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Photo by Beth Stirnaman

Will work for . . . work, in the City of Orange.

​When last Clockwork Ernest Hemingwayed on the Potluck for Progressives, this scratch-resistant sidewinder told of how the kibosh had to be put on the Nov. 13 gathering because the scheduled speaker from the regrouping California Cannabis Initiative backed out.

At the time, event coordinator Duane Roberts disclosed the new Potluck for Progressives date would be Nov. 20--this Friday night--and that the topic would be "The Criminalization of Day Laborers in Orange County."

If Roberts' aim was to present a dinner debate that inflames (heh) less passion than legalizing the Devil's weed, he failed miserably. 

So legendary liar Lou Dobbs quit his CNN show last night, and the expected reactions are flowing in: Aztlanistas rejoice, Know Nothings rail. The campaign against Dobbs was very much a La Raza conspiracy, but California for Coalition Reform head Barbara Coe is also pointing a gnarled, cigarette-stained, deluded finger at President Barack Obama.

"Believe what you wish," Coe told her minions last night in an email. "However, in my opinion, Obama and La Raza are primary suspects and I hope and pray that FOX NEWS has the courage to hire him and keep him on the air - sharing TRUTH with ALL Americans! She also added this disgusting postscript:

If Islamic terrorist NIDAL HASAN recovers from his wounds suffered as he MURDERED 13 American servicemen/women in cold blood, perhaps OBAMA will mandate that HE be the host of this portion of the CNN show, with CAIR and LA RAZA as co-sponsors.

Sadly, that's one of the least-craziest remarks Babs has ever made. Anywoo, some of Dobbs' worst hits!

Arpaio, Coe, and Hunt: Pendejos in a pod? For sure, the first two...

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It was bad enough that Orange County Sheriff's candidate Bill Hunt invited a man as controversial as Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to shill for him at a fundraiser. But for Hunt to allow California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe into the fest means he has just sealed his fate with the rational people of Orange County.

Bill: that picture. Why? Do you really want to be associated with the godmother of the modern-day Know Nothing movement, a lady who rails about the homosexual agenda, who doesn't believe in vaccines because they're a government plot, who doesn't make qualms about her hatred of Muslims (not just the terrorists, Bill, but even those successful ones that can give you mucho cash)? Who says President Barack Obama is worse than Hitler, who is a Birfer, who believes cell phones can make popcorn kernels pop? Who recently wrote to her minions in an email that the Koran tells Muslims to "'torture, kill all American non-believers'"? Really?

Photo by Beth Stirnaman

Joe Arpaio (left), Barbara Coe and Bill Hunt--together at last. They are shown here at a VIP reception before a fundraiser for Hunt's campaign for Orange County sheriff.

​I went to a Bill Hunt for Sheriff fund-raiser tonight, and a Joe Arpaio Dinner Show broke out.

Tom McClintock For Congress 2009

Congressman Tom McClintock is shown from his state Senate days.

​Orange County sheriff candidate Bill Hunt, who gets a showy show of support from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio at the Phoenix Club in Anaheim tonight, is not the only local office-seeker hoping for a campaign bump from an out-of-town darling of the anti-immigrant crowd.

Supervisor Chris Norby, who is seeking the state Assembly seat abandoned by Mike "Dripper" Duvall (R-Yorba Linda), hosts Congressman Tom McClintock (R-Granite Bay) in his Fullerton home Saturday morning.*

*CLARIFICATION: See reader's comment below about Norby's campaign promoting a precinct walk by mentioning McClintock's support, not an appearance by the NorCal congressman Saturday. 
 

Arpaio: Still not as much of a clown as Carona...

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Originally published Halloween, but moved up until Thursday because the comments left by Arpayaso supporters are some of the stupidest ever left in Navel Gazing history--and considering many Mater Dei grads write here, that's saying something...join in the fun!

**Updated, with new info on the bottom...

As we told you a couple of weeks ago, Orange County sheriff's candidate Bill Hunt, in an act of either delusion or desperation (care to weigh in, Bill?), has invited wasteful, moronic Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to raise money for him. Hunt has now revealed the location of his fundraiser: this Thursday at 6 p.m. at Anaheim's venerable Phoenix Club.

