (note: I have not seen this mailer for myself and would appreciate [...] [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:15pm EST
  by tyler

• Mission Viejo boasts of a budget surplus while cutting infrastructure maintenance

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  At the Oct 5th Mission Viejo council meeting,  a former MV mayor made a plea for the city to take over an HOA slope maintenance obligation that, if approved, was to cost us around $500,000 (for starters). While we prevailed in stopping that “special interest” request in its tracks I have [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:12pm EST
  by Larry Gilbert

• The Fullerton School District’s Budget is Really Screwed Up

  Let’s keep this simple – today the Fullerton School Board is staring down the barrel of an unprecedented budget hole. To insulate themselves from the difficult decisions, the board is asking the “Budget Advisory Committee” to recommend a solution. This committee consists of unionized teachers, administrators and PTA parents. At this [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:55am EST
  by Travis Kiger

• Double dipping a useful tool for Irvine teachers

  You have heard about situations where a government employee retires but is then hired back, often without benefits, or goes to work for another government agency. The result is that this person draws a government retirement check plus a government salary. A lot of outrage and anger has been generated over [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:23am EST
  by Over But Not Out

• Suffering the Consequences of War

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  In an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, President Obama is signaling an endgame in the Afghan war.     LINK Barack Obama has for the first time flagged the need for an endgame in the strategy for Afghanistan, saying he did not want to leave the next US president with an open-ended [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:00am EST
  by Red Vixen

• Tom Daly is already done, as Chris Norby endorses Shawn Nelson

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  Fullerton Councilman Shawn Nelson got Chris Norby’s endorsement to replace him on the Board of Supervisors The biggest news to come out of Chris Norby’s victory party on Tuesday night was that he has endorsed Fullerton Councilman Shawn Nelson to replace him on the O.C. Board of Supervisors.  And just like [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:39am EST
  by Admin

• Are our brains just built differently?

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  It was like a kick in the groin, when after the euphoric “third item of old business” in Tuesday’s Costa Mesa City Council meeting – with all members of the council, Republican and Democrat, and evidently every member of the sizable enthusiastic audience UNIFIED in determination to protect the OC [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:16am EST
  by Vern Nelson

• Is governor Schwarzenegger promoting a form of child abuse?

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  For the past decade I have fallen into using non layman political correct terminology that shifts the focus away from out of control expenditures. Specifically the term “bonded indebtedness” when applied to redevelopment projects where people ignore the future bond payments. Most recently I have written about the proposed  bullet train [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:22pm EST
  by Larry Gilbert

• More pictures from Chris Norby’s victory party!

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  “I wonder if anyone wants Linda Ackerman’s autograph?” Chris Norby’s victory party was so chock-full of politicians and wannabes that we could not fit all our pictures into our last post.  So here are a few more: One of Norby’s consultants, Matt Holder, who really needs to eat more! Blogger Allan Bartlett thinks [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:10pm EST
  by Admin

• Usual Suspects To Pulido: Start Acting Like You’re In Charge

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  Inside sources tell me that the “Usual Suspects” aren’t happy with the way things are going at Santa Ana City Hall these days and they are letting Mayor Miguel Pulido know about. According to my sources the “Usual Suspects” believe that Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez appears to be exercising [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:43pm EST
  by Sean H. Mill

• State, Local Government Finances Not Recovering

  The hole keeps getting bigger… Within the last week it has been reported: • LA Unified School District needs employees to accept another 4 day furlough this fiscal year, and a 12% pay cut next fiscal year, or else massive layoffs will be necessary. • In Colorado, Governor Bill Ritter has proposed a [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:20pm EST
  by Over But Not Out

• What Do Ackerwoman, Galloway and Perez All Have In Common?

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  With the announcement by a woman named Sue Perez (who is connected to the wackos at Trinity Broadcasting and seems to be a friend of Lorri Galloway), that she intends to run for 34th State Senate District, we have the spectacle of yet another candidate who doesn’t live in the [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:06pm EST
  by Tony Bushala

• Sustaining, retaining and gaining business for Mission Viejo

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  As I reflect back to the recent Register account  of the Anaheim 2010 Rose Parade float entry, and their reference to Mission Viejo’s 2009 float cost, I thought this might be the appropriate time to discuss activism in Mission Viejo. Mission Viejo activism that was recently attacked by a former elected official [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:41am EST
  by Larry Gilbert

• 72nd Election Recap: Validation & Valediction

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  Over at the otherwise dreadfully tedious Red County blog, our Friend Allan Bartlett opines on last night’s impressive Norby victory over Ackerwoman in the 72nd Special Election Primary. He almost gets it completely right. He correctly points out that Norby’s 17% margin of victory over the Ackerman, Inc slime-peddlers is a [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:08am EST
  by Tony Bushala

• Chris Norby reaches out to Ackerman’s supporters at his victory party

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  The Face of defeat: Jon Fleischman realizes Ackerman is done As you might imagine, all the Republican bottom-feeders who backed carpetbagger Linda Ackerman showed up at Supervisor Chris Norby’s victory party tonight, in Fullerton.  Jon Fleischman and Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham both shilled for Ackerman, but sure enough, there they were at Norby’s [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:58am EST
  by Admin

• It’s over for Linda Ackerman, in the 72nd Assembly District Special Election

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  MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY 72nd District Completed Precincts: of 197 Vote Count Percentage CHRIS NORBY (REP) 10,401 35.9% JOHN MACMURRAY (DEM) 7,985 27.6% LINDA ACKERMAN (REP) 5,895 20.3% RICHARD FAHER (REP) 3,841 13.3% JANE RANDS (GRN) 855 3.0% Well, it’s over for Linda Ackerman in the Special Election to replace Mike Duval in the 72nd Assembly District.  With absentee voters counted [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:15pm EST
  by Art Pedroza

• The Yellow Brick Road to nowhere

  Number of comments: 4
  Gallup is telling us that only 47% of America thinks providing health insurance is a government responsibility. So now, the President and his party are left with two roads that both lead down. One leads to dissolving this Sisyphus scheme and concentrating on jobs, the other is actually doing it [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:12pm EST
  by Terry Crowley

• Did Al Amezcua hire Antonio Villaraigosa’s political consultant?

