Speaker John A. Perez

Did California State Assembly Speaker John A. Perez punish an Orange County Republican Assemblyman yesterday for balking at an alleged appalling lack of transparency in state spending proposals?

That's a question raised this morning at a "God and Governance" conference in Newport Beach by Allan Mansoor, a conservative who represents a large portion of coastal Orange County in Sacramento.

According to Mansoor, it's standard practice that members are given at least a 24-hour advance to study upcoming legislative ideas before a vote, but that in an Assembly healthcare subcommittee on Friday Democrats gave Republicans two pages of proposals--including millions of dollars in new, unexamined spending--a mere 25 minutes before a scheduled vote.

"I said, 'This is ridiculous,'" Mansoor told the audience that had gathered inside St. James Church to plot ways to combat the "evil"--homosexuality, abortion, contraception and Godlessness--overtaking the nation with President Barack Obama at the helm. "[The new legislative proposals] are not transparent to us. It's not transparent to members of the public or the press, who want to read about it and understand it."

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See the update at the end of this post about Anaheim Police also announcing they'll run a DUI checkpoint tonight.

ORIGINAL POST, MAY 24, 8 A.M.: Another long holiday weekend, another opportunity for law enforcement to pull boozy drivers off the roads.

Orange County police agencies have several anti-DUI operations planned beginning tonight with checkpoints in Placentia, Buena Park, Costa Mesa and Rancho Santa Margarita.

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Karen Clark, who describes herself as a "freelance designer, writer, TV junkie," saw the Weekly's exhaustive coverage in anticipation of the new Arrested Development season coming Sunday and offered to provide an add-on. After the jump is her detailed infographic breaking down how each Bluth family member has been breaking bad.

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Trial was scheduled to begin today for Richard Alan Nolan, a nurse accused of sexually assaulting two male patients at Anaheim's Western Medical Center.

Charged in 2010 with five felonies ranging from sexual battery on an institutionalized victim to oral copulation, the 47-year-old made bail and has been free for three years pending today's scheduled Superior Court hearing in Santa Ana.

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See the update at the end of this post about the burglary.

ORIGINAL POST, MAY 24, 11:24 A.M.: From City News Service:

Two Fullerton schools are in lockdown as police search for a burglary suspect who broke into a home in the 2000 block of Mariposa Lane.

Sunset Lane Elementary School and D. Russell Parks Junior High are in that area.

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The long Real Housewives of Orange County nightmare not only continues, but it is also expanding, as Tamra Barney is getting her own Bravo spin-off.

The untitled, unreal reality show will be the fourth in the Housewives' franchise surrounding a cast member getting married, following Bethenny Frankel's Bethenny Getting Married?, Kim Zolciak's Don't Be Tardy for the Wedding and NeNe Leakes' I Dream of NeNe, which has not yet polluted cable television.

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Keley Bluez: A troubling mix of identity thievery and hip hop

Aspiring Southern California hip-hop rapper Keley Bluez--crooner of the MySpace online wonder "(I Don't) Beg for Pussy"--has been sentenced to prison for his role in a multiyear, sophisticated, identity-theft and bank-fraud ring that stole millions of dollars from innocent victims.

In court records, Bluez is called by his real name, Kevin Leron Young, and he hoped U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter would be lenient by adding only two more years of incarceration to the 19 months he has served while awaiting punishment.

Young's story is that he comes from an extremely poor background and participated in the crime as a way to advance his singing career by endearing himself to one of the masterminds who has influence in the rap industry.

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The Irvine Police Department announced the arrest of two men and a warrant out for a third in the case of recent burglaries of religious institutions that has already resulted in the arrest of a fourth man previously disclosed by the Santa Ana Police Department.

The suspect being sought is parolee James Dorscht, 39, of Norwalk.

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Roa: Fast & Furious

It's understandable that Ruben Roa keeps fighting his violent criminal convictions.

Roa, a 28-year-old member of Orange County's notorious 18th Street gang, is in the early stages of prison sentences totaling at least 40 years and he wants to have a chance to return to freedom before he's an elderly man.

But criminal justice system officials haven't shown any sympathy for Roa, who in Nov. 2006 used a Mercury Mountaineer SUV to chase and crush Rito "Boxer" Guajardo, a rival, Big Stanton gangster who was furiously pedaling his bicycle to get away.

(Roa's first attempt to run over Guajardo failed. He backtracked, found the rival hoodlum again, aimed the SUV, accelerated at his target and succeeded in causing a gruesome death.)

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See you in 2016!

Steve Lodge, as readers will recall, embarrassingly finished fifth--even behind phantom AnaHyna Jennifer Rivera!--in the race for two open seats on the Anaheim city council last year. The local GOP machine, disgraced blogger Matt "I Protect Pedophile Protectors and Out Sex-Abuse Victims" Cunningham, Disney and former Mayor Curt Pringle would have loved to see him up on the dais, only, it seems his murky past came back to haunt him.

But instead of retreating into political irrelevancy, Lodge is going to try, try again! The Anaheim Hills resident (and No. 6 on the Weekly Scariest People List for 2012!) quietly filed a candidate intention statement in February and updated his Facebook campaign site, not for the upcoming 2014 election cycle, but for the city council race in 2016!

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