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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 Orange County Register reported on December 6 that County Public Administrator and Guardian John S. Williams is stepping down from another elective office he has held […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Johnnyx8-155x155.jpg "John S. Williams Steps Down – from College District Board.")
![. . . If you were a businessman and could convince Congress to enact legislation that guaranteed billions of dollars of federal money would be spent in your industry you […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/food_stamps2-155x155.jpg "The Truth about Food Stamps")
![. . . . . Term limits for state office and some local offices like the Orange County Board of Supervisors have resulted in a game of musical chairs where […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/musical-chairs-155x155.jpg "Political “Musical Chairs” in the OC")
![Recent press regarding the office of District Attorney and the sudden discharge of Assistant DA Todd Spitzer by current DA Tony Rackaukas discloses a lot about the internal politics of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/SmokeFilledRoom.327223320_std-155x155.jpg "Smoke-Filled Room Blows Up (on the Rackauckas-Spitzer feud)")
![The Dan Walters column carried in the Sacramento Bee newspaper today (Oct. 21) reports that the Legislature’s budget analyst has alerted the Legislature that the California Unemployment Insurance Fund is […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/hole-blown-in-engine-155x155.jpg "Another Multi Billion Dollar Hole Blown in California’s Budget")
![Every time there is a perceived crisis of some kind people run to Sacramento seeking to have a Legislator author a new state law so that the particular crisis will […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/sacramento-155x155.jpg "Reversing the Sacramento Power Grab – Is it time?")
![After months of efforts by newspapers and other so-called advocacy groups to obtain public sector retirement system payroll information, various lawsuits directed at one municipality or the other have resulted […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/chaos-in-its-purest-form-155x155.jpg "Retirement Funding Chaos Seems to Abound")
![It wasn’t too long ago that many in the private sector who worked for a paycheck had benefits that included a secure retirement plan. Like government employees today, they knew […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/race2top-155x155.jpg "Retirement Funding – Let’s Race to the Top")
![The Sacramento Bee newspaper reported on August 11 that California Governor Schwarzenegger will, despite the approx. $ 20 billion state budget deficit and the lack of a budget for the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/death-row-155x155.jpg "Why Expand California’s Death Row?")
![It seems to be increasingly popular these days to attack government employees as a drain on society. In this blog and elsewhere government employees are described as people who do not […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/teacher-horizontal-155x155.jpg "Thank a Government Employee")
![“Royce pushes to overhaul Fannie, Freddie” screams the headline on Page 7 of the first section of the June 24 Orange County Register. The story by reporter Brian Rosenthal describes […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/screwup.jpg "OC Register Screws Up Again")
![As the economy has tanked public attention has focused more and more on government. It seems we want government to bail us out, provide welfare payments disguised as “unemployment benefits”, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/mailman78986.jpg "Action on the Public Pension Front")
![It was recently reported that a Court ordered the Orange County Employees Retirement System (OCERS) to release the payroll of retirees receiving a monthly check from the system. This was […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/payoff.jpg "A Preview of County Retiree Payouts")
![Two philosophies I heard advocated in the recent election are (1) Welfare recipients should be required to work, and (2) Jerry Brown gave us public sector collective bargaining during his […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/st-ronny.jpg "Welfare and Work, Public Sector Unions")
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."