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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.)
![[Note: if you just want to take part in the contest without reading the rest of this, scroll down to the section in purple.] Laguna Beach’s Fred Karger, who ran […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fred-Who-115x115.jpg "Contest: For What Was Fred Karger Most Famous Even Before Coming Out of the Closet?")
![A lot of the Facebook discussion I’ve seen on Gaza is overly simplistic. It leads to a conclusion I favor — Israel has to stand down — but taking a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2012_Israel_Gaza-115x115.jpg "The Rockets’ Red Glare: Gaza and Israel, before the Coming Invasion")
![The art of the Weekend Open Thread in part involves picking up ideas that would have made good posts had one decided to put the effort into them — and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Dana-kisses-Rhonda-with-triplets-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread — “He Blinded __ ____ Science”")
![It’s over. Northwest Orange County has given the Democrats a legislative supermajority in the State Assembly to go along with the one in the State Senate. Chris Norby, e-mailing from […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Quirk-Silva-Norby-AD65-115x115.jpg "Norby Concedes; Quirk-Silva Accedes; Northwest OC Politics Proceeds")
![Jan Flory is up by four votes over Travis Kiger in the just-released figures. (We’re not commenting on the “number of the beast” aspects of Travis’s total — which will […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Four-hand-115x115.png "Today’s Fullerton City Council Election Margin Is Brought to You by the Number 4")
![This will be the first part of a series on why the California Democratic Party, its individual members, its caucuses, and groups and individuals sympathetic to it, make a huge […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Picking-oranges-115x115.jpg "State Democrats Fail by Not Picking Low-Hanging Orange County Voters: Prop 30")
![However pissed off you may be about the results of last week’s Presidential election, you are less pissed off than libertarian firebrand and consummate Islamaphobe Eric Dondero. He is seriously […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Dondero-sponge-115x115.jpg "Local Libertarians, It Looks Like You Might Have to Up Your Game")
![The ostensible argument against Prop 37, which would have required labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), was that it was not well written. (Funny, that didn’t seem to hurt Prop […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Tomatoes-Dems-115x115.jpg "How to Fix the Problems With Prop 37 Without Another Initiative Battle")
![This is a map of the new House of Representatives by district. The current breakdown is 234 Republicans to 194 Democrats, but Democrats currently lead in all of the seven […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2012-Election-Results-by-CD-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Into the Weeds")
![I think that even Obama’s detractors might want to see this one. I like this guy. I think he’s going places. (Also note: no teleprompter.) Here’s some tidbits from a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Obama-thanking-volunteers-115x115.jpg "Tears in Chicago: Barack Obama Emotionally Tells Campaign Volunteers His Story")
![To all the young people I met who volunteered for Jay Chen’s campaign: You were awesome. (In fact, I’m willing to be that you still are, and will continue to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Jay-Chen-volunteers-photo-115x115.jpg "An Open Letter to Jay Chen’s Young Campaign Workers")
![I don’t know how much coverage this is getting in the traditional media, but you — yes, you, reading this right now — have got to read the original story in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Romney-All-Your-Wealth-115x115.jpg "Romney Donors Infuriated That Romney Lied to Them to Raise Campaign Money")
![Thank you, women and minority voters. You’ve protected the Constitution. Without you, we’d be sunk. Luckily for Democrats, women are the majority and the proportion of minority voters is rising. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/CNN-Exit-Polls-President-2012-115x115.png "Thank You, Women and Minority Voters")
![The great orator Martin Luther King Jr. famously said these words of comfort for those in the midst of long struggles: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Voting-lines-Florida-2012-115x115.jpg "The Long Arc of the Moral Universe Does Not Bend Towards Justice Without Our Pressure.")
Footage of IRVINE’s rcv agenda item last Tuesday https://irvine.granicus.com/player/clip/7324?view_id=68&redirect=true