About Us
The Liberal Orange County is maintained by a group of OC liberals. We don’t take money from politicians, bullshit from conservatives, or candy from strangers. The information you will find in this blog is focused on the liberal political world of Orange County, and we will spotlight some of the people that are fighting the good fight.
Michael Lawson (Our Founder) — who hates writing in the third person — has a background in news writing and currently works full-time for a non-profit organization. His previous journalistic conquests have included political news writing, humor columns, and feature stories. Mike moved to the Phoenix Arizona area in December 2007 but still contributes occasionally to the blog.
Chris Prevatt is the Chair for the Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club-Orange County and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. Chris is employed by the County of Orange Health Care Agency and is a Steward and Boardmember with the Orange County Employees Association. Chris has been politically active in Orange County for years. He ran unsuccessfully for Garden Grove City Council in 2000 and 2002 and served for five years on the Garden Grove Sanitary District Advisory Commission. Chris assumed Mike Lawson’s duties as team leader/publisher in December 2007.
Dan Chmielewski runs a boutique technology PR practice in Irvine. He’s lived in OC since 1997 by way of Boston and Central New York. He has worked in news, marketing, and public relations his entire career. Admittedly to the left of Ted Kennedy, Dan studies conservative media to note and refute their talking points. He views legitimate criticism of liberals and liberal politicians as fair, as long as the same mirror is held up to conservatives and Republicans as well. He scoffs at the notion that the mainstream media has a liberal bias.
Gila’s favorite activities are talking about her kids, giving her opinion, and being proven to have been correct. She lives in a solar powered house on a hill in the deep south (of Orange County). Gila was finally able to become a vegetarian when she learned shrimp are actually a type of vegetable.
Andrew Davey got his start as “just another Kossack” on Daily Kos in 2005, and has been addicted to blogs ever since. In 2006 Andrew became more interested in local politics, and he began writing stories that would be featured on Calitics and on the California Progress Report. Whether it’s about local environmental battles or immigration policy being “made” at the local level, Andrew’s always fascinated with Orange County politics. Now when he’s not online, Andrew serves on the Board of Directors of the Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club of Orange County, and he’s a member of Democracy for America-Orange County. Andrew lives with his family in Santa Ana.
Susan Freeze is 40ish, and she is a staffer for the Democratic Party of Orange County.
Ed Velasquez is hesitant to start blogging because he thinks that it may encroach upon his precious privacy. He was born and raised in Orange County. After receiving his degree in American Government, he returned to OC to make a difference in the local political arena. Ed has 12 years of campaign experience.
Sean Mill is a lifelong resident of Santa Ana with over 20 years of political activism in the community. He currently serves as a member of Santa Ana’s Planning Commission and Historic Resources Commission, and ran for city council in 1992 and 1994. Sean graduated from UC Irvine in 1990 with a BA in Political Science and was previously a Republican activist who worked for Assemblyman Nolan Frizelle and Assemblyman Dick Longshore before he woke up and saw the light in the early 1990’s and switched to the Democratic Party as a result of what he saw as social inequalities being pushed by the Republican agenda. Today he is a proud progressive Democrat and a card carrying member of the ACLU. Sean is also an avid USC Trojan, Hawaii Warrior,and San Diego Charger football fan, not to mention a San Francisco Giants fan. He loves traveling, especially to Maui where he owns property.
Heather Pritchard started writing in high school and has a BA in English from Smith College. She went through a stint of gossip writing and got bored — politics is more her speed. Heather campaigned for Bill Clinton when he was Governor Clinton and was lucky enough to meet him — great handshake! Heather is a proud liberal who just started writing more about politics at the Daily Kos and is a member of the Edwards Evening News Round Up, where her usual round up night is Sunday at the Daily Kos. Heather’s husband teaches music history at Cerritos College, her daughter Charlotte is four going on forty and she has a new little girl, Sophie the Weimaraner. Heather hopes to go back to school for a degree in sociology or political science. Disclosure: Heather’s husband is currently running for State Senate in the 33rd District as a Democrat.
Bill Spaulding is lives and works in Santa Ana but is relatively new to Orange County. An until-recently retired (1994) activist who volunteered on a number of campaigns including LA School Board, City Council, and Mayor, West Hollywood
Cityhood and City Council, Santa Monica City Council, State Assembly, and several State ballot initiatives, Bill’s last presidential campaign involvement was for McGovern in 1972.
If you are interested in posting here on a regular basis, email Chris.
