- Description
- Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-retired due to disability, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally runs for office against bad people who would otherwise go unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Deposed as Northern Vice Chair of DPOC in April 2014 (in violation of Roberts Rules) when his anti-corruption and pro-consumer work in Anaheim infuriated the Building Trades and Teamsters in spring 2014, who then worked with the lawless and power-mad DPOC Chair to eliminate his internal oversight. Expelled from DPOC in October 2018 (in violation of Roberts Rules) for having endorsed Spitzer over Rackauckas -- which needed to be done. None of his pre-putsch writings ever spoke for the Democratic Party at the local, county, state, national, or galactic level, nor do they now. One of his daughters co-owns a business offering campaign treasurer services to Democratic candidates and the odd independent. He is very proud of her. He doesn't directly profit from her work and it doesn't affect his coverage. (He does not always favor her clients, though she might hesitate to take one that he truly hated.) He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
![. . . The biggest impediment to the Veteran’s Cemetery recently has been that the bill carried by Sharon Quirk-Silva specified that it had to be built in the ARDA […]](http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/quirk-silva-vern-award-e1370563315429.jpg "Quirk-Silva Makes the Right Move on the Vets Cemetery")
![[Ed. Note: The Orange County Grand Jury has released a report analyzing and trying to goose along the resolution of the conflict over the location of a Veterans Cemetery in […]](http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Veterans-Cemetery-graphic-115x115.jpg "Grand Jury Report on Veterans Cemetery")
![. . . As readers may have heard, the first real debates of the 2020 Presidential election season are due this Wednesday and Thursday, June 26 and 27. (We don’t […]](http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Donkey-Racing-115x115.jpg "Both Nights of the Democratic Debates are Important")
![. . . This will be your Weekend Open Thread. There is some hope for new content this week as well. Your patience is appreciated. Or at least it will […]](http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Larry-Summers-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread, Sum-Sum-Summertime!")
![. . . You should spend some time on this link: 14 speeches by Democratic Presidential candidates from last weekend’s California Democratic Party convention. Unless you’re a Chump in the […]](http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Pushing-a-Car-Safely-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: 14 CDP Speeches and an Auto-Backpat")
![. . . This weekend, the California Democratic Party will be picking its new Chair, who will take over from Acting Chair Alex Gallardo-Rooker and fill the remaining term of former […]](http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CDP-Bauman-with-Kaufman-and-Myers-occluding-Ellis-115x115.png "REVISED/EXTENDED: The CDP Election Fraud I Witnessed in 2017")
![Democrats have a 2/3 majority in the State Senate. Once again, that is turning out to be a supermajority more in theory than in practice. (1) SB 529 Here’s the […]](http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Umberg-Rent-Control-vote-115x115.jpg "OC Senate Dems Umberg and Archuleta Blocking ‘Just Cause’ Tenant Eviction Bill")
![. . . [Ed. Note: I regret that I’ve been too tied up to write much recently. I’ve been doing much of my writing on a closed Facebook page […]](http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Great-Park-Map-as-Legislated-with-ARDA-115x115.png "(Late) Memorial Day Weekend Open Thread”: Cemetery Bill May Doom Cemetery")