We will give Bill credit for his knowledge of Orange County, because only in this damned place will you find as much blind support for Nickel Bag Joe as the Phoenix area, where the hatred of wabs trumps everything, even a corrupt, Constitution-hating pendejo like Arpayaso. Wait a minute: unqualified support by most conservatives for a wretch? Hey, Mike Carona: where are you?

Judging by the Know Nothings that dominate la naranja, Bill should raise millions. Good for you! All other good people: welcome Joe this Thursday at 6 p.m. on the public sidewalks near 1340 S. Sanderson Ave., Anaheim. See you there!

*Only because Mike Carona is no longer sheriff, of course...

​Sorry, Orange County nativists. We just linked to a totally nerdy lame iPhone app that shows stimulus money. Zzz. I know.

How bout this: an app for illegal immigrants trying to cross the border?

It's called iCoyote, and it'll help you locate water, a good city from which to steal jobs and an American wife with whom to have your anchor baby.

Okay, it's a parody put together by LawFirms.com. But it's only a matter of time before the Register's Yvette Cabrera sponsors a live-chat about whether it's more offensive than that illegal  "alien" Halloween costume.

See it here, and see someone already pissed off about it here.

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Honestly, I always felt bad for Bill Hunt, the former Orange County deputy sheriff who's running against incumbent Sandra Hutchens next year. He loudly spoke against the moron Mike Carona, only to suffer an insult so egregious--demotion to patrolling Stanton--that he rightfully resigned. The lords of the OC GOP always ridiculed him, and nearly anything they're against is righteous and holy. But there is no way on Earth I can possibly say anything nice about Hunt anymore until I receive some clarification: either the guy is an ignoramus maximus, or so desperate for support he's willing to deal with Lucifer himself.

On November 5, none other than Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will slime his way to O.C. to raise money for Hunt. Does Hunt suffer from Stockholm Syndrome? The only sheriff worse than Carona ever elected to office is Arpaio, the man Hunt gushingly calls Arpaio "America's Toughest Sheriff" in fundraiser invites. Did you do any research on him, Bill? Do you know that, by seeking Arpaio's endorsement, you've just alienated nearly every Latino voter in Orange County because Arpaio's immigration roundups these past couple of years have terrorized Latinos in the Phoenix area (and don't give me any shit about illegal is illegal, Know Nothings: Maricopa County sheriffs have been more than happy to include American citizens in their raids)? That every reporter loathes Arpaio because his disgust for the First Amendment is such that he jailed my drunk mick bosses for charges so trivial, they were released the next day? That inmate deaths and beatings in the Maricopa County have been so frequent, they make Orange County jails seem like Club Fed?

But here's the best part, Bill: You claim to be a true conservative, so how can a good GOPer support a public official who has cost taxpayers over $40 million for his lax oversight of the jails?

Bad weekend for Adolf lovers.

​Neo-Nazis rallying in Riverside--which was previously referred to here and here--were vastly outnumbered by counterprotesters Saturday.

A morning counterprotest sponsored by 32 community organizations, including some with Orange County members, drew 200 people to Riverside City Hall. Their enthusiasm--and numbers--carried over to an anti-immigration rally staged later that day by eight Neo-Nazis in front of a Madison Avenue Farmer Boys restaurant that is adjacent to a Home Depot where day laborers gather.

The Heil Hitlerers never knew what hit them.

​The Anaheim-based Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) is jumping into the controversy involving neo-Nazis harassing worshipers at a Jewish synagogue in Riverside.

As the Riverside Press-Enterprise reports, more than 20 organizations, including CAIR-LA, plan to stage a counter-protest to a neo-Nazi rally scheduled for Oct. 24. The Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization joined the Islamic Center of Riverside and the Islamic Society of Corona/Norco today in condemning the neo-Nazis who recently displayed flags with Nazi swastikas to harass and intimidate worshipers attending services at Temple Beth El.

Gandhi: The Nativo Lopez of India?

