- 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.
It's hard to criticize somebody who's on the right side of an issue.
UPDATE. I was gonna get a quote or two from Duane, Anaheim's PRA king, but that turned into 6 paragraphs.…
Disappointed then. And what explains mediocre Republicans voting against it, Tri Ta and Laurie Davies are no champions of open…
I don't see why anybody should be shocked by Democrats doing this. They are the party of pro-government bias and…
See there ya go being malicious!
Geez! Affordable CPRA requests are an important tool needed to expose bad behavior.
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And I’m correspondingly proud and haughty.
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![Anaheim: The Mishegas and the Desmadre. Your January 2013 edition. . 1. What Could (Theoretically) Make the GardenWalk Giveaway Worth it? Affirmatively answering Cynthia Ward’s question of whether or not multi-millionaire developer Bill O’Connell still has his “mystery investor,” the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fire-115x115.jpg)
![So, apparently it was the IRVINE Great Park all along. Who knew. . The “editorial staff” of the Liberal OC produced a surprisingly mature and balanced editorial yesterday entitled “Let’s See What A Republican Majority Can Do With the Great Park.” It […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/great-park-115x115.jpg)
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Yeah I guess so. I'm gonna shift to fighting this thing. Can it be stopped? Can the Democrats who backed…