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Crazy stuff, crazy stuff, what-all the Republican Party is going through. Out in Washington, having held their breath till their faces turned blue and still failing to kill Obamacare, the Teabag Republicans are now swearing they will stand in the way of any immigration reform this year, just out of spite.
This will make it even more difficult for California and OC Republicans to do what they know they need to do to keep above rump party status – appeal to Latino voters around here. Reminds me of a couple things I’ve seen recently…
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Baugh and the Gipper in better days…
Last week I was strolling down Lincoln Avenue and this copy of the Excelsior caught my eye (that’s the Spanish-language paper the Register puts out.) I had to grab a copy because the front page story was about the OC GOP’s attempts at “outreach” to Latinos in Santa Ana, and the Spanish was rudimentary enough that even I could understand it:
“HOLA.” Eso es lo primero que dice Scott Baugh. No se introduce como presidente del Partido Repulicano del Condado de Orange. Solo se aparece como un hombre vesitdo en shorts, una camiseta de manga corta y sandalias, para dejar literatura en espanol a los residentes de un vecindario en Santa Ana.
In short that means: “‘HOLA.’ That’s the first thing Scott Baugh says, not bothering to mention he’s the OC GOP Chairman – he seems to be simply any man in shorts and sandals, handing out literature in a SanTana barrio.”
It’s good that Scott didn’t say any more than “HOLA.” This is the same OC GOP chairman who showed up earlier this year at Los Amigos, trying to convince the nonpartisan Latinos there that the Republican Party had a lot more to offer them than the Democrats… and then started babbling about “illegals” – he couldn’t help himself, it was such an ingrained habit. When a few Amigos raised their voices in protest at that insulting term, Scott showed surprise and remorse and vowed to be more sensitive in the future.
Baugh’s remorse turned out to be THIS kind of remorse: He whined shortly thereafter to the Weekly‘s credulous R. Scott Moxley (who dutifully passed on the claim): “I was speaking at Los Amigos, and I used the term ‘undocumented workers,’ and people got upset with me. I honestly didn’t know that was an offensive term.” As I wrote to the Weekly in a letter they never printed, “‘Undocumented workers’ is NOT what Scott said, and nobody would have taken offense to THAT innocent phrase.” (Payasos. God forbid the Weekly would contact Los Amigos, OR print a letter that showed Vern correcting St. Moxley. But I digress … back to the Excelsior story.)
Teresa spreadin’ the fear. (scanned off the Excelsior, which appears not to have an online presence)
Teresa Hernandez, una lider del grupo conservador Lincoln Club of Orange County, tiene una meta identica, pero usa una tactica diferente mientras toca la puerta de votantes democratas latinos … Pregunta “Tiene hijos en la escuela? Acaba de aprobarse una ley horrible. Los niños pueden entrar a los baños de las niñas. Y las niñas pueden entrar a los baños de los niños.”
In other words, this bleach-blonde Hispanic Lincoln Club matron’s pitch to a Latina Democrat is: “Do you have kids in school? They’re about to pass a law that is HORRIBLE! Boys will be able to go into the girls’ bathroom. And girls will be able to go into the boys’ bathroom!”
This kindergarten reading of AB 1266, the transgender school opportunities act, shows Teresa’s opinion of the average Latina voter’s intelligence, and her estimation of what will best yank their chain and get them to switch to the Party that has traditionally deported, jailed, and kept them down. It reminds me of what Carly Fiorina tried in her senatorial run three years ago – sending out a huge “Vota Tus Valores” bus staffed lightly with a half-dozen homophobic Latinos (a bus this blog did its part in chasing around the OC) to convince other Latinos that ONLY the GOP and their candidate stood between them and the terror of GAY MARRIAGE.
And it’s also another sign – along with Young Kim‘s recent bleatings and the speeches I heard Friday night at Tim Donnelly’s shindig described below – that AB 1266 is shaping up to be the main issue California Republicans plan to exploit this election season. (And how embarrassing is that?) This makes it imperative that we explain the transgender bill well to people in coming months, as not some bathroom-ogling conspiracy.
