- Description
- Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr 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. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
![I don’t think that I can improve on this, so here goes: It should be noted that some commenters have expressed doubt that the gleaming white crockery and cutlery in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Recycled-plastic-Dia-de-los-Muertes-dress-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Drop Dead Gorgeous")
![1. Spiteful Recall Would Target Latino Legislators — Just Coincidentally This story didn’t cross my radar until overnight when it was posted by a Facebook friend — make that former Facebook […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Gun-Activists-Unfurl-Recall-115x115.jpg "Gun Groups may target Sharon Quirk-Silva for Recall")
![1. An Introduction to One Pretty Important Poll Republican Chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee Ed Royce has been considered to be pretty much invulnerable in 2014 by his […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Royce-in-deep-gravy-115x115.jpg "After His Reckless Votes, is Ed Royce in Deep Gravy? Let’s Check the Polling Numbers")
![. . . 1. Suppressing Democracy is Expensive! We may have to start calling the Anaheim City Council’s stubborn refusal to agree to have real district elections by the name “Murray’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Amin-David-Consuela-Garcia-Adam-Elmahrek-115x115.jpg "Anaheim takes $612,000 from General Fund for LAST Year’s Fight Against District Elections")
![You may reasonably suppose that an interview of Kris Murray by The Liberal OC’s Dan Chmielewski would be the worst thing that you read from him this week. It isn’t. It’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Tongue-Bath-115x115.jpg "Dan (LibO) C’s Tongue Bath Interview of Kris Murray Makes Fact-Checkers Salivate")
![I’m admittedly biased as a party Vice-Chair — but I was honestly impressed with the face that the Democratic Party of Orange County put forth to the world on Saturday […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Truman-Dinner-2013-Cassidy-Campbell-feeling-the-love-115x115.jpg "DPOC’s 2013 ‘Truman Dinner’ Awards Show and Fundraiser Shows Off the Party’s Diversity")
![As I didn’t pre-load a Weekend Open Thread for this week, this interesting post on takeovers and sabotage of public power utilities will have to do. It’s pretty good stuff. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Fight-the-Power-Power-Textbook-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Fighting the Power Power — and Winning")
![If you feel happy that government workers, barred from work through no fault of their own, are getting back pay — well, prepare to feel a little less happy. Much […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Government-Employees-Protest-Shutdown-115x115.jpg "Government Shutdown Provides Inadvertent Lesson in Downside of Contracting")
![I’m trying not to let this go to my head, but I’m starting to believe that if I told Ed Royce not to lick a metal pole during a freezing blizzard, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Royce-Loose-Cannon-115x115.jpg "All Dems + 8 of 15 CA GOP Reps, ISSA included, Vote to Reopen Govt; ROYCE, Dana, Other Guy, Say ‘Let It Burn’")
![The plan — and it is a very stupid plan — onto which Reps. Rohrabacher, Issa, Campbell and Royce have signed regarding the debt limit is to make President Barack […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Van-Hollen-shutdown-video-115x115.jpg "One Day Left Before Obama May Be Provoked into an ‘Impeachable Offense’")
![I had forgotten just how good the public comments at the September 30 Special Meeting of the Anaheim City Council were. I guess that that means that the Fitzgerald Distraction™ […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/st-patrick-drives-out-snakes-115x115.jpg "Transcript: Anaheim Council’s Extraordinary Sept. 30 Special Meeting (+ Bonus Law Seminar!)")
![This Voice of OC article — based this 77-page Critical Impact Audit — has reignited discussion of Tom Daly’s actions as City Clerk-Recorder. I don’t plan to do original research on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Dalys-Folly-115x115.jpg "Daly Audit Open Thread: 433 Problems and 12-D is One")
![(Don’t worry, Dear Readers — I’m going to explain every last word in that headline.) The above screen capture is what’s presented when you load the SFGate.com site — meaning that I […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Young-Kim-Buttkicker-Video-115x115.jpg "Fibbin’ Young Kim, ‘the Bigoted Buttkicker,’ Disses Norby & Latinos, Explains Racialized Strategy")
![Ed Royce could end the government shutdown and prevent government default. Our guy, right here in OC, could do it. Royce is the Chair of the prestigious House Foreign Affairs Committee, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Young-Kim-Charles-Kim-Ed-Royce-115x115.jpg "Is Young Kim Advising Ed Royce to Continue Holding the U.S. Economy Hostage? Ask Her!")
Change is hard, for old farts.