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Is Orange County ready for an openly gay Congressman?

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Editor Posted in 2016 Elections, Anaheim, Bao Nguyen, Curt Pringle, Garden Grove, Gay Democrats, Gay Republicans, Gay Rights, Heberto Sanchez, Jordan Brandman, LGBT, Loretta Sanchez, Lou Correa, Matt Cunningham, Orange County 6 Comments

A image Nguyen posted to his Facebook and Instagram accounts.

A image Bao Nguyen posted to his Facebook and Instagram accounts.

The Republican Party has been imploding in rage since the U.S. Supreme Court gave their blessing to gay marriage but that has not stopped Garden Grove Mayor Bao Nguyen from coming out of the closet, even as he considers a run for the U.S. House of Representatives seat that is being vacated by U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez.

Nguyen is a Democrat and he will be facing quite a bit of competition from his own party, for the Sanchez seat, in the 46th Congressional District. Other Democrats vying for the seat include former State Legislator and County Supervisor Lou Correa and Los Angeles County resident Heberto Sanchez. The latter is unknown and has previously run for a local office in Pomona, but obviously he shares the same surname as the incumbent, which may benefit his campaign. Continue reading→

Pettibone forced out of the Anaheim City Council race by awful attack on his family

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Editor Posted in 2014 Elections, Anaheim, Doug Pettibone, Kris Murray, Lisa Burnett Lewis, Lucille Kring, Matt Cunningham, Tom Tait Leave a comment

Lisa Lewis

By the New Anaheim Blog

A supporter of Anaheim Councilwoman Kris Murray and Mayoral candidate Lucille Kring, named Lisa Burnett Lewis, did the unthinkable this week. She dredged up sealed court records and threatened Anahcim City Council candidate Doug Pettibone, in a scathing email message sent to the Anaheim City Clerk. The email was outed by the publisher of the LiberalOC blog, who has always supported mayoral challenger Lorri Galloway, in past Anaheim elections.

Pettibone apparently went through a bad divorce 16 years ago and he was charged with domestic battery but ultimately the charges were dismissed and the entire mess was supposedly sealed.

Pettibone is now friendly with his ex wife and she was supporting his City Council campaign.

The Orange Juice blog broke the story down in an in-depth post you can read here. Continue reading→

Matt Cunningham gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar and blows up on Facebook

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Editor Posted in Curt Pringle, Matt Cunningham, Orange County, Toll roads 2 Comments

Matt Cunningham

The big story this week in Orange County is that Curt Pringle and his acolytes, including Matt and Laura Cunningham, got caught with their hand in the cookie jar, again, as the media discovered that they were getting huge contracts from the OC Toll Road Agency that were approved only by the TCA Chair and/or their CEO.

It is hilarious to hear Matt in particular insist that he is a conservative although time and again he gets caught ripping off the taxpayers and this time in secret.

A friend of mine got into it with Matt on Facebook and the resulting exchange is quite priceless. Matt tries to deny everything but then gets confronted with the facts and of course he immediately becomes self-righteous. Typical Jerbal! Check out these images of the conversation between them: Continue reading→

Toll Road Agency’s leeches exposed as Bartlett contract scheme is outed

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Editor Posted in Curt Pringle, Development, Lisa Bartlett, Matt Cunningham, Orange County, Toll roads 6 Comments

Laura “Mrs. Jerbal” Cunningham got paid too

The Foothill/Eastern toll road agency kept nearly $220,000 in contract approvals hidden from public scrutiny in the past year using a budget loophole that even its board members didn’t know about, records show, according to the O.C. Register.

That loophole allowed the agency to circumvent its own rules and approve or change major contracts with nothing more than the support of its chairwoman, Dana Point Councilwoman Lisa Bartlett, and the signature of its chief executive officer.

And how did the toll road agency spend this money? On a vast collection of leeches that included (courtesy of the O.C. Register and the Voice of OC: Continue reading→

Lame OC GOP Chairman Baugh decides to defend “hate blogger” Cunningham

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Editor Posted in Laura Cunningham, Matt Cunningham, OC GOP, Orange County, Republican Party, Scott Baugh 3 Comments

Scott Baugh indicted

OC GOP Chairman Scott Baugh has opted to downplay the significance of the recent controversy that occurred when Republican consultant Matt Cunningham made fun of Latino teens shot to death in Anaheim, on his Anaheim blog, according to Martin Wisckol at the O.C. Register.

Wisckol of course used to openly promote Cunningham’s now dead Red County blog. Wisckol advertised, for free, Red County, and the equally vile Liberal OC blog, on his OC Register web page for years. Continue reading→

The latest Cunningham fiasco started with his master Pringle way back in 1988

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Editor Posted in Anaheim, Curt Pringle, Dan Chmielewski, Latinos, Laura Cunningham, Matt Cunningham, Orange County, Republican Party, Santa Ana, Tom Fuentes 2 Comments

Curt Pringle

While the media and the OC blogger community is currently fixated on what attack blogger and Republican Matt Cunningham did in Anaheim, when he made fun of Latino families whose children have been shot and killed by the local police, there was another disaster that “set back party efforts to recruit Latinos “by 20 years.” I am referring to the infamous poll guard incident in Santa Ana, that directly benefited Cunningham’s master, former Anaheim Mayor turned lobbyist Curt Pringle.

That fiasco happened in 1988, and then OC GOP Chairman Tom Fuentes took the hit for it. In fact he had to resign his job as Director of Communications for the OC Catholic Diocese, according to the LA Times, after the poll guard incident blew up in the national media, just as Cunningham had to resign yesterday from his post on the OC Parks Commission – and we have since learned that Cunningham has also lost some OCTA consulting contracts as well. Continue reading→