Oh, the punchline? The title of that Excelsior story is “Somos Iguales” – we are equal. Yeah, sure, as long as we can find someone else we can make LESS equal – gays, say, or the transgendered.
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So I thought it made a nice contrast with Baugh’s “outreach” when I heard that Republican gubernatorial candidate and Minuteman leader Tim Donnelly was being hosted by some local Republican and Tea Party groups, at the Newport Beach Tennis Club Friday night. (What says grass roots, salt of the earth, and rebel, better than a Newport Beach Tennis Club?)
I’d first met Tim when me and Paco Barragan crashed the Arpaio fundraiser for Bill Hunt back in 2010 – remember that? (2010 was the high-water mark of Republicans hating on Mexicans.) Tim handed me his card, told me he was running for assembly, and bragged that he was the founder of the San Bernardino Minutemen. I said good luck – maybe I shouldn’t have – little did I expect that, in a crowded field of Republicans, Tim would prevail as the craziest!
He kept up the anti-immigrant rhetoric in Sacramento for a year or so, but seems to have learned to tone that down, and has actually accomplished a few good things up there mostly in the civil-liberties arena where he can get Democratic support. (Although he may be best known as the assemblyman who was busted for trying to take a loaded gun onto a plane.)
So I went to Friday’s fundraiser expecting to hear lots of wild-eyed talk on immigration and illegals, and to see what GOP bigwigs and electeds I could identify in the crowd, the better to revel in and ponder on the Party’s contradictions. I was disappointed on both fronts: There was NEARLY no mention of “illegals” (except ONE sentence-fragment during Tim’s answer to a question – an accidental brain-fart or calculated dog-whistle? – “…will NEVER raise your taxes, especially as long as we’re giving freestufftoillegals.”)
Nor did I spy either of our immigrant-bashingest OC Congressmen, Rohrabacher or Royce; nor did I see OC assemblymen Mansoor, Wagner or Harkey, all of whom had stood with Tim two years ago in his quickly-fizzled move to bring Arizona-style papers-please legislation to this state. If the blond little hater Deborah Pauly was there, she was uncharacteristically stealthy. Actually the only person I recognized Friday night (besides Tim) was Rosie Avila, the anti-immigrant, anti-gay nutjob who ran against Loretta in 2008.
Here IS one thing I learned Friday night that I need to share with you:
Tea Partiers now call themselves “Constitutional Conservatives” instead.
A Constitutional Conservative in the wild.
There was absolutely no mention that night of the humiliating defeat Washington Teabaggers had just suffered the day before in their intemperate attempts to make Democrats buckle on anything. And not a word containing “tea” in it was uttered in the space all night – even though this was obviously the same crowd of elderly, flag-bedecked, nostalgic zealots from the far right of the GOP and beyond. I figured out after a while, that the memo must have gone out – they are now simply “constitutional conservatives”… and they also don’t talk about illegals any more, with strangers around.
This was in fact the first event of “Unite OC” which aims to unite EVERY Constitutional Conservative group in the county (who had previously been sometimes at odds?) and claims to have succeeded in bringing together “100 groups with 100 members each” for a total of 10,000 CC’s. (Maybe. Oh, you’re asking … I’d say there were a little over 100 old folks there – older than me that is – and half-a-dozen young zealous volunteers from UCI.)
I listened closely to discern what they meant by “Constitutional” – obviously they believe that a lot of what’s going on in the world around them is NOT Constitutional, and that maybe even most “conservatives” are not Constitutional. And I figured I might even agree with some of what they said – what Tim and the organizers said – and sure enough, I did!
