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- Irvine Valkyrie is Katherine Daigle, the once and future Irvine mayoral candidate, an independent-minded Republican who is aligned with neither of the two dominant Irvine political cliques.
![The recent contract termination and re-hiring of Irvine city attorney Rutan & Tucker is no surprise. It’s not because the issue should never have happened, but because the changing of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/51cJJc3UbsL._SX300_-115x115.jpg "Jeff Lalloway morphs into King Lear.")
![. How much DO they make? A California Public Policy Center (CPPC) study published this year has both raised eyebrows and been decried by an Orange County Employees Association spokesperson as […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/irvine-city-hall-e1374692221822.jpg "Doesn’t a city owe its people anything?")
![The recent news that the remodeling of a community center at Northwood Community Park is now $1,000,000.00+ over budget is not surprising at all. It’s yet another reminder of the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/shrug-gesture-e1374677555162.jpg "Community Center a million over budget in Irvine, Council shrugs.")
![For those in Washington it’s déjà vu all over again. Massive twelve-hundred page bill full of handouts to special interests? Check. Members of Congress voting on another massive bill that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/immigration-divide-115x115.jpg "Dangerous Divide, the reformation of an immigration bill")
![. Five years ago, much of the American public bought into the “new” era of American politics and thrust Barack Obama into office. For many citizens the concept of “Hope […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images-7-115x115.jpg "Does anyone still believe in “Hope and Change?”")
![. QUITE the amazing exchange took place last Thursday night on Facebook between two of the three members of Irvine’s new Republican City Council majority, Jeff Lalloway and Christina Shea. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/lalloway-v-shea-115x115.jpg "Lalloway reaches new low, risks Republican dominance of Irvine?")
![. From Barack Obama’s defenders you’ll hear a common refrain that, paraphrases, essentially that he really is the same person that ran for office, but it’s just the realities of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/obama-can-you-hear-me-now-e1371223682759.jpg "America is Under Attack by Knowledge")
![. Interesting piece here by Larry Agran, writing in “Irvine Matters“. My views and the views of Mr. Agran are often diametrically opposed but in this situation I wholeheartedly agree […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/agran-or-lalloway-115x115.jpg "What does Irvine really want?")
![In Irvine there should be no child that has to stand alone. The Irvine School District has proposed the addition of a portable classroom for young College Park children. The […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/special-education-e1370442512332.jpg "It Takes a Village: Special Ed NIMBYs in Irvine.")
![. The people of Orange County have yet to realize the magnificence of all the Great Park will bring to their lives and in our community. And they are not […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/great-park-2-e1369957677211.jpg "In Praise of Orange County’s Great Park")
![. A truly philanthropic society combines the best of charitable work from both the private and the public sector. Too often we get caught up in what government can provide, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/journey-christian-church1-e1369351997790.jpg "Love Your Neighbor: the good work of Journey Christian Church.")
![. Back during the George W. Bush presidency, many critics of the president suspected and suggested that VP Dick Cheney was the real president, pulling the strings behind the scenes. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/shrek-prince-ginderbread-man-115x115.jpg "Irvine Svengali: Is Jeff Lalloway the Dick Cheney to Mayor Choi’s Bush?")
![. The recent news that the remodeling of a community center at Northwood Community Park is now 45% over budget is not surprising at all. It’s yet another reminder of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/NCSl-115x115.jpg "NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY – Irvine’s Northwood Community Center.")
![. . Timing is everything in politics, and the recent terrorist attacks in Boston need to be considered when Congress makes its important immigration decision this year. The immigration issue […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/statue-of-liberty-tamerlan-115x115.jpg "Immigration, and protecting the American Dream")
I haven't visited this blog in a while but I see you still have the same troll. Tiresome. I hope…
The Haughey guy is director of California RCV Coalition, Inc. https://www.calrcv.org/people
Some background on California RCV Coalition, Inc., an ngo that backed DGI and others lobbying Irvine for rcv at last…
Oh shit. I agree with oh myopic booby one. He is the only path to victory for the Democratic party.
Retired Federal Judge Lynne Riddle has spent years scrutinizing the fiscal stewardship and other practices of the Orange County Board…
Don't touch the Pink Toad. You will get poisoned and it will just keep going on its ignorantly blissful way.
Even Progressive icon Barney Frank knows it. There are folks in the Democratic Party that have taken things too far.…
Queue to 37:37 and 48:35, for dgi members defending Kev over his dismissal as Larry agran’s sustainability commissioner apparently over…
Footage of IRVINE’s rcv agenda item last Tuesday https://irvine.granicus.com/player/clip/7324?view_id=68&redirect=true
I get the sense last night that all the other candidates sensed Becerra was the elephant in the room. Villaragoisa…