​As an Aztlanista, I always wince when reconquistadores go over the top with illogical arguments justifying amnesty for illegals. I'll never forget when the usually genteel, always sharp Larry Mantle of Airtalk on KPCC-FM 89.3 once ripped into a Chicana activist because her response to some immigration matter was pablum about families. When Mantle pressed, the woman rambled even more.

But when I recently read that longtime O.C. yaktivist Nativo Lopez compared his latest cause to the actions of Gandhi, I laughed. Loud. Man, it's almost as bad as the time he held a dinner rally on the feast day of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

The issue at hand is whether illegals should volunteer themselves to get counted in next year's census. Disregard the existential question at hand (how can you count something that's not supposed to be there in the first place?), and follow me: Larry and others argue the undocumented shouldn't bother with the census because the government doesn't bother with them--or, rather, bothers them too much with raids and the like.

"Refusing to cooperate with the U.S. census count is a political act of noncooperation and noncompliance in the best of Gandhian tradition conducted for the purpose of pressuring the political regime that pursues the persecution of immigrants on a daily basis at all nexus of social connection," Lopez told a crowd during a recent lecture at Princeton University. "This action seeks to dissociate ourselves from this repugnant and immoral policy, which strikes at the heart of the immigrant family."

Um, yeah.

I'm speaking today at USC (go Bruins!) at the invitation of sociology professor Jody Agius Vallejo, a proud graduate of El Dorado High in Placentia (this might be the first time in Weekly history we've mentioned that high school...) and UCI doctoral grad from its School of Sociology. She's done a lot of work on Orange County, specifically middle-class Mexis and their own unique integration into a county that simply can't believe wabs are capable of living outside the rough parts of SanTana and Anacrime or have jobs more prestigious than nanny and jornalero. Nowhere is this more sadly exposed than a paper she wrote this summer for the academic journal, City & Community.

In "Latina Spaces: Middle-Class Ethnic Capital and Professional Associations in the Latino Community," Agius profiles the Orange County chapter of the National Latina Business Woman's Association. Everyone gets pseudonyms to protect individuals from some of the chismes told (like older members looking askance at a younger Latina who's a bit too ghetto for their tastes) but the stories of their struggle to be taken seriously in Orange County are legion: discrimination at a local golf course (also gets a nickname) which thought the NLBWA "was not the caliber of people to bring to the golf course," a gabacha telling Agius during a business mixer, "Good for you Mexicans. Usually, people take over countries with wars but you Mexicans are doing it by having a lot of babies," and--most hilariously--a Laguna Beach cosmetic surgeon who didn't want to deal with Agius during Orange County's Largest Mixer because "your members are[n't] my caliber of people. I usually deal with the Newport Beach type of ladies."

You pendejo--don't you know successful Latinas all get permanent blonde hair and other surgeries to look more white? We kid--we know a lot of rich prietas. I've begged Agius to reveal the name of the surgeon, but she's too professional to budge. Good luck trying to find her paper online (damn academics and their paywall!), but congrats on an article well done. A profe to watch...

Academics: doing research on Orange County and its sundry issues? Dissertations, papers, and the like? Send them my way at GArellano@ocweekly.com so more than 50 eggheads will know of your work!

Hicks: The Stupidest Skinhead

​If you believe the friends of the Candy-Ass Gang--the trio of pendejos (Brian Charles Hanson, Bret Macdonald Hicks, and Michael Aaron Powell) and one pendeja (wannabe chola Erin Lee Brooks) who prosecutors say drove into Huntington Beach's Slater Slum neighborhood with the expressed purpose of beating up a Mexican, only to have their asses cracked at the hands of wabs--the group is innocent. These white supremacists just happened to drive into an alley in a heavily Latino neighborhood late at night, and those stabs they inflicted on a poor man don't matter--the real victims are the Candy-Ass Gang, who suffered black eyes, dislocated shoulders and were jes' plain scared.

"They're getting railroaded," whined Martin Cox, perhaps Orange County's most notorious skinhead due to his many appearance on British and American documentaries, on the July 17 edition of his Internet radio show, 88 Degrees. "[They face an] uphill battle, we all wish [them] the best. It's a case of self-defense."

