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Vanderbilt withdraws compromise measure! (And other Living Wage desmadre…)
Posted on July 5, 2018 | 13 CommentsJames backs off the sabotage. Building trades are pathetic sellouts. Hotelier threats are empty. And a song. -
Disney $15 Living Wage: Fear of a Fiscal Impact Study!
Posted on May 16, 2018 | 14 CommentsOh. Yeah. Of course that makes sense now. -
Disney/Wincome $15/hour Living Wage Initiative Will INCREASE Anaheim Jobs!
Posted on April 23, 2018 | 27 CommentsLaugh at the desperate lies, sign the initiative! -
How “Anti-Union” is Anaheim’s Mayor Tom Tait? OJB’s Diamond Asks Him the Hard(hat) Questions
Posted on February 13, 2017 | 11 Comments. . . Vern here. I noticed this great (although not entirely completed) interview with Mayor Tait, sitting among Greg’s “drafts” from last September, and thought it was still well worth […] -
OCEA’s perplexing Brandman Endorsement : the Chuck Reed excuse.
Posted on August 9, 2016 | 6 Comments. . . First I thought that the glossy Jordan Brandman endorsement in the mail was the usual OC Trade Unions supporting the politicians who make deals that generate mostly […] -
How DARE Moorlach bring up Wagner’s prison-guards-union-funded Hawaii junket?
Posted on January 21, 2015 | 20 Comments. . . I’m not on the mailing list for John Moorlach’s State Senate campaign, OF COURSE!, but someone forwarded me his latest hit piece against his opponent Don Wagner. Seriously, […] -
St. Joseph Nurses Attend to their own Cuts
Posted on September 17, 2014 | No Comments. . . CROSSPOSTED FROM THE KITCHENMUDGE BLOG: Any good free marketeer can tell you how to make sure your job is well paid: Make it a service that’s very […] -
Scenes from the “Labor” Flag Day: SQS, RINO’s, Teamsters and Toll Lanes!
Posted on June 17, 2014 | 8 Comments. . . Remember that Flag Day event I played piano for on Saturday? I used to think of it as a Democrat, or as THE OC Democrat Flag […] -
Democrats’ Flag Day Celebration in Orange, noon to 3 today! Vern will be pounding the piano keys…
Posted on June 14, 2014 | 14 CommentsLast minute one-flew-over-the-transom thing, but these DPOC Flag Day events can be historic. Two years ago was where Vern and Greg met Diana Lee Carey, learned about the 405 toll […] -
Why is Wendy Leece running against Dana Rohrabacher?
Posted on March 5, 2014 | 49 CommentsWhen I first heard that popular, termed-out, Costa Mesa Republican councilwoman Wendy Leece was planning to take on entrenched, deeply embarrassing 12-term Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, I thought, “Well, we […] -
The Triumph of Paul Lucas pt 3: Keystone Kops, Steele Smith, and remembering Danielle.
Posted on March 4, 2014 | 50 Comments. . . Spoiler Alert Spoiler After we published part two of this blockbuster four-part series detailing the trials, tribulations, and eventual triumph of our friend Paul Lucas, the always-hateful […] -
The Triumph of Paul Lucas pt 2: Bad Buena Park Cops and Feckless Druggies!
Posted on February 18, 2014 | 63 Comments. . . “…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 […]