Week in Review : MISCELLANY/ NEWSMAKERS AND MILESTONES

Nathan Rosenberg, a 33-year-old Newport Beach management consultant who is credited with leading the recent rejuvenation of the Young Republicans in Orange County, broke the Republican Party’s 11th Commandment--”Thou shalt not speak ill of fellow Republicans.” Rosenberg filed to run against incumbent Rep. Robert E. Badham for the Republican nomination on June 3.

Badham’s congressional district along Orange County’s southern coast is considered to be as safe as they get. Badham has not faced a serious election challenge since he was first elected to the House in 1976.

But Rosenberg says he intends to give Badham a serious run, and he started speaking ill of Badham right away.

Noting a recent report showing that only one member of Congress has done more tax-financed traveling than Badham, Rosenberg said Badham thus has been absent for votes on many issues before the House.

County Republican Chairman Tom Fuentes seemed deeply hurt. “We look for loyalty to our incumbent Republican office-holders from our clubs and organizations and the leaders thereof,” Fuentes said.

In Tustin, the news was all good--at least for 28-year-old Robert Smiley.

Smiley dropped into his neighborhood 7-Eleven store to make his daily purchase of two lottery tickets and became the state’s first $100,000 instant winner, defeating odds of 960,000 to 1.

Smiley partied a little to celebrate, but he said the $100,000 (less $20,000 for taxes) is not likely to change his way of life, which is renting a room in a friend’s condominium and working two jobs to earn his roughly $20,000 a year.

He will, however, buy a car--”something with a sunroof”--to replace his ’63 Volkswagen, he said. The extra money will help, he grinned, but “it’s really nothing. You can’t even buy a nice Rolls-Royce with it.”