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![[I was poking through our ample file of unpublished drafts looking for something to post today when I came across something from Gus Ayer, our late and lamented “Mayor Quimby.” […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/gusayerschool1-e1372728780738.jpg "Gus Ayer: How & why to wage a losing campaign. UPDATE – School for untouchables in India named for Gus!")
![. Diamond started something along these lines, the night Gus died…but Diamond only scratched the surface. Here’s the wit and wisdom of late Fountain Valley Mayor Gus Ayer (1949-2013) as […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Gus-hippie-in-70s-115x115.jpg "Poor Gus’ Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Mayor Ayer")
![. Gus Ayer, the former mayor of Fountain Valley (who wrote on the Orange Juice Blog as “Mayor Quimby”) was probably Orange County’s top progressive political strategist and activist. He […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/gus-at-meeting-115x115.jpg "Mayor Quimby’s last piece: Can the Municipal Water District of OC Find A Reason to Exist?")
![It’s that time of transitions, when newly elected members of legislative bodies are sworn in. Some transitional meetings are organized so they are just ceremonial, with outgoing members […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/rice-ta-115x115.jpg "Breaking – Margie Rice Returns to Westminster Council, Tri Ta first elected Viet Mayor in US!")
![. It’s been a busy two weeks at the Registrar’s office as Neal Kelley’s staff went through a painstaking task of verifying individual signatures on over a quarter of a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/LOSER-MAX-X-115x115.jpg "Orange County’s Biggest Losers! Election 2012 edition.")
![. The battle over adding toll lanes on the 405 is a classic example of government at its worst. The battle is not between alternatives and the proponents for various […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Kempton-and-swing-votes-115x115.jpg "OCTA 405 Toll Decision This Morning – Will the Board Lead?")
![In a meeting of the OCTA Highways Committee this morning, toll lane proponents admitted that the votes were not there for their plan to add tolls to the 405. Instead, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gus-ayer-on-freeway-traffic-115x115.png "OCTA Highway Committee Meeting: “Votes Not There for Toll Lanes”")
![In a peculiarly disjointed editorial, the OC Register took a shot at Stanton on July 18th, How can Stanton avoid bankruptcy? The opinion piece started with a few false premises, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/bankrupcyclock-115x115.jpg "OC Register vs Stanton. Which one actually went bankrupt?")
![. (E-mail ALL the OCTA Board Members by clicking HERE.) In a major setback to proponents of adding tolls to the 405 Freeway, the Huntington Beach City Council turned against […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Hansen-stooge-115x115.jpg "405 Tolls – Mayor Hansen Rebuffed by HB City Council. UPDATE – Fountain Valley Piles On! And now, La Palma!")
![. (E-mail ALL the OCTA Board Members by clicking HERE.) If you listen to the highly-paid OCTA staffers defending the idea of converting free car pool lanes to toll lanes, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/scam-alert-2-115x115.jpg "Tolls on the 405 – Cooking the Books with Two Very Different Sets of Numbers")
![. (E-mail ALL the OCTA Board Members by clicking HERE.) If you think the tolls on OC’s existing toll roads are outrageous, you will be scandalized by the projections for […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/toll-glutton-cropped-better-115x115.jpg "405 Toll Projection – $2.95 for Three Miles!")
![. (E-mail ALL the OCTA Board Members by clicking HERE.) At the June 25 OCTA Meeting, Santa Ana Mayor-for-life and OCTA Director Miguel Pulido made a cryptic comment about financing […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/lies-cars-colored-115x115.jpg "OCTA Expects Billions in Revenue from 405 Tolls")
![. (E-mail ALL the OCTA Board Members by clicking HERE.) During a raucous standing-room only meeting in Seal Beach, Vice-Mayor Gary Miller made it clear that the City of Seal […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Kempton-and-Governator-115x115.jpg "Seal Beach and Westminster to join Costa Mesa in opposing Tolls on 405")
![. (E-mail ALL the OCTA Board Members by clicking HERE.) The Voice of OC has published a long and extremely significant Community Editorial by Jack Eidt on the proposed Toll […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Toll-Roads-450-115x115.jpg "405 Toll Lanes: A Taxpayer Bailout for the Failed 73 San Joaquin Hills Toll Road?")
Experience.
And where do you derive this special knowledge, Zenger? We should start calling you Z-Anon.
This is what I call a "hall pass." It's when the kleptocracy lets one of their minions stray off the…
Did you just figure out Flint is back? Dude, try to keep up.
There is a tactic used occasionally by elected officials. It involves bringing something forward in order to let it die.…
I love how Ashleigh talks about government not picking winners and losers. 30 years late and the wrong political party!
Well, guess who re-published Ashleigh's anti-gate tax piece? Matt Cunningham's Anaheim Observer (and also his OC Independent.) The Klepto-Blog! Just…
Hey, them books ain't a-gonna burn themselves.
AHhahaha... figured out you're talking about Willie "The Weenie" O'Neill.
Experience at what, Z-Anon? Conspiracy theorizing? You're so out-of-touch it's almost funny.