A life-size cutout of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was reported stolen Thursday from 1464 S. Coast Highway, site of the Laguna Beach Republican headquarters, police said. The cutout is described as a 6’2” replica cutout of a smiling Romney in a suit, Capt. Jason Kravetz said. No one answered phones at the GOP office. [...]
Frank Ricchiazzi, a Laguna Beach resident and member of California’s GOP delegation, was interviewed by CNN on Tuesday prior to the roll call vote at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. The interview with the founder of the Log Cabin Republicans, which support equality for gays and lesbians, focused on GOP policy issues important [...]
Editor, I was appalled when I read Michael Ray’s column of Jan. 20. The Indy requests that letters to the editor be about local issues, yet you printed a column that quotes an unnamed “younger guy” spewing racial epithets as if they were representative of Orange County Republicans. It is obvious to me that Mr. [...]
Editor: The first time I wrote about the price of gas at the pump, George W. Bush and Al Gore were campaigning for the White House. Back in 2000, I wondered if Gore might pick then-Energy Sec. Bill Richardson to be his running mate. “Bill Richardson or Andrew Cuomo look good on paper, [...]
Longtime GOP strategist and Laguna Beach gay activist Fred Karger made it official today, filing paperwork at the Federal Election Commission in Washington, D.C., becoming the first openly gay candidate to run for president in history, his campaign spokeswoman announced. Karger, 61, is also the first candidate to seek the Republican nomination for the nation’s [...]
Editor, The 2010 election isn’t about Obama or Bush. It’s about fear. It’s about a nation fearful that its grip upon world domination has slipped. It has. The world is flat. It’s hard to imagine a future in which China continues making better goods more profitably than we do, that India can offer cheaper [...]
Police Use Taser to Subdue Assault Suspect
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
