![. . . “…Paul Lucas won’t be the last to have been left drooling and limping pathetically in an erratic loop by one too many encounters with the everlasting car […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/paul-lucas-cannabis-e1392709184983.jpg "The Triumph of Paul Lucas pt 2: Bad Buena Park Cops and Feckless Druggies!")
![We all know Paul Lucas here – those of us who read blogs, and anyone who’s been involved in local politics over the last decade, especially in the Democratic Party. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/paul-lucas-pier-cropped1-115x115.jpg "The Triumph of Paul Lucas over Dirty Cops and Draconian Drug Warriors, pt 1.")
![Every now and then, over the years, in a masochistic frame of mind, I listen to Rush Limbaugh‘s radio program. There’s the legitimate “hearing the other point of view” thing, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/memphis-model-1-115x115.jpg "Is plunging ahead with Laura’s Law the appropriate response to the Kelly Thomas verdict?")
![What’s next for this Bouncing Ball of an Elected Office? Will whatever the Board of Supervisors decides this morning change the minds of the four candidates (two payasos, two Friends […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/rocco-maddox-alpay-callahan-115x115.png "Public Administrator Follies. UPDATE – PA now folded into DA!!")
![I’m not in the habit of posting up every little communique I receive from Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Santa Ana) , or you’d see little else here. But I’d been thinking, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/loretta-hsr-115x115.png "Loretta “affirms her support” of California High Speed Rail! As does the Orange Juice Blog (some of us anyway.)")
![Talk about PERSERVERENCE paying off. Theresa Smith, the tireless mother of 2009 Anaheim police shooting victim Caesar Cruz, announced just this morning that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Caesar-Cruz-and-mom1-e1389478172208.jpg "9th Circuit deals Theresa Smith a Victory – Caesar Cruz killing will PROBABLY go to trial!")
![It looks like the answer will be over $2 million of Anaheim taxpayers’ money, possibly as much as two and a half million. That’s the answer to the question, how […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/murray-eastman-2-115x115.png "How much taxpayer money did Kris Murray and Gail Eastman spend ensuring themselves a second term?")
![I’ll have more details as the night and tomorrow go by, but I wanted to break the news here first since I’ve written a lot about it since last year […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2013-Tet-Toro-5-115x115.jpg "Viet Bigotry Melts to Manageable Size, LGBT to March in Tet Parade!")
![Oh whoops, DAMN. Did I mis-type “stories” as “sorties?” Well, you know what, that’s okay! Because “sortie” is a military term meaning a “sudden issuing of troops against the enemy […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/american-revolution-sortie-e1388114330493.jpg "The Orange Juice’s Top Sorties of 2013 – and a few new items for our VICTORY list!")
![You just HAVE to hear Westminster Councilwoman Diana Lee Carey tearing it up here. NO, it’s not about Toll Lanes this time, not fracking, and not jazzercise. She is explaining, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dlc-human-rights-e1388180469241.jpg "Diana Lee Carey’s passionate speech on human rights, the First Amendment, and the Tet Homophobes.")
![For whatever reason or none, there seems to have been some excess of Holiday Mirth in the Kleptocrat Universe these last couple days, leading the Pringle Ring’s two main Blog […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/chmielewski-deadteddy-jerbal-e1390594655317.png "Chmielewski and Cunningham have a bit of FUN – at the expense of Anaheim, and humanity.")
![Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat: Nobody doesn’t like the Johnny’s Saloon sign just northeast of Beach and Slater, the one that reads “Thank A Veteran For […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/johnnys-saloon-sign-with-turk-115x115.png "HB’s own FOX-News Faux Outrage: the Johnny’s Saloon Veterans Sign.")
![I have been assured that California’s Board of Equalization does SOMETHING or other, even though some of the smartest political observers of the state seem at a loss to understand, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/harkeys1-115x115.png "The Harkey Files: South County’s Rabid Wolverine encounters some setbacks.")
![I was just getting ready to write another Toll Lane piece. This one was going to be called “Moving Target: OCTA’s Ever-Shifting Rationales for Making the OC a Toll Lane […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/mansoor-and-405-traffic-115x115.png "Breaking: Mansoor to file legislation stopping OCTA’s plans to make us a Toll Lane County.")
How many likes can I give this? Thank you so much Derek!
Natalie Rubacabra, has done, what past councils, were too afraid to do, challenge the "magic kingdom". The Gate Tax or"Entertainment…
Just like it said in the J L report: Disney has too much influence over our city council. As long…
Joker is a useless tool. There. I said it.
There was a plebiscite - the very definition of democracy. Sorry you lost. No, wait. I'm not sorry.
Condolences, chud.
"To save Democracy we must crush it first." - Anybody who voted yes on Prop 50 Also, Communists, but I'm…
Why? That's not the point. The point is that your adversaries will fight for the same political power now. Who…
If I agreed with that, if I agreed with it strongly, I woulda had to vote for Andrew Sarega.
It does raise the question of why fight it in the first place. Dems are so dumb. They might as…