Why is Cox so interested in the case? Because he and Hicks are close friends--indeed, Hicks was set to join Cox's infamous hatecore band Extreme Hatred until the idiot blew his self-professed dream by getting sent to jail. The two are so close that Hicks co-hosted 88 Degrees with Cox for months, going so far as to produce fliers for the program that airs every Friday night on Orange-based Radio White, one of the country's oldest white-power radio stations.

It's on this show that a Weekly investigation has discovered that the Candy-Ass Gang had good motive to commit the crime prosecutors have charged them with--namely, Hicks said it was time to go kill Mexicans.

The actual image of the display box--arriba, arriba!

​I'm in San Antonio right now, speaking at community colleges and eating so much Tex-Mex cuisine I now sweat processed cheese. Before catching my flight from John Wayne Airport on Sunday, I went into one of the shops next to the gates that sells magazines and other curios--don't remember the exact one. Near the register was a display for Mexican jumping beans.

Oh, the vestiges of Old Mexico, when the only acceptable real-life Mexican was Leo Carrillo and the food wabs ate was deemed Spanish! What on Earth would possess an airport shop to sell these? I understand such stores have every possible tourist trap imaginable to get quick bucks (in the San Antonio airport, I saw enough "Don't Mess with Texas" curios to make Mexicans seem as jingoistic as the Swiss), but Mexican jumping beans aren't even native to Southern California and haven't been in vogue for, oh, 40 years. Does the shopkeeper believe that those who visit Orange County have antiquated notions of Mexicans--or is it simply following the county's Mexican-ignorant ethos? And I still want to know--why does anyone outside of Sonora even give a flying flip about these larvae?

If Obama is worse than Hitler, what does that make Coe?

​I once had an argument of sorts with a prominent O.C. newsman who basically told me to give it a rest on the Barbara Coe beat. "She's just an old, paranoid woman who barely has a following," he said of the head of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, and that's why he works for his outlet and I work for mine. You gentle readers need no introduction to the profound influence she's had on the modern-day Know Nothing movement.

But sometimes, I wonder if Coe is really a joke--well, of course she's a joke--of the Andy Kaufman performance art school or her current pitiful kind. Her sayings are so outrageous, so disgusting, surely she can't possibly believe them?

Consider her Sept. 27 missive to minions. Babs passed along some anti-Muslim drivel, and included this:

Barak [sic] Obama and his anti-American "czars" are taking a page from Hitler's Nazi Germany playbook - only worse, much worse. Be afraid, be very afraid!

Adolf Hitler's "playbook" included: the extermination of Jews, the mass murder of Gypsies, the disabled and Jehovah's Witnesses, and the killing of hundreds of thousands of Americans. No matter your position on Obama's policies, he's not a genocidal demon. Coe: What a sick HAG.

Allan Mansoor, former mayor of Costa Mesa, currently running for higher office: Barbara helped host a fundraiser for you a couple of years back, and her crazies make up your major voting bloc. Denounce her. Jeff Schwilk, head of the San Diego Minutemen and Coe acolyte, who insists his group is civil in the illegal-immigration debate despite all evidence to the contrary: denounce her. Dana Rohrabacher, who frequently speaks before CCIR meetings: denounce her. All of her followers: denounce her. But none of you will, because that's just the nature of your Know Nothing pendejo ways. The rest of us good people? We'll continue to laugh at your foolishness and cringe at the thought that your kind is coming back with a vengeance.

Made in OC. Why?

​You can't pick up a virtual copy of OC Weekly these days without . . . tripping . . . over . . . yet . . . another . . . instance . . . of hate.

Guess it's on our genes.

So, what's up with that? How did we get here? This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife! Well, rather than letting the days go by, Orange County's second annual "Conference on Hate Crime" hopes to get to the bottom of our nagging little problem.

OC founding father Henry W. Head: Could take on a Bostonian any day

​Let the baseball pundits obsess over whether your Angels will finally beat the Boston Red Sox in the playoffs next week--I care about stripping from Beantown what's now rightfully ours: the title of most-racist 'burb in America.

