Posts Tagged ‘ Nancy Pelosi ’

When Rep. Joe Wilson famously shouted “You Lie!” at President Obama’s joint address to Congress on healthcare reform, the South Carolina Republican was able to parlay that classless utterance into hundreds of thousands of dollars for his re-election (his opponent was also able to raise tons of cash).  Last December, Irvine Council member Steven...
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I would have thought the confirmation of Justice Sotomayor would have warranted inclusion, but per the editors of the Associated Press, here are the top news stories of 2009. Here are 2009’s top 10 stories as voted by the U.S. editors and news directors:  -1. THE ECONOMY: Despite a $787 billion federal stimulus package, much of...
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We have had some pretty interesting stories over the past year. Some we broke, others we just covered. From Westminster City Councilman Andy "Smiley" Quach and his DUI to Assemblyman "Open Mike" Duvall's romps with a lobbyist it has been an eventful year.
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Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi delivered the Keynote Address to the Democratic Party of Orange County’s 15th Annual Harry S. Truman Award Dinner last Friday, December 4th in Irvine. For those who were not there and those who were and simply want to replay that moment; here is the video of her keynote...
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I’m not sure anyone has complained about Adam Probolsky’s column in the Irvine World News more than I.  More often than not, it’s pretty harmless.  And there are those moments when Adam goes after the progressives in the Irvine council majority or liberals in general, forgetting perhaps that Irvine is far more purple than...
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“To see Councilmember Choi parading around the lobby of the Hilton Hotel with a picture depicting Speaker Pelosi as Josef Stalin on his back was deeply disturbing, though sadly not out of character."
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What Steven Choi did at the Democratic Party of Orange County's Harry S Truman Awards Dinner last Friday night was worse than the conduct of Dean Grose. It is worse because Choi is a non-partisan elected official in the City of Irvine. Because of that when dignitaries of any political party come to visit...
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