Disclaimer: The comments made on this blog, by featured contributors and/or individual commenter’s, are the sole responsibility of those individual authors. They do not represent the opinions of any other individual(s), any advertiser, or the publisher(s) of this blog.
Michael Lawson (Our Founder) — who hates writing in the third person — has a background in news writing and currently works full-time for a non-profit organization. His previous journalistic conquests have included political news writing, humor columns, and feature stories. Mike moved to the Phoenix Arizona area in December 2007 but still contributes occasionally to the blog.
Chris Prevatt is the Chair for the Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club-Orange County and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. Chris is employed by the County of Orange Health Care Agency and is a Steward and Boardmember with the Orange County Employees Association. Chris has been politically active in Orange County for years. He ran unsuccessfully for Garden Grove City Council in 2000 and 2002 and served for five years on the Garden Grove Sanitary District Advisory Commission. Chris assumed Mike Lawson’s duties as team leader/publisher in December 2007.
Dan Chmielewski runs a boutique technology PR practice in Irvine. He’s lived in OC since 1997 by way of Boston and Central New York. He has worked in news, marketing, and public relations his entire career. Admittedly to the left of Ted Kennedy, Dan studies conservative media to note and refute their talking points. He views legitimate criticism of liberals and liberal politicians as fair, as long as the same mirror is held up to conservatives and Republicans as well. He scoffs at the notion that the mainstream media has a liberal bias.
Gila’s favorite activities are talking about her kids, giving her opinion, and being proven to have been correct. She lives in a solar powered house on a hill in the deep south (of Orange County). Gila was finally able to become a vegetarian when she learned shrimp are actually a type of vegetable.
Andrew Davey got his start as “just another Kossack” on Daily Kos in 2005, and has been addicted to blogs ever since. In 2006 Andrew became more interested in local politics, and he began writing stories that would be featured on Calitics and on the California Progress Report. Whether it’s about local environmental battles or immigration policy being “made” at the local level, Andrew’s always fascinated with Orange County politics. Now when he’s not online, Andrew serves on the Board of Directors of the Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club of Orange County, and he’s a member of Democracy for America-Orange County. Andrew lives with his family in Santa Ana.
Susan Freeze is 40ish, and she is a staffer for the Democratic Party of Orange County.
Ed Velasquez is hesitant to start blogging because he thinks that it may encroach upon his precious privacy. He was born and raised in Orange County. After receiving his degree in American Government, he returned to OC to make a difference in the local political arena. Ed has 12 years of campaign experience.
Sean Mill is a lifelong resident of Santa Ana with over 20 years of political activism in the community. He currently serves as a member of Santa Ana’s Planning Commission and Historic Resources Commission, and ran for city council in 1992 and 1994. Sean graduated from UC Irvine in 1990 with a BA in Political Science and was previously a Republican activist who worked for Assemblyman Nolan Frizelle and Assemblyman Dick Longshore before he woke up and saw the light in the early 1990’s and switched to the Democratic Party as a result of what he saw as social inequalities being pushed by the Republican agenda. Today he is a proud progressive Democrat and a card carrying member of the ACLU. Sean is also an avid USC Trojan, Hawaii Warrior,and San Diego Charger football fan, not to mention a San Francisco Giants fan. He loves traveling, especially to Maui where he owns property.
Heather Pritchard started writing in high school and has a BA in English from Smith College. She went through a stint of gossip writing and got bored — politics is more her speed. Heather campaigned for Bill Clinton when he was Governor Clinton and was lucky enough to meet him — great handshake! Heather is a proud liberal who just started writing more about politics at the Daily Kos and is a member of the Edwards Evening News Round Up, where her usual round up night is Sunday at the Daily Kos. Heather’s husband teaches music history at Cerritos College, her daughter Charlotte is four going on forty and she has a new little girl, Sophie the Weimaraner. Heather hopes to go back to school for a degree in sociology or political science. Disclosure: Heather’s husband is currently running for State Senate in the 33rd District as a Democrat.
Bill Spaulding is lives and works in Santa Ana but is relatively new to Orange County. An until-recently retired (1994) activist who volunteered on a number of campaigns including LA School Board, City Council, and Mayor, West Hollywood
Cityhood and City Council, Santa Monica City Council, State Assembly, and several State ballot initiatives, Bill’s last presidential campaign involvement was for McGovern in 1972.
If you are interested in posting here on a regular basis, email Chris.
Disclaimer: The comments made on this blog, by featured contributors and/or individual commenter’s, are the sole responsibility of those individual authors. They do not represent the opinions of any other individual(s), any advertiser, or the publisher(s) of this blog.