​For decades, critics rightfully deemed Boston as the country's most racist big city, and seriously: what do you expect from a town where micks and goombahs have long dominated politics, culture and demographics (ethnic Catholics, as we wabs have shown here, make fine racists), and had to fight Brahmins (the WASP kind, not the cool ones) to get there? Go read the biographies of Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell if you don't believe me. And the desegregatin' buses of the 1970s further solidified the city's racist image. Coupled with an unhealthy obsession over Larry Bird, fan antagonism toward Jim Rice, and the curious worship of scrappy (read: gabacho) Red Sox players, and outsiders might understand why as recently as 2004, Barry Bonds refused to even entertain the thought of playing in Boston.

But that was so long ago. Seriously: what has Boston done in the past 20 years to justify its label as the Land of Bigotry? Orange County, on the other hand? Well, I don't really have to repeat what I write about nearly every week, do I? You know I do!

Brooks: dig those Sharpie eyebrows!

​ Skinheads never cease to crack me up with their stupidity, and I had to muffle my laughs today at the West Justice Center. The Nazi party involved the Candy-Ass Gang, the trio of pendejos (and one pendeja) who prosecutors say drove into Huntington Beach's Slater Slum neighborhood with the expressed purpose of beating up a Mexican, only to have their asses cracked at the hands of wabs. In the shackles and jumpsuits were Brian Charles Hanson, Bret Macdonald Hicks, and Michael Aaron Powell; free on $100,000 bail was wannabe chola Erin Lee Brooks. Also present were supporters of the Candy-Assers.

Nearly all the skinheads wore sweatshirts. Why the choice on such a brutally hot day? Besides the fact all are idiots and don't bother with logic, they were trying to appear normal in front of Judge Steven Bromberg--surely, Hizzoner wouldn't like to see all the ugly white supremacist tattoos each sported on their arms?

Alas, the façade wasn't meant to last. At one point, Brooks scratched her arm to reveal what looked like that Celtic symbol with all the knots (doesn't Brooks know that the Irish were long considered only slightly above blacks in America?). But the funniest-dressed gal was the peroxide blonde at the front. No amount of tugging up her sweatshirt could hide the fact that a huge, black Iron Cross was tattooed on the back of her neck. Now, I'll apologize profusely if the lady isn't racist and actually put the Cross on her neck as target practice for her man, but somehow I doubt that.

Why hide the hate, Candy-Assers? Right: because ustedes know how untenable your positions are. All together now: COWARDS!

Why is this woman smiling? Right: because she just talked to her boss, Lucifer...

​California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe hates Mexicans. She hates immigrants. Muslims. Thinks Obama wasn't born in this country and won't take vaccines. She's not an anti-Semite or anti-black, unless they're liberal. Really, the only group I could never find any evidence Coe was against were the gays...until last week.

She forwarded an email urging her minions to oppose an Assembly bill seeking to create a Harvey Milk Day in honor of the gay rights martyr because, according to the subject head written by someone else, it promotes "the homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual agenda to children as young as kindergarten." Coe didn't add any of HER CAPS-FILLED COMMENTARY, but it wasn't necessary. Congrats, Babs: you're now a homo-hater! Really, I'm surprised plants don't die at her sight, so evil this woman is...

Photo courtesy Orange County Archives

Caspers, at the park which would bear his name

​One in an occasional, ongoing, eternal series...

All I ever knew about former Supervisor Ronald Caspers is that there's a Wilderness Park named after him and that he mysteriously disappeared at sea. Why didn't anyone ever tell me he was Mexican-bashing bigot?

But that's what happened in the fall of 1972. Caspers, annoyed that a Mexican-American group of county employees were demanding affirmative action (he had accused one of the leaders of not being an American citizen), called them "bandidos" during a board meeting, then asked county counsel to explore moving the county seat from SanTana to whiter environs because "we are in an area which does not have a normal ethnic balance."

But wait, Barbara Coe! I thought SanTana was a gabacho paradise in those days, and that they liked Mexicans! No racism until the illegals, and they deserve it because they're ILLEGALS.