One of Tim’s biggest criticisms of Governor Brown (whom, remember, he’s running against) is that even though he came into office promising to wield a heavy veto pen, he has now signed EIGHT-HUNDRED NEW LAWS. And each of those laws can lead to any number of new REGULATIONS, which are generally passed by 571 UNELECTED BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. And as he started to name some of those off, I was with him, and I know you would be too –
- The Coastal Commission, which may well approve Poseidon despite all the damage to taxpayers, ratepayers and the environment because labor-loyal Jerry Brown’s appointees are under orders to only consider jobs jobs jobs; [my example not Tim’s]
- The Air Quality Management Board, which recently united EVERYONE ACROSS THE SPECTRUM with their draconian and near-successful attempt to outlaw our beach fire pits; [my example not Tim’s]
- The supremely arrogant Child Protective Services whose abuses I’ve been studying for a while, and whose decisions are nearly unappealable – until Tim took them on last year after a particularly egregious incident and, with overwhelming bipartisan support, has subjected the agency at long last to an audit.
This is why I’ll go ahead and say I’m glad Tim is in the legislature, as long as he stays in the super-minority and keeps his immigration views to himself. Yes, as long as his libertarian crusades are filtered through the consciences of his Democratic colleagues (whom in unguarded moments he refers to as “a super-majority of Marxist progressives”) he’s been accomplishing things in the realm of liberty that may very well not have happened without him.
- Along with San Francisco super-liberal Mark Leno, he passed a bill making it easier for those wrongly incarcerated in this state to collect damages. (He spoke of this Friday night, I haven’t found a link yet.)
- Somehow the topic of the War on Drugs didn’t come up, so I asked him about it and he said, “It’s been an abysmal failure.” Hm. Was that just words? Turns out he and fellow Republican Rocky Chavez of Oceanside cast the deciding votes last month to lower penalties for nonviolent drug possession, and he and Mansoor were the only Repubs to vote to legalize hemp. He doesn’t seem to have made any pro-medical marijuana votes, but Law Enforcement Against Prohibition head Diane Goldstein senses that he is “evolving” on that. Well, evolve fast, dude!
- Most dramatically, liberal Dems and an enthusiastic Governor Brown, cheered on by the ACLU, joined to pass his bill earlier this month that prohibits state agencies and members of the California National Guard from aiding any federal agency investigation that involves indefinite military detention without charge or public trial – basically a nullification of Obama’s National Defense Authorization Act – now THAT sounds Constitutional-Conservative to me! (Can they do something like that to protect our medical marijuana dispensaries from the Feds?)
Writer and subject: “Let us strike a pose of cordial disagreement…”
Donnelly: “Let me tell you how to have lunch with someone you disagree with 80% of the time: While the other person is talking about the stuff you disagree with, THAT’S WHEN YOU EAT. And then when you’re done eating, you talk about the 20% of stuff you DO agree on.” (I kind of like that quote actually.)
True believer who can compromise, or Wily Demagogue?
Something seemed disciplined about the questions Tim was asked, so when I went up at the end to get that picture taken with him, I slipped in a couple of my own. After I asked about the Drug War, I continued, “You were a Minuteman, a leader of Minutemen, have you changed your position on immigration? Why did you say nothing about that issue tonight?” Tim responded, “It just didn’t seem GERMANE to this event.” At that point I was quickly escorted away by an aide.
Now I notice that his Wikipedia entry (and what politician doesn’t tend and massage his Wikipedia entry?) says he “stepped down from the Minutemen to return to private life in 2006.” Funny, the Minutemen were just getting big in 2006. And when he first proudly told me he was a Minuteman leader, it was 2010! Mid-2006 is actually when he starred in this awe-inspiring Colbert clip, is this really when he quit?
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In any case, it doesn’t matter what you or I think, Tim Donnelly will certainly be our next Governor because of…
The Rob Schneider Effect!
