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Moorlach Backs Mansoor on Toll Lanes, but Nguyen’s Silence is Deafening

Posted on September 29, 2014 by John Fields Posted in 2014 Elections, Allan Mansoor, Janet Nguyen, John Moorlach, Michelle Steel, OC Business Council, Orange County, Toll Lanes Leave a comment

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OC Supervisor John Moorlach continues solidly behind Allan Mansoor as successor to his 2nd District office with this letter to his constituents today. Both Moorlach and Mansoor strongly oppose implementing toll lanes between the 405/55/73 interchange in Costa Mesa and the 405/605 split at the LA County border.

Both men have been OC Transportation Authority Board members (Mansoor’s opponent, Michelle Steel, has never held office in the County or its 34 cities) and are familiar with Measure M‘s long ago promises which never included tolling on any freeway. Continue reading→

Updated: Curry/Gilliard Go Negative, and Racist?

Posted on May 16, 2014 by John Fields Posted in 2014 Elections, AD74, Dave Gilliard, Emanuel Patrascu, Keith Curry, Orange County Leave a comment

NB Councilman Keith Curry and Campaign Consultant Dave Gilliard

Going negative in a political campaign might mean a few things — it’s logical for a candidate who may be losing ground and needs to just dig his opponent with facts or past history that’s uncomplimentary. Unknowns use the technique to gain attention and notice when their opponents are better known and recognizable from previous exposure in the media. Or a candidate might just be unscrupulous.

In the 74th Assembly District race, to be fair, Emanuel Patrascu started the cycle by correctly pointing out that his opponent, former Newport Beach Mayor and Lincoln Club Boardmember Keith Curry was trying to shoo the beach fire rings out of NB and keep the undesirables away from the shore-front properties of his city’s very wealthy land and boat owners around Balboa Island and Newport Bay. Despite the battle he started against the fire rings, Curry’s online “Issues” page still states: Continue reading→

Updated: Allan Mansoor for 2nd District OC Supervisor

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Joe Hill Posted in 2014 Elections, Allan Mansoor, OC GOP, Orange County 2 Comments

Our Editor, Art Pedroza, makes an important point in this post from yesterday, OC BOS candidate Michelle Steel’s carpetbagging exposed at the Feet to the Fire forum:

…according to the Orange Juice blog, [Steel] is renting a small place in Surfside, but really lives…in the Palos Verdes Peninsula, with her loaded lawyer hubby Shawn Steel. Steel later admitted that she has only lived in Orange County since 2011, but the OJ bloggers have called BS on that. 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

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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→

Janet Nguyen turns on the OCEA

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Editor Posted in 2014 Elections, Janet Nguyen, Labor, OCEA 1 Comment

OC Supervisor Janet Nguyen

Supervisor Janet Nguyen’s campaign consultant, Dave Gilliard, has launched a blistering attack on the Voice of OC, an independent non-profit, non-partisan online media outlet, and the Orange County Employees Association (OCEA).

Gilliard’s attack is quite ironic given that Nguyen and her allies were caught red-handed this week, taking money from the Orange County Employees Association by The Orange County Register.

Could Gilliard’s attack be an attempt to change the issue from the fact that Nguyen and company took OCEA money, despite a county Republican Party ban on endorsing office seekers who accept political contributions from labor groups? Continue reading→

Michelle Steel kicks off campaign for O.C.’s 2nd Supervisorial District

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Editor Posted in 2014 Elections, John Leos, Michele Martinez, OC Clerk-Recorder, Orange County Leave a comment

Michelle Steel for Supervisor

For immediate release: Thursday, May 16, 2013
Contact: Dave Gilliard, (916) 626 – 6804

Michelle Steel Kicks Off Orange County Supervisor Campaign

ORANGE COUNTY – Today, Michelle Steel kicked off her campaign for the Second District on the Orange County Board of Supervisors. The seat is currently held by John Moorlach, who is prohibited from running for reelection due to term limits.

“I am running for Orange County Supervisor because I love and care about the community I live in,” said Michelle Steel, who lives in Surfside and is the leading candidate to replace Moorlach. Continue reading→