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- 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.)
![This may be the best thing to come out of Atlanta since Ted Turner came up with TCM. (I take it that this cheeky Braves fan is probably a lawyer. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Dodgers-celebrate-115x115.jpg "Shutdown Logic: Braves Fan Demands that Dodgers Negotiate a Loss — or Let’s Outlaw Baseball")
![At least three good new pieces on the Fitzgerald Distraction™ — the “stunning revelation” that an Anaheim political gadfly not only espouses bigotry but knows his free speech rights — […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Prevatt-in-the-pink-115x115.jpg "OC ‘Fitzgerald Distraction’™ Coverage Brings Welcome News: Liberal OC’s Chris Prevatt is Back at the Keyboard!")
![This is probably the political news of the day — with likely reverberations for the rest of the decade: [T]he partial closing of the government and the looming confrontation over the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Hostages-115x115.jpg "Will Royce, Issa, Rohrabacher and Republicans Who Want Campbell’s Seat Side with the Adults or the Nihilists?")
![In the 2014 election for AD-65, Scott Lay’s “Around the Capital” website says the following about prospective candidates: Probable Candidates Sharon Quirk-Silva (Democrat) – Member, State Assembly www.sharonquirksilva.com Young Kim (Republican) […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/OC-Constellations-AD65-115x115.jpg "This Newsletter Sounds Like It Came from a Candidate")
![1. Anonymity If there’s one thing that you should have learned over the past couple of years, especially since the Snowden leaks, it’s that you are not reliably anonymous. You […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Weasels-ripped-my-flesh-mag-cover-115x115.jpg "Two Essays: Anonymity and Assholery")
![Because being poor and having your parent or spouse being behind bars isn’t already traumatic enough…. Here’s an accompanying message from the ACLU (which has the footnotes and action item): Today, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Prison-Profiteers-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: I Don’t Want to See You ‘Til You Know the Cost of Love")
![Three items today related to what is apparently the biggest breaking news in Anaheim, William Fitzgerald’s verbal attack on Jordan Brandman, compiled from some anonymous writer. What’s going on won’t […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Fitzgerald-Reade-115x115.jpg "What Does Michael Houston Have to Say about Free Speech in Public Comments?")
![Hey, here’s a sign of possible progress in Anaheim! (Maybe not — but even being able to say “maybe” is itself progress given where we’ve been!) The likely weakness in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/whitewash-with-angels-logo-115x115.jpg "Pringle Ring Backpedals into ‘Citizens Commission’ Bunker: Cleansing Wash or Whitewash?"){kind=logo}
![A high-quality video synopsis of Monday morning’s Anaheim City Council meeting, from Voice of OC. 1. Anaheim’s City Council Has Some Good News and Some Bad News For You (You […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Anaheim-Special-Meeting-Collage-115x115.jpg "Transparent Lies: If Brandman Wants Transparency in Setting the Agenda, Reform the City Mgr’s Role")
![When not blogging, Jason Young of Save Anaheim makes his living as a wedding videographer. Today, he finally achieved the desire of everyone in his profession: he went viral on the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Jason-Youngs-viral-video-115x115.jpg "Jason Young Gets Some Play (No, It’s Not What You Probably Think)")
![WHAT YOU MAY MISS THIS MORNING: “Special” Anaheim City Council meeting at 8 a.m., designed to take away the power Mayor Tom Tait — a skeptical minority of one on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/WYMHMTW-9-30-115x115.jpg "What You (May Have) Missed This Weekend — and May Miss THIS MORNING!")
![Before last Tuesday’s Anaheim City Council meeting, at which Mayor Tom Tait had viciously and with clear prior intent agendized an item that would give the Council a chance to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Keep-the-Angels-rally-at-starting-time-115x115.jpg "‘Keep the Angels’ Rally: Watch for ANY Discussion of How Much This Will Cost")
![Because my household is 80% Filipinas and 20% me, we subscribe to The Filipino Channel here in LA. They do a pretty good hour-long news show on U.S. news. For […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Filipino-Channel-News-Poll-on-Govt-Shutdown-115x115.jpg "From The Filipino Channel, the Best Poll Result You’ll See All Day")
![All right, class, I hope that you all have already watched this video showing part of a discussion between Mayor Tom Tait and Charlie Black, working “for the City” on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Jordan-Brandman-puzzles-through-his-own-proposal-zigzag-copy-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: ‘We are Never Ever Ever Vetting THAT Together’")
Progressives are afraid of the electorate.