That’s right, the comic genius responsible for Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and The Hot Chick has come out in full-throated support of Tim, and Tim just loves to brag on that. He can’t get over the fact that a Hollywood star (of ANY magnitude) – and especially one who calls himself a “liberal Democrat” – would be in his corner, and hang out with him! In fact, that’s one of the weirdest things about Donnelly – how star-struck he is by this D-list comic (over whom Tim towers as I tower over Tim.) It’s actually the first thing you see on Tim’s campaign website, the Rob Schneider endorsement:
It’s not too hard to figure out: Rob Schneider was a “liberal Democrat” because he’s a conformist and lives in Hollywood. Now, at this point in his career, he complains that he hasn’t made a movie in seven years, and he thinks that’s because of Sacramento’s over-regulation of Hollywood. (Do YOU think that’s the reason?) So now he’s found himself an anti-regulation hero, who he thinks might help his personal situation. Sure sounds Republican to me. Just go ahead and make the switch, Rob – the water is nice and warm over there in the shallow end with Victoria Jackson and Dennis Miller.
And as for Tim – if the most talented and popular Hollywood figure who endorses you is Rob Schneider, JUST DON’T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
Sorry. Where was I? Right – two final things:
The California GOP’s choice of gubernatorial candidates tragicomically illustrates its identity crisis – the choice between a tea-partier who can’t run away from his Minuteman past, right when the Party is needing to get some Latinos or die … and an actual Latino – Abel Maldonado – who’s been excoriated for years as a traitor by at least half the Party for helping Schwarzenegger pass a temporary tax in 2009, and then saddling us with open primaries. Hmm – which one will get to go up against the unbeatable Brown, and what damage will happen to the Party either way?
But at least they have AB 1266 to run on. The preacher that Donnelly (or the organizers) called in to give the invocation Friday night was so distraught over it – by the thought of boys going into the girls’ room to check out HIS DAUGHTERS – that it was all he could talk about, for MINUTES, before getting around to the prayer. And then when Tim came on he 
DID NOT NEGLECT to throw THAT red meat out again. In fact he claimed: The Bill has NOTHING to do with transgender kids; its ONLY PURPOSE is to let boys in to ogle your daughters.
I waited. Really, that’s what he was saying? Boys ogling girls is the PURPOSE of the bill? Not just a possible (and improbable) side-effect? I thought maybe he would explain WHY the legislature – those famously feminist “Marxist progressives,” many of them ladies – would be so eager to let boys ogle all the girls in California as they try to pee? Was this intended to be some mass humiliation of all the citizenry, to make us all feel too debased to fight back? Some sort of perverse variation of droit du seigneur?
It was actually dumber and more manipulative, what Tim said, than what Teresa Hernandez said above to that Santa Ana señora. So I think we’re going to have to go with “Wily Demagogue.”
Still, I’m glad you’re in the Assembly, Tim – as long as we can keep you in the superminority! Vern signing off…
Vern: The Bloviator is rubbing off on you—and your hard-on for Moxley is starting to get creepy…
GRRR… well when he gets something like that wrong, and I write in to correct it, the least you could do is print that.
I hate seeing guys like Baugh getting away with bullshit lies.
Vern, overall a great read – thanks for this post!!!
Vern, I was there also when OC Chairman Baugh spoke at Los Amigos. A couple of points. Mr. Baugh said Deportation was a non-solution; and he also said “Amnesty” was not a solution either. But he did not offer any specifics to this middle ground, except he proposed that at some point “illegals” should have some status, but never a path to US citizenship. (it was good for him to start the conversation, but I disagreed about creating a SECOND-CLASS non-citizen. Denise Velasco reacted very strongly and passionately about Mr. Baugh’s term and challenged him on this, and his other positions. (if you need Denise’s email, I can provide it.)
“Don’t act like we’re stupid,” Westminster’s Denise Velasco, 32, said loudly and firmly in response to Baugh at one point. “Don’t act like we’re stupid.”
O.C. GOP chief meets with Latino activists (OC Register)
http://www.ocregister.com/waptest/articles/baugh-379884-latino-gop.html
With respect to Mr. Donnelly & Mr Mansoor: I think the community can work with them and they can contribute to the overall community, as long as some of their extreme positions are “polished”, and they focus on the 20% they can agree on with the other side, after they stopped “eating” (the other 80% – I like Mr. Donnelly’s rule too)
lies are not good from anyone. at least Baugh didn’t say Poseidon would “triple” the water rates which is off by a factor of 40x . I hate to see people try to get away with that also. But that is easily exposed since it is math, not opinion. Even calling people teabaggers is something I hate to see someone get away with. So juvenile.
