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- A retired Orange County employee, and moderate Republican. The editor seriously does not know OBNO's identity as did not the former editor, but his point of view is obviously interesting and valued.
![. . . The mechanics of government often fly under the radar screen of most voters because they are tedious, boring and time-consuming. Drawing new boundaries for the five Supervisors […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/board-game-155x155.jpg "Supervisor Districts – It’s Game Time !")
![. . . The following is from an e-mail report issued by the Orange County Employees Association. It was sent to me by a friend. And, yes, that Association is […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/sacramento-capitol-building-155x155.jpg "Big Week for the State Budget")
![. . . Given the effort by the Governor of Wisconsin to dismantle the state employee union collective bargaining rights, a story that appeared in the well-respected Forbes magazine web […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/shell-game1-155x155.jpg "Wisconsin Pension Lie Exposed")
![. . . Over the decades many of us have wanted government to take care of us – when we are feeble, when we retire or are poor and unable […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/dead-end-sign-155x155.jpg "End of the Welfare State?")
![. . . The people we elect to public office, and often-re-elect, include a cadre of sleazeballs. And those who are not sleazeballs when they enter office often succumb to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/louis-xiv-155x155.jpg "The Arrogance of Our Electeds")
![. . . Breaking news, February 8 – this morning the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted to appeal the adverse decision of the State District Court of Appeal, seeking […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/moorlach-155x155.jpg "Breaking – Supervisors vote to appeal deputies pension decision, put the crimp on John Williams!")
![. . . “The evidence does not support the claim that states and localities are on the verge of bankruptcy because of massive unfunded pension liabilities.” So says the Center […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/myth-book-155x155.jpg "The MYTH of a Pension-driven Fiscal Crisis in the Public Sector")
![. . . Under California law children who are U.S. citizens by birth, but who have immigrant parents who are not here legally, are eligible for CalWORKS and other welfare […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/poor-mexican-children-155x155.jpg "Welfare for Immigrant Children Deemed Unsustainable")
![. . . Remember when Governor Schwarzenegger was swept into office by an electorate tired of an on-going state budget crisis and the unwillingness of the State Legislature and Governor […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/spinning-wheels-155x155.jpg "Sacramento Spins its Wheels – This Time It’s Realignment (again)")
![. . . While the advocates for cutting or even eliminating public employee pensions salivated like Pavlov’s dog over the news in 2008 that the City of Vallejo, California had […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/it-wont-work-out-155x152.jpg "Vallejo Pension / Bankruptcy Strategy FAILS.")
![. . . Earlier this year there was a lot of noise, especially from Southern California, about the Arizona law known as SB 1070 that was approved by the Arizona […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Arizona-Bird-horizontal-155x155.jpg "Arizona Jobs Growing Despite Immigration Boycott")
![. . . . Government Pay Not so Hot After All! The Hate-Government Media and conservative or libertarian think tanks of a similar ilk, and various so-called “taxpayer associations” have […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/looking-at-money-155x155.jpg "Government Pay Not so Hot After All")
![. . . Forecasts of the future cost of public pension programs offered by states, cities, counties, school districts and other government entities have for the last few years been […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/broke-guy-155x155.jpg "California’s Public Pension Debt About to Worsen?")
Yes, I know that's the impulse but you gotta know what the Guatemalan hill folk know: you get poisoned and…
If it touches me first, all bets are off.
You're absolutely right that California should adopt it statewide -- and should already have done so. And you're absolutely right…
If I were Fiona ma or Rob Bonta I’d be scared.
RCV should be adopted statewide so cities and counties don’t have to do it piecemeal. It saves money, discourages negative…
My advice to Mr. Moore, who seems like an eminently reasonable man is the same as I always give Vern.…
Great article on Ranked Choice Voting Josh! I wholeheartedly agree. I want more control with my vote. We only have…
Young Kim on broadcast tv going hard against Calvert and aligning herself closely with Trump. Might win her the primary…
Where's his labia neck?
If we're talking about Dan C, he has never seemed "happy."