![. Two Parties, Two Recent Stories, Two different approaches to immigration and Latinos. This flew under my radar this week before I had a chance to lampoon it, between my […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/brewer-lopez-obama-115x115.jpg "A Tale of Two Fiestas: OC GOP fetes Jan Brewer, Obama embraces Dream Students.")
![. E-mail ALL the OCTA Board Members by clicking HERE. Cutting to the chase, briefly: The OCTA is eager to convert the two left lanes of the 405, from the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/405-traffic-115x115.jpg "“Lexus Lanes” on the 405? Stop the latest Toll Road outrage!")
![Okay now, sit down. This will take some explaining, but it’s worth it. Of the several wars that the nightmarishly extremist Costa Mesa City Council is waging against its people, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/tharpy-riggy-orly-115x115.jpg "OJ’s Debbie Tharp jailed, in Costa Mesa’s war on free speech and medical pot.")
![. Welcome to Abel Maldonado’s Top-Two Universe. You and I just live in it now. Well, at least now we can focus a little better. Let’s look at the choices-of-two […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2012-candidate-medley-115x115.jpg "Meet Your 2012 Candidates!")
![The big money in each of today’s big races – Walker, funded against his recallers by 7 to 1; Daly, backed by nearly a million in corporate Independent Expenditures; […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Walker-Daly-Bushala-115x115.jpg "Live-blogging the OC & Wisconsin. Meet your new Fullerton council! Midnite update: Control of WIS. Senate shifts to DEMS!!!")
![. Hats off (top hats off!) to the Orange Juice’s Mika Wallace, who was probably the main organizer of the Mitt Romney welcome wagon across the street from Newport’s Balboa […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/cropped-billionaires-115x115.jpg "Newport Welcomes Romney! Scenes from Friday June 1.")
![. Santa Ana Republican activist Mike Tardif wants you to know he’s DROWNING under a DELUGE of Tom Daly mailers. And we progressive Democrats have been bitching about it […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Mansoor-Silva-Norby-115x115.jpg "California DISCLOSE Act: Will our Mansoor, Silva, and/or Norby buck their Party and stand up for transparency?")
![. It’s been a tradition at the Orange Juice Blog, at least since I became editor, to honor the young men of Orange County (all men so far) who have […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/San-Nicolas-Holtz-115x115.jpg "Memorial Day 2012: Remembering OC heroes Christian San Nicolas and Tyler Holtz.")
![. The May 11 debate between Congressman Ed Royce and his challengers Democrat Jay Chen and independent D’Marie Mulattieri was a huge success, and we finally have video of it. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Chen-Royce-Mulattieri-3-115x115.jpg "Video of debate between Ed Royce and his challengers. Update – COMPLETE! With new smart-ass questions.")
![The wood is lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, Miles to go before I sleep. Keeping my promises to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/vern-republican-medical-checkup-115x115.jpg "I become a Republican.")
![. It’s been clear for some time that AD-69 candidate Tom Daly’s strategy to prevail in both the June primary and the November election depends on getting the district’s REPUBLICANS […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/daly-moreno-115x115.jpg "See Daly’s lying mailer to AD-69 Republicans claiming Moreno’s not running. And Moreno’s scathing response! Priceless.")
![I always notice when the name of my pal Julio Pérez, candidate for Assembly District 69, pops up on the Nooner. And yesterday, I saw that an Independent Expenditure of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tom-delay-and-insurance-guy-115x115.jpg "California’s insurance industry secretly drops $13,641 against Julio – watch for the hit pieces!")
![. . This invitation comes from good OJ friend Steve Baxter, dean of Fullerton’s insurgent liberals: Free Booze & a legal coup d’état: Jane Rands, Matt Rowe & Glenn Georgieff […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/bax-yard-signs-115x115.jpg "Friday May 11 – meet the PEOPLE’S candidates for Fullerton Council – Jane, Matt and Glenn!")
![. You probably already know that the Orange Juice’s own fabled hell-raising liberal/Occupy blogger, Greg Diamond, is running for state Senate up in the north-OC District 29, which includes the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/diamond-and-huff1-115x115.jpg "Our own Greg Diamond takes on RINO Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff!")
I guess I was hoping to speak to a lot of readers who might not be familiar with the term…
Corporatist is good since these types are always affiliating themselves with the big money, the big labor or the big…
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.
I am old enough to remember, back in the day when Dems first started winning partisan elections in OC. The…