Well… yeah, that’s me …. juvenile. (sulks away to corner)
So you’re saying that Poseidon will increase the water rates by 120x! Stop the presses!
Wait — first buy presses, and then stop them!
More seriously, deadster — what is your understanding of why and how Poseidon opponents calculate that Poseidon would “triple” the water rates? And what is your understanding of why they would be either (x+3)/40 or x+(3/40) instead? (Your statement is a bit ambiguous as it stands.) Make the assertion in a way that it can be evaluation, please — and then we’ll call in Joe Shaw to drink your milkshake.
Greg, sorry, I cannot understand how opponents of Poseidon do the math. But I do know it is not possible to add 10% more water to our supply at twice the cost of the other 90% of water and have the new mix be triple in price. That is fairly easy to see. That looks like a 10% increase on the surface, not 300%. However, latest figures look like a 14% water cost increase , less the 7% capacity charge not being charged, for a net increase of +7%. Poseidon opponents distributed a “5 billion dollar over thirty years” cost increase poster a year ago that forgot to subtract the $900 acre foot we are already paying presently for water from their approx $1700 acre foot cost of water used in their math. Thus a 1700 dollar multiplier instead of 800 was used. A pretty basic mistake spotted within ten seconds of seeing the flyer. Also, Vern admits he “made up” the tripling figure. Now he needs to apologize to all his teabagger friends and supporters.
OK first of all, this isn’t the place to figure out EXACTLY how much Poseidon will cost us ratepayers. There are too many X factors that can’t be answered now. What we know is 1) water rates will continue to rise because of necessary infrastructure upkeep, and 2) they will rise even higher if we sign on to this half-assed company’s unnecessary desalinated water.
The Dead One is referring to the first ad I made for Gus’ “nowaterdeal” site – you see it off to the right right now. My first version, instead of saying “$$$kyrocketing”, said “tripling.” That was based on a hasty misreading I had made of the site. The Dead Guy pointed that out, and I fixed it, made it more honest. TRIPLING because of Poseidon was probably way exaggerated. Thanks for keeping us honest, Dead Dude. I believe the misleading ad was up for less than a week – way back in Jan or Feb when Gus was still alive – and in any case linked (and links) to a site that is NOT misleading.
Let’s see… what should Vern apologize for … looking over here … looking over there .. no, NOTHING for Vern to apologize for.
By the way, stop calling them teabaggers and Tea Partiers, you ‘tard – they are Constitutional Conservatives! Why don’t you take the Scott Baugh class of Sensitivity to Minorities!
Speaking of hard-ons; for someone who claims this is a “shit blog”, you clearly read it quite frequently. Someone get Gustavo some saltpeter!
So let’s see if we have this straight; Vern is not permitted to comment on Moxley’s writings in an ongoing fashion, yet YOU are permitted to spout off on a wide variety of folks repeatedly, including things they did years and years ago?
I always marvel at people who can’t see their own hypocrisy.
You’ve made the hidden assumption that Gustavo doesn’t like shit.
Excellent job, Chairman Vern!
By the way — my guess is that Rob Schneider (who is half-Filipino, as I understand it!) is just using Donnelly to create material for a new movie or routine. If so, it’s a brilliant move and I wish him well. If not — well, I wish him a speedy recovery.
Did you see Costa Mesa’s own Tom Pollitt? He was the tall older gentleman creeping around , probably wearing an american flag shirt with a big eagle on it.
Here’s his bang up quote in the Daily Pilot last week…..
“As I like to say when I present this to the different conservative organizations, the democrats — the blacks, the Hispanics, the gays, the labor unions and the environmentalists — who really don’t have a lot in common and don’t like each other in a lot of cases, all come together for one common cause.” – Tom Pollitt
http://www.dailypilot.com/news/tn-dpt-me-1018-unite-oc-event-20131017,0,5392251.story
Spoken like a true angry old white guy……who just doesn’t quite get it.
