- 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.
This comment came from the smartest dude I know. "Which part of freedom don't the leftists understand?" Ernest P. Worrell…
Sounds like Blanca has lots of good reasons to hide stuff. Maui? SPAIN? For what, I wonder.
it's bound to incite a legal challenge. I wouldn't worry too much about it. You can certainly hold Sharon Quirk…
Right while I was writing this piece, three more came out, with invaluable info. I'll have to do a new…
Yeah I guess so. I'm gonna shift to fighting this thing. Can it be stopped? Can the Democrats who backed…
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…
![Our own Femme Wonkita named “Best Political Protester of the Year” by OC Weekly! Let’s congratulate former Costa Mesa Mayor Sandy Genis, who blogs brilliantly as “La Femme Wonkita” both here on the Juice and on her own site, for her latest honor – […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Genis-5-155x148.jpg)
![Capo USD incumbents endorsed by group that wants to abolish public education. “What the hell were the Tea Party Patriots thinking?” I muttered to myself, when I heard that they had endorsed the useless incumbents on the Capistrano Unified School Board. Maybe […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/dick-armey-155x155.jpg)
![Van Tran cries out: “I am NOT a child molester!” Funny. I don’t think you can fairly say that Christine O’Donnell is actually a witch (even if she long ago “dabbled into it.”) And on the other hand, Richard Nixon […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/dick-nixon-2-155x155.jpg)
![Loretta and Van both immediately claim to have kicked ass at their KOCE debate. LOL, just got two press releases at the same exact second, with both Van and Loretta pleased as punch with their performance. I’ll put Van Tran’s release first because it’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Van-Tran-Dias-155x155.jpg)
![Phu slams Mansoor for rejecting a $633,000 savings for Costa Mesa for purely political reasons. This new press release from 68th Assembly district candidate Phu Nguyen is pretty brilliant and hard-hitting, but I think I should give the whole story more context… I think I’ll […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/mansoor-4-155x155.jpg)
![Will John Campbell chicken out of debating his rivals tonight? It’s nice to see that, in general, “safe” Orange County incumbents and highly-favored Republicans have stopped doing “what they’ve been doing for years” – which was to avoid giving their […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/campbell-chicken.jpg)
![Capo Recall: Are Maddox and Winsten the Union-Endorsed Candidates? Did beleaguered Capo Trustee Ken “Lopez-Maddox” go hat in hand, with his colleague Mike Winsten, to solicit support from his old allies at the Teamsters Local 952? A top official […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/winsten-maddox1-155x155.jpg)
![Capo Recall gets over $90 grand of local grassroots contributions. And latest Maddox-Winsten goofiness. First, a press release from my friends at Capistrano Unified Children First, the group behind the recall of wasteful incompetent trustees Ken “Lopez-Maddox” and Mike Winsten. This is pretty spectacular, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/winsten-maddox-155x155.jpg)
![Phu, gaining in the polls, compares Sacramento budget debacle to Costa Mesa’s dark Mansoor years. This great statement from Phu comes in the wake of an encouraging poll from Tulchin Research that shows him within the margin of error of winning this long-time Republican-gerrymandered seat […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Phu-holds-forth-155x155.jpg)
![Gay Teenagers: “IT GETS BETTER.” Message from Dan Savage and the ACLU. You’ve heard, probably, of the recent wave of gay teen suicides in the USA – six in September alone, some encouraged by peer “bullying.” There have been various reactions to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/It-gets-better-vid-155x155.jpg)
![The Latino-Homophobe Bus Tour has been a big silly waste of money, for Carly Fiorina’s supporters. . . . . . As I wrote here Friday, Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina’s “Latino Outreach” program, consisting of the above bus marked “Vota Tus Valores” which contains about […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/vota-tus-valores-bus-cropped-155x140.jpg)
![Swarm of foul black-hearted reptiles slithering across our county to steal the souls of OC Latinos and seduce them into a perverse lifestyle of hatred and intolerance. Oct 2-4. Recognize that ad, the famous “Gathering Storm” ad from a couple years ago – famous both for being so filled with bad acting and for fitting so many utter lies […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ugly-reptile-155x155.jpg)
![“Mad As Hell Doctors” bring their single payer crusade to Irvine this Saturday! Town Hall on Health Care Come rally for REAL health care reform, hear from doctors, nurses, and special guests, watch the best of the Health Care for All Campaign, and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Mad-As-Hell-Doctors-08162009-155x129.jpg)
![Democratic Party of OC grows spine, endorses Prop 19 to decriminalize & tax marijuana! I’d sort of stopped paying attention to this because the process had been going so slow, it was just too frustrating. But I just now heard through the grapevine that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/dem-donkey-155x155.jpg)
They don't understand the same part the Rotting Yammites don't understand. Just from a different perspective.