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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.)
![Various religious people are upset today because Google put Cesar Chavez’s photo, on what would have been his 86th birthday, onto its iconic “Google Doodle.” They think that the Google […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Cesar-Chavez-Jesus-Google-Doodle-115x115.jpg "Christ on a Doodle, Christian Critics of Google: Render Unto Cesar What Is Cesar’s!")
![Scott Lay of The Nooner compiled a chart of the largest and smallest increases in voter registration between when registration closed for last June’s primary and last month — and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Holi-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Scope of Neal Kelley’s Swath of Destruction Now Known")
![Friend of the show <strike>Kimberly Wolfe<strike> Matt Leslie writes in The Fullerton Rag that Fullerton’s Hunt Library branch, which serves an area of the city (near Commonwealth and Brookhurst) that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Hunt-Library-115x115.jpg "Fullerton’s Hunt Library Branch Closes — but What’s This About ‘Homeless from Anaheim’?")
![Do you want to know why I worry far, far, far, far less about the influence of unions in politics than about anti-union actions? It’s because I don’t want […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Michigan-protesters-115x115.jpg "Day of Wrecking: Michigan Busts Both Unions and Democracy to Boost Corporations")
![We need to talk about the events in the Supreme Court (and on the streets and on Facebook) this week — and thanks to singer Katie Goodman and her friends, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flying-spaghetti-monster-pair-115x115.jpg "We Need an Open Thread to Discuss GLBT Things This Week")
![All hands on deck! Soaky is going hunting for seal tonight — and only you can stop him! Soaky — the impish water drop representing the backers of the Poseidon […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Soaky-Goes-Seal-Hunting-115x115.jpg "Seal Beach Council Prepares Sneak Attack Vote TONIGHT to Approve Poseidon Contract")
![1. How I Somehow Managed to Avoid Arrest. Reports of my almost being arrested yesterday at Congressman Ed Royce’s “Women’s Conference” have been highly exaggerated. I was in little or no […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Ed-Royce-in-defensive-crouch-115x115.jpg "Who Was Lying — Ed Royce’s Staffer Young Kim or His DC Chief of Staff Amy Porter?")
![For now, I just want to post some captioned photos from today’s 5th Annual Representative Ed Royce’s Women’s Conference at the Cal State Fullerton campus. The full story will take […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Royces-wife-speaks-1-115x115.jpg "Pictures from an Exploitation: Royce’s Women’s Conference Almost Draws a Crowd")
![Today, brothers and sisters of the Juice, we’re going to talk about the cannabis biz, aka the “cannabiz.” (And yes, www.canna.biz is taken; don’t even bother. I looked it up.) […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Obama-toking-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: A Potent Problem for Cannabiz Makes a Case for Bud Lite")
![Set your irony deflectors on “maximum,” everyone! Rep. “Desperate Ed” Royce is trying to shore up his reputation with the wimmenfolk again, a month after trying to amend the “Violence […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Royce-talking-to-women-115x115.jpg "It’s That Time of Year Again, When Rep. Ed Royce Gives Women a Nice Massage")
![(1) No place to sleep: From the Homeless Providers Committee via Occupy Santa Ana: We regret to announce the closure of the Cold-Weather Season for the ARMORY EMERGENCY SHELTERS The […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Homeless-Vets-115x115.jpg "Homelessness: A Juxtaposition of Three Stories")
![. I’ve tried without real success to convey to people living pretty much anywhere else in the country other than here what it’s like to live in a county with […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Belinda-Carlisle-115x115.jpg "Orange County’s “Alt”-Weekly Builds Spirit and Arms Itself with New Witticisms")
![The best defense of the sympathetic network news coverage of the Steubenville high school football team rapists whose conviction was announced yesterday is: weak. It’s very weak — and the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Candy-Crowley-115x115.jpg "The Best Defense of the Sympathetic News Coverage of the Steubenville Rapists")
![Let’s say that we were constructing a new large city in Orange County from scratch. How would we want it to be governed? Don’t answer in the abstract; let’s take […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Nuevo-Viejo-component-areas-115x115.jpg "Meet Nuevo Viejo! A Case Study in the Benefits of Voting by District.")
"Something about it just doesn't make me feel experienced and the smartest guy in the room."