Pollitt’s the guy I spoke to on the phone to get in. Also, he introduced Tim, and explained the whole Unite OC / Constitutional Conservative thing. This was AFTER the distraught minister’s invocation, which was in turn after some other minister’s weepy vocalizing.
I hope they don’t hate this story, I still wanna get a copy of that picture of me & Tim shaking hands. I said “Let’s strike a pose of cordial disagreement.”
Vern you loose credibility with me and many others when you insist on using such a derogatory word to describe the Tea Party Movement!
Aw, Barry, it’s a humorous term … and if you remember your history, YOU guys started it, with some call to “Teabag the liberal Dems before they Teabag you!”
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/enough-whining-teabaggers-actually-i
Plus, you must not have read the whole piece, or you would know: You are no longer the Tea Party Movement, but “Constitutional Conservatives!”
And you would have seen a substantial list of things I agree with you guys on.
“Republican Party still failing to kill Obamacare,” — Good!
Wednesday, 09 October 2013 16:06
Healthcare Law to Fine Hospitals That Provide Free Services to Poor
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/16706-healthcare-law-to-fine-hospitals-that-provide-free-services-to-poor
When they call themselves “social conservatives” then they’ll be truthful for a change.
Long but enjoyable. Only gripe is that you didn’t devote more space to “The Fence” building on Colbert’s work.
Oh, “long” but “should have devoted more space to…” Damned if I …
Yes, as in longer but more enjoyable.
You know what, Vern — some readers (Marconi NOT among them) are like college students who always think that class should be let out early.
As a professor, my feeling was “I’m going to give you what you came here for, and if you don’t want to stay and here it that’s your choice.”
We’re volunteering our time here; we get to do it in a way that pleases us.
If there wasn’t already an excellent quote on the masthead, I would nominate your last sentence!
Great. Thanks to Paco, we have a scan of what Scott and Teresa were handing out. It has an English side and a Spanish side; this being you guys, I’ll put up the English side. can you believe this shit….
Really – they’re telling hispanics that if they believe in “common sense immigration reform to keep families together” they should vote Republican, and against the deporter Obama? How stupid do they think hispanics are? They think hispanics pay absolutely no attention to who’s trying to reform immigration and who’s standing in the way?
And the gall…. their constant excuse for resisting reform is that Obama isn’t keeping the borders secure; they deny all these deportations; until they’re speaking in Spanish to Latinos and trying to piss them off.
I love this intelligently designed analytical test. It provides instant pigeonholing that quenches that otherwise indecisive meandering for a considered opinion.
Perhaps I am quibbling too much, but it is best to have an odd number of questions. Because mathematically impossible as it seems, I ended up with a tie.
Something like Gay Marriage with the answers being
Column A. That Marcus Bachmann can gay-therapy me anytime.
Column B. Prop 8 has been defeated which makes gay marriage mandatory.
Darn! I end up being a Republican. Never mind, scratch that suggestion.
If you think Obamas going to open up the flood gates …… then you need to join reality. If you mean by “reform” to let everyone in…….then your part of the problem. Enjoy your foodstamps and thank you for being a drain on society…….. Keep protesting tards !!
So you agree with Column A on immigration, and not Column B which separates families by deportation like Obama has been doing?
By the way, KC, do you still have that Sunshine Band? That was something else….
To Zenger, Cynthia, or whomever — “Democratic Party of Orange County” is the name that we use on our side of the aisle. Does the OCGOP really use “The Republican Party of Orange County” in their official publications? I had thought it was something else.
My question, obviously, is whether or not this document actually does come from the county party. If not … there’s a problem.
Well… I’m pretty sure it is what OC GOP Chairman Scott Baugh was handing out…(right Paco?) Why would he hand out something that wasn’t from his group?
Vern,
I apologize for causing confusion. I was given this by someone, who is Republican, and who said that members of the Republican Party were going out into the Latino community knocking on doors and dropping this off.
