Is Costa Mesa Councilwoman Wendy Leece’s son Stephen a chip off the old block?
“The son of Mayor Pro-Tem Wendy Leece was arrested early Wednesday after an argument with his girlfriend. Stephen Leece, 28, of Costa Mesa was arrested on suspicion of felony charges of causing corporal injury to a cohabitant,” according to the O.C. Register.
Wait a minute! Isn’t Wendy Leece a hardcore ultra-conservative Talibani Republican? Isn’t she known for those stances? What the heck happened here? Is it just me or did she raise a creepy son?
Check out the details of this alleged crime:
Sgt. Joyce LaPointe of the Costa Mesa Police Department said the argument began after Leece’s girlfriend returned to their residence in the 100 block of East 16th Street after a night drinking with girlfriends.
Leece, who was upset that she went out, began a verbal argument that became a physical altercation when he flipped over a table in the kitchen, LaPointe said.
He then grabbed the victim, causing bruising to her arm, and when she tried to get away from him, she cut her foot on the broken glass from the table, LaPointe said.
During the struggle, which took place for about 20 minutes, the victim’s 9-year-old son heard the commotion from his bedroom and tried to intervene. Leece pushed him out of the way, LaPointe said.
Nothing says Republican family values like pushing your nine year old out of the way so you can keep whacking his mom!
Sigh. Darn Republicans! If they spent more time raising their own kids instead of telling the rest of us what to do with our private lives we would all be so much better off!
This is a very mean spirited and heartless post, one of the worst things I have read on here. You obviously do not follow Wendy Leece’s votes, for and against certain agenda items, and her comments as to why she is voting in a certain manner. She is a champion of the average Costa Mesa citizen, not at all caught up in the Republican Party and their attempt to take over Costa Mesa council positions so they can stick it to us peons while they smoke their cigars in their million dollar homes on the golf course and wonder how deep their moats should be to protect their goodies. Write about Boss Hog, er, Scott Baugh and his buddies instead. She raised, I believe, five children while being a hard working single mom. So one of them goes overboard in an argument and you write this crap? It’s not like her son is some gangbanger who “was just starting to turn his life around” and then murders someone. Yes, the actions of her son are despicable but tempers sometimes run a little high and things get out of hand. Your article is off the mark.
Wendy Leece is a PENDEJA!!!
Stephen Leece separated from Tomas Gordon at birth!
#1,
Gustavo is right. Wendy Leece is a Mexican-hating bruja!
Pendeja? I don’t agree. How about Mensa or Idiota?
Her son needs anger management classes. BTW Dead White Male, Stephen obviously has control issues. Didn’t his father teach him to not beat up girls. Maybe he learned this behavior from watching his mom get beat up.
Pushing a 9 year old kid who obviously tried to protect his mother is CHILD ABUSE.
Not a cool post at all.I know nothing about him, her or her family, but he is a grown ass man, unless she did something to cover up or get special treatment for him, it is really none of our business.
This is really a new low, it is really kind of sick to be honest with you, that because she is a Republican, and her son got into trouble She is at fault for what? You are sick, and then you start with the mexican name calling?
Get a Grip #6. She is a known Mexican hater. Why is white people can wear t-shirts that say “Keep It White” or wear a White Robe and Hood to match and that’s OK.
This is not a new low. This is what happens when you enter politics. You open yourself to the scrutiny of your entire family. Maybe Wendy Leece’s son should behave himself, act responsible and be a credit to his race.
#1. This guy is worse than a gangbanger. He beats up women and children! Gee where did he learn this kind of behavior?
I don’t know what a pendeja is so I cannot reply to that but I know for sure Wendy is not a Mexican hater. I guess you call her that because she is against illegal immigration and I understand that since you have no good argument for illegals you must just call names. Maybe some day you can step your game up and quit with the illogical conclusions you come up with when someone does not support illegal immigration. Hate the game, not the player.
#9,
Oh yes she is! Leece is a Mexican hater through and through. And she is a Prop. 8 supporting Talibani too.
But apparently she can’t even raise her own son well.
That is the rub. These sick Republicans want to tell us how to live but they raise sons who beat up their women and hurt their children. Nice…
Hey Art is your mother responsible for your actions?? Get real.
Number 9, your right on.
#10: You seem to be the hater around here. Also Mr. Know it all, as in knowing what is everyone’s heart. Wow, you are so awesome. I would like to meet you sometime but you probably shine so bright you blind the eyes of those who gaze upon you. Thank you for all your wisdom, lol
#11,
Well, I don’t beat women and kids – my mom didn’t raise me that way.
#12,
Just search on google for “Wendy Leece,” and “immigration.” The hate will come right through your screen!
But now of course you will be able to search “Leece” and beating women and children and her name will come up every time!
