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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.)
![Cool as a cucumber and almost twice as smart, Anaheim City Council member Kris Murray put on a performance to remember at last night’s Council meeting. And by “a performance […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Anaheim-where-demographics-matter-115x115.jpg "Confident Kris Murray Leads Vote to Raise Anaheim’s Taxes")
![Yesterday’s Voice of OC‘s story on today’s (Tuesday’s) Anaheim City Council meeting is both a great introduction to the controversy (for those who haven’t been following it) and a must-read […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Eastman-lightbulb-115x115.jpg "Has Gail Eastman Figured Out That a Real Districting Plan is Her Best Hope?")
![The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal has lifted the stay that was holding Prop 8 into place. Unless the Supreme Court reconsiders in the event of an appeal of their […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Loretta-Sanchez-115x115.jpg "Lesbians and Gays, You Can Get Married Now! The Stay is Lifted!")
![Chances are that you don’t read The New Yorker — no offense intended, those are just the odds — but I’d bet that you have probably read Shirley Jackson’s famed short story […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Shirley-Jackson-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Some Reactions to The Lottery")
![Mayor Tom Tait has now successfully derailed “Disney Democrat” Councilmember Jordan Brandman’s appointment of Republican lobbyist Curt Pringle’s to Anaheim’s Charter Review Commission by demanding that the avaricious puppet-master release a 700 form […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/brandman-lodge-modified-115x115.jpg "Whom Should ‘Disneycrat’ Brandman Appoint to Anaheim’s Charter Review Commission? (Hurry!)")
![[UPDATE ABOUT WHO WILL SUCCEED CAMPBELL: Fuhgeddaboudit, Mimi and everyone else. Scott Lay reminds us today that Gary Miller could easily move from his Democratic leaning district in CA-31 to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/John-Campbell-with-Paul-Ryan-115x115.jpg "‘Johnny, We Hardly Noticed Ye’: Campbell Rouses Himself to Leave Congress")
![Now same sex couples can get married again in California, for real, for good. And they can bring in their mates from abroad! UPDATES OF OTHER COVERAGE: [From SCOTUSblog] Amy […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Ab-Fab-115x115.jpg "California Caterers, US Estate Planners, Celebrate Big Supreme Court Wins")
![Nefarious plan works! State Sen. Wendy Davis, a Harvard-trained lawyer who could pass for a young Sissy Spacek, showed that she was made of some seriously stern stuff, leading a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Wendy-Davis-back-brace-115x115.jpg "Damnedest Thing Happened Last Night in Texas")
![Tomorrow we will get a good look at the state of gay rights, but let’s stop today to pay our respects to what was once known as the “Crown Jewel […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Rocking-the-Voters-SCOTUS-style-115x115.jpg "The Supreme Court Rocks the Voters")
![As the Supreme Court today took what will probably end up being a big bite out of affirmative action in education — when they tell and appellate court that approved […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Bike-Thief-Racial-Profiling-115x115.jpg "Racial Profiling in Action: ‘Hey, Buddy, Mind If I Steal This Bike?’")
![1. Anaheim’s choice of districts is more interesting than you think It may seem like a bit of a stretch to say that the decision of the Anaheim City Council […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Ana-Atnas-115x115.jpg "Is ‘Ana Atnas’ the Voting Plan That Anaheim Needs? (Eastman and Kring Might Agree!)")
![“Democrat” Jordan Brandman has appointed Republican master-lobbyist-cum-spider-cum-puppeteer Curt Pringle, who represents an enormous swath of interests sucking money and benefits out of Anaheim, to officially as well as effectively control the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Solorio-and-Cruz-cropped-115x115.jpg "Unimaginable Horror")
![This is a “feel-good” story in all sorts of ways — a young woman excelling in science, transcending having been brought up in Florida, and possibly making a major contribution […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/algae-bubbling-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: ‘Algae, Allllll-gae, When Will Those Clouds All Disappear?’")
![Our “Good Government Republican” writer and commenter Cynthia Ward had a lovely comment here today that I think belongs in a story, so I’m going to import it below. Sadly […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Issa-skewed-115x115.jpg "‘Issucks,’ or Good Governance Requires that You Not Falsely Cry Wolf")
Progressives are afraid of the electorate.