U.S. Republican Party

Republicans Head To Los Angeles For Spring Meeting, Face Culture Shock

The Republicans are coming to Los Angeles next week. They must be from out of town because they'll be the only red dogs around these parts. Which makes us wonder: Why the hell did they chose L.A?

Illegal Immigrants Hit The Streets As ICE Fears Sequester Cuts; Republicans Pissed

In what feels to us like a middle finger to those Republicans cheering on draconian "sequester" cuts to the federal budget following a congressional impasse, the Department of Homeland Security says undocumented immigrants are being released from detention centers across America. The action is appa ... More >>

Girl Talk: Readers Argue About Henry Rollins' GOP Takedown and Steven Leigh Morris' Deep Throat Skepticism

Henry Rollins: The GOP's Disdain for Women Is Appalling

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Only a few short weeks into the new year and the GOP is busy. The president's recent inaugurati ... More >>

Marijuana Legalization Across America Possible Under Federal Bill Proposed Today

Marijuana could be legalized across America under a set of bills proposed by two congressman from decidedly liberal states. Yes, these guys -- Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Rep. Jared Polis of the recreational-legal state of Colorado -- are the Don Quixotes of federal weed policy. But we can d ... More >>

Romney Campaign Would Have Been Winning 30 Years Ago, Says USC Prof

Compounding Republicans' problems (alienating Latinos, women and anyone who ever worked in the auto industry) following last week's presidential defeat is this analysis from a USC professor that seems to have gone viral. Patrick James, professor of international relations at USC's Dornsife College, ... More >>

L.A. FBI Agents Ready To Investigate Allegations Of Voter Fraud in Southern California

Voter fraud is rarer than a global-warming denier in New York City right now. Republican efforts to scare away the poor, dark and Democratic vote in states like Pennsylvania and Florida have made this non-issue a hot topic nonetheless. Ironically, some of the biggest headlines about voter fraud th ... More >>

Sarah Palin Porn Lookalike Lisa Ann, L.A. Adult Star, Rocks GOP Convention: VIDEO, PHOTOS

Some Republicans might not like abortion for victims of rape unless, you know, it's "legit rape." Likewise some of those on the far-right side of the GOP aren't really big on birth control. Or "sluts" who want to speak out about the right to contraception, for that matter. But don't get us wrong. R ... More >>

Obamacare Was a Republican Idea! 5 Obama Issues The GOP Once Owned

Republicans are acting like the blue-haired lady at a four-star restaurant who spies what's on the table of a minority couple nearby: "I'll definitely not have what they're having." What Republicans once ate up like Charlie Sheen at a Peruvian farmer's market they now reject as wholly un-American ... More >>

Howard Berman's Last Stand

Gay Republican Fred Karger Wants Your Vote, Calls Mitt Romney 'Mechanical'

Gay Republican Fred Karger, who's based in Southern California, has been stirring things up on the campaign trail this year, seeking the Republican nomination for president. The uber-underdog Karger is not going to get it -- candidate Mitt Romney will get the nod. But he's still on the ballot for Ca ... More >>

Richard Riordan Woos Latinos For Republican Party: Will They Join The Juan Percent?

Ex-L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan wants to recruit more Latinos to the Republican party, and he's putting some of his considerable money behind the effort. Smart move: The latest U.S. Census figures suggest that Latinos will be the biggest ethnic group in California, perhaps by the end of 2013. And the ... More >>

California Assembly District 50 Race: Torie Osborn Mailer Rips Into Rival Betsy Butler's Commitment to Education

There's only a week until Election Day, and the contentious California Assembly District 50 race has ramped up several notches, with candidate Torie Osborn sending out a mailer that questions rival and Assemblywoman Betsy Butler's commitment to education. Butler's supporters are now aggressively com ... More >>

State Republican Leaders Get in Bed With ... Villaraigosa (!?) in Bid For Post-Miramonte Teacher Reform

Strange bedfellows have arisen from the Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse scandal in which two teachers face charges for lewd conduct and a slew of allegations have hit educators at other area campuses. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who once vowed to take over the L.A. school district and wh ... More >>

Chimichangagate Rocks the Presidential Race as GOP, Democrats Fight for Latino Vote

Mmm. That's one tasty demographic.​He who gets the Latino vote could take the whole chimichanga, beans and rice included, during this year's presidential election. The fight took to Twitter his week and Republicans and Democrats battled over ... the word Chimichanga. L.A. cartoonist and satir ... More >>

