- 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.)
![Some people assert that the Tea Party — and especially its leading institutional proponent, FreedomWorks — is an astroturf (aka “artificial grassroots) movement devoted to doing the bidding of its […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Kibbee-and-bits-115x115.jpg "If We’re Going to Discuss the ‘Tea Party,’ Let’s Start Right Here")
![By now you’ve either opened your presents for the year or you’re a sadist or a masochist. So that leads to a couple of questions: What’s the best present you […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Seven-Paltrow-box-115x115.jpg "‘Nothing Like the Presents’ Holiday Open Thread")
![The Mayan apocalypse within our political culture continues unabated as this meteor hurtles towards our collective sensibilities, stunning us with its awesome terribleness. From the Boston Globe, here’s Tagg Romney […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Romney-of-Assisi-115x115.jpg "Mitt Romney Was Too Humble to Ever Really Want to Be President, and Other Tales")
![If you use Facebook but haven’t yet seen this graphic there, you need a better set of friends. So long as we’re talking about coerced rather than voluntary action, I think […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Equality-to-Liberals-and-Conservatives1-115x115.png "Equality Holidays Open Thread – Updated with KD Lang’s Jingle Bell Rock!")
![As you may know, tomorrow at 3:12 a.m. (i.e., Friday December 21 at 11.12 a.m. GMT) is the moment of the winter solstice. The autumn of 2012 ends, the existence […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Maya-Calendar-115x115.jpg "Happy 14th B’ak’tun! Tell Us Your New B’ak’tun Resolutions!")
![I’m reaching out to our gun-rights advocates here, because I think you have some things to teach those people who aren’t. The reverse is also going to be true, but […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Scarborough-Bloomberg-115x115.jpg "If Newtown “Changed Everything” So That Now We Can Talk, Let’s Define Our Terms")
![Friend of the show Leif Christian alerts us to an essay by Mike Conczal in Dissent that seems like a perfect topic for the Orange County political intelligensia: Imagine there was […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/library-115x115.jpg "If They Had Never Invented the Public Library …")
![I’m revising this post that was intended as a place for people to give their own responses, as Inge’s story seems to satisfy that function. The new material starts after […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Obama-School-Shooting-2-115x115.jpg "Sandy Hook Shooting: Pray or Don’t, What We Need is Commitment to Self-Sacrifice")
![. I had almost forgotten that Anaheim’s subsidy of $158 million in future bed tax receipts to Developer Bill O’Connell, who wants to build two hotels in the city’s GardenWalk area, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Anaheim-Let-People-Vote-115x115.jpg "Anaheist: Judge Says GardenWalk Giveaway Needs Redo; Next, Much Ado about Redo")
![As I noted here last week, one reason that I decided not to pull out all of the stops with my State Senate campaign (going from a large national fundraising […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Chris-Kelly-between-Jada-Pinkett-and-Daphne-Phung-115x115.jpg "My “Sort-of Debate” with Daphne Phung Over Prop 35, the Human Trafficking Initiative")
![One of the people I knew during my legal career in New York through my online political blogging activities was A. Whitney Brown, a writer and supporting cast member on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Carolyn-Wonderland-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: A. Whitney Brown’s Wife is a Blues Goddess")
![It was civil. It was even classy. The first meeting of the Fullerton City Council last Tuesday night, before a packed and apparently mostly appreciative Council chambers, went abnormally (compared […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Fullerton-City-Council-for-2013-14-600px-115x115.jpg "Fullerton Settles into (Relative) Civility with Class")
![Because a hooded sweatshirt, which according to the Orange Juice Blog’s sources is now to be referred to as a “hodie” — correction, “hoodie” (yes, all right, that does make more […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Hoodies-copy-115x115.jpg "Hyping Hoodies for the Homeless")
![As the first line in defense to my story presenting my entire pre-election e-mail exchange with Scott Moxley is to tell people not to read it, I realize that I’ve […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Greg-Diamond-with-Sutter-Brown-115x115.jpg "I Concede Victory to Bob Huff (My Senate Post-Mortem, Without the E-mails)")
Footage of IRVINE’s rcv agenda item last Tuesday https://irvine.granicus.com/player/clip/7324?view_id=68&redirect=true