Please welcome our newest bloggers, Ron and Anna Winship, who will be blogging as a team. They founded their award-winning streaming multimedia website in 1999, well before I started this blog. They have been involved in Orange County politics and Newport/Costa Mesa issues for many years.
Ron ran for the Newport Beach City Council in 1986 and was elected for three weeks in 1994. Since then he has run for the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, the OC GOP Central Committee, the Orange County Water District and the Newport Beach City Council. The Winships are contemporaries of Bob Dornan, Bill Dannemeyer and my old friend Gil Ferguson.
The Winships have press credentials and SAG cards, which they first got in 1996. They have interviewed many of America’s most famous on their program, The Cutting Edge. Their online archives feature over 60 commercial and access free programs. One of those interviews fetures CIA Operation Chief for Afghanistan, Gary Berntsen, regarding his new book, Jawbreaker.
The Winships also have a creative print company – they specialize in both political and product postcards, gift cards and marketing and public relations projects. They also maintain a second website, developed this year, after visiting friends in Hawaii.
Ron’s background includes study at the University of Southern California in the 60’s, as well as service with North American Aviation – Space and Information Division at then Cape Kennedy Florida as both a Space Vehicle Test Mechanic and EO Engineer. His two years of Citizen Soldier and Cryptographic Teletype Operator duty in the US Army covered July, 1967 to July, 1969.
Ron has lived in Newport Beach since 1952 – he married Anna in 1988 when she moved to Newport Beach from Sweden. They remain active in local, regional, national and international issues.
Welcome to the Juice!
Oh no! Three members of the Cutting Edge a talk show on the same blog. Orange County. Watch out!
Ron and Anna. Welcome to this full time endeavor.
Larry Gilbert
The link to Ron and Anna Winship’s web site is as follows:
http://www.cuttingedge-atalkshow.com
Larry Gilbert
Art, what is this, you go from one of the top notch b logs in the OC to one filled with nutcases. Sean Mill, Larry Gilbert and now these nuts.
Claudio, add some credible people, we have some faith in you to have common sense. Take the hill from Art, add people of credibility, or start your own blog. Bring back GILA AND RYAN!
Gila quit.
Get over it Tim.
Take the damn hill yourself.
Face it.
Miguel hates you.
You got no hope of getting Ward 1.
Poster 4,
We’re actually doing quite well. I am pleased that our new bloggers will increase our coverage outside of Santa Ana. As for Sean, he has been a great addition to the team. He fills a void here in Santa Ana now that Ryan has moved on to finish college. Kudos to Ryan for getting his priorities in order. I am very proud of him and I know he will go far.
I would by the way love to have Gila back, but that is up to her. In the meantime, we will continue to look for more writers in other parts of the county.
Lastly, Larry brings a lot to this blog. I am proud to work alongside him.
Let’s face it folks – our county is neither red nor blue – it is orange. I think we have done a good job of selecting writers who represent the different ideas that make our county what it is. Can we do better? Sure, and that will always be our goal.