Orange County Register: Politics
- Building is a priority in $6.1 billion Orange County budget
Tuesday - 05/10/2016 - 12:25 AMWith the weight of bankruptcy payments finally off its books, Orange County wants to build.
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The county’s proposed $6.1 billion budget for next fiscal year, released Monday, increases funding for capital projects to four times what the county spent... - Dana Point mayor: Development and tourism are booming
Saturday - 05/07/2016 - 09:28 PMDANA POINT Plans to transform this sleepy seaside village into a bustling destination that welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors are rapidly moving forward.
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“Development is widespread across the city,” Mayor John Tomlinson said Friday during... - Cross-party endorsements rouse confusion
Friday - 05/06/2016 - 03:13 PMMy old college pal Frank Mickadeit, whom you may remember as a Register columnist before he bailed for the greater job security of lawyering, was understandably perturbed while studying his Orange County sample ballot last week.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Costa Mesa council rejects $20 million bond proposal to add affordable housing
Thursday - 05/05/2016 - 03:59 PMCOSTA MESA – A proposal by Mayor Pro Tem Jim Righeimer for a $20 million bond measure to provide more affordable housing in the city died before reaching voters.
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The City Council on Tuesday night voted 3-2 against a resolution that there’s a... - Democrats: Welcome to California, the battleground state
Thursday - 05/05/2016 - 01:39 AMWelcome to what battleground state status feels like, California Democrats. At least, for a little while.
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Just hours after Indiana sent Texas Sen. Ted Cruz packing and Ohio Gov. John Kasich called it quits – essentially making Donald Trump the... - Latest in race for president: John Kasich ends bid for president, Bill Clinton in L.A.
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 02:46 PMEDITOR’S NOTE: Holy smokes, American politics is getting crazy.
Check here for updates all day for what the candidates (those still campaigning, anyway) are up to.
AND THEN THERE WAS ONE
Texas Sen.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Here's how much O.C. candidates have raised and spent
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 12:40 AMNewly filed fundraising documents reveal which candidates for Orange County supervisor and four state Legislature seats have separated themselves from the pack for the June 7 primary election. In these competitive races, the current fight is to...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bigger than the baby boomers: Are millennials the new force in politics?
Monday - 05/02/2016 - 06:04 PMThey were strangers in line at the Donald Trump rally in Costa Mesa last week, four politically inclined millennials equally divided in their support of the Republican real estate mogul and Democratic candidate Sen.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Bigger than the baby boomers: Are millenials the new force in politics?
Sunday - 05/01/2016 - 03:00 AMThey were strangers in line at the Donald Trump rally in Costa Mesa last week, four politically inclined millennials equally divided in their support of the Republican real estate mogul and Democratic candidate Sen.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Protests follow Donald Trump to California GOP convention
Friday - 04/29/2016 - 04:41 PMBURLINGAME – Real estate tycoon and Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump landed at San Francisco International Airport at 11:40 p.m. today and headed to the California Republican convention here for an eagerly anticipated speech.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Campaign turning to local races as presidential primaries solidify
Saturday - 05/07/2016 - 11:47 PMLess than 18 months after squeaking into office by a 43-vote margin, Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do will be tested again beginning this week as mail-in ballots start arriving in voters’ mailboxes.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Dog suit incident leads to surprise donor in Lake Forest recall effort
Friday - 05/06/2016 - 09:55 PMLAKE FOREST – Jim Gardner has been a community activist for years, pushing to get Lake Forest its own dog park, chastising city officials for accepting money from outside interests and fighting to slow the city’s housing boom.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- A 'slow death sentence'? New FDA regulations raise concern in O.C.'s vaping community
Thursday - 05/05/2016 - 08:00 PMNew regulations announced Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration have created fears that some in Orange County's vaping industry could be driven out of business.
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Randy Freer, owner of P.O.E.T., a Seal Beach manufacturer of e-liquid for... - Thousands spent by elected officials in Lake Forest recall battle
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 05:38 PMLAKE FOREST – Councilman Jim Gardner gave $30,000 of about $32,000 in reported contributions to the effort to recall three of his colleagues, according to campaign finance documents filed this week.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- House candidates distinguish themselves at debate
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 09:19 PMThe five top candidates in the race to replace outgoing Rep. Loretta Sanchez agree that the middle class needs more effective advocates in Congress, but offered stark differences in the approaches they would take to the issue during a Wednesday...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Competing ballot measures dueling for Dana Point's Lantern District
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 11:17 AMDANA POINT – Key arguments by proponents of Measure H, an effort to get voter approval on any development changes in the city’s Lantern District plan, have been removed from June sample ballots due out this week after supporters of a competing...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton lead rivals handily in ABC7-Southern California News Group Poll
Monday - 05/02/2016 - 08:39 PMDonald Trump may be unpopular with a majority of California Republicans, but the real estate mogul is poised to dominate the California primary over rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich as he tries to secure the Republican presidential nomination,...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Baugh, Rohrabacher clash for Congress could lie ahead
Monday - 05/02/2016 - 06:36 PMSetting up a potential clash of Orange County political titans, former county GOP Chairman Scott Baugh is not ruling out a 2018 challenge of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Costa Mesa.
