- 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.
Yeah, it's hard for me to choose the perfect terminology, corporatist, kleptocrat, DINO, vendido, many others, but I decided to…
Chad Bianco up on broadcast with his first spot. Wearing his Sheriff shirt [does he own anything else?] lest we…
I suspect that for most voters the operative motivation will be keeping the other party from winning, even if that…
You're a dog with a bone on this. Equally valid legally, fine (though distinctly defined in law as different in…
The "business Democrat" label is misleading, unless you count kleptocracy, Zionism and cop-loving to the mix. That's been going on…
Spitzer is very particular about who he go after for residency fraud.
Are they one single household now? They apparently claimed to live in separate domiciles and served on different city councils…
Ease of constructing and deploying? You're right that they can both be weighed into the ultimate calculus, but that's also…
You are not licensed to wield the "pink toad" metaphor. Eric isn't either, but he's irrepressible.
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![Kevin Carr, Tax-Fighting Democrat from Stanton. . . . What sort of Democrat’s NUMBER ONE PRIORITY, year after year, is opposing, fighting, and defeating taxes in his town? I’m really glad you asked, because there’s a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/carr1-e1414371892615.jpg)
![Young Kim, OC GOP, and their Gay-Bashing Habit: “I Just Cain’t Quit Yew…” . . . Joe Shaw diagnoses me with outrage fatigue. If that’s what it is, I think I’ve had it for a while, a few years. I walk into my […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2014-gop-homophobe-medley-115x115.png)
![The Terrifying Criminal History of Jesús Aguirre. UPDATE – 11 more years. . . . Tomorrow morning – Friday morning – 21-year old Jesus Aguirre will finally have his re-sentencing hearing, having had his life sentence (plus 25 years) reversed by a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/jesus-medley-115x115.png)
![Sharon Quirk-Silva: SO much better than Young Kim. . . . It’s not even close. We’ve already established – although it bears repeating – that 65th Assembly District challenger Young Kim is a classic carpetbagger, popping up in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/quirk-kim-115x115.png)
![Lucille Kring and Tom Tait Spar over District Elections. OJB says Yes on L & M! . . . We strained forward in our seats to hear tiny Lucille Kring, speaking in the hushed tones of a shocked gerbil, describe a nightmare dystopian vision of a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/kring-tait-anaheim-map-115x115.png)
![Janet and Jose face off at Newport’s Pacific Club, for a crowd of lobbyists. . . . A debate between Janet Nguyen and Jose Solorio? Or, I’m sorry, a “forum?” Between the two state senate contenders who could determine the Democrats’ continued supermajority […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/jose-janet-115x115.jpg)
![Huntington’s Shaw and Boardman cleared of frivolous cohabitation charges by FPPC. . . . The Register was sure to let everyone know about the FPPC complaint against stalwart environmental-populist Huntington Beach councilmembers Joe Shaw and Connie Boardman (up for re-election) but […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/shaw-boardman-blest-115x115.png)
![The Patrick O’Crowley files: Why does the Los Angeles Deputy DA hate our coverage of his work? . . . Several months ago, near the beginning of Christopher Woodard‘s long hellish incarceration at LA Central, we reprinted here what looked to me like an important screed from […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/inquisition-115x115.jpg)
![OCBC’s Fatuous Lucy Dunn celebrates imposition of 405 Toll Lanes; and is Travis Allen a Toll Troll? . . . Lucy Dunn is the President, CEO, and ubiquitous spokeswoman of the Orange County Business Council (OCBC.) Masterminded by tireless and insatiable lobbyist Curt Pringle (former Speaker of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dunn-allen-115x115.png)
![Harkey Husband Hits New Low, Sues his own Fraud Victims! . . . Last December we reported, as you may remember, the criminal misdeeds of Dan Harkey, the funder-husband of Assemblywoman/BOE favorite Diane Harkey – how Dan was found guilty […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/harkey-harkey-sipolski1-115x115.png)

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![Irvine Cares, OC GOP Chairmanship … Dick Ackerman’s final sad flails for relevance. Is there anything sadder than these final desperate flailings of former Republican Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman, these flailings for relevance in the twilight of his career? (Sadly, the answer […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/irvine-cares-ackerman-115x115.png)
Corporatist is good since these types are always affiliating themselves with the big money, the big labor or the big…