CPAC putting Florida Republicans in the spotlight
CPAC to bring thousands to Orlando
Thousands of people will gather in Orlando this week for the Conservative Political Action Conference. It starts Thursday and wraps up on Sunday with former President Donald Trump speaking.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - It’s being called the Super Bowl for Republicans. In fact, the host hotel, the Hyatt Regency Orlando, is sold out. The Conservative Political Action Committee conference is going on the road, being hosted in Orlando, starting Thursday. Orlando for the last four days of February 2021 is going to be the epicenter, the capital of the Republican conservative movement in the United States of America, said Charles Hart, chairman of the Orange County Republican Party.
Special Supervisor Election Heats Up as GOP Condemns Two Republican Challengers
Jan. 27, 2021
The five final candidates to replace Michelle Steel on the Orange County Board of Supervisors. From left: Councilman Kevin Muldoon of Newport Beach, attorney Janet Rappaport of Corona del Mar, Mayor Katrina Foley of Costa Mesa, Mayor Michael Vo of Fountain Valley, and former supervisor and state Senator John Moorlach. Credit: Photos by Julie Leopo for Voice of OC, and campaign websites
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Just as the filing deadline for candidates closed this week on a hotly contested, coastal county supervisors’ seat, local GOP leaders went on the attack against two Republican candidates in the race, calling them selfish and ego-driven.
Local Democrats celebrate inauguration with virtual watch parties
By FOX 35 News Staff
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Another big change on this Inauguration Day.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - Another big change on this Inauguration Day.
Hundreds of thousands of people will not be celebrating at the National Mall. Instead there will be virtual watch parties including in Orange County where local democrats are hosting one.
Local democrats say they are excited for today and even though they can’t physically be together because of the pandemic they’ll be together virtually. I am super excited, said Sandra Fatmi-Hall.
She says nothing can steal her joy over Inauguration Day. Not even the fact that she won’t be attending in-person like she had planned because of the pandemic.
Assemblyman Colin Schmitt (R, C, I, LBT, SAM-New Windsor), who represents Stony Point as part of the 99
th District in Albany, was sworn into office for a second term on January 6, 2021. That same day, Schmitt, his wife and office staffers were targeted by the Orange County Democratic Committee and New York City’s newly-hatched Democratic Socialist Party for encouraging “rioters” to attend Save America Rally in Washington, DC.
The “rioters” Schmitt wished a safe journey to, at 4:30AM on the same morning he was sworn in to office, were members of Orange County’s Right to Life and members of his church. The D.C. march, estimated to have been attended by over 150,000 people, ended badly when an extremist fringe marching at the forefront scaled the Capitol building walls and entered the halls of Congress, smashing windows and causing mayhem. Tragically, five people were killed in the ensuing melee.
A long day in the life of America
Monroe. Echoes of the turmoil in the nation’s capital reach Orange County. | 12 Jan 2021 | 10:09 At 4:30 a.m. last Wednesday morning, Jan. 6, Assemblyman Colin J. Schmitt climbed the steps of one of two buses in Monroe Park-and-Ride to say a few words to the people on board who were getting ready for the five-hour ride to Washington, D.C., where people from across the country were gathering to protest the Congressional certification of Joseph R. Biden as the next president of the United States of America. Photo provided by the Orange County Democratic Committee.