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“Wachovia headlined the series of dismal earnings reports yesterday, saying it would lay off 6,350 employees and leave 4,400 more positions unfilled while posting a record $8.86 billion loss in the second quarter,” according to the Washington Post.  Uh-oh!

In retrospect you have to wonder what Al Amezcua, the Bustamante twins, Mike Metzler, Victoria Betancourt and the other oddballs on the board of the Santa Ana Business Bank were thinking when they opened a new bank - right before all the banks started tanking.

I wonder if they were planning on putting public bond money in their bank?  Amezcua was the co-chair for Measure G, the latest property tax increase from the crooked folks at the Santa Ana Unified School District.  He is running his daughter Valerie for the SAUSD school board in November.  And I am told that the SAUSD will be putting yet another bond on the ballot in November too. Read more…

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Prevatt already did a good write-up of this on the Liberal OC, and I was just ragging on that blog yesterday for passing on press releases, but OJ friend Heather Pritchard really wanted me to boast about the latest endorsements snagged by her way-cool husband Gary Pritchard, candidate for the 33rd State Senate District — Fullerton’s two prominent Democrats Mayor Sharon Quirk and Councilwoman Pam Keller (above) as well as the Orange County Employees’ Association. Since Chris already did such a good job, including rave quotes about Gary from OCEA General Manager Nick Berardino, I thought my post would focus on how nice-looking our OC Democrats are.

(Gary’s district includes Lake Forest, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Woods, Mission Viejo, Aliso Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Orange, Villa Park, Tustin, Silverado, most of Fullerton, and parts of Buena Park and Anaheim. He’s running against the extreme rightwing immigrant basher Mimi Walters. Here is Gary’s website.)

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T. Boone Pickens is a Texas Oil man. He has been hawking a plan to save America from dependence on foreign oil through his paid “Public Service Announcements”. At first blush, it would be easy to suggest that Boone is busy pushing his plan for Natural gas, Solar and Wind Power because he has some of his own money in those things.

This morning Boone was interviewed on CNBC prior to his given testimony before Congress. Boone mentioned that 38% of our Fossil Fuel needs come from Commercial, Trains or Buses in  this country which accounts for $350 billion a year that goes to Arab Sheiks and other oil countries. Boone is suggesting that we move those vehicles out of Diesel and Gasoline and
put them into Natural Gas. Now one might be eager to suggest that his reasoning is based purely on his personal engagement with Natural Gas. We believe however that this idea is about 30 years late. It should have been done and could have been done during the last run up in oil…back in 1978! Now that the cost is edging toward a Trillion dollars a year…perhaps it is time to pay attention! Read more…

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Mission Viejo Planning Commissioner Rich Atkinson and I had a friendly chat this afternoon during which we discussed his initial focus as a candidate for the 2008 Mission Viejo city council. As someone who has frequently attended our city council meetings since day one, I have not met, seen or spoken to eight year MV resident Atkinson previously. He was appointed by Mayor Kelley to replace Neil Lonsinger who stepped down from that appointed Board position in 2006 saying he “would not seek a new term on the Commission.”

Rich said he wants to “continue with (the) progress made in public safety and make sure that it continues.” He went on by saying that as a member of the city traffic subcommittee he “wants to improve traffic flow” and that his desire would be to be “part of the council that works with State and Federal Agencies to get funding.”

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Six years ago we had a well organized “grass roots” and I.E. effort to remove both the Mission Viejo mayor and Vice Mayor and we succeeded by a three to one vote. There were no surprises as to our objective in that November city council election. You can still find OC Register Senior Editorial Writer and Columnist Steve Greenhut’s editorial on that victory which he labeled “The Revolution in Mission Viejo.”

Well, as we approach another city council election I am hearing about some “skulduggery” at work among one or more of our current council members. According to multiple sources, Mayor Kelley and (possibly) Vice Mayor Ury have convinced Planning Commissioner Rich Atkinson to run for a seat on the council in their attempt to remove council woman Gail Reavis.

Note: As reported previously. Member Reavis and Ury are up for reelection.

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(Assembly candidate Ken Arnold and wife Thanh-Thanh Ho at July 4 parade)

So Van Tran, the notoriously corrupt and power-hungry assemblyman for the 68th AD (Garden Grove, Westminster, Fountain Valley and Costa Mesa) has decided, true to form, to opt out of campaign spending limits, which means he won’t be allowed to place a “candidate statement” in the state-published voter information booklet.  This presents a unique opportunity to his Democratic challenger, the popular progressive patriot Ken Arnold, who will now get to be the only candidate with a statement in the booklet, BUT it will cost him twice as much as it would have otherwise — over $10,500, for a 250-word statement, due by the first week of August.

That’s where you and I come in — Ken has launched a “Buy A Word” campaign, and for $42 you can be the proud owner of one of the 250 words in his statement — democracy in action!  If you can afford more you can buy an entire sentence for $420, or just a letter for $15.  Personally I bought a word just now, and although the statement’s not written yet, I have called dibs on “values.”  (If that word doesn’t end up in the statement I’ll take the first “of.”)  Contribute here: www.actblue.com/page/buy_a_word and remember:  Each time Ken sells a word, another Trannie loses its wings!  (Click “read more” for a little more info on Ken, Van Tran, and Ken’s first fundraiser in Costa Mesa August 8…)

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Former Clinton White House Counsel Lanny Davis, who now is a political contributor to Fox News, wrote a surprising commentary recently admitting that the Bush surge in Iraq is working.

In the commentary Davis recalled seeing an older woman holding up her purple finger, after voting, and smiling in the midst of carnage. The Iraqi voters had their fingers dyed purple to indicate that they had voted. Read more…

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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (pictured above), a Democrat who wants to be our next Governor, may have just killed the concept of “Sanctuary Cities” for immigrants.  “Authorities couldn’t fully explain Monday how an alleged gang member and suspected illegal immigrant was able walk out of jail in San Francisco - three months before police say he shot and killed a father and two sons,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Newsom now has blood on his hands. But the party will likely go on for him - with the exception of his gubernatorial campaign which is now D.O.A.

The killer, a man named Edwin Ramos, a native of El Salvador, “was repeatedly shielded as a juvenile from deportation by city officials who failed to notify federal authorities of separate assault and attempted robberies he committed when he was 17.” Read more…

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I have not read about ANY carjackings anywhere in Orange County - except for downtown Orange County, where “Police are looking for a group of people who they said carjacked two Anaheim men early Sunday morning near the Piccolo Night Club on First Street, Santa Ana police Cmdr. James Schnabl said,” according to the O.C. Register.

One carjacker had a pistol.  The other had a shotgun.  And a third one was a woman!  They pistol-whipped the occupants of the vehicle, which was described as a “gold-colored 2006 Ford F150 pickup with license plate 8D09929.”  Now the Santa Ana carjackers are stealing trucks?  Do they not know how much it will cost to refuel this vehicle?

Maybe we need to declare martial law and bring in the National Guard? Read more…