Back to reality, Caspers ended up apologizing for his gaffe during a board meeting, and the other supervisors reprimanded him publicly. Caspers claimed he didn't know bandido was an offensive term to Mexicans, a bullshit excuse considering Chicanos had just successfully axed the Frito Bandito the year before.

Funny aside: a Caspers staffer at the time was Tom Fuentes, who would eventually become the longtime chair of the GOP and has always proudly stated he has Spanish blood in him, not wab.

​The Orange County Register did another immigration story over the weekend, this one interviewing Know Nothings and saints on opposite sides of the issue. I understand that reporter Cindy Carmaco has to adhere to trying to antagonize the Know Nothings as little as possible lest she receive dozens of nasty phone calls and email like every Reg reporter who ever covers SanTana and immigration, and thus must refer to any anti-immigrant loon as "anti-illegal-immigrant." But seriously, Cindy's editors: let your writer report the truth.

She interviewed Barbara Coe, the queen of the modern-day Know Nothing movement and head of the Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group California Coalition for Immigration Reform. Besides referring to CCIR as a mere "anti-illegal-immigration group," Carmaco also lets Coe crow about her wacky email blasts. "Our direct e-mail list is well over 500 people but beyond that a good many of our direct e-mail lists are group leaders of other groups throughout the nation. It could get up to the thousands," the living cigarette boasts.

Reg editors: CCIR doesn't just hate the illegals. If so, why do they rail constantly about Muslims, or want Sikhs deported? And that email list! No constant publication since Congressman James Utt's rantings has been more hilariously hideous--just go through our archives to see Babs rail against vaccines, proudly proclaim herself a Birther, and wish the swine flu on our president. Is this really a good source on the immigration debate, Register?

In Coe's latest email rant, she doesn't like her Wikipedia entry. We agree: nowhere is there ALL CAPS WRITING, and it's much too kind to this wretch.

Jaimee Lynn Fletcher has a fascinating piece in today's Orange County Register about a pro-white (as in Caucasian) political group forming in Garden Grove.

Supporters of the Golden State Party notified the Secretary of State in May they would try to qualify as a political party for 2010, elections officials said.

The kicker is the self-proclaimed "European-American" group has links to white supremacist groups and is run by a two-time convicted felon, something that has caught the attention of watchdog groups monitoring racist and anti-Semitic activity.

Continue reading " White Supremacist Party Made in"...

OCCCO recently held a prayer vigil for healthcare reform. Now immigration reform is the cause.

​Orange County Congregation Community Organization (OCCCO) is teaming up with local faith leaders for a prayer vigil calling for just immigration reform Friday evening in the sanctuary at  Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, 1100 S. Center St., Santa Ana.
 
A Catholic Celebration of Mass begins at 7 p.m., followed by the candlelight vigil at 7:45 p.m.
 
"As members of an inter-faith community OCCCO believes it is a moral imperative to protect community, stop raids and the separation of families," states the organization's event announcement. "Based on all faith teachings, OCCCO leaders stand to treat all members of
society with dignity and respect."
 
The coalition acknowledges the current immigration system is "broken" and change is needed. But they also see a need in publicizing stories of suffering that are out there. A moving gathering is promised.

Candy Ass Hanson: So stupid he can't even beat up a Mexican

​I had dinner last night with my best friend, a guy I've known since seventh grade, when he moved to Anaheim from Huntington Beach. Specifically, the Oak View neighborhood, universally known in HB as the Slater Slums due to its high Latino population and many apartments. I asked if he had heard about the idiotic racists who dared go into the neighborhood with the specific intent of assaulting a Mexican.

"No," he said with a laugh. "What fucking pendejos would do that?"

Four of them, actually. Police have already arrested Michael Powell, 21, of Anaheim, and Bret Hicks, 30 of Riverside for attempted murder and are looking for Erin Brooks, 24, of Huntington Beach, and Brian Hanson, 26. They apparently went into the Slater Slums last month with the specific intent of beating up a Mexican and did, stabbing a poor soul three times. But how stupid were these cowards, thinking gabachos with white supremacist tattoos could get away with assaulting a Mexican in a Mexican neighborhood?

