![. . . . . Just received from an Orange County colleague: Chuck DeVore forms exploratory committee for Orange County’s Third District Board of Supervisors Mar 09 2011 Today I’m […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/devore-155x155.jpg "Chuck DeVore forms exploratory committee for BOS seat")
![. . . . . ROAD BLOCK AHEAD! In addressing high-speed rail, Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard has just quoted CA Rep Kevin McCarthy claiming he is: “the first publicly […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/hsr.bmp "Rep Kevin McCarthy joins CA Assembly Member Diane Harkey in opposing HSR"){kind=small}
![Is this man over a barrel? Earlier today the following letter, signed by GOP Senators Tom Berryhill, Bill Emmerson, Sam Blakeslee, Tom Harman and Anthony Cannella was sent to governor […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/jerry-brown-155x155.jpg "“No deal” CA GOP Senators to governor Jerry Brown")
![. . . . . Today’s San Francisco Chronicle sounds the same alarm that some of us have been shouting for almost two years as we oppose the under funded high-speed […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/CA-debt.bmp "California’s Hemorrhaging Debt does not faze our High Speed Rail Authority."){kind=small}
![. . . . United against Eminent Domain! – Chris Norby, Maxine Waters, Tom McClintock. This is one of my favorite photos. Regardless of which side of the political spectrum you […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Norby-Maxine-McClintock-155x155.jpg "LA Congresswoman Maxine Waters comments on property rights")
![. . . Florida Rejects High-Speed Rail Money – Again, So LaHood Will Just Spend Elsewhere Robert Poole | March 4, 2011 Florida Gov. Rick Scott made the right decision […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/FL-HSR-155x155.jpg "Reason Foundation: Florida rejects $2.4 billion High Speed Rail funds, so they’ll just get spent elsewhere.")
![Let’s set the “feel good” emotions of high-speed rail aside for some realism. For over 50 years I have enjoyed the rush of high-speed starting with my involvement in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/china-HSR-155x131.jpg "Comparing China high-speed rail vs CA HSR is not apples to apples")
![The above the fold headline of today’s OC Register front page reads “Redevelopment Makes Its Case.” This headline reminds me of a remark by featured panelist Chapman University Professor Lawrence Rosenthal […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/EminentDomain-136x155.jpg "Documenting redevelopment failures & the cost to victims")
![. . . I fully support Governor Brown’s plan to shut down the recent flurry of redevelopment project activity. He should begin with CRA/LA in the city of Los Angeles […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/jerry-brown-11-155x155.jpg "Gov. Brown Bill to kill any last minute redevelopment projects")
![. . . [poll id=”300″] As a member of the Americans for Prosperity’s California delegation, we received the following statement from president Tim Philips today. Sidebar. In Oct of 2008 I attended […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Scott_Walker-155x155.jpg "“I stand with Governor Walker” – Statement from Americans For Prosperity. (With POLL!)")
![On February 19th the 112th Congress of the U.S. House of Representatives, by a vote of 235-189, passed HR 1. HR 1 is the $1.2 trillion dollar appropriations package required […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/HR1-budget.jpg "What’s the fate of HR 1, eliminating High Speed Rail funding?")
![Expecting to address the Glendale Redevelopment Agency on behalf of a local property owner yesterday afternoon I did not attend the public meeting on transportation held at UC Merced in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Roelof-van-Ark.jpg "Recent update from High Speed Rail CEO Roelof van Ark")
![While the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution states in part, (relating to individual rights,) “nor be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Laguna-Woods-city-hall-155x155.jpg "Just compensation prevails in Laguna Woods")
![. . . Seventy years ago this Oct. Sir Winston Churchill spoke these famous words which apply to my opposition to CA HSR today. “Never give in. Never give in. Never, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/FL-HSR-155x155.jpg "Another governor rejects high-speed rail stimulus funding")
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