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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, yes, we will getting back to local, state, and national politics soon enough — just gotta finish a filing for tomorrow — but in the meantime this really interesting […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/werewolf-movie-with-pringle-115x115.jpg "Good News for Some of You: Werewolf Erotica Judged Not Intrinsically Obscene or Unfit for California Prisoners")
![The redoubtable Adam E. over at our county’s emerging “newspaper of record” Voice of OC has a story out today that ties together two persistent concerns here at OJB — “fracking” and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Pringling-and-Fracking-115x115.jpg "Fracking and Pringling: Scourges of OC’s Environment")
![A pair of stories from my old friend and colleague Elie Mystal, who blogs for the piquant and cheeky (and sometimes righteously furious) legal website “Above the Law.” Precipitating story […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Sociopaths-115x115.jpg "A Lighthearted Look at Sociopaths-at-Law (and a Sondheim Recommendation)")
![(I’m working on some serious political stories right now, but since Vern is taking over the Weekend Open Thread this week for a higher purpose (seriously, it is!), I’m converting […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/El-Fortin-food-115x115.jpg "Is ‘Mapola’ Crapola? Google Maps Ups the Ante for Commercial Visibility")
![I had an argument with my old friend D’Marie Mulattieri — one of the local organizers of last week’s anti-Monsanto GMO rally, though I met her through Occupy Orange County — in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Blindfolded-Ben-Franklin-with-elephant-115x115.jpg "DISCLOSE Act Passes State Senate, 28-11; 27 Yes Votes from Dems. ‘Bipartisan’? Bull!")
![Fans of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his berserker approach to immigration law enforcement, you had a bad day in court last Friday: Sheriff Joe’s department in Maricopa County, Arizona was […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Sloppy-Joe-Arpaio-115x115.jpg "‘Sloppy, Joe’: Sheriff Arpaio Loses Big Immigration-Related Racial Discrimination Case")
![. . . [part two of this essay is here] 1. The Wonderful World of Disney Let’s start with Disneyland. In discussing contemporary Anaheim, we barely have a choice […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Anaheim-Theories-115x115.jpg "Theories of Anaheim, Part 1: Theories of Cause")
![“Hello? Anaheim Police Department? I’d like to file a Missing Policy Report. Yes, I’ll hold.” [The hold music is from Anaheim’s Gwen Stefani. Nice touch! Except that it’s “Hollaback Girl.” Need […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Eastman-throws-etiquette-book-115x115.jpg "Has Gail Eastman’s Threat to Smack Speakers to Anaheim Council for Incivility GONE MISSING?")
![UPDATE, Wednesday May 29: Sometime on Tuesday, The Register did report on the rally, with photos provided by rally organizer D’Marie Mulattieri. The paragraphs not behind the paywall: Monsanto protests draws […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Monsanto-Gothic-115x115.jpg "Monsanto March in Laguna Beach: “Why Isn’t This in the OC Register?”, He Asked, Rhetorically")
![Here’s a commentary long and involved and fiery enough that it may last you through the holiday weekend. Many women (and plenty of men) have been feeling down at the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/LA-Mayoral-Vote-Graphic1-115x115.jpg "A Greueling Race: I’m Not Ready to Make Nice after Vicious L.A. Mayoral Election")
![Hey, it’s a long weekend — let’s break out the Open Thread early! I keep some articles around to use in an Open Thread when space allows. This one is […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Jetpack-North-by-Nortwest-Mt-Rushmore-Cliff-115x115.jpg "Long Weekend Open Thread: “The New American Sadism”")
![Happy Harvey Milk Day! How fitting that I, as Milk used to say in his speeches, am here to recruit you! The Boy Scouts of America will be voting on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Boy-Scouts-115x115.jpg "Be Prepared … to Take Two Minutes Today, Harvey Milk Day, to Lobby the Boy Scouts")
![This is great. You’ve probably seen it by now, but when the alien life forms unearth and decode the Orange Juice Blog archive, we want to make sure that they […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Space-Oddity-still-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: ‘Space Oddity’ Oddity from Space")
![That’s right, I’m willing, right here and now, to help Tom Daly, of whom I have been critical, burnish his reputation in the Assembly. Or … not. The background is […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Anaheim-Ducks-goalie-115x115.jpg "“Help Me, Honda; Help, Help Me, Honda” — A Chance for Tom Daly to Look Good")
Progressives are afraid of the electorate.