Edgar's lack of honesty costs him a key ally

At one point 10 months ago, Troy Edgar enjoyed support from a long list of Orange County Republicans in his attempts to leave the Los Alamitos city council for higher public office.

But recent months haven't been kind to Edgar--especially after the Weekly revealed he'd doctored mandatory federal campaign disclosure reports to hide a large campaign expenditure and who illegally paid the bill.

Citing that cheating and Edgar's pro-tax increase stances, Michael J. Schroeder--a former California Republican Party chairman and Orange County political heavyweight--declared this week that he is withdrawing his endorsement.

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Judge Jim Gray: We'll be baaaack!

No matter the results of the Nov. 6 election, the Libertarian presidential campaign duo of Gary Johnson and Jim Gray, the retired Orange County superior court judge, plan to run again for the White House in 2016.

Gray, Johnson's vice presidential running mate, told a crowd this month at Tulane University that the two men have already decided a second run--next time with plenty of planning--is critical to break the stranglehold the two major political parties exercise over failed foreign and domestic policies.

Calling President Barack Obama and Democrats "financially irresponsible" and Mitt Romney and Republicans "socially intolerant," Gray predicted voters will warm to Libertarian ideas as a route to escape present day "bipolar politics."

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Flores: The boy demanded anal sex.

For several months leading up to early 2010, a woman on her way to work routinely dropped off her three children at her sister's house in Santa Ana where she assumed they would be safe.

One day in February, one of the kids, an eight-year-old boy, told his mother that he had been repeatedly sodomized by Santos Solano Flores, a 21-year-old man who also lived at the babysitting house. 

According to court records, the boy claimed Flores liked to ejaculate inside of him.

The outraged mother contacted the authorities and two detectives got Flores to sit for an interview at the police station where they told him about the allegations.

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Baseball, apple pie, hot dogs and . . . XXX!

Orange County Republican Congressman John Campbell likes to tout that he, like most conservatives, considers the strength of "the traditional American family" in all of his decision-making.

But Campbell's office may have a slight problem called Lou Penrose.

Penrose, the congressman's trusty district director and longtime aide, is nothing but, according to Campbell, "an energetic, hardworking individual whose enthusiasm for his career is contagious to others."

Contagious?

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Mitt knows he's going to be the next president and it feels so good

Tick tock.
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Gary Johnson rejects the incompetence and corruption of the Democrat and Republican parties

Gary Johnson, the presidential candidate both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama fear, is scheduled to appear for a campaign rally this morning at Cal State Fullerton.More »

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this month won a temporary restraining order against Orange County businessman Jeremy Rommel Nelson and several debt relief corporate entities, including Nelson Gamble & Associates, accused of running consumer fraud scams.
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Diamond: California's most pathetic 2012 state senate candidate

[UPDATED at end of the article with additional, disturbing revelations about Mr. Diamond's mental health.]
Original post, Oct. 17, 5:30 p.m.: Despite our sincere prodding to get Gregory A. Diamond to drop his jumbo Cheetos bag and fall off his sofa to do what he promised Orange County Democrats he would do--fight "like hell" to win his 29th state senate seat race, the unemployed union lawyer in Brea continues to spend every day of every pre-election week doing almost nothing but writing blog comments.More »

Agran: The people who know him best say he's corrupt

Three prominent Orange County men who spent years as close allies to Larry Agran have joined together in a campaign mailer to declare him a corrupt politician unworthy of winning the mayor's job in the City of Irvine's Nov. 6 election.
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