Orange County Elections 1996

House Democrats made a vain attempt to end the ongoing Dornan-Sanchez election investigation Monday night, even though the bill they were trying to kill included money for their 1998 paychecks. During a raucous evening of debate and delaying tactics, Democrats accused Republicans of running a partisan investigation, tinged with racial bias. Republicans, in turn, accused the minority party of sour grapes. In a symbolic gesture, Democrats voted against the $1.

Expressing sharp dissatisfaction with the continuing investigation into last year's victory by Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez of Garden Grove, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives said his party will disrupt the House's business to end the GOP inquiry into the contested election in central Orange County.

Unhappy with the continuing investigation into last year's victory by Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove), the top House Democrat said Friday that his party will begin to use "delaying tactics" and other methods to stymie legislation as a way "to defend Loretta against a totally unreasonable investigation." The first such effort, however, was brushed aside Friday by Republicans, who hold a majority in the House. The House is investigating charges made by ousted congressman Robert K.

The INS and the California secretary of state have reached agreement on how to proceed with the search for Orange County voters who illegally took part in last November's election, the agencies announced Friday. The signed pact ends a three-month standoff between the federal and state agencies over Secretary of State Bill Jones' request for citizenship checks of all of Orange County's 1.3 million voters.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service has spent more than $150,000 investigating alleged voter fraud in last November's election in Orange County, according to information released Wednesday by the agency and a congressional committee that ordered the probe.

"No pictures," a security guard instructed a news photographer as Orange County Rep. Loretta Sanchez stepped off an elevator in a Seattle hotel. Not that she minded. Just a couple of hours earlier, the freshman Democrat from Garden Grove was giddy over the rock star treatment she was getting from organizers of the convention where she was to speak.

The congressional probe into voting by noncitizens last November in Orange County will intimidate minority voters and undermine federal and state laws designed to increase voter participation, a coalition of national civil rights groups charged Friday.

The Congressional Oversight Committee has given the Immigration and Naturalization Service until today to provide it with a written list of the names of 4,023 people who live in the 46th Congressional District and who may have registered to vote before becoming citizens, a congressional spokesman said Tuesday.

Signaling the high stakes in the fight over the Orange County congressional seat held by Rep. Loretta Sanchez, House Democratic leaders have undertaken a major fund-raising campaign on her behalf. In a letter signed last week by House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt and other Democratic Caucus leaders, each of the 206 Democratic members of Congress is being asked to donate at least $500 to Sanchez's election "Recount Fund."

Two members of the campaign staff for then-assembly candidate Scott Baugh contacted each other by telephone while one of them sat in a car outside the registrar's office with decoy Democrat Laurie Campbell just minutes before she signed up to run in a crucial 1995 election, according to testimony and documents used in court Friday.