- Description
- 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.)
![This story is just breaking, a few minutes ago, on Facebook. Gus Ayer, former Mayor of Fountain Valley and a giant of Orange County progressive and environmental politics, has died. He […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Gus-Ayer-with-Obama-115x115.jpg "Gus Ayer, Environmental Hero and Political Mastermind, Has Died")
![1. A Search for Meanings I went hunting in on the Internet today, the day that Christopher Dorner has apparently died, looking for meaning — specifically, for the meaning of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Mandrells-115x115.jpg "Pieces of a Mandrel: Will it End Now That It’s Over, or Will We See Dornerites?")
![… of his assholes. Plural. (I just didn’t want to put that in the story title.) And I don’t mean a body part. And these assholes are people — paparazzi, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Roseanne-DJ-and-Gordon-Levitt-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Shows the World His Video of, His Uh….r")
![Count me among those who have been impressed by Garden Grove Unified School District Board Member Bao Nguyen over the past few years. Disregarding any political cost, he spearheaded the drive […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Bao-Nguyen-speaks-on-Tet-Parade-115x115.jpg "Garden Grove School Board: ‘We Want No Part of a Discriminatory Tet Parade’!")
![We recently had our own little controversy in Orange County at the beginning of winter about newly discovered bones of some apparent historical value, in which some commentary suggested that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Richard-III-bones-115x115.jpg "Facial Reconstructions Gives Us Clearer Picture of Richard III")
![. [Update: Voice of OC has more at this link, including news of a planned protest today for 3 p.m. at the Westminster offices of parade organizers at 14550 Magnolia St. It would be […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Tet-LGBT-115x115.jpg "Tet Offended? OC Viets Want Little Saigon Parade to Discriminate Against LGBTs")
![[While I’m relatively scarce around these parts for the next 2-3 weeks due to a trial, I will occasionally post articles that I have permission to republish and that seem […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/tooth-extraction-115x115.jpg "“Don’t Let Them Pull Out Your Teeth” (by James Hepburn)")
![If you don’t find at least five useful suggestions out of this list of 50 — well, I’m just not going to finish that sentence. Credit to a site called […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Life-hacking-Tangled-cords-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Life Hacking")
![As readers may recall, as a member of the Democratic Party of Orange County I supported my friend Jeff LeTourneau for DPOC Chair earlier this month. No regrets there, but […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Immigration-GOP-115x115.jpg "OCGOP, the Ball is in Your Court on Immigration Reform!")
![We like to consider ourselves to be a society that follows the law. I know: there are lots of reasons to challenge this self-conception — hell, the whole Occupy movement […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/xenophobia-protest-115x115.jpg "Worse Than Xenophobia: Mimi’s Lawlessness")
![BuzzFeed had an article by Alex Klein come out on January 15 entitled “Is Scientology Self-Destructing?” I’ve been out sick recently, so with little to do but sit at the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Scientology-Ideal-Org-in-Santa-Ana-115x115.jpg "Hey, That New Scientology Building in Santa Ana Just Made the News!")
![That which is seen out of the corner of your eye cannot be unseen out of the corner of your eye. Seriously, try this — and welcome to Toon Town. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ashley-Judd-lingerie-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Your Peripheral Vision is Mocking You")
![I don’t know much about the New Leaders Council, which since 2008 has sponsored national “40 Under 40 Leadership Awards” (see here for this year’s winners across the country), but […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Faisal-Qazi-115x115.jpg "Faisal Qazi and Nick Anas Win “40 Under 40” Leadership Awards")
![. . . My wife is not in the habit of bringing home copies of the OC Weekly to show me. As I recall, it has happened exactly twice — once […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/OC-Weekly-KKK-Kover-115x115.jpg "No, Racism Notwithstanding, We Do Not Actually Live in Freaking “Ku Klux Kounty”")
Footage of IRVINE’s rcv agenda item last Tuesday https://irvine.granicus.com/player/clip/7324?view_id=68&redirect=true