I really think this post is in poor taste. This woman raised 5 children without the help of a husband. We as parents can only do so much, then as the children grow up they make their own choices. Our children don’t always follow the path we have taught them. If your child turns out to be a mass murder, is that the fault of the parents or the choice the child makes. As far as immigration goes if you want to live here go through the right channels, we did in order to have a house in Mexico. I really believe she is a good person whose children make poor choices. I would vote for her again!
Teri,
Really? I think it is in poor taste to bash gays and Latinos, two things Wendy does a lot.
And it is in really poor taste to beat your girlfriend and kids.
And she want’s God in the Council Chambers, I don’t think so!!!
“All the people that teach in the synagogues (churches) and on the streets are hypocrites” – Jesus Christ
“God is an invisable spirit that cannot be seen by human eyes”. – Jesus Christ
“This is your (humans) planet, I am not of this world. My world is elsewhere.” – Jesus Christ
‘It’s time to take the hypocrites away because they follow a book of documents that are over 2000 years old that are outdated and defunct from a society that no longer exists’. –
“Can you say right wing religious nutball?
The Holy Bible is a good story if you can get past the first five pages (to much violence) but for me I like Moby Dick and Tom Sawyer, other nice fiction novels LOL !
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This is my Aunt and my cousin and thanks to your post, this is what my kids found online. Aunt Wendy does not hate anyone…Period. Her son made a poor choice…that’s all. Anyone reading this has made a poor choice at some point in their life. And if you’ve ever gotten drunk with a lot of people, you probably can recall a mistep or two. Am I condoning it? No. Am I excusing it? No. Am I human and am I grateful that not everyone has a reason to check my name online? Absolutely! Every person makes mistakes, every child makes a lot of mistakes. You may not agree with Wendy and her politics but going after her family just makes you ignorant and hurtful.
The article to which you responded is from June 2009. Orange Juice Blog has since come under new ownership. Our general policy is not to scrub the archives without an extremely good reason (such as that something written was unprotected speech), but we gladly provide opportunities for people like you to rebut anything written here and are happy that your statement will now be included in the archive as well.
I’m the admin here, and this was written by my predecessor Art Pedroza when I was in jail. Hadn’t seen it before. I could delete it, but it’s a fascinating bit of Orange Juice and Orange County history.
I do think I’m going to go through all of Art’s old pieces, which he laboriously removed his name from when he was briefly trying to redeem his reputation, and restore his name to them.
I hope Stephen has learned to control his temper better, and isn’t under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and that his family is peaceful and happy whether they’ve broken up with him or not. I agree with the commenters who deny that this reflects on Wendy, whom I didn’t know at the time, but became friends with in LATE 2009.
Things were always simple for Pedroza – if you voted for anything tough on immigration you were a “hater” and anything in your life was fair game. Now, if you’re unfortunate to come across his new blog you’ll see, that his main driving motivation is hatred for unions. And “liberals.”
Gustavo, the one-issue guy as usual, cares only about Latino immigration. This was during the Mansoor days in Costa Mesa, when the “Minuteman Mayor” – probably at the prodding of both the OC GOP and full-on racist Martin Millard – consistently pandered for votes from Costa Mesa’s Mexican haters, by enacting everything he could to make their life a little tougher.
Back then every REPUBLICAN on the council would go along with him – that is, everyone but Democrat Katrina Foley. Wendy, at this time, was a loyal and unquestioning Republican. But as she explained to me, she was never a hater of Mexicans or illegal immigrants – she spends hours and hours each week as a volunteer teacher with immigrant kids. She just believed she was doing what was good for public safety in her beloved town.
I don’t know if she would vote that same way on immigration questions any more – toward the end of 2010 her faith in the local GOP was shattered, leaving her with only her Christian faith. Groovy. Jesus did say you can only serve one master, and he does seem to be leading her to a lot better decisions than Scott Baugh did.
Her break with the OC GOP (oh, she IS still a Republican) came when she accepted a negotiated giveback from CM’s cops and firefighters, when Baugh and Righeimer wanted to hold out for a more draconian deal and cut these city employees off at the knees. Here’s one piece I wrote about that back then:
http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2010/10/wendy-leece-defies-oc-gop-stalinism-also-atlas-pac-hypocritical-douchebags-oh-the-layers-of-irony/
Thus she made a whole new group of enemies; she wasn’t a good enough, tough enough Republican for those Republicans who hated public employees even more than they used to hate Mexicans.
Hence it’s kind of fun to see the commenter “dead white male” up there sticking up for her, mainly because he agreed with her anti-immigrant votes. Once she started sitting down with public employees, he began to trash her as much as anyone.
If Wendy calls me and asks me to take this story down, well.. I’ll think about it. But for now I’m going to make sure everyone knows it’s an Art Pedroza story, and a typical one. And I hope Stephen and his family are doing well.