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Sweet Loretta Sanchez thought she was a winner, she was Absolutely Fab
On stage with Kamala, tried to get all hip-hop — then she learned she shouldn’t dab
Get Back! Get Back! Get Back to where you once belonged! (GET BACK LORETTA!)
(I know, I know — Vern is the one with the professional license to do parody songs — but how can I resist?)
Let’s just all thank God that Loretta didn’t have a pen and an apple.
[Note: while I do volunteer as a coordinator for Kamala Harris’s campaign in Orange County, this piece is entirely my own opinion; I haven’t even consulted with the campaign before writing it.]
Reports of Wednesday’s U.S. Senate Debate have focused on the end of Rep. Loretta Sanchez’s closing statement and the beginning of Attorney General Kamala Harris’s tart and shade-laden rejoinder. I have to disagree with CNN’s take that Kamala was “not amused” when Loretta Sanchez, perhaps having forgotten how to curtsy and not wanting to pry the mic out of its She has a very good sense of humor and I’d bet that she was plenty amused, in a “laughs at” rather than “laughs with” sense. She just had the presence of mind not to show it beyond noting that, as everyone could see, there really was a difference between the candidates on the podium. Loretta, perhaps still confused by the lack of wild audience applause that prompted some sort of sea shanty jig from her after her intended coup de grace, interrupted her to say in a perhaps unintentional Laurel-and-Hardy intonation, that there certainly was. And it was at that point that I went temporarily deaf and blind, so I don’t know if Loretta came after he shouting that she ain’t no holla back girl, or, seriously, God knows what.
If Harris didn’t look amused — and you may be able to judge for yourself based on the above screen show showing the sides of her mouth turned up in a broad smile — I have a theory as to why that might be. She may have been calculating how much campaign money she could save by canceling all of her ad buys for the next month — because they are probably not going to be necessary.
I always like to give OC Weekly credit when they are really funny, and Gustavo’s semi-astonished article on Dabbergate is worth reading as is Gabriel’s somewhat more sympathetic take pointing out the source of Loretta’s inspiration — I’m not going to spoil it here — and raising the question of how her Debate Coach Sal Tinajero reacted when he saw that move, of which I’m betting he did not inform her, based on the fact that he didn’t sit on her to keep her from getting onto the stage at all.
OK, that’s the end of today’s story. Woo-woo-woo! Fist bump! (coughing fit)
“OK, that’s the end of today’s story. Woo-woo-woo! Fist bump! (coughing fit)”
Dude. Perfect closer.
Does the blog have a position on the hotly contested school bond issue in Brea, Measure K?
I am told that you have in the past taken position on tax and spend initatives.
Not until I get to it, as I hope to do this weekend. Been really busy, as my recent lack of posting suggests. But recommendations will be out before the absentee ballots arrive.
“Get BACK, Lo-ret-ta, Get BA-A-A-ACKK, to where you once be-longed ! ” ….
——to Lynwood.
LA Times- (4/23/16)
..”A review of Sanchez’s attendance shows she missed 13 of 18 Homeland Security meetings from January through early November, tied for the second-worst attendance on the committee. She missed the vast majority of her subcommittee meetings and half the full meetings in the 2013-14 congressional term, when she was not yet running for higher office.
Last year, Sanchez was supposed to co-chair a task force on obstructing terrorist travel and keeping violent extremists from entering the United States.
But two Republicans on the eight-member panel, who said they attended most of at least 16 meetings and briefings over seven months, said they never saw Sanchez there. Democrats serving on the Homeland Security Committee, from which the task force was created, said attendance was not recorded at the private meetings.
Sanchez could not cite any meetings she attended, but said she thought she had attended some. “I attended the vast majority of them … I did not see her there,” said freshman Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), a retired Air Force colonel.
Sanchez has also missed more floor votes in the House — more than one in five — than all but two other members in 2015, according to Congressional Quarterly. That’s a drop from her previous terms in Congress, when she cast votes more than 90% of the time in all but one year.
Sanchez said she doesn’t recall missing many Homeland Security hearings,……”
“Whoo ! Whoo ! Whoo !”
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She got bored, then greedy. Then conveniently forgetful.
Adios, Lo.
Woo, woo, woo.
I still like her better than Kamala.
OJ Schism!!!
If I wanted a sexagenarian senator who acts like a 12 year old girl with stuffed animal on her bed I’d write in Lorri Galloway.
The “Clinton Defense” ! – Which, by the way was INVENTED by NONE OTHER than former OC native …Steve Martin !!
Loretta is a typical OC blowhard. A born loser, hope she goes back to her republican roots.
So Harris was not amused. So who is she, the queen of England?
I think she was amused.
Those of us who have put up with Lo’s antics for 20 years, probably less so. But not surprised.
No, but thanks to the history of colonialism she’s probably a lot higher in the order of succession than I am.