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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.)
![Many people will have already seen this, but some won’t have — and everyone should. This is Zimmerman Juror B-29, who for some time was the only holdout against acquittal. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Zimmerman-juror-B-29-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: the Latina Juror Speaks Out about the Zimmerman Verdict")
![Washington D.C.’s enormous Ethiopian community is about to get a little larger. That’s not the main story, of course. American labor leadership is about to get a little better. More […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Gebre-115x115.jpg "Tefere Gebre Departing OC for Land of Glory and Better Ethiopian Restaurants")
![You need to read this story in today’s Voice of OC. I can only give you a taste of it, but it’s the sort of development that we may be referring […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Nguyen-in-Bosch-Hell-115x115.jpg "What the F … BI? All Hell Slides Closer to Breaking Loose in Orange County Politics")
![A few comments on yesterday evening’s Anaheim City Council Meeting. (1) Veruca Salt Insists On Having Her Way Jason Young offers this video editing together the highlights of Anaheim Mayor […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Kris-Murray-as-Veruca-Salt-115x115.jpg "VIDEO: Tom Tait Tries to Explain to Balky Kris Murray What a ‘Legal Definition’ Means")
![Anaheim’s City Council meets tonight for its second reading and final approval of the measures that it wants to place on the June 2014 ballot. (“Final,” that is, until and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Murray-Head-in-the-Works-115x115.jpg "The Anaheim Council’s Wrench in the Works — and How to Remove It")
![Honestly, we’re just doing this for the extra hits — and to see if any of you have anything funny to say. I do think that “Trayvon” would be an […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Will-and-Kate-115x115.jpg "‘Baby Baby Baby Oh’ Open Thread: Will Will & Kate Name Son ‘Trayvon’?")
![U.S. Rep Joaquin Castro of Texas, not to be confused with Mayor Julian Castro of San Antonio — as if anyone would do that! You may remember Rep. Joaquin Castro […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Joaquin-Castro-115x115.jpg "Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas Will Be Keynote Speaker at DPOC Truman Dinner")
![This weekend is one of three annual meetings of the California Democratic Party: one meeting for all of the party’s delegates, then two meetings of the Executive Board. This one […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/orange-rotting-on-the-ground-600px-115x115.jpg "Dear CA DEM Party Delegates: OC is YOUR Problem As Much As It Is OURS!")
![It happened in Tennessee, but it could have easily happened in parts of Orange County. Let’s season this past week’s discussion of education policy with a heavy helping of sex! […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Abstinence-lesson-115x115.jpg "High School Principal: Sex is Something About Which It’s OK to Lie")
![Today we have an environmentalist theme with a little science and religion and art tossed in. I saw one video in an online magazine today — an animated version of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Asphalt-Drop-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Two Environmentalist Videos and One Drip")
![1. “Look at Me, I’m Not PC, Proud of My indignity!” The “hate affair” between me and Gustavo Arellano is mostly one-sided; I think that examining the proportion of gratuitous […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Gustavo-teaching-say-illegal-immigrants-115x115.jpg "Prof. Gustavo Arellano Has a Theory of Why Using the Term ‘Illegals’ is GOOD")
![First — and tangentially — I’ve now been waiting for the video from the July 2 Anaheim City Council meeting for two weeks including holidays. (I already downloaded the MP3, but […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Anaheim-videos-of-council-meetings-115x115.jpg "The Moreno-Murray Radio Interview (Because I Can’t Access the July 2 Meeting Video)")
![For people who wonder why our financial system is so screwed up, a big part of it is that our U.S. Senator with the most expertise on the problem and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Warren-on-CNBC-re-Glass-Steagall-115x115.jpg "Sen. Elizabeth Warren Takes on Business Media Over Reinstating Glass-Steagall")
![It’s Monday morning after a hard weekend — time to teach you all some law. For those of you unfamiliar with Ta-Nehisi Coates, he is one of the best editorial […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Radio-Raheem-death-115x115.png "An Important Article on the Zimmerman Verdict that is (Fortunately) Wrong")
Progressives are afraid of the electorate.