- 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.)
![1. Tom Tait’s Intuition Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait has long had this feeling that something deeply wrong about the study submitted showing the economic impact of Angels Baseball on the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Anaheim-map-detail-115x115.jpg "Fatal Flaw in Economic Impact Analysis of Angels Baseball Revealed; Murrbot Don’t Give a Damn")
![1. An Introduction to Public Service [Note: if you’re Jordan Brandman or someone who cares about him, you’d best read through all the way to the end.] Yesterday’s Anaheim City […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Anaheim-Council-side-view-spotlights-115x115.jpg "‘Instructing the Negotiators’: Jordan Brandman Really Doesn’t Understand His Job")
![1. Foods Tamps Maybe that headline is a little bit unfair. In voting providing more than half of the margin of victory for the “Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act,” […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Food-Stamps-115x115.jpg "Oh, SNAP: Why Do OC’s GOP Congressmen Want Children to Starve?")
![As we prepare to destroy our government and the world economy in a fit of pique over Obamacare — the law that makes your pre-existing conditions irrelevant and lets your […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Health-Care-Costs-John-Green-115x115.jpg "Why We Passed Health Care Reform: Finally, an Understandable Video")
![Four girls at Marina High School in Huntington Beach lost the title of Homecoming Queen last night — but they gained a place in history. They’ll have a great story to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Transgender-Teen-Cassidy-Campbell-wins-115x115.jpg "Trans Teen Cassidy Campbell & HB’s Marina High Make Some Homecoming History")
![Lots of politics going on this week: the attempt (or play at an attempt) to defund Obamacare the Republican House of Reps slashing the Food Stamp program, thus punishing children […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/beatles-abbey-road-with-tourists-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Isolated Abbey Road Medley Vocal Tracks")
![Here’s the local angle, from Scott Lay this afternoon: “Termed-out state Sen. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, has also opened a BOE campaign account, but it is unclear whether he plans to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Lou-Correa-liquified-smile-115x115.jpg "Correa Perks Up His Ears at BOE Seat as Harkey Sues Her Opponent Wyland")
![Since Friday afternoon: We have stood silently aside while comedians made fun of Obama in our Weekend Open Thread. We gave you video of, and annotated summaries of the first […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/NASA-frog-115x115.jpg "What You (May Have) Missed on OJB This Weekend, Sept. 13-15")
![As an incredible affront to right-thinking Americans everywhere, the Miss American Pageant has chosen as our national representative to the Miss Universe competition an Indian-American woman who is … from New […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Miss-America-2014-dancing-115x115.jpg "Upsetting Result at Miss America Pageant Elicits Stupid Aftermath")
![We’ve been arguing for months (or is it years?) about what health insurance through the Covered California exchange — our local flavor of Obamacare — will cost. Now we know. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Sebelius-115x115.jpg "Uncertainty Ends: Here’s What Your Group Insurance Through Covered California Will Cost")
![I had the pleasure this last week of meeting Wally Courtney, who is a friend of Cynthia Ward, a leading figure in a prominent Realty practice, and about as serious […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Wally-Courtney-speech-115x115.jpg "If the Anaheim City Council Majority Were Serious People, What Would They Have Done?")
![1. Let’s Go Right to the Video! This morning (while I was busy at a funeral, or you’d see me on this video as well), a series of speakers sponsored […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Take-Back-Anaheim-press-conference-115x115.jpg "Video Highlights: Growing ‘Take Back Anaheim’ Truth Squad Strikes at City Hall!")
![Our commenter BigBoxOfRedWhine found this video from the famed Second City comedy factory online and … well, it’s funny. Anti-Obama, but funny. So what the hell, here we go with […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Obama-WW3-spoof-2nd-City-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: A Good Day for Obama Spoofers, Plus: New Laws Go to Guv")
![I’ve known about the proposal to build Irvine’s new (and apparently last) high school near to the soon to be expanded Musick Jail in the Great Park area, but I’ve been […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Jailhouse-Schoolhouse-115x115.jpg "Irvine Council Meets Tuesday to Consider Proposed ‘Jailhouse Schoolhouse’")
Progressives are afraid of the electorate.