- 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.)
![Someday even you, Dear Reader, may find yourself hounded by R. Scott Moxley or someone like him. What’s it like when he comes after you? Is is like being Nixon […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Octomom-with-six-babies-115x115.jpg "Les Miserables E-Mails: The Annotated Moxley-Diamond Conversation on SD-29")
![1. No Rest for the Wicked The jihad by the OC Weekly’s R. Scott Moxley against Larry Agran and all (well, many) associated with him continues in both print and pixels […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Tony-Rackauckas-with-fists-115x115.jpg "An Unbalanced Toxic Moxley Take on Rackauckas, Forde, and the Very Hated Agran")
![I had better start, I realize, by disavowing both the title and subtitle above. Democratic Campaign Treasurer Kinde Durkee — who just accepted a sentence of 8 years and a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Kinde-Durkee-115x115.jpg "Sympathy for the Durkee: “Just a Gal Who Cain’t Say No”")
![Hello, OJ readers. I’d like to introduce you to a delicious time-waster, if you’re of a certain bent. Meet the final version of the 2012 General Election Orange County Statement […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/AD-65-results-by-district-115x115.jpg "Reviewing AD-65 and “West Central” Orange County (Including a Repost from June 8!)")
![They don’t come much closer than the Fullerton City Council election — a 29 vote margin — but now it’s over. Presuming (and it’s a pretty fair presumption) that Lucinda […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Diddy-Car-Crash-115x115.jpg "That Was a Close One — But It’s All Over Now! No Recount in Fullerton!")
![The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal today of a case involved prosecution under an Illinois law that made it felonious eavesdropping to audio record police acting in public without […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/recording-police-115x115.jpg "Do You Have a First Amendment Right to Record Police Without Their Permission?")
![[Editor’s Note: I’m reposting with permission this excellent essay from California environmentalist RL Miller, which was initially posted at Daily Kos, on bad reporting in the LA Times about solar power. It should be […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/RLMiller-photo-115x115.jpg "Sun Burned: Does the LA Times Have the Most Anti-Solar Power Reporter in the Mainstream Media?")
![Weird things are still happening in the wake of Chris Norby’s upset defeat by Fullerton Mayor Sharon Quirk-Silva in the 65th Assembly District race in the Nov. 6 general election. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Clerk-Recorder-Archives-Norby-Daly-115x115.jpg "Norby as County Clerk-Recorder? Hang On — First, Let’s See That Police Report")
![My friend Kenneth Bernstein from Virginia has the self-appointed job of reading the Washington Post opinion page early each morning and alerting hundreds of us when it publishes something that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/manual-labor-adapted-115x115.jpg "Why Raising the Social Security Retirement Age is Stupid, Clueless, and Cruel")
![The invisible hand of free market is, in theory, supposed to bring people what it wants, right? If there’s a market niche to be filled, the Hand will fill it. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Sandra-Fluke-fiance-at-Clinton-UCI-Event-600pxw-115x115.jpg "Progressive Talk KTLK-1150’s West Coast Siblings are Being Strangled in their Beds")
![The elections are over. Shopping season begins in earnest. Don’t shop in person today because it means that whoever you bought from made their retail employees work on Thanksgiving. It’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/1000-Hand-Dance-115x115.jpg "Long Weekend Open Thread — A Thousand Hands")
![1. Loving Fred Karger The OC Weekly, by which in this instance I mean R. Scott Moxley (and, when forced to have Moxley’s back, a seemingly vague and diffident but […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Karger-revolving-door-ad-115x115.jpg "Fred Karger’s Claim to Infamy: His Generally Forgotten Role in the Willie Horton Ads")
![As someone who loves words, I try to keep up with the “Lexicon Valley” podcasts and articles at Slate.com — and today they wheel out a good one for OC […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/What-does-illegal-look-like-115x115.jpg "Between “Illegal Aliens” and “Undocumented Workers”: the Political Language of Immigration")
![Here’s what I learned from my visit to the Registrar of Voters office today: (1) The vote is now all substantially counted. It’s all over but the clean up. There […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Vote-totals-Fullerton-11-19-115x115.jpg "Fullerton Council: We Don’t Yet Know Who Won, But We Know Who’d Pay for a Recount")
Footage of IRVINE’s rcv agenda item last Tuesday https://irvine.granicus.com/player/clip/7324?view_id=68&redirect=true