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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.)
![Yes, of course the Weekend Open Thread this week is going to be on the topic of the Stadium Lot giveaway (mostly to Arte Moreno directly, some to the Angels.) As […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Angels-Lease-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: On the Angels, Joining Joanne and Dissecting Dan")
![Do you want the analysis first, or the press releases? OK, fine — analysis first, but then you have to promise to go read the press releases below it. Promise? Well, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Sharon-and-Garcetti-2-115x115.jpg "This is Why Sharon Quirk-Silva Will Be Re-Elected: She Can Get This Sort of Thing Done")
![All right — if you don’t want to read the first three sections, the latter two of which are a bit fanciful, that’s fine. Do read sections 4 and 5. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Angels-Hell-Pringle-and-Moreno-7-115x115.jpg "Angels’ Hell #7: ‘Good Faith’ Means Nothing to Anaheim Council Majority, or MOUs 101")
![There are no two ways around it, people: I’m going to be writing about last night’s Stadium Lot Giveaway (that’s the name I’m trying out for it right now) for […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Angels-Hell-Pringle-and-Moreno-6-115x115.jpg "Angels’ Hell #6: The Most Revealing Story Yet on Last Night’s Stadium Lot Giveaway")
![The supposedly overriding reason for approving the Stadium Area Giveaway is the need to keep the Angels in Anaheim. Is this reason legitimate? No. Reasons why below the graphic. (1) […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Angels-Hell-Pringle-and-Moreno-5-115x115.jpg "Angels’ Hell, #5: Will the Angels Leave Without a Giveaway? Three Answers!")
![There’s going to be a big talking-to tomorrow night tonight at the Anaheim City Council meeting. Here’s why. When Anaheim’s Council majority decided to agendize an item for tomorrow’s tonight’s (Tuesday’s) meeting […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Angels-Hell-Pringle-and-Moreno-2-115x115.jpg "Angels’ Hell #2: We’ll Have a LONG TALK TONIGHT with Anaheim’s Council")
![I just got this Labor Day video through e-mail. It’s an amazingly powerful Labor Day message. Yes, I know that many of our readers are anti-union. OK, then take your […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Labor-Day-video-115x115.jpg "Labor Day Video — Wow. WOW!")
![Sunday’s rally at Sasscer Park commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the “March on Washington for Jobs and Peace” — best known for Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s classic “I Have […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Dream-50-Thomas-Parham-115x115.jpg "“I Have a Dream” Plus 50 – Some Scenes and Video from Sunday’s Rally")
![When a new lease of Anaheim’s stadium to Angels’ owner Arte Moreno was being drafted over the past months, nobody appears to have been negotiating on behalf of the City. (Read […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Angels-Hell-Pringle-and-Moreno-115x115.jpg "Angels’ Hell #1: Anaheim Council Plans Giant New ‘Sneak Attack’ Giveaway")
![I’m going to invent a new phrase today — “Anaheim Anguish” (or “Anaheimguish”) — to describe the emotional reaction I have every time I see another story in the Voice of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Anaheim-Chamber-of-Secrets1-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Adam Assesses Anaheim’s Audacious Ament Audit Oddity")
![I hope that you’ll pardon my getting all “Democratic Party” on you, but I do have some news. It’s a big weekend for us. (1) DPOC Office is Moving … Today! […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/March-on-Washington-@-50-Presidents-@-Lincoln-115x115.jpg "OC Dem Party Moves to New Orange Office Today; Truman Dinner Honorees Announced")
![I was surprised — “surprised” actually barely begins to describe it — to read a headline today in Slate purporting to explain “Why the Left Isn’t Protesting an Attack on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Assad-buried-in-chickenshit-115x115.jpg "10 Things that would be Better than Bombs for Obama to Drop on Syria")
![“Assemblyman Curt Hagman’s E-Reader Textbooks Bill Signed into Law by Governor” … was the title of a press release that just flew in through our transom demanding to be read. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/e-reader-students-115x115.jpg "Curt Hagman Discovers the Joy of Imposing Expensive Commercial Regulations!")
![We’ve all known that the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom — most famously the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/martin-luther-king-e1377390998990.jpg "Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech + 50 Years: We Have A Commemoration")
Progressives are afraid of the electorate.