Evan Gahr – Page 25 – California Globe

Garcetti Goes Full-On Identity Pol on Sunday TV

October 24, 2018 11:00 amOctober 24, 2018 10:56 am

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said yesterday that Democrats should appeal to Latino voters by putting more Latino candidates on the ballot. This call for hardcore identity politics might strike some as self-serving since Garcetti, both Jewish and Mexican-American, is...

Maxine Waters Forcefully Denies Doxing US Senators

October 2, 2018 9:00 amFebruary 25, 2021 11:37 am

Los Angeles Representative Maxine Waters this weekend feverishly denied charges that her office “doxed” GOP senators during the Brett Kavanaugh sexual assault hearing Thursday, calling the allegations that quickly circulated online “despicable lies.” But given that the spunky congresswoman has...

Trump Savages Sessions for Duncan Hunter Indictment

September 5, 2018 12:29 pmSeptember 5, 2018 6:08 pm

President Trump yesterday trashed his own attorney general for the prosecution of California Congressman Duncan Hunter and another Representative also closely aligned with him. Referring to the federal indictments last month of Hunter and his wife for personal use of...

Carl Bernstein Tells California Globe ‘Call My Office’

August 30, 2018 7:14 amAugust 31, 2018 10:27 am

The truth isn’t always the truth—to paraphrase Rudy Giuliani’s newly famous phrase—when CNN and Carl Bernstein report it. CNN and the famed Watergate reporter are standing by their deceitful and discredited story about Michael Cohen being willing to testify that...

Duncan Hunter and Wife to Be Arraigned Today for Raiding Campaign Money

August 23, 2018 6:01 amAugust 28, 2018 1:36 pm

California Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) and his wife Margaret Hunter, who served as his campaign manager, were indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday, for turning campaign coffers into their personal piggy bank. They allegedly funneled campaign money to pay for...

Cox Deploys Godwin’s Law Against DMV

August 22, 2018 7:00 amAugust 23, 2018 5:33 pm

Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox last week likened long wait lines at DMV offices to the Holocaust. But he quickly backtracked, apologizing to anybody offended yet also insisting he didn’t really say what he clearly did say. The whole fracas...

Opinion: LA Times’ Farcical Stand for Independence

August 21, 2018 1:12 pmAugust 22, 2018 7:53 am

The Los Angeles Times declined to join more than 300 newspapers publishing coordinated editorials last Thursday decrying President Donald Trump’s war on the press, which the President continually labels the “enemy of the people.” So, the state’s flagship paper was...