Orange County, California. Formerly the place where good Republicans went to die, now the place where the GOP wackos and grifters go to run for office.
100s more people left the GOP in OC last Friday. Dem registration edge shot up to 72.5k. It's not just college-educated women either. OC voters simply reject the GOP plan to roll back rights while raising taxes and cutting Social Security and Medicare.
"Michelle Steel told Newsmax she was starting to feel anger at home from the GOP 'speaker war.' Billboards showing pictures of Donald Trump, Jordan, and the congresswoman with the label 'extremists' had been spotted in her Orange County 45th District." 👀
@acnewsitics
@tru50liv
Steel also voted against protections for interracial marriage even though she's in an interracial marriage. Plus she's an anti-LGBTQ extremist.
@atrupar
Next week there'll be video that he stood on 5th Ave. and shot someone at random, and the Republicans will call for an investigation into the victim.
Wow the OC Register editorial board is on a roll. Yesterday it slammed Young Kim & Michelle Steel for "choosing MAGA over governing." Today it's telling Santa Ana voters to reject the OCGOP-led recall of
@VoteJessieLopez
, rightly calling it a power grab.🔥
'California town proposes ban on Pride, Black & women’s history celebrations' 'Far-right council members introduce agenda item to switch focus to US wars & America’s independence'
Thanks Fash Four, Huntington Beach is now an international embarrassment 🤦♂️
The new candidate in
#CA45
is:
- A consumer rights attorney with access to a vast donor network
- A small business owner with a pro-business platform
- The son of Vietnamese refugees
- An advocate for the social programs Michelle Steel wants to destroy.
"Steel... would not even support bipartisan pro-business legislation, including the infrastructure bill & the CHIPS Act that provides federal funding to help make the US semiconductor industry more competitive with industries in China & other countries."
BREAKING: Young Kim
#CA40
is now a full-on election denier. Listen to her refuse to say that Joe Biden is the legitimately elected president of the United States. No wonder she's backing Jim Jordan for speaker. He's her fellow far-right conspiracy theorist
"Michelle Steel should not remain in Congress. That should be a simple choice for the voters of CD-45. The Republican has not been a positive force for the region or for the nation. She doesn’t represent the values of the district..." Every word of this.
Please tell me control of the House isn't going to come down to the racist, homophobic, bigoted, anti-choice, birdbrained MAGA Republican Michelle Steel winning in
#CA45
thanks to a campaign based purely on red-baiting, race-baiting and gaslighting. Please let that not happen.
- Backed Trump in 2020
- Went to GA to stump for Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue
- Did all she could to boost Larry Elder for CA governor
- Was all-in for Scalise for speaker then threw her weight behind Jordan
Seriously
#CA40
, you need a rep with a better sense of judgment 🤦♂️
Crazy to think about all the ways the Inflation Reduction Act will benefit Californians and that Young Kim and Michelle Steel voted against it for purely partisan reasons.
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Organizers need 13k valid signatures for the recall to qualify, they turned in more than 18k with 5 weeks to go until the Nov. 9 deadline. Seems pretty clear the folks who are hellbent on destroying public education in OC overplayed their hand again 🍊🐘🤦♂️
It took Tito Ortiz filing for unemployment for the OCR editorial board to turn on him. Wait until they find out that Michelle Steel's 1%er husband got a fat PPP loan for his 8-person law firm then turned around and pumped $2 million into her campaign. 😬
Garvey, who voted twice for Trump, "doesn’t have an opinion on who is responsible for the violent pro-Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." 🤦♂️
Pretty much all anybody needs to know about the CAGOP's next big loser.
Michelle Steel
#CA45
& Young Kim
#CA40
voted against impeaching Trump despite clear evidence that he incited an insurrection. Now they're voting to open an impeachment inquiry into Biden based on no evidence. They work for their MAGA bosses and no one else
@ExileOC
@MichelleSteelCA
@GregRaths
@YoungKimCA
Those poor people working the bar, having to serve all the super spreader mask holes. These OCGOP candidates deserve to lose and then be kept away from any kind of public office forever.
"Calvary Chapel has boasted on social media of collecting tens of thousands of ballots for state & local candidates endorsed by Hibbs" including Young Kim
#CA40
. Pastor at CCOTH in Huntington Beach is doing the same. This is what we're up against in 2024.
