I remember Claude Parrish from 25 years ago in my early days of CRA. I remember the CRA's dinosaurs Gil Ferguson and Dick Mountjoy bemoaning what a bizarre puzzle Parrish was at the time. I wonder what the elder statesman (both long since passed) would say if they...
In SD-37, Uber dumped a bunch of money into Josh Newman and Stephen Choi. The Leadership of the OC GOP wanted Crystal Miles whose consultant is Dave Gilliard. Many of the rank and file wanted Anthony Kuo. The story about how the endorsement of Kuo got scuttled is a...
Not everyone likes Janet Nguyen So, your intrepid blogger gets emails. Sometimes we get a lot of emails. Your intrepid blogger also has a love-hate relationship with the OC GOP Mafia. I say this because I got an email from Janet Nguyen's latest campaign for office...
In doing research on Diane Harkey, one of the top things that came up was her run for congress and some serious bad blood with Darrell Issa. I've had copies of a vicious letter she penned / signed attacking Darrell Issa when he ran for CA-50 in 2020. I did some...
Blogger's Note: The supervisor race in Orange County to replace Michelle Steel includes the Crazed Katrina Foley (the communist from lockdown city Costa Mesa), Newport Beach Councilman Kevin Muldoon, Fountain Valley Mayor Michael Vo and of course career politician...
Well, well, well. I guess Fred Whitaker really is on tilt and the calls for him to resign over his refusal to stand up for Bill Brough's victims - in this case holding John Moorlach and his "volunteer" campaign manager Tim Clark accountable for covering up the rape...
The rape of Trish Todd, frankly the entire William "Bill" Brough saga and all of its' tenticles are a great case study for why the OCGOP is now in second place in Orange County. It is intellectually lazy to blame slippage from 66% of the vote in 2004 for HW Bush to...
Blogger's Note: I received an email forward. It is an email from Fred Whitaker, the Chairman of the OCGOP. He is doubling down on supporting John Moorlach, despite credible allegations that a member of his staff was raped in 2015 and said rape was covered up by...
AD-72: Very simple metric. Tyler Diep was set up to run for AD-72 by former Assemblyman Travis Allen. Diep promptly repaid Travis Allen by taking $3800 from California Trailblazers and endorsing the now former executive director of California Trailblazers over...
This is what I like to see. GOP Groups taking out the trash. Let's start with Tyler Diep - who in the opinion of this blogger will Bolt the GOP after the March Primary. Note - Prop 14 does NOT require the top two candidates to runoff with the party preference they...
The Orange County Toll road saga can not be as simple as a bunch of NIMBY's and some knucklehead Republicans slithering in to the lowest common denominator to get votes? This saga alone should be enough to show any reasonable person that neither Bill Brough nor...
For several years, there had been rumors about the personal conduct of Bill Brough. He is reputed to be a heavy drinker with loose personal behavior. In particular, it was alleged that Brough has had multiple incidences of sexual harassment, including alleged...