Has Voice of OC Board Member Jess Araujo defended any sex offenders?
Do the members of the Board of Directors of the increasingly lame Voice of OC website even bother to read the tripe they are publishing?
There are no less than seven lawyers on their board, including their Chairman, retired State Senator Joe Dunn, and criminal defense lawyers Jess Araujo and James J. Brosnahan, yet they recently published a post about Fullerton Councilman Shawn Nelson, who is running for the 4th Supervisorial District, ripping him for being a defense lawyer. The post was entitled “Has Nelson Defended Sex Offenders?”
I wonder if Araujo and Brosnahan have defended any sex offenders? I bet they have! But you know what, who cares? Even sex offenders are entitled, by law, to a defense. That is how our system of justice works.
The rest of the lawyers on the Voice of OC board of directors include retired State Senator Martha Escutia (more on her later in this post); Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the new law school at the University of California, Irvine; Stephen M. Garcia, another trail lawyer, who, like Dunn, makes a living suing businesses; Thomas V. Girardi, another trial lawyer who makes a lot of money suing businesses. Brosnahan also is a trial lawyer.
Dunn and Escutia started a new law firm this year, which they are calling the Senators Law Firm, and they are doing so in conjunction with political consultant and lobbyist Richie Ross, according to Capitol Weekly. Their plans include suing a whole bunch of businesses and also doing lobbying. Filthy!
Nelson runs a pretty diverse law firm. Yes, he does do defense work. But just look at what the creepy lawyers on the Voice of OC’s board do – they sue businesses, killing jobs and screwing up our economy even more with every passing day.
Dunn does not yet have a functional website. He has purchased www.thesenatorslawfirm.com, but there is nothing there yet.
Is it just me or does it look rather fishy for the Voice of OC to be chaired by a guy who is also running a firm that is doing lobbying and political consulting? And now they are ripping a fellow lawyer even though no less than seven lawyers sit on their board of directors, including two criminal defense lawyers?
Good catch Art. The Voice of OC is all about politics. It calls itself a “non profit investigative news agency” as if being non-profit meant objective and disinterested. What a joke.
The Voice of OC(EA). If you think about it it’s pretty arrogant. They aren’t the voice of anybody I know.
Tony’s right. Voice of OC seems to be the voice of no one but themselves. They obviously have an agenda and should not be taken seriously about anything. They don’t care about the truth or bother to actually investigate anything. None of the articles I’ve seen of theirs are credible. I won’t waste my time on their garbage anymore and I would recommend that no one else does either.
Good job Orange Juice!!
The formula seems set. Irrelevant “story” after story, punctuated by a timely political hit piece.Not a nickel’s worth of investigation into anything.
God only knows what these people will do after this June’s election. When Berardino doesn’t need them anymore.
Excellent Reporting OJB.
Of course this kind of truthful, questioning will be criticized by those that cover kids basketball teams, regurgitated Red County posts.
But aside from my cheap shots, a more serious question remains:
WHO IS THE VOICE OF OC?
* Who started it and why?
* Who are the investors (THIS SHOULD BE PUBLISHED ON THE FRONT PAGE!)
* Who are the board members?
* What is thier BUSINESS relationship with the OC Register?
These are a few issues that should be investigated, a more thourough search should involve the people involved with the answers.
THE VOC is the new RED COUNTY = PAID SHILLS
kenlaysnotdead,
What really blew me away was this new law firm Dunn has started – that will be doing lobbying and political consulting while also suing businesses. Conflict of interest with Voice of OC, no?
Amen. FINALLY someone decided to see through their ‘front’ of an investigative site (um, it is not. It is a biased, one-sided agenda laden BLOG) and call them on their terrible ‘journalism’.
The only good thing? Everyone knows they are a joke. And no one is paying attention. Or reading. I just checked their stats and they are less than impressive.
SO happy to have found YOUR SITE.
Keep up the awesome work.