Michelle Steel's nutter husband, the key architect of the CAGOP's slide into oblivion, sees himself as a brilliant general in Republicans' war to win back school boards & city councils.🤦♂️ Sounds like losing the OUSD recall would be devastating for him. Let's make sure it happens.
OC Supervisors will no longer be able to draw their own district boundaries and it's a huge blow to the OCGOP, which until last year, when Katrina Foley showed them what real power looks like, relied on partisan maps to retain control of the BOS.
It's 2022 and coastal OC has sent 2 anti-choice climate deniers to Sacramento and elected a Holocaust denier to the Huntington Beach city council. This is what you get when the OCGOP tells Republicans to use their votes to express fear & resentment rather than any kind of vision.
Heartwarming story. OC Republican Bill Brough got fined $47k for using campaign funds for personal costs and agreed to a payment plan but defaulted after 1 payment bc he was sure the FPPC would never come after him. Now he owes $100k - the maximum allowed.
@HawleyMO
GOP is just the opposition party now. No ideas, no plans to make anyone's life better, just whine about whatever Dems do. Hawley will pivot nicely I see from turning a blind eye to Trump's criminal activities to criticizing Biden's every move.
It's important to note that Michelle Steel and Young Kim voted for Gym Jordan *after* it became clear that he didn't have the support to become speaker. It was a clear message to
#CA45
and
#CA40
that they're fully aligned with the far right now. Nothing is too extreme for them.
Rightwingers in OC are panicking about SB 907, coauthored by Josh Newman & Dave Min, which would expand the OCBE to 7 trustees and move elections back to November. They know it'll be much harder for their creepy candidates to win in high turnout elections.
Today, I formally filed to become California’s next State Treasurer. Looking forward to reforming our state’s investment and financing structures and managing our assets with an eye to protecting working families and those most in need.
In case anyone was wondering why Lisa Bartlett and Andrew Do tried to extend term limits for OC supervisors to 20 years: both failed to make the top two in the June primary. And for good measure, it looks like Doug Chaffee might soon be out of a job too.
Young Kim just voted for her fellow election denier Jim Jordan for the third time. C'mon
#CA40
, you deserve so much better than this far right🗑️ rep 🤦♂️
Congresswoman Young Kim (
#CA40
) was asked by a reporter if President Joe Biden was legitimately elected, and she refused to answer the question.
I am so incredibly embarrassed to finally confirm that my own congresswoman is an election denier.
Whatever Michelle Steel blathers about this week remember that she supports the GOP plan to 1/ sunset Social Security and Medicare within 5 years, 2/ raise taxes on everyone making under $100k a year, and 3/ take away your healthcare. That's what the award is for: she's on board.
So a third-rate company with a history of violations is operating aging infrastructure off our beautiful coast and it "had plans to initiate new drilling near the site of the leak in the final three months of this year" with no serious oversight in place?
Sure, Michelle Steel
#CA45
wants to ban IVF after benefiting from it, but did you know she also voted against protections for interracial marriages even though she's in one? And that she consistently votes against protections for same-sex marriage because she's a rabid homophobe?
Matt Gaetz is marrying Palmer Luckey's sister! That explains why he was in Orange County for the October GOP superspreader event. He and his new BIL must have bonded over their passion for Holocaust denial and white supremacy.
This fraudster lives in a $4m house but got a PPP loan last year and has filed for unemployment. It's because he refuses to wear a mask that the HB city council is still meeting virtually. Yet the OCGOP stands by him. "Face of the Republican Party." 🐘🤡
The Fash 4 claim to love the free market, now they're learning how it works. A company with 130 locations across North America just moved its $1.5 million annual meeting out of Huntington Beach to get away from "all the hate, bigotry & extremest views." 👀
"Ledesma and Miner have already been removed from the OUSD board’s website. Trustee areas 4 & 7 are listed as vacant. They are no longer trustees.”
Epic win for OUSD families, devastating loss for Shawn Steel and the OCGOP.
Amazing indeed! Young Kim and Michelle Steel are obviously on board with Rick Scott's "Rescue America" plan, which would raise taxes by $100 billion in 2022 alone, with more than 97% paid by those making less than $100,000. Take note before you vote
#CA40
and
#CA45
.