  Number of comments: 7
  Has Santa Ana Mayoral candidate Alfred Amezcua landed Antonio Villaraigosa’s campaign consultant? A source has reported to us tonight that Santa Ana Mayoral candidate Alfredo Amezcua has hired Parke Skelton to be his campaign consultant.  Reportedly Mr. Skelton came highly recommended by several legislators who are friends of Amezcua. Skelton knows a [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:08pm EST
  by Admin

• Republican Ed Perez incoherently babbles about Lorri Galloway

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  Try to figure out what the heck Anaheim Councilwoman Lorri Galloway’s Anaheim Planning Commissioner Ed Perez is saying in the video above. Perez’ wife Sue is running as a Republican against State Senator Lou Correa, who like Galloway is a Democrat. Galloway has denied that she in any way was involved in [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:27pm EST
  by Admin

• Colbert weighs in on the new Obama bowing scandal!

  Oh no!  President Barack Obama has once more bowed to a head of a foreign country.  While visiting Japan, Obama bowed to Emperor Akihito.  But worry not, Stephen Colbert is on the case.  In the video above he digs up hilarious footage of President George W. Bush kissing the head of the [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:41pm EST
  by Admin

• Al Amezcua and Dennis DeSnoo joined forces to oust AUHSD Trustee Harald Martin

  Number of comments: 12
  Remember when racist Harald Martin was appointed to the Anaheim Union High School District’s Board of Education a couple of years ago?  Local Latino activists rightfully had a cow – and a petition drive resulted in Martin’s resignation and replacement by Democrat Jordan Brandman. What folks may not know is that [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:11pm EST
  by Art Pedroza

• Low turnout should mean a Norby victory in today’s 72nd Assembly District special election

  Number of comments: 1
  So who is going to prevail today in the Special Election in the 72nd Assembly District?  This is the race to replace pervy Assemblyman Mike Duvall.  The candidates include Libertarian-leaning Supervisor Chris Norby; OC GOP machine candidate Linda Ackerman (who is running as a carpetbagger from Irvine); Democratic candidate John [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:46am EST
  by Admin

• Ackerman Defended, FFFF Attacked (Again) By Ackerman Spokeshole

  Yesterday our old playmate Matthew J. Cunningham of the irrepressible boot lick Red County Blog took us to task for passing along the “false” information about his hero Dick Ackerman illegally lobbying for the OC Fair sale. You can read it here, but be forewarned about a likely gag-reflex response. [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:25am EST
  by Tony Bushala

• The Ethical Ackermans of Irvine

  Our pals over at the OC Weekly have finally got on board the OC Fair story. Scott Moxley has described a letter from County Counsel Nick Chrisos to a State AG rep about the obvious conspiracy by Fair Board members to create their own insider cabal to push for the [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:18pm EST
  by Tony Bushala

• Miguel Pulido fires back at Al Amezcua!

  Number of comments: 12
  Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido is ready to throw down! We broke the story last week that former Rancho Santiago Community College District Trustee is challenging Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido. Now Gustavo Arellano has filled in the rest of the story, over at the OC Weekly’s Navel Gazing Blog. Pulido has [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:52pm EST
  by Admin

• Interview with Assemblyman Jim Silva (R-Huntington Beach) who voted against the sale of our Fairgrounds

  Number of comments: 4
  Why did Republican Assemblyman Jim Silva, alone among OC’s Republican and Democratic delegation (with the exception of “Drippy” Duvall who can no longer be located) stand firm for keeping Orange County’s Fairgrounds, voting NO on AB 22 last July?  Well, since he IS my Assemblyman, I thought I would just head [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:24pm EST
  by Vern Nelson

• Martin Wisckol Passes Along Final Valentine To Ackerwoman

  Number of comments: 1
  The other day the Register’s number two press agent for the Repug Machine, Martin Wisckol wrote what he no doubt hoped would pass as a species of objective reporting, here. Yet somehow it fails the smell test, as might have been predicted. Notice how Wisckol equates Norby’s pointing out that Ackerwoman [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:32am EST
  by Tony Bushala

• Call these numbers NOW to stop the sale of our Fair!

  Number of comments: 11
  Katrina says it’s important for each of us to contact ALL the Orange County legislators and ask them to unite in opposition to the needless and underhanded sale of the Orange County Fairgrounds – assembly leadership has told us that the sale can be easily reversed if the OC delegation leads [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:04am EST
  by Vern Nelson

• How much will Ryan Trabuco sell Miguel Pulido’s campaign URL for?

  Number of comments: 12
  Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido is facing the toughtest political battle of his life next year, as he will be facing off against well-known Latino activist and former Rancho Santiago Community College District Trustee Alfredo Amezcua.  Now questions are being raised about Pulido’s campaign consultant, Dennis De Snoo. De Snoo hired [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:22pm EST
  by Admin