Not only did neighbors come out to save the victim from certain death, but they proceeded to kick neo-Nazi ass. Look at the booking photo for Hanson. HAHAHA. Not only are you probably going to spend a long time in prison surrounded by Mexicans, but Mexicans also kicked your candy ass. Morale of the story: if you're a white supremacist and want to beat up Mexicans, do it in Seal Beach or Ladera Ranch, not in a barrio. Dipshits.

​It would take me a while to list all the vile things and views California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe believes, but a short list includes: Reconquista, Sikhs and Muslims deserve deportation, Obama wasn't born in the United States, Sonny Bono was murdered because he knew too much, and on and on the beat don't stop until the break of dawn. Here's the latest: Babs is urging her followers not to take any vaccines because the government is using them to kill you!

In a August 1 email to supporters regarding a YouTube video claiming a flue vaccine makes you infertile, Coe screeched the following (CAPS, as always when it comes to a Coe testimonial, in the original):

For MANY YEARS, my health care provider NAGGED me to take all their "vaccines" - flu, pneumonia, blah, blah. I refused and finally had to contact Administration to tell them to leave me alone! When finally asked WHY, I advised them that to me it is obvious that IF my government (FDA) approves any vaccine, their goal is to sicken or kill me and my answer to them is not only NO, it is HELL NO! They finally left me alone. I am "older than dirt" and still "healthy as a horse" thanks to my wise decison.

PLEASE refuse this vaccine, URGE your kids and grandkids to also REFUSE it AND work tirelessly to DEFEAT Obama's "Health Care" that will FORCE all of us to submit to this (and other "vaccinations") - PLEASE!

Honestly, the only conspiracy I've yet to hear Coe espouse is the Zionist one.

Busty: More liberal than Loretta?

​Only in the Bizarro world that is Orange County Latino politics can you have a brownie Republican be more Aztlanista than a brownie Dem, yet that's what happened last week. In a symbolic resolution, the SanTana City Council expressed their support for the DREAM Act, which seeks to legalize hundreds of thousands of illegal youngsters (not just Mexicans, by the way) in this country. The vote was 5-0, and I initially assumed that the two absent members were Mayor Don Papi Pulido and Busty Bustamante, the sole GOPendejo on the council. I was half-right: the Don Papi was on vacation, while the other non-vote was Vince Sarmiento, who has previously shown himself to be a mensch.

But Busty doing something right? The man who threw away a non-existent political career for a cheap joke? Who suffers from a chronic case of conflict-of-influenza? Whose brother is a slumlord so arrogant he drives a vintage white Bentley around SanTana (sorry, Alfonso: the only men allowed to drive Bentleys without coming off as an asshole are old British guys and Arab sheiks, and even they would never dream of traveling without a chauffeur). As much as I hate to do this, I must salute Busty for a job well-done.

Even more amazing, Busty showed more political fortitude than Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez. Busty will undoubtedly incur the wrath of Know Nothings; Sanchez, on the other hand, refuses to co-sponsor the DREAM Act despite being in office since 1996. No more excuses, Loretta: you say you support the DREAM Act yet don't bother to endorse. Put up, or shut up. Otherwise, we just might--shudder--join the Red County crowd and remind people again and again how out-of-touch you really are with constituents.

 As if California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe couldn't get any more out of the mainstream--and if we've done anything in our years at this rag, it's to show that Babs is one of the vilest people to ever live in Orange County (think about that for a bit)--there's this: Coe is a Birther!

In an e-mail sent yesterday to her minions, Coe forwarded an email with a link to CNN liar Lou Dobbs ranting about President Barack Obama and wondering if he was, indeed, born in the United States (with a shout-out to Queen Bee Birther Orly Taitz). "It is great that LOU DOBBS is addressing this issue," Coe wrote.

Why the mainstream media still treats Coe as a rational voice in the Know Nothing movement is beyond me and is an indictment of how lazy most reporters are. We, on the other hand, bring you the unvarnished, hilarious truth regarding Babs. Now, let the ad hominems begin...

