Orange County's wealthy, old Republican businessmen at The Lincoln Club have stopped calculating the hourly, tax-free income on their corporate dividends long enough to send voters a slick, four-sided campaign mailer portraying Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez as a floozy.
The ad opens with the picture of a pair of attractive, sandy female feet–one foot with a Playboy emblem on a ankle bracelet–and the headline, “It's all fun and games for Loretta Sanchez.” The statement is allegedly supported by a clip from The Orange County Register that reprinted a Wall Street Journal item noting that Sanchez joined nine other members of Congress on a climate change study session at the Great Barrier Reef.
Wait, Sanchez's conduct got much worse.
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She apparently had the audacity to snorkel during the trip, the ad points out in highlighted yellow ink.
Not offensive enough? Well, they also note that Sanchez . . . oh, no! . . . “giggles.”
Other statements in the ad include:
–“It's
always fun and games until someone gets hurt. Loretta Sanchez is
flirty, throws a good party, is well traveled, AND constantly votes with
the ultra-liberal leadership in Congress to hurt her community.”
–“While
Loretta Sanchez is taking advantage of her office, living the high
life, she consistently votes to hurt her constituents.”
–“Sanchez has made her priorities clear–travel, parties and consistently voting for higher taxes . . .”
–“If
Loretta Sanchez put in half the time toward working for her district
that she does posing for her annual Christmas card portraying her
glamorous life, we wouldn't have record high unemployment in Central
Orange County. 'Pet the cat' or save jobs? Loretta is on the wrong
side.”
and
–“This November tell Loretta Sanchez the party is over, 'We're Voting You Out!'”
Really,
guys? Loretta's Christmas card poses are causing unemployment? Now I
understand why The Lincoln Club traditionally locks reporters out of its
meetings.
The geezers are hoping the non-flirty Van Tran upsets Sanchez in the November election and makes Orange County's entire congressional delegation Republican.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.