Orange County Breeze
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California Assembly District 72, Troy Edgar, Travis Allen, Fountain Valley, debate

Surprises at the debate between Troy Edgar and Travis Allen

Editor’s note: Orange County Breeze live-tweeted the debate at twitter.com/OC_Breeze. As promised, Villa Park Councilwoman Deborah Pauly ran a tight debate as Los Alamitos Mayor Troy Edgar and Huntington Beach financial a...
by shelley
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Robin Itzler, holding glasses

The Marketing Maven: After the election, what next?

My prediction was for a Mitt Romney win. I was in good company: Michael Barone, George Will, Newt Gingrich, Peggy Noonan, Steve Forbes, Dick Morris, Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh also predicted that Romney would win the presidenc...
by Robin Itzler
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Robin Itzler, take 3

The Marketing Maven: Seventeen reasons to vote for Obama on Nov. 6

After several columns promoting that Mitt Romney be elected President of the United States, it’s only fair that I devote at least one column to why voters should consider re-electing Barack Obama. This column is dedicated to ...
by Robin Itzler
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Alan Lowenthal

Room with a View: An alternative reason for Alan Lowenthal stiff-arming the League of Women Voters

Congressional candidate Gary DeLong sent out a news release announcing that his opponent in the new 47th Congressional District, Democrat Alan Lowenthal, had refused an invitation from the League of Women Voters for a joint tow...
by shelley
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Gary DeLong, CA-47 Congressional candidate

Gary DeLong leapfrogs Alan Lowenthal in the 47th Congressional District tally

The vote counts and percentages were released by the Orange County Registrar of Voters. UPDATE: Please see the comments for a correction, noting that the tally reported here does not include votes from the larger portion of Con...
by shelley
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Doug Bailey

Cypress Councilman accuses Los Alamitos Mayor of attempted recording of conversation

The published order of items on the agenda of the regular meeting of the Cypress City Council on Monday, May 13, was re-arranged by Mayor Prakash Narain. Two items were moved to the start of the meeting: a report from Councilma...
by shelley
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Supervisor John Moorlach at last August's West Orange County Legislative Mixer

Moorlach endorses Edgar for Congress

The following information was received from the campaign of Troy Edgar for Congress. County Supervisor John Moorlach today added his name to the growing list of Orange County leaders who have endorsed Troy Edgar’s campaign fo...
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California Assembly District 72

California Secretary of State releases certified candidate list

From the Orange County Registrar of Voters: For voters in Orange County Breeze Country, new districts are frustrating because they split communities used to working together. Instead of a single representative for Congress, Ass...
by shelley
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Rossmooor-Los Alamitos Republican Women Federated, Sophie Happel, 50th Year

Rossmoor-Los Alamitos Republican Women Federated celebrate fifty years

Rossmoor-Los Alamitos Republican Women Federated (RLARWF), founded in 1961, celebrated fifty years on March 24 at Old Ranch Country Club. Prominent in the audience were local politicians and candidates for office in this yearâ€...
by shelley
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Los Alamitos City Council, video title card, 05 Mar. 2012

Video of Los Alamitos City Council Meeting, 5 Mar. 2012

The item that ensured the meeting adjourned around midnight is #9D. The Council actually adjourned to closed session after item #9C. Most remaining audience members left during the break. By the time the Council returned from c...
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Steve Kuykendall, 67th Congressional District, in Vietnam

Steve Kuykendall running for Congress in 67th District

The following is a news release from the Congressional campaign of Steve Kuykendall. Combat Veterans for Congress, a national veterans organization, announced its endorsement of Republican businessman, and former Congressman St...
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California Congressional District 47

Cypress Chamber to host Congressional candidate forum at Cypress College

The Cypress Chamber of Commerce, in association with the Cypress College Political Science Club, will host a candidate forum on Wednesday, April 18, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Room 131 of the Humanities Building on the Cypr...
by shelley
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trash bin

Room with a View: Art DeBolt makes an offer

Before the Los Alamitos City Council began its discussion of Item 9B at its regular meeting on Monday, Feb. 6, Art DeBolt walked up to the podium and made the City an offer. Paraphrased, the offer was: Heads, we win. Tails, you...
by shelley
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Alan Lowenthal

Room with a view: snail-mail flyers and email bragging

Alan Lowenthal is running for Congress in California’s 47th Congressional District, created by the supposedly non-partisan Citizens Redistricting Commission by jumping the county boundary and taking a hunk out of northwest Or...
by shelley
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