Scary Stuff

You know you’ve made it in O.C. politics when you make the O.C. Weekly’s Halloween time list of the 30 some odd scariest people.  The list, usually an amalgam of the weird, the criminal and the elected that the O.C. Weekly loves to plague, just came out for 2007.  Last year’s list was oriented more towards the criminal and the weird, but I do note that O.C.’s own Will Ferrell made number 18 then.  No sign of Mr. Ferrell this year.

My only beef with this year’s list is that I wasn’t included in the “The Pols” category, but rather in the not-so-scary also-rans category of “The Scariest of the Rest.”

In a more traditional vein a few days back the Daily Pilot ran their annual “Newport-Mesa’s 103 Most Influential.” (See: http://dailypilot.p2ionline.com/SpecialSection/ss/index.aspx?webstoryid=12940129&area=SS&type=page&adgroupid=116782&adid=1788991&parentid=12940128&menu=-3.1) I was 43^rd on that list – not even high enough to make the O.C. Weekly’s listing.

OC's Scariest People

Our Congressional delegation tops this year’s list of 33 villains (31 for October, plus two more to get to the Día de los Muertos, ese)

Thursday, October 25, 2007

THE POLS

1) DANA ROHRABACHER

2) LORETTA SANCHEZ

3) CHRISTOPHER COX
4) JOHN CAMPBELL

5) ED ROYCE

6) GARY MILLER

7) KEN CALVERT

8) DIANNE FEINSTEIN

9) BARBARA BOXER

THE CAMP FOLLOWERS
10) HUGH HEWITT

11) MICHAEL SCOTT KERR

12) LORETTA SANCHEZ’S SIT-IN PROTESTERS

13) GORDON DILLOW

THE SCARIEST OF THE REST 
14) PETER CALLAHAN

15) VARSITY GOLD
16) PATRICK PICENO

17) MICHAEL LAMB

18) JOHN ANGEL SALCIDA

19) SHERIFF MICHAEL S. CARONA

20) ROY LEE MORTON

21) ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER WEBSITE COMMENTATORS

22) MICKEY MOUSE, SLUMLORD

23) THE POORMAN

24) THE CAST OF NEWPORT HARBOR: THE REAL ORANGE COUNTY
25) THE ANAHEIM UNION?HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT
26) DEPUTY KEVIN TAYLOR

27) ZOMBIE DUMMIES OF HO CHI MINH AND NGUYEN CAO KY

28) JAMES FLEMING

29) CHUCK DEVORE

The Republican Assemblyman wants to resurrect construction of nuclear power plants in the state, a practice shelved 30 years ago. DeVore’s stated intended purpose, to build additional reactors at San Onofre to fuel a water-desalination plant, would have far-reaching benefits for residents, developers and energy companies in our near-desert climate. Of course, that’s if you ignore the tremendous cost of building nuclear reactors and desalination plants, coupled with the waste problems both create. Hazardous byproducts from desalination plants tend to disrupt or kill large percentages of nearby marine life, while nuclear waste is, well, nuclear waste. DeVore’s response to his critics? “I remain deeply skeptical of an environmental left that is, at its core, hostile to people, while constantly demanding that we give up our inalienable rights in service of the greater environmental good, which they, of course, define,” he wrote on his website. MITIGATING FACTOR: DeVore’s proposal already died in committee, but undeterred, he says he’ll try to get the issue on the ballot in 2008.

30) MARK MCGRATH

31) JOE DALLAS 
32) YOUR LOS ANGELES ANGELS OF ANAHEIM
33) THE MINUTEMAN PROJECT

(For the rest of the scary details see: http://www.ocweekly.com/index3.php?option=com_content2&task=print&id=27940&Itemid=0&pop=1&page=0)

Comments

[WTF]

And,
35) Art Pedroza

[Gustavo Arellano]

If the two keep their flame war going, I'll include Art and Jubal as a couple for next year! Reminds me of the old newspaper wars--but who's Hoiles, and who's the Chandlers?

[Missy]

Yeah, Art and Matt -- get a room!

[rebecca]

So the Weekly's point of leading off with OC's congressional delegation is that they all support the war, and yet they note that Boxer didn't vote for the war and didn't vote for funding of it, and they still include her? Is that some of that new New Times thing, where they have to rag on liberals and conservatives alike?
Oof.

[Karl Rove]

Rebecca,

Maybe they have become an equal opportunity rag?

[Gustavo Arellano]

"New" New Times thing, Rebecca, just like the time Scott went after Larry Agran, Nick went after Larry, Anthony went after Larry, Will went after Larry...hell, most everyone went after Larry, Nativo Lopez, Loretta and other liberals who deserved it? Don't play the ignorant, please: it's insulting to you and anyone else who's ever read the Weekly.

[rebecca]

Gustavo, you miss my point. We never held off on bashing liberals WHEN THEY DESERVED IT. In this case, Boxer has voted consistently against the war in all its forms--which is what the lede is talking about--and yet you still include her as scary vis a vis the war. I wasn't playing the naif, Stavo. Why are you?

[Jubal]

In case anyone's wondering what happened to the comments from Art Pedroza and Sean Mill, I deleted them because they weren't really from Art Pedroza and Sean Mill.