It Starts with an Email…..
I’ve made it clear that Melahat Rafiei is my friend. Despite her guilty plea for attempted bribery charges and her pending sentencing in Spring 2025, […]
Melahat Rafiei
Irvine’s Treseder says she’s been bribed; FBI looking at OCPA
Earlier this month, OCPA vice chair Dr. Kathleen Treseder addressed an audience at Unite Unitarian Church in Anaheim regarding the OCPA, her work on the […]
Anaheim is far from a City of Kindness
I got a few phone calls from friends Friday asking if I had seen the Orange Juice blog. I hadn’t. So, I headed on […]
Treseder Proposed Changes to Irvine’s Ethics Rules Miss the Point
The Anaheim cabal case is making other cities look internally at avoiding Anaheim’s plight but ignores the unique situation Anaheim had and this is a […]
OCPA Records Request; No Responsive Records Tie Rafiei or Strader to Green Power Organization
Now that failed Orange County Power Authority CEO Brian Probolsky has left the organization that never fulfilled a single Public Records Request TheLiberalOC submitted, it […]
Democrats Continue to Support Min’s Congressional Bid
Since his May 3 arrest for a DUI, State Senator Dave Min has managed to retain all of his endorsements for Congress in CA-47. (But […]
Fact Checking the Rafiei Case
Now that former Democratic consultant Melahat Rafiei has entered into a plea agreement on a single count of attempted wire fraud, there’s a lot […]
Statement from Melahat Rafiei on Plea Agreement
I’ll have more to say on this next week. But here is an official statement from Melahat Rafiei on her plea agreement with the Department […]
What FBI Investigation in Irvine?
At an Irvine City Council debate last week, Democratic candidate Dr. Kathleen Treseder made a startling statement – that she was interviewed by the […]