State Launches Money Laundering Investigation into Andrew Do and OC Republican Party
Politics & Elections
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Investigators are looking into a complaint alleging “a money laundering scheme” by Do, who is declining to comment.
Mainero and Smoller: Response to Wagner
Community Opinion
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Supervisor Don Wagner quibbles with typos and minor details, but fails to acknowledge the big picture about race relations and the Covid-19 crisis. Wagner refuses to address the fact the Board of Supervisors rejected the call to put a discussion of the renaming of John Wayne Airport, an avowed White Supremacist, on the agenda of its July 14 meeting or before voters. Just like Trump, Wagner fails to take responsibility for the County’s failed response to the Covid-19 crisis, which is why virus cases and deaths in Orange County have, since late May and early June, spiraled out of control. The County needs leadership, not political gamesmanship.
Mainero and Smoller: The GOP is Self-Destructing
Community Opinion
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The Chapman professors—one conservative, one progressive—argue that Donald Trump is proudly taking the national and local GOP over a cliff. The president’s exploitation of America’s racial divide and rejection of science is being emulated by Orange County Republican electeds, to their political peril.
Unprecedented OC Election Season Gears Up, Shaped by Social Justice Movements, Public Health Crises
Orange County Election 2020
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The 2020 election was already set to be pivotal; but now it will be further shaped by regional forces like Coronavirus and social protests.
Santana: Conservative Latino Elected Leaders in Santa Ana Earn a Recall They Can Be Proud Of
Norberto Santana, Jr.
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Independent Juan Villegas and Republican Cecilia Iglesias want more community investment from their city budget, opposing a police union push for a $25 million pay raise package. All of the Santa Ana Democrats on the city council back police pay raises. Villegas and Iglesias now face recall.
Looking Ahead at Orange County’s Political Landscape in 2020
Politics
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Orange County Republicans need to distance themselves from President Donald Trump to regain the offices they lost in November and Democrats can’t overplay their hand in order to keep the legislative seats they gained heading into 2020, according to policy and elections specialists.
Curry: The Way Back for Republicans
Community Opinion
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Keith Curry, former Mayor of Newport Beach and Republican activist called out Trump in 2015 as being the downfall of the Republican party. Today he argues his prediction was spot on. He discusses next moves for the Republican Party.
Billionaire Tom Steyer Pledges To Mobilize Orange County Millennials for 2018 Elections
Orange County Congressional Races
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A new get-out-the-vote effort funded by billionaire Democrat and environmentalist Tom Steyer will mobilize millennial voters in Orange County ahead of this year’s elections for the four congressional seats now held by Republicans.
The OC GOP’s Delicate Dance in the Age of Trump
Immigration
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There was a time when Republican officials in the “reddest county in America” were not at all shy about deriding our porous borders and condemning those who advocate amnesty for unauthorized immigrants. But their approach has become more nuanced in recent years.
Pension Board Set to Cut Bustamante’s Benefits
Countywide
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The board of the Orange County Employees Retirement System is scheduled to vote Monday on whether to dock the pension benefits of former county public works executive Carlos Bustamente because of his sex crimes.