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So is Orange County Public Administrator John S. Williams yet another O.C. Republican who talks like a conservative while he wastes public money?

Williams wrote a long response full of spin explaining himself, after the Orange County Grand Jury recently slammed him for mismanagement of public funds. Click here to read what Williams had to say for himself. As one might imagine, it is a load of B.S.

A more important document to consider is the Orange County Grand Jury Report about Williams and how he has screwed up royally and wasted our money. Click here to read that report. Here are a few excerpts from that report:

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The above image is taken from R. Crumb's awesome "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick" and you can get the whole shebang by clicking here .

Evangelical megachurch pastor Rick Warren says the country's largest Islamic organization showed courage when it invited him to speak at its annual convention.

A former Tustin High School athletic trainer who pleaded guilty to having sex with a student won't face jail time.

The race to replace termed out Supervisor Chris Norby just got interesting. Anaheim Councilwoman Lorri Galloway, who is a Democrat, has announced that she is running, according to the Red Klownty blog and the Friends for Fullerton’s Future blog.

This is very bad news for O.C. Clerk-recorder Tom Daly, who like Galloway is also a Democrat. Particularly since Jerbal, at Red Klownty, is also reporting that La Habra Councilwoman Rose Espinoza, who is also a Democrat, is thinking about running for Clerk-Recorder instead of running for the 4th Supervisorial District.

Daly is already being opposed by Anaheim Councilman Harry Sidhu. Now Galloway will further dilute Daly’s base in Anaheim, where he was once the Mayor.

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“The Orange County grand jury issued a scathing report Tuesday criticizing the public administrator/public guardian’s office for “egregious” mismanagement, including questionable promotions that cost hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars,” according to the L.A. Times.

So who is the Orange County Public Administrator/Public Guardian? It is a hack conservative Republican named John S. Williams. This guy is deeply embedded in OC GOP politics. If you Google him you will find he has endorsed just about every OC GOP candidate from the right over the years.

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Talk to this small but vocal faction of local Democrats about the future of the party in central and north Orange County and one name above all others brings a sparkle to their eye and a smile to their face. Despite the fact the demographic makeup of the party in this geographical area is largely Latino the local elected that garners their excitement doesn’t have a Hispanic surname like Tinajero, Alvarez, Benevides or Martinez as one might expect. The “chosen one” for these folks is Anaheim Union High School District Trustee Jordan Brandman.

Many in this group make up the “Janny” faction of the DPOC, thus called this for their covert support for Latino bashing Supervisor Janet Nguyen. It is not shocking that they would pin the party’s hope for the future in Central/North OC on the shoulders of an Anglo politician. History shows us that many within the DPOC have a track record of opposing Latino politicians in the local area. Loretta Sanchez and Lou Correa did not gain any party support until the won their seat. To this day, much, if not all of Loretta and Lou’s success is in spite of the local party.

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The pregnant woman caught in the wake of "Rampage" Jackson's crazy monster truck chase last year claims the UFC star caused "the stillbirth of her baby" when he rammed into her car.

O.C. Supervisor Chris Norby has quietly launched his campaign website for the O.C. Clerk-Recorder’s office. It is not bad. And he already has a ton of endorsements, including a few Democrats, such as Santa Ana Mayor MIguel Pulido and Anaheim Union High School District Trustee Jordan Brandman. Now we know who in Orange County falls within John Lewis’ sphere of influence…Lewis is listed as the Chair of Norby’s campaign.

Norby makes the case that his political experience will make him a better clerk-recorder than anyone else. He goes out of his way, in the video above, to mention Tom Daly, the current Clerk-Recorder.

Norby has always been easy to get a hold of and that spirit continues on his website, where he lists his cell number and personal email address.

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I really tweaked the Jerbalitos with my latest post about how much of a paid shill Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham is, and it inspired me to ask “Who is the biggest hack in the O.C. blogosphere?”

To make this fun, you can vote for up to three choices in the survey above. If I left out a hack or two please let me know!

I think that most of my readers know that I don’t take politicians seriously. So yes, I tend to be quite sarcastic as a blogger. My aim here at the Orange Juice is to be entertaining but to also work to uncover what the bad guys are up to, here in Orange County. There is no shortage of bad guys here in the O.C.

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“Jim Toledano, the 65-year-old former chairman of the Orange County Democratic Party and a three-time losing state assembly candidate, has been charged with two felony counts in an alleged $350,000 extortion plot, according to prosecutors,” according to the O.C. Weekly’s Navel Gazing Blog.

Toledano is famous for running against Loretta Sanchez in the Democratic primary, the year that she went on to beat Bob Dornan. And he also made the headlines when he left his wife and announced he was gay, shortly after retiring as Chair of the DPOC.

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An Orange County court commissioner has raised bail to $1 million for an emergency room technician accused of raping an intoxicated patient.

A group of nudists who fought a battle to bear it all on a Southern California beach have lost their legal fight.

A body was discovered in an overturned vehicleA alongside Route 241 east of Anaheim Sunday.

The race to replace termed out State Assemblyman Van Tran, in the 69th Assembly District, is heating up. My pajaritos are chirping that Garden Grove City Councilman Andrew Do won’t be running after all. But Orange County Board of Education member Long Pham is running - and he has been known to spend a lot of money on his campaigns.

But the GOP favorite will be Costa Mesa Councilman Allan Mansoor. Predictably, he is already getting ripped by the locals. The award-winning “Bubbling Cauldron” blog posted a very long and comprehensive post about Mansoor in April of this year. Here are a few excerpts:

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As we approached the office of OC Treasurer-Tax Collector Chriss Street for a business meeting this morning we noticed a huge simulated check on a wall payable to the County of Orange from the Treasurer-Tax Collector’s Office dated July 1st, 2008. The amount of the check reads $905,936 with a memo on the bottom which reads “Underspent Budget for FY 07-08.” That, my fellow readers, is very impressive.

During the meeting with Chriss and Assistant Treasurer Jennifer Burkhart he proudly discussed the performance of their streamlined department.

As a point of information I need to mention that as of June 6th they collected $4.5 billion from the tax role or roughly 96 percent which is higher than our neighboring counties of Riverside and San Bernardino.

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Two men were killed and one was injured when their boat crashed into a Huntington Harbour bridge early this morning, a Sheriff's Department spokesman said.

The death of a man more than 14 years after he was shot in the head and paralyzed has led to murder charges against three gang members who pleaded guilty in 1996 to attempting to murder him.

Orange County authorities have arrested an emergency room technician they believe raped an unconscious patient who was awaiting treatment.

A mother of two pleaded guilty to charges of operating a multi-million dollar online prostitution ring that advertised L.A. area porn stars, models, and actresses.