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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.)
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![The Voice of OC has done the heavy lifting — to be distinguished from the heavy pulling — with its seminal story of San Diego Republican Carl “the Wanker” DeMaio being […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/DeMaio-1-Spanking-the-Monkey-115x115.jpg "Spunky DeMaio Scandal Watch #1: Where in the World is Carl in San Diego?")
![First and most importantly, you have to read this story in the Voice of OC. Now. Just do it. I realize that this is not the way you should have […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/urinals-with-do-not-sign-115x115.jpg "Joint Orange Juice-Liberal OC ‘Headline this Voice of OC Story’ Reader Contest: San Diego Edition")
![Wendy Gabriella, recently Academic Senate President of Irvine Valley College, has announced the early stages of her run for State Assembly in the 73rd Assembly District, which covers most of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Wendy-Gabriella-600px-115x115.jpg "South County 73rd AD Melee Attracts a Democrat: Prof. Wendy Gabriella, Esq.")
![This is such an amazing story — the school massacre that wasn’t — that I don’t think that we as a nation have as yet fully digested it. Well, this […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Antoinette-Huff-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Why Do All These School Employees Keep Surprising Us with Heroism?")
![For those of you who missed last week on Orange Juice Blog — and SHAME ON YOU!! if so — we talked a lot about Anaheim again, and that doesn’t […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Sherri-Vander-Dussen-with-Soaky-115x115.jpg "Anaheim Juice Blog: Council Stuffs Public Money into a Secluded Chamber, Continued")
![This video is going to cause me and my party no end of trouble — or maybe it’s just a way to mess up the Republican Party, who might think […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Julian-Assange-115x115.jpg "I Already Regret Posting This, but It’s News: Wikileaks’s Julian Assange ♥s Ron and Rand Paul")
![OC Political — my favorite local Republican website, because at its best it gives us the neatly arranged straight dope — is weighing in on SD-34, in which Democratic hopes […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/John-Perez-115x115.jpg "OC Political: Solorio Fundraising Falling Behind Janet Nguyen’s! HELP US, John Perez!")
![In yesterday’s story about the first-ever Eid Festival in Anaheim, which is still going strong today until 9:00, I promised to explain to you what Iyad Afalqa was doing there […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Iyad@Eid-Posing-with-Jordan-115x115.jpg "Obamacare Outreach: ‘Covered California’ Comes to Eid Festival to Explain What’s Coming")
![It’s festival time in Anaheim — again, but also for the first time — at Anaheim’s inaugural festival celebrating the end of Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, the first day in a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Eid-fest-pottery-books-115x115.jpg "Eid al-Fitr Festival, Day 1, in Full Swing at Anaheim Promenade")
![From his demeanor, Jordan Brandman seemed to be quite proud of his commentary at Tuesday night’s Anaheim City Council meeting about the Chamber of Commerce’s contract to administer a now-cancelled program. (If you […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Jordan-Brandman-angry-at-Council-Meeting-115x115.jpg "Jordan Brandman Redefines Reckless — and Puts City Staff in a Real Bind")
![For the past couple of months, without your (in most cases) knowing about it, the Orange County Register has been in formal negotiations with the City of Anaheim over becoming […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/OC-Cash-Register-ARTIC-Naming-Rights-115x115.jpg "OC Register Seeks Commission from Anaheim for Brokering ARTIC Naming Rights")
![NOTE: We don’t seem to have else anything cued up for today, and I’ll have that Anaheim story up tomorrow, so — let’s start the Weekend early! You may recall […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Monkey-Christ-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Botched ‘Monkey Christ’ Fresco Restoration Has Happier Ending")
![The naked imperatives of local politics don’t get much more naked than what happened last night at the Anaheim City Council meeting. Cancel those civics classes, teachers; this is what […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Ament-video-capture-115x115.jpg "Anaheim Council’s Imperative: Shovel Money into the Chamber of Commerce!")
Progressives are afraid of the electorate.