It's 2022 and OC has two congressional reps who don't believe in marriage equality. Young Kim, "I personally oppose same-sex marriage." Michelle Steel, "I personally believe marriage is between a man and a woman." These 2 reactionaries don't represent OC.
Michelle Steel obviously knew Rohrabacher was among the insurrectionists when she voted to block the 1/6 investigation. They've been friends for 40 years and he worked on her 2020 campaign. Now there's talk that he's the one who provided the maps of the inside of the Capitol.😬
We knew Dana Rohrabacher was a threat to democracy - that’s why we defeated him in 2018.
As more details about the insurrectionists are uncovered, the ties to Michelle Steel become clear.
The far-right lunatics who currently control the OCBE are panicking about a bill coauthored by Josh Newman and Dave Min that would add two seats to the board and move trustee elections to November. It's all the proof we need that the bill is a good idea.
Well that's rude. All I did was ask Jon why he got 2 separate PPP loans even though his business wasn't impacted by Covid, then got the loans and interest forgiven. And why he said he has 5 employees when he doesn't have any. And why his business doesn't have a website. 🍊🐘❄️
Want to flip
#CA45
? Start adopting Steel's tactics. High schoolers knocking doors for free. Volunteers making calls in 7 languages. Every available surface plastered with banners & signs. Low-budget, high-impact initiatives. Don't wait for national groups to come in with big $.
Young Kim is scrambling to try to sound like the kind of moderate Republican
#CA40
wants representing it but she's just like Mike Johnson: promotes Christian nationalism, questions the 2020 election result, doesn't want women to have access to abortion care or contraception.
Wow. Mike Johnson on Fox News Sunday doesn't rule out voting against access to contraception but then says "I really don't remember any of those measures" when asked about his past votes against reproductive health care
IVF brings hope to so many women facing infertility, including in my family.
Women struggling to get pregnant are hurting enough — restricting IVF makes no sense.
As a mom & grandma, supporting moms, babies, & families is personal to me.
Michelle Steel is speaking at yet another event that's NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. OFF THE RECORD. CLOSED TO THE PRESS. NO VIDEO OR AUDIO RECORDING OF ANY KIND. What's so secret about what she's going to say that her handlers need to make sure voters in
#CA45
don't hear it? 🤔
Former CAGOP chair confirms that Shawn and Michelle Steel killed the recall momentum by talking their friend Larry Elder into running. Elder alienated the moderate Republicans who supported the recall while energizing Democrats. Good job
@RepSteel
Sure, Katie Porter and Mike Levin kept their seats and Democrats flipped the BOS, and Republicans suffered massive losses in city council and school board races, but can we talk about how Cynthia Vasquez single-handedly ended the careers of OCGOP relics Gerg Raths and Ed Sachs???
Todd Spitzer fired a 30-year veteran for looking into claims that he was running pay-to-play schemes and potentially laundering money. And that investigator just got his job back. 👀
Fantastic profile of Protect HB, a group of retirees waging a revolution to end the Fash Four takeover of city hall.
“We’re really the people who built this city, and we’re proud of what we did. And this new council is diminishing all that we worked for.”
"Trying to cover her tracks on her terrible voting record but can't even bring herself to stick the landing. You're not fooling anyone Michelle..." This is why we call her
#LieCheatSteel
. Thanks
@votesaveamerica
for putting the spotlight on an awful rep & the crucial
#CA45
race.
More letters from Huntington Beach residents who are sick and tired of watching the far right council tear the city apart. Plus a former resident who vows not to spend any money in HB the next time she visits. "It’s the best way I know to show my disgust."
Was Jeff Barke the only one
@ocregister
could find to pen a pro-Moorlach op-ed? Barke is a QAnon follower, fake frontline dr. and anti-vaxxer. Hoag Hospital recently disavowed his "radical" ideas and sued him for $500k. Only the OCGOP cares what he thinks.
Time for Kevin Muldoon, candidate for Orange County supervisor district 2, to explain why his December fundraiser was hosted by people with ties to white supremacy and Dana Rohrabacher, who helped organize the January 6 domestic terror attack on the Capitol.
Hey, watch former GOP congressman
@DanaRohrabacher
kind of smiling, as he stands next to a Stop the Steal organizer who's calling for the "execution" of Trump's political opponents. Good times.
