Sarmiento Backs Martinez for AD-69
Santa Ana Councilman Vince Sarmiento has endorsed Santa Ana council colleage Michelle Martinez in an email to his supporters today, leaving no doubt on where […]
Month: September 2011
OC Supes to State: We’ll see you in court!
Jose Solorio tried and failed to get the state legislature to restore the $48 million that was lifted from our collective pocket books to help balance the state budget. the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to hire some lawyers to take the state to court and try to get our money back that way.
A Matter of Trust
The enormity of the Kindee Durkee scandal still hasn’t completely sunk in. A number of elected Democrats and Democratic candidates are still assessing the damage […]
The Return of the Auto Insurance Discount Act
New initiative addresses concerns of Prop 17 and brings rate decreases for some and rate hikes for the worst-off.
It seems Orange Councilman Jon Dumitru is either an idiot, a bigot, or both
OC Weekly’s Gustavo Arellano wrote on the Navel Gazing blog this morning about Orange City Councilman Jon Dumitru’s Facebook rant remembering the attacks by 19 religious whack-jobs on September 11, 2001.
Signature Gathering for Fullerton Recall Begins
Petitions to recall three City Councilmen protecting the police responsible for a homeless man’s death have begun.
Tea Bagger Zombies Must Die: the web videogame causes a stir
If you liked the first person shooter videogame “Doom” circa 1994, and you’re to the left of center, you will love this online videogame “TeaBagger […]
It’s A Question of Ethics
There has been some debate regarding the ethics of Claudia Alvarez’s deciding vote last week that determined she received nothing but an unspecified rebuke of her anti-Semitic comments. Both the OC Register and Voice of OC have published articles that suggest that because there was no financial interest at stake in her vote, there was no ethical conflict. I take issue with that conclusion.
Remembering September 11, 2001 Ten Years Later
In an instant everything changed. Almost 3,000 people lost their lives that day, thousands more in the ten years that followed.