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Solorio Kills OC Fairgrounds Sale

September 7, 2010 1

“I have offered several legislative ideas to the City of Costa Mesa that would make their proposal to buy the Orange County Fairgrounds more acceptable in the Legislature. The City has responded to these ideas, but as it stands now, there is still a gap in how far they will go and what I think would be minimum concessions to enable me and others to defend the proposal in the Legislature. As a result, I am now recommending to the Governor that he consider dropping the sale altogether.”

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Loretta Sanchez and Craigslist

September 7, 2010 1

This appeared in today’s The Hill. Craigslist self-censoring a good first step (Rep. Loretta Sanchez) By Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) – 09/07/10 11:07 AM ET […]

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Councilman blows a fuse over blog comment and threatens to F&$K me up

September 7, 2010 25

It has been a while since a candidate for Orange County elected office threatened a LiberalOC blogger, four years to be exact. Then it was Tan Nguyen, who was challenging Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez in 2006. Nguyen believed that our founder Mike Lawson had been defacing his campaign signs and told Mike that he has a lot of supporters that are “passionate” and he would “hate to see anyone get hurt.”This weekend however, this experience was kicked up a notch by Santa Ana Councilman Sal Tinajero.

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Shame on the Flash Report

September 7, 2010 2

…and contributor Jim Lacy for a post titled “Boxer Apologizes for Racist Comments.” The post references racist comments directed by boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., who […]

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Voices From Street Corners – Vol. 3

September 7, 2010 1

As I drove around town this week, I admit I became a bit self-centered. When one worries about their own predicament, one forgets about all that is going on around them and forgets. I then remembered Elie Weitzel’s admonition to us all to “….to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.” As I noticed people who continue to hold up signs, I wonder what else could be done.

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Jerry Brown releases his first TV campaign ad

September 6, 2010 0

At Saturday’s OC Labor Day Celebration in Santa Ana Attorney General Jerry Brown complained; “More people have seen me in a Meg Whitman ad than have seen me in my ads.” But Brown promised the more than 1,000 labor union members, their families, and supporters, “we have the fire power to deliver the truth to the people of California.”