- Website
- http://www.vernnelson.com
- Description
- Greatest pianist/composer in Orange County, and official political troubadour of Anaheim and most other OC towns. Regularly makes solo performances, sometimes with his savage-jazz band The Vern Nelson Problem. Reach at vernpnelson@gmail.com, or 714-235-VERN.
![. . . So, in my ongoing effort to understand this Luis Correa character who will be representing us in Congress for the next couple of decades, I attended a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/correa-in-shades-e1645761507145-115x115.jpg "“New Dem” Congressman Correa explains himself to the Anaheim Democratic Club.")
![. . . Supervisor Spitzer had a cow – you would have too – when he heard, at last month’s TCA (Transportation Corridor Authority) meeting, about the high-handed, authoritarian, anti-democratic […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/high-school-affected-mockup-115x115.jpg "Abuses of TCA: Stopping the 241 Extension is ALL of our Fight!")
![. . . SO. Republican Assemblyman Travis Allen, of the 72nd district (northern half of HB, Westminster, Seal Beach, Fountain Valley, Los Alamitos, western Garden Grove) has today, as long […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/diep-allen-question-mark-115x115.png "Travis “Hot Dog” Allen to run for Governor; Who will be north HB’s next Assemblyperson?")
![. . . “Drug-Free Anaheim” didn’t sound like it made any sense when we first heard about it – $400 grand to the Anaheim Police Department, for folks who’ve gotten […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/drug-free-anaheim-115x115.png "Drug-Free Anaheim? Skip the police if you want: to hell with City Net, call Mr. Womer!")
![. . . For – jeez, decades actually – Larry Agran ruled the world of Irvine Democrats with an iron fist, brooking no dissent. During that time, as Mayor and Councilman, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/batman-slap-115x115.jpg "DPOC and Melissa deliver well-earned bitch slap to the Agran Machine.")
![. . . Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8 of our Constitution forbids any “Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under” the United States from accepting any “present […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/schaper-correa-115x115.jpg "Why did Lou Correa not join 196 other Congressional Dems in Emolument Suit against Trump?")
![. . . So, Saturday morning, in the middle of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, our local friendly Muslims of the Jafaria community center gave out boxes and boxes of great healthy […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/jafaria-1-1-115x115.jpg "Local Muslims Feed the Poor for Ramadan, as the Trump-Right Launches National Anti-Islamic Assault.")
![. . . Well I hope you tried to guess, but I won’t waste your time any more – it’s Yorba Linda (home of Islamophobes and white supremacists), Newport Beach […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/oc-sad-elephant-map-115x115.png "OC now has only THREE majority-Republican cities – Guess which they are?")
![. . . Quietly, yesterday morning, this went up on City Hall’s reflective front wall: And this placement of the flag, first suggested by Mark Daniels and Councilman Faessel, is […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/rainbow-1-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Anaheim Raises its Rainbow Pride Flag High!")
![. . . Couple weeks ago, all I knew was Yesenia needed help, around the corner at St Anthony’s, “moving furniture for the neighborhood.” And so, of course, Donna and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/anaheim-giant-rainbow-flag-115x115.png "Complex Anaheim, May 2017 Edition: Wincome Furniture, Rainbow Flagblocking.")
![. . . As loyal readers of this blog or the OC Weekly know, unarmed Manuel Diaz was shot fatally twice, in the butt and back of the head, while […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/bennalack-manuel-moses-better-115x115.png "Supreme Court gives Manuel Diaz a victory over Anaheim’s Moses Johnson & Nick Bennalack.")
![. . . As we wend our way through this holiest of seasons, as well as through the aftermath of United Airlines’ brutal removal of 69-year-old Dr. David Dao from an […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/victim-blaming-3-115x115.png "Holy Weekend Open Thread: “Victim Shaming” from Calvary to United to Anna Drive!")
![. . . Readers of this blog may remember, from last November, that Anaheim’s Public Works Department, motivated by both a $5 million transportation grant and grave concern over how […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lincoln-harbor-places-115x115.png "Save Lincoln Avenue – the official Questionnaire!")
![. . . That’s kind of what it looked like, to see Supervisor Shawn Nelson startle the world and his colleagues last week with an urgent, “emergency” call to find […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/shawn-damascus-115x115.jpg "Shawn Nelson’s Road to Damascus, and other homelessness desmadre.")
I don't see why anybody should be shocked by Democrats doing this. They are the party of pro-government bias and…