We're all accustomed to hear anti-immigrant loons rail:  illegal alien SAVAGES, PRESS 1 FOR ENGLISH, TWO FOR SPANISH, and other priceless couplets. But, until this new wave of Know Nothings, there was at least a bit of class. Sure, Barbara Coe and her minions would spew all sorts of vitriol about Mexicans and other immigrants, but never in a decade of covering her have I heard Barb cuss or use bona fide slurs. The same, sadly, can't be said for William Gheen and Jeff Schwilk.

Gheen is the head of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), who dramatically broke from Coe last week. In a July 10 email to longtime Jim Gilchrist ally Tim Bueler (who longtime Weekly readers will remember was once a young teen ready to kill Muslims when he grew up), Gheen took issue with Bueler's attack on ALIPAC.

"...Put a cork in it you little butt boy fanatic," Mean Gheen screamed. "I've dealt with your types all my life... constantly looking for the biggest political hand you can shake and the biggest dick you can suck in politics...If you are going to write me, please try harder not to sound so much like Jim's little bitch ok?"

"Butt boy"...my gawd, I hadn't heard that one since junior high!

San Diego Minutemen head Jeff Schwilk was a bit more civil in the same email chain; his only contribution was violent fantasy about his mortal enemy Gilchrist. "Its a good thing Gilly didn't show up [at some Know Nothing gathering in San Diego County]- they would have used him as a piñata for all the kids," he wrote. "The Nacho Ramos boys would have probably busted him to pieces in seconds!"

But in a private email to me, Schwilk joined Gheen in tossing around homophobic slurs. I think he's mad at me because I earlier talked about how Schwilk never wants to go on the record with me when sharing interesting points but doesn't mind defaming Asian women. "Game on, Puto Boy!!" the subject line of Schwilk's email read. "Puto," of course, means "faggot" in Mexican Spanish, and the only other person who ever uses homophobic slurs to attack me is Hector Carreon of the Jew-bashing, gay-trashing La Voz de Aztlan. Birds of a feather...

Notice the Iron Cross on Coe's T-shirt...

The Beer Hall Putsch of America's modern-day Know Nothing movement keeps turning more hilarious by the day. Earlier this week, we reported on how California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe tried to put  murders at the hands of Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist. Now emerges a scathing July 9 email in which Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) head William Gheen calls Babs a "two-faced backstabber"--and that's one of the nicer things in the email--for defending American Patrol head Glenn Spencer.

The entirety of the letter after the jump. But first, a word on Gheen and ALIPAC, whom we rarely write about because they're based back east and have about as much inluence as a fruit fly does on a weight scale. Actually, read this Southern Poverty Law Center dispatch on Gheen for background. My only Gheen anecdote: when I asked him if the below email came from him, the ALIPendejo's response came via San Diego Minutemen head Jeff Schwilk, to whom Gheen forwarded a copy of my inquiry. Schwilk threatened legal action even though the email had nothing to do with him or his organization (quick aside on Schwilk: the two times we've traded emails, he's demanded his screeds be off the record. What are you scared of, Jeff? You sure don't mind defaming Asian women).

And now, the email:  

Photo by Christopher Victorio

What was Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez thinking today when she took to the floor in Congress to fight for the rights of a youth activist in Vietnam while she continues to ignore the youth activists pleading for her support in her own backyard? It's not that Nguyen Tien Trung, a well known youth and pro-democracy activist in Vietnam, shouldn't be released from prison, what nags here is yet another instance of Sanchez's blatant hypocrisy.

"The recent arrest of lawyer Le Cong Dinh and Nguyen Tien Trung further demonstrates Vietnam's continuing disregard for basic civil, political and religious liberties," she told members of Congress.

Um, Loretta, hello? Did you forget that kids in your own district -- young, pro-democracy student activists -- have pleaded with you for your support in their fight for basic civil liberties? Have you forgotten the faces of young, pro-democracy activists who sat down with you and told stories of being brought here at ages so young, they don't remember anymore; of how they grew up speaking English, going to school, and eventually to college, but have been denied the rights other students have because of their immigration status?