Establish an Orange County Veterans’ Cemetery to Honor Our Veterans

May 23, 2014 7

Memorial Day is the day Americans all around the nation honor the sacrifices veterans have made serving and defending our country. This year, it’s also the perfect moment to acknowledge the service of our local veterans by working together to establish a veterans’ cemetery in Orange County.

OC Democratic Congresswoman Linda Sanchez to serve on House Select Committee on 2012 Benghazi consulate attack

May 22, 2014 6

It will be refreshing to hear a different voice representing Orange County in the hearings. While House Government Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, representing portions of southern Orange County, was the politicizing force behind his committees “partisan” investigation, California Representative Linda Sanchez, representing a portion of north-western Orange County, will help provide the counterbalance to the partisan Republican committee.

Portrait of a Sexual Predator: Bustamante’s preliminary hearing begins

May 20, 2014 2

Yesterday the preliminary hearing to determine whether there is sufficient evidence for former OC Public Works executive Carlos Bustamante began in the courtroom of OC Superior Court Judge Kazuharu Makino. The former rising star in the Orange County Republican party and former Santa Ana City Councilman is charged with 12 felony and four misdemeanor counts of sexual battery, false imprisonment, stalking, and grand theft.

OC Register Hardly Fair or Balanced on Global Climate Change coverage

May 16, 2014 11

It is common for the Register to hype the rantings of an outlier scientist to claim that the science on global climate change is far from settled. You don’t have to look too far in the last week to seethe evidence supporting the stark reality of the blatant bias that is pervasive in their coverage of this issue.