- 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.)
![Many of you will have seen this graphic from the Wall Street Journal that made the rounds of the Internet mid-last week, but many of you won’t have seen it […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/WSJ-Sad-Wealthy-People-Tax-Increase-115x115.jpg "Depicting the Abject Misery of the Top 3% That Face Higher Federal Income Taxes")
![As revealed on this website: a static video featuring The Ronettes singing “Baby I Love You” — but without Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound surrounding them. Wall of Sound: good, bad, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ronettes-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread — Tear Down This Wall of Sound!")
![Inge and I have just be wracking our brains over e-mails to recall where I had posted this. We can’t find the post — but she was able to find […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Pulp-Fiction-Diner-Scene-115x115.jpg "“If I Only Had a Gun” Video Experiment from ABC’s 20/20 is Something to See")
![Planned Parenthood has announced its plan to discard the term “pro-choice.” I don’t think that it’s especially controversial that the anti-abortion side of the argument has had the better of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Planned-Parenthood-march-115x115.jpg "If Planned Parenthood Doesn’t Want to Call Me ‘Pro-Choice,’ Call Me ‘Pro-Real-Life’")
![Look at the photo, then answer the poll in the comments with the appropriate letter. You can leave an explanation for your guess if you’d like — unless you know […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Czech-tattooed-candidate-Vladimir-Franz-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Tattoo You and a Poll Too")
![I have SO not asked for permission to write this one — and I’m sorry (but not entirely sorry) if the praise embarrasses its subject. As you may know, Obama’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Sarah-Halverson-115x115.jpg "Let’s Ask Obama to Invite Rev. Sarah Halverson to Do the Inauguration Benediction!")
![Here’s a problem with people constantly calling President Obama, pretty implausibly, a “dictator”: it pisses kerosene and craps kindling right into the smoldering tinder of this guy’s brain. And so […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Gun-Guy-Will-Fire-First-Shot-in-Civil-War-115x115.jpg "I Condemn This Assboil James Yeager’s Comments. How About You, Gun Owners?")
![Here are three things you should know about the U.S. Department of Energy’s “Solar Decathlon“: First, it’s spelled “Decathlon,” with no second “a,” so stop doing that. Second, its a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Australia-weather-map-+-Choi1-115x115.jpg "Choi Power Deployed at Possible Expense of Solar Power")
![As I’ve written before, I consider Henry Vandermeir, Jeff LeTourneau’s competition for the position of Chair of the Democratic Party of Orange County (DPOC), to be one of our best […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/FPPC-seal-115x115.jpg "DPOC Chair Election Week: 2. Henry Vandermeir’s Dual Roles at DPOC and DFOC")
![A week from tonight, the 60 or so voting members of the Democratic Party of Orange County will gather (along with many of their alternates, interested onlookers, and the local […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Henry-and-Jeff-115x115.jpg "DPOC Chair Election Week: 1. The Background of the Race")
![I think of Huell Howser often when working on Orange Juice Blog, because based on the search results we get from the Intertubes, interest in him rarely wanes for long. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Huell-Howser-Milk-Bottle-115x115.jpg "Huell and Cry: Huell Howser, the Docent of ‘California’s Gold’, Has Died at 67")
![I found something sort of cool that I thought worth sharing in this weekend’s (belated) Open Thread. Pretending that you haven’t already seen the headline above, see if you can […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/X-Ray-of-OC-Population-tilted-to-rectangle-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread (Belated): A Map of OC’s Population in Just the Dots")
![I don’t know whether Beth Krom intended this to be an open letter or just something sent out to select supporters, but I don’t think that this is the sort […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Krom-Save-Great-Park-115x115.jpg "Beth Krom Sounds the Alarm Regarding the Razing of the Great Park")
![All years probably qualify as wild ones in a county of 3 million people, but 2012 fit that bill especially well. Rather than a “best of ” list, though — […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Grudge-2013-115x115.jpg "20 Politically Related Orange County Grudges to Retain Beyond 2012")
Footage of IRVINE’s rcv agenda item last Tuesday https://irvine.granicus.com/player/clip/7324?view_id=68&redirect=true