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Disneyland Dems

Amid U.S. Senate scrap, Santa Barbara pols jockey at state convention.

Disneyland Dems
Jerry Roberts

On Saturday night, hundreds of California Democrats and reporters in various stages of drunkenness packed the atrium lobby bar of the Anaheim Hilton, generating a collective clamor of conversation.

From time to time, the shrill cry of a war whoop — “woowoowoowoo!” — pierced the din, inevitably followed by cackles of laughter.

It signaled that someone else had just viewed a brief and murky iPhone video of the U.S. Senate wannabe and Orange County Representative Loretta Sanchez committing an OMG gaffe during an earlier appearance before the party’s Indian-American ethnic caucus.