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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.)
![UPDATE 2: Apparently the Speaker’s Office has figured things out — SEE THIS LINK — and the Assembly will remove the offending provision tomorrow. Brown will presumably go with the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/boardwalk-empire-buscemi-115x115.jpg "Is the Proposed Change to the Public Records Act Really THAT Bad? Yes, it is. UPDATE: Apparent Victory!")
![After hearing from around 60 residents, the Fullerton City Council last night voted against agreeing to run a proposed round-the-clock homeless facility and multi-service center on State College on behalf […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Homeless-camp-Fullerton-115x115.jpg "Fullerton Votes Against Running Homeless Shelter: What Happened? What Now?")
![If I said that the reason that Republicans oppose comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship — now being championed by both Democrats and the more bright and reasonable […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Texas-Republicans-with-elephant-hats-115x115.jpg "Texas Republican Congressman Fesses Up on Opposing Immigration Reform")
![1. Torches, Pitchforks, Rumors, and Racism Today has been the first regular work day after the news broke that Brea-Olinda High School math teacher Michelle Johnson, was arrested for allegedly, and let’s remember […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/torches-and-pitchforks-115x115.jpg "Michelle Johnson Case Teaches Lessons about Torches, Pitchforks, Rumors, and Racist Jerks")
![The news vans were out in force yesterday afternoon at Brea-Olinda High School, in the parking lot during the graduation ceremony for the city’s nearby junior high. According to my […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Michelle-Johnson-115x115.jpg "Disturbing Reactions to Michelle Johnson’s Arrest for Sex with a Student")
![It’s Graduation Day for many of our babies (however old they may actually be) in grammar school, so I’m going to submit for you approval a couple of stories from […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Baby-with-fist-success-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Baby Talk")
![Anaheim’s City Council has decided to attempt to preserve the ability of Anaheim Hills to determine the composition of the City Council by adopting the “Santa Ana plan.” The allure […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Santa-Ana-wards-with-A-Amezcua-115x115.jpg "It Is Time for Santa Ana to Lead — So That Anaheim Will Have to Follow")
![. . . Preface First things first. Anaheim’s City Council meeting is today at 5:00. They’ll be considering political reform. (They’re actually starting at 1:00 to go into a closed session, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Disney-check-out-my-military-police-photo-115x115.jpg "Theories of Anaheim, Part 2: Theories of Solutions")
![The key word in this story’s headline is “should.” I won’t say “will” — and I don’t even know that I’d say “might.” But a compromise that leaves Huntington Beach’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Fire-rings-CdM-115x115.jpg "Fire Ring Compromise Should Substantially Increase Newport Beach Property Tax Assessments")
![You’re not likely to understand the video below for two reasons: (1) It’s in Turkish, which you probably don’t speak. (2) It’s one of the gutsiest acts of non-violent civil […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Turkish-Game-Show-Resistance-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: One Turk Over the Line, O Lordy, One Turk Over the Line!")
![Southern California Edison announced this morning that San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), which has been closed since January 2012, will not reopen. The announcement that Unit 2 and Unit 3 […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/San-Onofre-in-bra-115x115.jpg "The SONGS is Over: San Onofre to Shut Down, for Real, for Good")
![In honor of Gov. Rick Perry’s continuing efforts to lure California businesses to Texas, let’s review a newly revealed legal development in the state that I like to think of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Texas-Prostitute-Shooting-115x115.jpg "The Worst Guns, Hookers, and Texas Story That You’ll Read Today")
![If I’m not getting pranked by someone on Facebook — and I could be, and I have to admit that it would be pretty funny if that’s what this is […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Santa-Ana-Register-115x115.jpg "New Weekly, ‘Santa Ana Register,’ to Compete with Internet Publications")
![Scott Lay of Around the Capitol broke the story so far as I know, shortly before 6:00 this evening,: I am hearing from multiple Capitol sources that the FBI has raided […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may-115x115.jpg "Where Sen. Calderon is Concerned, Let the Chips Fall Where They May")
Progressives are afraid of the electorate.