Girls can do anything they set their minds to.
On International Day of the Girl, we uplift one another and recommit to doing our part to support opportunities for girls around the world to succeed in the classroom & in the workplace. I'll do my part on
@HouseForeignGOP
.
People in
#CA40
are tired of the endless gun violence in America and know that only federal gun safety laws will stop the madness.
Young Kim brags about being a "Second Amendment legislator" which is code for "No matter how many people die, I'll always side with the shooters."
Senator Min announced
#SB286
advanced out of the Senate Elections Committee today. The bill would require elections for seats on the OC Board of Education to be held during the November general election. Full statement:
Bravo to the person who got that message displayed during public comments at the BOS meeting today. And fantastic work by
@nicholasgerda
. Without his investigative reporting, Andrew Do would still be funneling our tax money to his daughter today.
#DoMustGo
"The local GOP was hoping to use the recall to boost fundraising and enthusiasm..." There was massive fundraising and enthusiasm all right, but on the anti-recall side. Bravo OCGOP. 🍊🐘🤡
Michelle Steel is gaslighting the Vietnamese community again. Extending the Trump tax cuts would benefit corporations & the wealthy almost exclusively. It would also add $3.5tn more to the deficit over 10 years, which the GOP would use to demand cuts to Social Security & Medicare
Katie Porter
#CA45
loves to talk live with constituents about whatever's on their mind. Young Kim
#CA39
and Michelle Steel
#CA48
only meet with Republicans and it'll cost you every time.
Fired up after rallying tonight with OC parents concerned about what’s going on in our schools!
We have to fight for Parents Rights in school boards, in Sacramento, and in Congress.
Appreciate the opportunity to speak. Parents, I’ve got your back!
#CA47
@NMUncensored
The OC Register editorial board says Trump's racist tirade against immigrants last week "reads as if an AI prompt was asked to generate an intoxicated and incoherent rant from Joseph Goebbels."
ofc not a peep out of Young Kim
#CA40
or Michelle Steel
#CA45
And here we thought Young Kim
#CA39
and Michelle Steel
#CA48
voted against the 1/6 commission just to protect Trump. Turns out some of the terrorists charged in the Capitol attack have deep ties to the OCGOP. No wonder they don't want an investigation.
The OC Register editorial board calls out Republicans for putting on a dumb show with the Mayorkas impeachment rather than working to reform our immigration system. Will it ever call out Young Kim & Michelle Steel for going along with these MAGA stunts?
"Does that apply to Andrew Do and his unqualified daughter who started a sham nonprofit that stole about $4.5 Million from hungry OC families during COVID??
Asking for a friend..."
If Do wasn't a Republican you can bet Todd Spitzer would be all over this.
It's not just MTG & Matt Gaetz driving Republicans like Ken Buck out of Congress. Last October, so-called moderate Young Kim
#CA40
refused to say that Biden is the legitimately elected president. She supported Trump after the insurrection and voted against a House investigation.
"As a 60-plus-year resident of Huntington Beach and former educator, I am appalled by the actions of Gracey Van Der Mark, Tony Strickland, Pat Burns and Casey McKeon. Our library is the last straw!" More HB residents who are over the Fash 4. Recall time? 🤔
😂 Shawn Steel is so worried about Michelle losing her seat in Congress that he had his law partner's wife call in to the redistricting hearing, giving only her first name 🥸, to make the case for
#CA48
to just include OC beach cities.
Michelle Steel knew J6 would be violent because her political mentor Dana Rohrabacher helped plan it. Of course she voted against impeaching Trump & creating an independent commission to investigate the riot. Anything to protect her friends & get Trump back into the White House.
Don Wagner and Andrew Do are lazy Republicans who figured if they put Katrina Foley in a tough situation she'd give up. They really messed with the wrong woman. Watch her set up a Dem victory in the new District 2 while winning over District 5 voters. 💪
"What happens when conservative ideologues take over a city council and focus on performative litigation rather than substantive policy making? We’re getting the answer in Huntington Beach..."
The OC Register editorial board has had it with the Fash 4.
"Several people in the crowd yelled out 'Christians!' during the invocation, as Rabbi Stephen J. Einstein of Congregation B'nai Tzedek of Fountain Valley was describing groups that had experienced an uptick of hate crimes in recent years." HB is a hot mess