I am trying to remember if they said it came from the OC Lincoln Club or not…I got this about 1 month ago . . . sorry it has been a while since I got this. I didn’t dwell, on who exactly was passing it out, because all I understood was that it was was a GOP outreach effort.
I saved it because the pandering / misleading language is what caught my eye.
Again, I apologize for the confusion I caused.
paco
Well… it’s a pretty good guess that’s what Scott and Teresa were handing out. I mean, how many different outreach-to-latinos handouts could they have been handing out in Santa Ana over the past month or two?
Now, is Greg onto something about legality?
It may be that the OCGOP does use this language in its literature. I’m not asserting anything. I just vaguely recall the wording being different — and I’d think I’d have noticed this if they used it as it matched our wording.
I have no idea. I am not on their mailing list although I get their (mostly) junk mail come election time.
Your liberal one sided diatribe is a insult to intelligent people. Your cute “teabagger” nickname for people who only want to have people obey the law (in your city is rare) and protect our rights is an outrage. I know a few nicknames I could call you…… Stick with your liberal agenda…. It really seems to be working. Santa Ana is oasis……….not.
Sure, sure. I’m glad most of your compatriots 1) have a sense of humor, and 2) can read more than just a catchy title.
Tea Party activists chose that nickname themselves when they hit the streets, apparently because they had failed to include intelligent homosexuals among their numbers.
So, while I have tried to avoid using the term since they figured out what it means, it’s hardly “out-of-bounds.” It’s not like he’s calling them “almond vendors,” if you know what I mean.
Thank you for my full quota of belly laughs for today. Doublespeak: Teabaggers as “Constitutional Conservatives,” bwahahahahaha! “What says grass roots, salt of the earth and rebel better than the Newport Beach Tennis Club?” LM[damnedfool]AO!
Since he refuses to post here, Dan asked me to ask you: did you pay for your “tix” ( that’s cool slang for ticket” or were you comped?
No need to answer, it was a joke.
Right, I should give credit where due. My friend Craig Preston, a reformist, good-government Republican who I used to work with on Clean Money stuff, told me about the event and got me in. (I would have felt a little conflicted about donating $35 to the Donnelly for Governor campaign)
I hope they’re not mad at him now too…
Thank you Vern for the great read, I enjoyed it.
I take issue with some of your points, however, as I read some of them, I was politely “eating”!
OC Excélsior does have an online presence. It is a Spanish weekly that comes out every Thursday.
The article with Teresa Hernández that you referenced above, is below.
Somos iguales (We are the Same/We are Equals)
Los republicanos intentan cortejar a los latinos de O.C., diciéndoles que son como ellos (Republicans attempt to court Latinos in OC…telling them that they are like them.”)
published October 11, 2013 4:24 PM
Somos Iguales
http://www.ocexcelsior.com/articles/-12097–.html
Thanks. I did find ocexcelsior.com, but tried their search engine in vain for Scott Baugh, Teresa Hernandez, and more keywords. Their search function certainly sucks. CHUPA.
Hey Vern:
1) the problem with the OC Excélsior (OCE) search engine is that it requires you to use the accents on the words, and names that have them.
e.g.: Hernandez vs Hernández (accent on the “a”); otherwise you won’t get a hit.
2) Scott Baugh was misspelled as “Caugh” in the a OCE article.
paco
As long as you continue to degrade the opposition by name calling, your message will only be heard by those that already agree with you. Not the way to broaden your message out to others. It is a failed way to do outreach. But maybe you only want to be read by those that enjoy epithets being used against those they disagree with.
Again, not effective and very childish! Vern you can be better than this! I hope you get the message!
Um.. didn’t we already do this? This is an old piece, and we’ve already discussed this. Did you ever read the whole thing? I think you’d be surprised at how fair it is.
I think Gustavo hated this story because he didn’t write it.
And that is a bat-signal for Gustavo Arellano to come and defend himself and attack me, because he Googles his name every morning like Gene Simmons did in Ugly Betty!
With or without the “Miranda”?