- 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.
Now Ali Taj has raised more than either ADA (like by 40k) and pulido during the same reporting period. Dispelling…
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…
![How sanctimonious Matt Cunningham worked and fought for Strip Club owners last year! Admirers of Matt Cunningham’s stunning moral flexibility now have a new morsel to chew on – his successful “consulting” work last year, for “$1000 to $10,000” (probably $5000) to help […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/jerbal-with-strippers-115x115.jpg)
![How Sanctimonious Matt Cunningham worked and fought for Strip Club owners! (G-rated version) . . . Admirers of Matt Cunningham’s stunning moral flexibility now have a new morsel to chew on – his successful “consulting” work last year, for “$1000 to $10,000” (probably […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/california-girls-marquee-e1376678693651.jpg)
![POLL: Which Pringle crony will wear a wire for the Feds? . . . On the heels of Cynthia Ward’s latest Voice of OC Disney-streetcar bombshell, and bearing in mind the identity of Disney’s trusty transportation “consultant,” the question asks itself. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/pringle-associates-115x115.jpg)
![WE CAME FIRST – Ten years of the Orange Juice Blog! Yes, we came first, damn it. I shoulda done this post on July 11, but the time she slips away. Yes, 7-11 was the ten-year anniversary of this august and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/beating-chest-over-10-years-115x115.jpg)
![The Dangerous Votes of Sharon Quirk-Silva. Last month I expressed my disappointment that our new Democratic assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva (pictured above taking on corruption and injustice in Sacramento) had joined forces with Reefer Madness Republicans and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/SQSasgunfighter-cropped-e1375058597353.jpg)
![NON-BREEDER’S DAY takes America by storm! Concert Sunday afternoon! “Whether through Gaiety, Inability, Circumstance or Choice, you declined to add to our species’ population, we Mothers and Fathers salute you!” Yes, it seems like only last week that this […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Non-Breeder-Families-115x115.jpg)
![What was the big deal about some principal getting transferred from one Anaheim school to another? . Yeah, what WAS that all about, back in May and June? (The kerfuffle is beginning to simmer down now.) Dr. Roberto Baeza, popular and successful principal of Anaheim’s Benito […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/baeza-murray-moreno-115x115.jpg)
![Democracy gets blue balls, as Judge Franz Miller grants Anaheim another three weeks – UPDATED! . This is all we know so far: Judge Miller granted a three-week stay, for the anti-democracy forces of Anaheim to try to prove that their Santa Ana dog food-style […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/franz-miller-blue-balls-115x115.jpg)
![TAKE BACK THE FOURTH (Amendment) on the 4th – now with great PIC! . This came galloping across our transom late last night, sounding for all the world like the hoofbeats of Paul Revere on horseback: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Huntington Beach, CA 7/2/2013 […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/July-4-2013-004-115x115.jpg)
![Huntington Beach respectfully asks Coastal Commission to shitcan Poseidon. . Last we left our plucky Huntington Beach City Council – before that irritating distraction with the fire pits – they’d been discussing… Wait, let me back up. Way […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/hb-council-2013-e1370842111693.jpg)
![Sirloin or Dog Food? Council prepares to foist Santa Ana-style faux-districting on Anaheim tonight. . Anaheim’s Corporatist Council Majority. From top left clockwise: Kris Murray, Lucille Kring, Gail Eastman, Jordan Brandman. (hat-tip to young Jayson Acevedo for noting the Kring-Incredibles resemblance!) Okay. So. This […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/4-Anaheim-council-corporatists-115x115.jpg)
![AB 473 for medical marijuana dies: Do Democrats representing the OC really HAVE to be Police-State Democrats? . Bill Maher’s final New Rule this weekend was especially appropriate and timely to today’s story (starting at 2:10) Episode 284 by BillMaher1956 High points, my emphases: “Finally, new rule […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/oc-police-state-dems-2013-115x115.jpg)
![Weekend Open Thread: A Century Since the Rite of Spring Riot! . This week – two days ago – marks the centennial of a milestone in modern classical music: the Paris premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s controversial ballet Le Sacre Du Printemps, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/rite-of-spring-115x115.jpg)
![Anaheim Police Chief Quezada strongly affirms our right to Film The Police. . So yesterday we all met with the new Interim Police Chief (and probable next permanent Chief) Raul Quezada – at his request. “We” was Donna Acevedo (mother of cop-slain […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/quezada-ftp-115x115.jpg)
Corporatist is good since these types are always affiliating themselves with the big money, the big labor or the big…