OC Labor’s Big Walk: Hundreds Walk for Labor Candidates
ORANGE — On Saturday morning more than 350 Orange County labor union members walked precincts all across Orange County to support endorsed candidates of the […]
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Obama Weekly Address: GOP Rewarding Corporations that Create Jobs Overseas
In this week’s address, President Obama laid out a policy agenda that would strengthen our economy and create jobs right here in America by offering tax incentives to businesses that hire new employees, making the research and experimentation tax credit permanent and providing a tax cut for clean energy manufacturing. The President also wants to close tax loopholes worth billions of dollars that encourage companies to invest in overseas, while Republicans in the House have voted 11 times in just the last four years to keep those loopholes open.
The Sanchez Clinton Rally
Nearly 1,000 people showed up to see Bill Clinton and Loretta Sanchez this afternoon at the Old Courthouse in downtown Santa Ana. Yes, it was important that right-thinking people be there in large numbers. Yes, it was important that self-respecting Democrats be there in large numbers. No question.
Tea Baggers Invade CSUF: “We Need Young People”
 There were a number of get out the vote booths set up on the quad at Cal State Fullerton yesterday and the local Tea […]
Seems everyone wants to stand in the spotlight with Loretta and Bill
Over the past several days it seems that every elected democrat is claiming that they, along with Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-47), are inviting people to attend a rally in Santa Ana. In some cases, they are making it look like they are hosting, or co-hosting, the event. The Democratic Party of Orange County (DPOC) sent out an email blast, announcing the rally, but they had the intellectual honesty not to claim it was their event.
Silencing Critics of Van Tran on Little Saigon Radio – Where have I heard that before?
Yesterday, Norberto Santana, Jr. of the Voice of Orange County wrote a story Controversy Surrounds a Now-Silent Little Saigon Radio Show that reported on a radio show on Vietnamese language radio that has gone slient because of a mysterious requirement allegedly imposed on all program producers preventing criticism of individuals or public officials. If I didn’t know better, I would think we were somewhere in communist Vietnam., or maybey just the cahmbers of the Santa Ana City Council (snark). Santana reports:
Citizen’s group sues City of Santa Ana over One Broadway Plaza changes
A Coalition for Accountable Government Ethics (CAGE) filed suit against the City of Santa Ana, charging that the City acted in violation of law by amending the voter-approved initiative/ordinance without submitting the question to a vote of the public. Simply put, CAGE is claiming that the City Council did not have the authority to amend the One Broadway Plaza Development Agreement, because the agreement was part of the voter approved initiative, Measure A.
Tran ducks his record in debate with Sanchez
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and Assemblyman Van Tran faced off tonight in two half-hour debates taped at the KOCE studios in Huntington Beach. The first of the debates aired on KOCE and the OC Channel Wednesday night and the second will air tomorrow in the Real Orange time slot and will be rebroadcast several times on the local Orange County public broadcating station. The Sanchez campaign sent out the following statement after the first debate was aired.
CD-48 Debate Tonight: Will Campbell Even Show?
 Beth Krom will be at UCI tonight for the only scheduled debate for CD-48. Her opponent, Rep. John Campbell, has not formally declined but […]