Behold! I send you out as sheep amidst the wolves.
Posted by: Sarah Michelle Spinosa
Ever notice how when the shit hits the fan (yeah! I can swear over here!) that the whistleblower is immediately discredited? So I’m only going to devote one post to this issue:
Art Pedroza is not what he appears to be.
Art likes to talk about his generous nature and his desire to ‘help the little guy,’ but what he really does is take advantage of vulnerable people for his own personal gain and then uses those vulnerabilities against them when it’s time to throw them away.
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Tags: Art Pedroza, Orange Juice Blog, sarah michelle spinosa, sean mill, Thomas Gordon
Agenda for Change? Sounds More like Clinton 2 to Me
Posted by: Carl Overmyer
I hope this isn't our future!
While trying to write an opinion on the new Obama administration and their agenda items week before last, I was stunned when their entire agenda on the “change” page suddenly vanished. What the …? After hitting refresh many times, even rebooting my machine, I came back to the same relatively blank agenda page with no links to items on the Obama agenda. So why is this happening? What’s up with the Obama transition team and why can’t we now see where this is going? Well now lo and behold it’s back up. So, what can we expect?
Well here’s a run down of what I think we will see on one subject. While some of his other items are pretty standard political fair this one small item is just full of pitfalls and problems. Can you say, The Brady’s are back in the White House?
I am admittedly starting with those things that concern me the most, the Second Amendment being one of my top priorities.
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Tags: Agenda. Clinton 2, barack obama, guncontrol
Marijuana and the will of the voters.
Posted by: Sarah Michelle Spinosa
Say what you will about marijuana. Call it the ‘devil’s weed.’ Bring up ‘reefer madness.’ Tell me you didn’t vote for Prop 215. Spout off whatever propaganda you like, but remember this: the initiative that California voters approved is 12 years old already. So why are dispensaries still illegal in most of Orange County? I’ll tell you why: the will of the voters - on the City Councils that is.
Alan Bock over at Orange Punch posted a few days ago that Seal Beach just became another community which has unilaterally banned safe access to many patients’ much-needed medicine. He says:
One of the purposes of Prop. 215, which voters passed 12 (!) years ago, was to allow a small “white” market in medical marijuana to emerge, thereby weakening the black market. Banning dispensaries discourages this healthy development.
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Tags: medical marijuana, prop 215, prop. 22, prop. 8
I wish it didn’t have to be like this (From Orange Juice Blog) [Edited by author]
Posted by: Sarah Michelle Spinosa
To our readers:
I hereby resign as webmistress and editor of Orange Juice Blog. In fact, I’m taking Thomas Gordon and Carl Overmyer with me over to The Centrist OC and resetting the layout of this site. I am inviting all of the OJ bloggers as well as our readers to join us in contributing to our new site. Please note: as each blogger owns the intellectual property of their work they are free to do with it as they please. As the site designer, I personally own the rights to that. Accordingly, the actions taken here today are not actionable legally or in any other way.
We’re tired of Art’s neglect of some of us. Also, people are not happy about Sean Mill coming back (I only wanted him here for professional reasons) or Art’s off-the-wall stories (i.e. ‘Bustamante may have been drunk when he hit a police car’), so we’re choosing new teams. We’d love to have you all on ours.
Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in the future.
Sarah Michelle Spinosa
Managing Editor
TheCentristOc.com
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Is Santa Ana looking to hike the sales tax rate???
Posted by: Thomas Anthony Gordon
Sales tax revenues in Santa Ana are dropping quicker than home values as frightened consumers stop spending, exotic car dealerships go out of business, and strip malls lay vacant.
The fees Santa Ana charges developers have disappeared as construction ground to a halt.
Property tax revenues are dwindling as home values decline.
Santa Ana is facing a future of unrepaired potholes, reduced services city wide, poorly-manicured parks and a reduction in the number of police and firefighters.
And in the middle of all this uncertain economic turmoil, just what does Santa Ana propose to do?
Raise the sales tax! Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: economy, santa ana, santa ana city council, taxes
Nail Biter in SAUSD race
Posted by: Thomas Anthony Gordon
Looks like Valerie Amezcua is holding onto a fragile lead in the Santa Ana Unified School Board election, over Roman Reyna. They both are seeking the third and final seat.
Current vote totals show Valerie with 9757 votes to Roman’s 9741 votes.
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Tags: roman reyna, SAUSD, valerie amezcua
Building a better Santa Ana
Posted by: Thomas Anthony Gordon
Operation Restore Peace, launched in response to Santa Ana’s recent surge in homicides, resulted in the arrest of 85 people, some with gang ties.
I strongly applaud the SAPD for this long overdue response to the epidemic crime problems that face the majority of Santa Ana’s hard working law abiding residents.
The surge in homicides,25 murders so far this year, was obviously a factor in the decision to conduct this operation.
Myself and others have long called for an increased police presence, increased arrest and increased penalties. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: crime, Gangs, KidsWorks, paul walters, Santa Ana Boys & Girls Club, sapd
Mail delivery halted on most dangerous block in America
Posted by: Thomas Anthony Gordon
So what you say.
Harvey is a suburb of Chicago, due South, near the Indiana state line.
Maybe it’s high time we isue CCW’s to mail carriers!
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Tags: CCW, Concealed Weapons, us mail, USPS
Supervisor Norby supports gun owners rights
Posted by: Thomas Anthony Gordon
Did Orange County Supervisor Chris Norby know something we didn’t when he cast his vote for SAPD’s Paul Walters?
Looking back, he may have been right. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: 2nd Amendment, Chief Paul Walters, Concealed Weapons, Orange County Supervisors, Sheriff Sandra Hutchens
Foreclosures aplenty in Santa Ana
Posted by: Thomas Anthony Gordon
Despite just receiving 5.8 Million Dollars from HUD to be used for neighborhood stabilization, and despite having the highest concentrations of foreclosures in Orange County, The Santa Ana City Council is content to sit on the sidelines and watch vast swaths of this once glorious city decay.
In what should be no brainer to any but Santa Ana’s elected officials, these vacant homes present a prime opportunity for this city to turn a negative into a positive by buying them up cheap and creating park space.
It’s time residents stopped buying the we care for you, the tired poor huddled masses, story that many members of the Santa Ana City Council tell residents.
I can hardly wait until Election 2010 rolls around……….
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Tags: HUD, Neighborhood Stabilization, Parks, santa ana, santa ana city council