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When Baugh began raising money for a bid in January, indications were... - Senate race comes into focus
Friday - 04/29/2016 - 03:49 PMLast Monday’s U.S. Senate debate clearly displayed some of the differences in the candidates. Democratic Attorney General Kamala Harris was composed and stately. Loretta Sanchez, D-Orange, was spontaneous and at times bordering on giddy.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Video: Police cruiser smashed in post-Donald Trump rally protest in Costa Mesa, about 20 arrested
Friday - 04/29/2016 - 12:21 AMDemonstrators jumped on a Costa Mesa police car, breaking out the windows and attempting to turn it over, as tensions escalated after a Donald Trump rally on Thursday night.
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Orange County Sheriff’s deputies were threatening to arrest hundreds of...
- Bigger guns, bigger problems? How high-powered ammunition could affect nuclear power plants
Monday - 05/09/2016 - 10:01 AMShortly after the horrors of 9/11, a curious package landed on Dave Lochbaum’s desk.
It was flat but heavy. Inside the bubble pack was a battered steel plate, blasted with dents and holes from semiautomatic weapons fire.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Proponents submit 7,000-plus signatures for initiative to preserve Costa Mesa's Fairview Park
Friday - 05/06/2016 - 02:10 PMCOSTA MESA – An initiative intended to keep portions of Fairview Park undeveloped by making it more difficult to build sports fields, concrete paths and structures there has stepped closer to becoming a reality.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- In L.A., Hillary Clinton vows to keep immigration reform
Friday - 05/06/2016 - 12:46 AMHer speech was heavy on immigration, hard on Donald Trump and silent on Bernie Sanders.
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Hillary Clinton is competing in the California primary for the Democratic presidential nomination against Sanders, but she was in full general election mode in... - Election 2016: Former president talks of a return to prosperity as the Clintons hit L.A.
Thursday - 05/05/2016 - 01:01 AMFormer President Bill Clinton made the case for sending his wife to the Oval Office during a speech Wednesday that referred to the San Bernardino terrorist attack and avoided direct attacks against Republican Donald Trump.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Some O.C. Republicans wary of jumping on the Trump train
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 09:04 PMMission Viejo’s Nancy Brown has voted for the Republican nominee for president ever since casting her first ballot, for Dwight Eisenhower, in 1956. But the erstwhile Ted Cruz supporter is ambivalent about her choices this November, now that Donald...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Recreational marijuana initiative may be voted on in California this year
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 12:20 AMCalifornia was the first state to allow medical marijuana. Now, two decades later, voters are expected to be asked whether to legalize recreational use of the drug.
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The California campaign to legalize recreational marijuana will announce at a formal... - Ted Cruz's exit gives Clinton the presidency, his adviser says
Tuesday - 05/03/2016 - 09:52 PMSen. Ted Cruz’s California political director, Mike Schroeder of Newport Beach, said that without his candidate in the race, Hillary Clinton is virtually guaranteed the presidency.
Cruz ended his campaign for president Tuesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Gardner demands resignation of two fellow Lake Forest council members targeted for recall
Monday - 05/02/2016 - 03:30 PMLAKE FOREST – Councilman Jim Gardner has started an online petition demanding the resignation of two of his council colleagues who are targets of an ongoing recall effort.
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Gardner said if Mayor Andrew Hamilton and Mayor Pro Tem Scott Voigts resign... - Election 2016: Is the Costa Mesa Trump melee a sign of turbulence ahead?
Saturday - 04/30/2016 - 12:53 AMThe melee in the streets outside Donald Trump’s Costa Mesa rally Thursday could mark the beginning of many large, turbulent demonstrations against the controversial Republican presidential front-runner. There have been protesters at Trump events...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Donald Trump in O.C.: Tensions mount as police in riot gear separate protesters, supporters
Thursday - 04/28/2016 - 10:47 PMPolice in riot gear worked to separate a growing crowd of Donald Trump protesters from supporters still trying to get into the packed Pacific Amphitheatre minutes before the Republican presidential candidate was scheduled to make his first primary...
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