'Crappy' Republican Lawsuits Against New, Citizen-Drawn Voting Districts Thrown Out by California Supreme Court

uncoverage.netIs the Citizens Redistricting Commission out to get the GOP?​The refreshingly un-gerrymandered voting districts unveiled by California's new Citizens Redistricting Commission in June have a damn good chance of going to stone, thanks to the California Supreme Court's big "F you" t ... More >>

Beware: Thousands of Republicans in Downtown L.A. This Weekend

Take a deep breath: They're not as bad as they seem.​The GOP's getting pretty edgy with its Convention plans this year, setting up shop among the hobos and flaming liberals of downtown Los Angeles (albeit at the least edgy, most "manhattanized" location in L.A.). On top of that, for the first ... More >>

Millionaires Don't Pay Taxes? 1,470 of America's Richest Didn't, According to IRS

MatMA free ride for some millionaires?​Southern California has more millionaires than just about anywhere else in the nation, with L.A. coming in at No. 1, Orange County at No. 4, and San Diego ranking No. 6 in cities with the most seven-figure-plus households in 2008. So maybe we should feel ... More >>

Rightbloggers Claim New California Voting Districts Were Rigged by 'La Raza Democrats'

Jeanne Raya, a Latina Democrat on the commission​Uh oh: La Raza is rising! California's voting districts are getting browner/bluer by the second. Before we know it, this'll be the goddamn Nation of Aztlán, are we right? The state's historic vote to let a group of 14 guys and gals with no pol ... More >>

Un-Gerrymandering Los Angeles

Get ready for the brawl of cutting Southern California in pieces, on paper

Will Gay Republican Fred Karger Run for White House in 2012? Something Very Interesting Is Brewing

Gay Republican Fred Karger​Fred Karger, the openly gay Republican who battled Mormons and the National Organization for Marriage during the Proposition 8 campaign, was featured in the Washington Post yesterday, gaining major recognition for his possible run for the White House in 2012. If Ka ... More >>

Return to Sender

What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?

Barbara Boxer Camp's Internal Hysteria Meter Cools: Field Poll Shows California Senator Leads Carly Fiorina 8 Points And Independent Voters Rule

Watch out for ice.​All the internal hysteria that's periodically gripped the Barbara Boxer camp as California's longtime U.S. Senate ice maiden came closer than ever to losing her seat? It can probably be set aside. Anything can happen November 2, 2010. But today's Field Poll shows Boxer add ... More >>

Meg Whitman's Uphill Battle

She's fashionable as an outsider, but that guarantees nothing against Jerry Brown

Voters Strongly Support 'Open Primary' Ballot Measure

Californians vote on Prop. 14 today.​Proposition 14, the "open primary" ballot measure that Californians will vote on today, has strong support from the public, who may be reacting to the fact that both the Democratic and Republican state parties oppose the initiative. According to a new pol ... More >>

Is Cooley Too Moderate to Win?

In the fight for attorney general, opposing prison for sock stealers is a liability

Proposition 14, the Open Primary

What happens to ossified Sacramento if California voters get to shop around?

'Decline To State' Voters Grow In Numbers As Californians Flee Both Parties

​As California's June primary approaches a new report indicates that one in five Golden State voters have declined to state a party preference. The Republican party appears to be the biggest loser when the numbers are analyzed, but citizens appear to be unhappy with both sides, according to Ca ... More >>

Straw Men

Republican candidates pander to baseless base in Iowa

Circular Firing Squad

While Arnold grabs the center and gets props, California’s GOP bosses rush right

Bush's Big Bluff

The end of Internet gambling

Scandalous! A Year of Republican Treachery

A Goldwater Moment

It's 1964 all over again, but this time for the Democrats

Scandalous! A Year of Republican Treachery

Live Short and Prosper

Bush’s devious Social Security pitch to blacks

A Goldwater Moment

It’s 1964 all over again, but this time for the Democrats

Homo Hate

Kerry loses to Rove’s anti-gay hysteria

Rebel, Rebel, Your Face Is a Mess

Why protests fail . . . and fail

Grand Old Illusions

Exposing the secrets of an empire

War Party

John Kerry gets his marching orders in New York

Strange Love

What happens when Hollywood stops worrying and embraces the GOP

Grand Illusion

South of Disneyland, the Republicans gather for the last charge

One-Trick Party

In war and peace, Republicans replenish the rich

The Pretender

Illegitimate and ill at ease, George W. Bush begins what looks to be a retro presidency

No Votes, Please

We’re Republicans

Impeachment Loser

Rogan desperately seeks the center

Irrational Exuberance

The Dub Bubble

Clinton Claims the Center

Banana Republicans

By any other name, seizing power in defiance of popular will is a coup

Conservative Collapse

From Gingrich to Lungren, the right is routed