What a great birthday present! The Orange Juice! has returned to the #1 slot in BNN’s California Most Influential Political Blogs Rankings. Just in time for me to turn 40 tomorrow.
I would like to thank our readers for their devotion to our blog, and my blog team for doing SO MUCH this week while I was away on vacation.
As has been the case for some time, the top five blogs in the BNN rankings are all Orange County based. Three of them are conservative blogs, led this week by the Flash Report. Our friends at the Liberal OC came in at #5 to round out the top 5 blogs.
After that the rankings include blogs from all over the state, including a great many from Los Angeles County and even one blog that hails from Fresno.
Our top stories at the moment, according to Sitemeter.com, include:
1. Supervisor Nguyen gives away 500 fair tickets to needy children
2. Crazy Claudia strikes again
3. Term limits and what do we do now
4. Pulido wins with term limit measure, no matter the outcome
5. SA Council gives term limits thumbs up
6. The Three Amigos and Harald Martin
7. Ignorance to Enlightenment Part 8: Total Victory
8. Santa Ana moves to stop delivery of handbills to unsuspecting residents
9. Council attempts to have sway over John Wayne Airport
10. Problem with Santa Ana
Not to spoil the fun of being number one – Congrats!
However I really don’t know how BNN comes to any conclusions at all. Just google “Santa Ana Community Blog” http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=santa+ana+community+blog
And you’ll not find OJ on any of the first 5 pages of url’s. (I stopped after that).
Why your blog is not listed by google might be of concern to you. I didn’t try firefox – maybe that would have yielded some productive results. fyi.
Poster 1,
Good points! I will ask our webmaster to check this out. Thanks!
Ain’t it great to be the only
thing on the web worth reading?
Congrats you brilliant OC-Juice
blogger people!
Helloooooo? Reality check? Who cares? Dissent the Blog is ranks the 16th most influential political blog in the state. And they blog about the trustees and chancellor of a single junior college district.
All this hi-fiving is laughable.
Most of us visit to read the musings from the right, mainly Larry and Thomas.Kudo’s to them for the good work.
Poster 5,
I greatly appreciate Larry’s and Thomas’ contributions to this blog. They do a great job.
And I appreciate your support of this blog.
I don’t however think it is fair to call me a liberal. I personally try to avoid such labels. My values are what they are. IMHO I am more of a Libertarian than an outright liberal.
#6
LOL…right Art, you don’t use labels like “liberal”. You prefer labels like “leftist freaks”.
n2justice,
Thanks for proving my point! While I disagree with O.C. conservatives on a lot of issues, I also take issue with the far left lunatic fringe, i.e. the leftist freaks who wasted their time protesting at Congresswoman Sanchez’ office this week.
I rather be in the middle than on either of the outer fringes of the political spectrum…
Art,
You know darn well I wasn’t trying to prove your point.
And the only reason you try to avoid labels like “liberal” is because it’s just not vitriolic enough for your brand of political discourse.
So you’re an equal opportunity labeler…yawn.
n2justice,
Yeah I know. Just having fun with you!
You’re just sore because I called your buddy David Benavides a puppet. And I was proved right. Hopefully his rebellion at the last Council meeting will continue, but I won’t bet on that…
I used to read the OC Blog (Red Country) until I realized it is a bunch of lobbyists trying to take over Orange County. They relentlessly push “their” candidates with factually deficient articles. There’s so much spin it could become an alternative energy source.
Poster 11,
That is the same problem I have with the Red County bloggers. Plus half of them are anonymous. God only knows who they really are – or how much money they are making each time they spin a post.
They do well, but they have a magazine and an entire political machine behind them. By comparison, we’re the little engine that could…
Thanks for your readership and support!
Art,
“You’re just sore because I called your buddy David Benavides a puppet. And I was proved right. Hopefully his rebellion at the last Council meeting will continue…”
You pronounced David a “puppet” based on ONE vote at the very first council meeting. And so we can just as legitimately conclude that he isn’t a puppet based on his recent vote.
And so you see, you’ve been proved wrong.
#13
C’mon. Anyone who watched the council meeting knew David “Puppet” Benavides was squirming like a pig when he offered his reason for voting against Miguel.
It was obvious, his decision was not conscience-driven.
He’s still a puppet of the mayor’s.
If David Benapuppet is serious about being agaisnt this term limit joke,then he will have no problem stepping forward and writing the arguement against it. He will also walk precients and ttell people to vote no. Unless and until that happens, David is a puppet.
#15,
Calm down. This term limit joke stands no chance of passing.
But it’s interesting that after he votes to oppose the measure you up the ante on him. And so at the end of the day, there’s absolutely nothing that the people you oppose can do to placate your closed mind.
“there’s absolutely nothing that the people you oppose can do to placate your closed mind”
If you read what 15 wrote, you can see exactly what will placate.
David must write the arguement against this joke, raise money for signs and mailers, and walk neighborhoods telling people to vote no.
Anything less equates to David being allowed to cast a safe vote by his puppet master Pulido.
#17,
Right, and then after that he’d have to do something else, and then something else. And then if he casts a vote with the Mayor on another issue, he’s back where he started…at least in your mind.
And so you see, some people are simply NEVER satisfied. You set up these ridiculously unrealistic expectations for people because you don’t REALLY want to change your mind.
What? A city Mayor endorses one council contender over another during an election? How SHOCKING! You decided LONG ago you oppose anyone the Mayor endorses and there is LITERALLY nothing those people can do to change your perception of them. So don’t sit there and try to convince us that if David does this or does that, you’d change your mind about him. At least have the honesty to admit your view is unwavering.
But again…nobody is going to need to “raise money for signs and mailers, and walk neighborhoods telling people to vote no”…this one is going down on its own.
The nature of how the term limit package was presented was so that multiple outcomes would result.At face value there is no logic to the term limit package.At this level of politics and beyond it is all about positioning for victory.My perception is that the peculiar packaging, resulting individual council voting and the eventual term limits defeat by the citizens was to produce the following outcomes:
(1)No term limits on the Mayor’s seat.
(2)Council members voting for the term limit package will be perceived as opportunist, power hungry,hypocritical and unworthy of re-election.This outcome eliminates possible credible competition for the mayoral seat from those Council Members who voted yes on this issue and opens the possibility of replacing the incumbent Council Memmbers that voted for this term limits package.Whatever perceived benefit the yes voting council might of gained is washed by the negatives above.
3)Benavides gets the monkey off his back for flip flopping on the previous term limit vote.His statements of “Term limits as considered are too long” and “This question was previously cosidered and should be followed” positions him as a now credible candidate,a credible supporter of other ward candidates and liberates him from opposition criticism on this issue.
(4)Michele Martinez voting againts this measure avoids trouble.
The Council’s only way out is to revisit this issue and defeat it.