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Voice of OC- OC Vietnamese Americans Protest Riverside for Sister City Relationship
- Do Wins Central County Supervisors’ Election
- Pulido Forced to Amend More Disclosure Forms
- Garden Grove Mayor Focuses on Youth, Citizen Engagement at State of the City
- Do’s Lead in First District Supervisor Election Narrows to 85 Votes
- Venezia’s View: Airport Director Retiring, Supes Weigh Replacement
- Judge Denies DA Request to Widen Net in Santa Ana Gang Injunction
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- OC Political. Warning – Jubal sightings
- It’s Certified: Do Defeats Correa by 43 Votes
- Final Day of Counting: Math Says Do Defeats Correa in Every Likely Scenario
- To Win 1st District, Correa Needs to Beat Do by 22% in Provisionals – If All Provisionals Are Valid
- Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees to Vote Tonight to Duck Class Size Issue
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- A Bubbling Cauldron: Costa Mesa blog
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- OC Politics by Pedroza and friends
- Could Loretta Sanchez lose her seat to Janet Nguyen in 2016?
- Measure M’s 24th Annual Public Hearing set for Feb. 10
- OC Supervisors approve Spitzer-Bates pension reform proposal
- Spitzer wants to strengthen County contract disclosure requirements
- Why Lou Correa lost to Andrew Do in the First District Special Election
- First District Special Election results certified by the Voter Registrar
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- John Earl’s Surf City Voice!
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- Navel Gazing (OC Weekly)
- Sex Tape Extortion Plot Involving Vietnamese Immigrants Ends With Little Saigon Arrest
- White Shadow, Opening Tonight in Santa Ana, is Not a Costneresque Black or White Tale
- Credit Union Embezzler Of $480,000 Hoped For Home Detention As Punishment
- Little Saigon Protestors Show Up in Riverside Like They Always Do And Always Will
- Santa Ana Police Commander Says Anti-Lesbian Witch Hunt Destroyed Her Career
- Transgender Woman's Death After Silicone Party Raises Alarm with Cops, LGBT Officials
Debbie Cook Archive
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Steve Sheldon’s Unethical Culture Challenged by Legal Complaint
Posted on December 1, 2014 | No Comments. . . By John Earl, cross-posted from Surf City Voice. OC Water District Director Steve Sheldon scurries off when caught by the author hobnobbing with Poseidon brass after a... -
Unpacking Poseidon’s latest Propaganda Blitz with Debbie Cook. Part 1: The CNN Puff Piece.
Posted on June 21, 2014 | 35 CommentsSince being ordered by the Coastal Commission to conduct a serious, credible study on the “feasibility” of using more expensive but less destructive underground “infiltration galleries” in their proposed Huntington... -
Poseidon’s Water Boy: Matt Harper Quietly Pushes Desal Scam Past Ratepayers.
Posted on May 30, 2014 | 5 CommentsFormer HB Mayor and energy activist Debbie Cook wrote this editorial a couple weeks ago in John Earl’s re-vivified Surf City Voice. As HB Mayor Matt Harper is running for... -
Poseidon runs headlong into “Infiltration Gallery.”
Posted on November 18, 2013 | 36 CommentsAs I stood about waiting for Wednesday’s marathon Coastal Commission hearing to begin, and beheld our nemesis, Poseidon VP Scott Maloni, stomping about scowling, I resolved to shake his hand. ... -
Quirk-Silva rescinds Poseidon support, will hold Water Townhall with Debbie Cook!
Posted on August 19, 2013 | 54 CommentsIt’s rare, difficult, and refreshing for a lawmaker to admit making a mistake, and attempt to rectify it. I remember back in 2009 when Assemblyman Solorio realized that he’d made... -
Tet Parade Post-mortem: What next, and grading the Politicians’ Performances.
Posted on February 26, 2013 | 42 Comments. As promised, I’ve got a lot to say in retrospect about the Tet Parade of two weeks ago which jumped the shark by excluding gays, and how the various... -
Debbie Cook: Santa Margarita Water District like “Chinatown…”
Posted on July 25, 2012 | 6 Comments. Time for the Cadiz Project to Evaporate – Speak out at tonight’s public hearing! By Debbie Cook Special to the Surf City Voice Things are heating up in the... -
Secret Poseidon Desal meeting stymied by Brown Act complaint.
Posted on May 15, 2012 | 3 Commentsby John Earl, Surf City Voice General Manager Nixes Secret Desal Talks with Poseidon After Brown Act Complaints Confronted by complaints of illegality, the Municipal Water District of Orange County... -
Water Boarding: Revered Water Director Didn’t Report Wife’s Income
Posted on February 2, 2012 | 3 CommentsBy John Earl Surf City Voice . . John V. Foley, chairman of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, failed to report over $248,000 of income from his wife,... -
Debbie’s Statement
Posted on November 6, 2008 | 18 Comments. . . . . “Winning is not the only way to make a difference. Thousands of volunteers working tirelessly throughout the district delivered a message of opportunity, of change,... -
Famed Maverick ex-GOP Congressman Pete McCloskey writes a letter to Republicans in the 46th CD:
Posted on November 1, 2008 | 12 Comments. . . Pete McCloskey, the maverick Republican Congressman who stood up to Nixon and against the Vietnam War, came down last night to headline a Long Beach fundraiser for... -
Debbie & Dana & Tom & Ernst, last segment: Gov’t transparency, Education, & Closing statements.
Posted on October 31, 2008 | 1 Comment. . . . . (Part one here) – (Part two here) – (Part three here) Topic 6 of 8: How will you make government more TRANSPARENT? TOM: Publicly funded... -
Debbie & Dana & Tom & Ernst, pt III: Healthcare, Iraq, and Prop. 8
Posted on October 30, 2008 | 3 Comments. . . . . (Part one here) – (Part two here) In today’s video snippet, Dana defends Proposition 8: “I would suggest that we do not change the definition... -
Debbie and Dana and Tom and Ernst (pt 2)
Posted on October 24, 2008 | 3 Comments. . . (Part one here) Topic 2 of 8. The Financial Bail-Out TOM: It’s a disaster, it doesn’t even seem to be working, it is saddling our grandkids with...
