- 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.)
![Gather round children, your bellies full of Halloween candy, and as this month of October comes to its close I shall tell you a truly horrifying tale — a take […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Pumpkin-Ivy-Crop-115x115.jpg "Scaring Off Eligible Voters: A Cautionary Halloween Tale of Voter ID Laws")
![[Disclosure: This story is mostly about me and my experiences with my State Senate campaign — so if you’re not interested in that, stop reading now. You have been warned. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Diamond-Campaign-Sign-PNG-115x115.png "This Shall Be a Sign")
![Two bad Gary DeLong stories are out today — one tip from our alert reader Josh and one from Martin Wisckol. (And a note to early voters: I still have […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DeLong-Vietnamese-mailer-115x115.jpg "Gary DeLong Denies Being a Climate Denier, but Embraces His Inner McCarthyite")
![I get a lot of press releases. I don’t like printing them “bare,” if I even do so at all. Most of them don’t especially move me. Sometimes I work […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Jay-Chen-Latino-rally-115x115.jpg "Everyone Loves a Winner — y Todos Saben que Jay Chen es un Ganador!")
![I don’t write much about politics in my hometown of Brea. Partly this is because Fullerton, 1/3 of a mile south of my home, is really really interesting. But partially it’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Zombies-115x115.jpg "No on Brea’s T and U and V. Recommendations for the Greatest City of the Mall.")
![Hurricane Sandy This photo of Hurricane Sandy was taken at about noon Eastern Time today, October 28, 2012. An online friend of mine, posting in Daily Kos, has this to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Hurricane-Sandy-satellite-10-28-115x115.jpg "Hurricane Sandy, NWS, FEMA, Climate Change — and Mitt Romney")
![Orange Juice Blog, I have failed you this time — but now I’m going to try to undo some of the damage. Former Assembly candidate John MacMurray of La Habra […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Gilliard-Gallery-115x115.jpg "Seems You Can’t Talk about Racist Politics in OC without Mentioning Dave Gilliard")
![Desperate Ed Royce has a new mailer out — and in it, he’s going full-bore racist against his opponent Jay Chen. Read through the description of the mailer, but don’t […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Royce-anti-Shaw-mailer-full-inside-600px-115x115.jpg "Desperate Ed Royce, Already a Shameless Liar, Now Goes FULL-BORE RACIST")
![A report says that Tom did nothing wrong. Good, presuming that it’s true! With so much other stuff going on right now, we’re not going to talk about this now […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Daly-pretty-fly-for-a-white-guy-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Daly Exonerated, Pretty Fly for a White Guy!")
![It ended Monday night. As of midnight, the final playing field within the county, when it came to voter registration, was set. There may be few surprises on the map. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Orange-County-Map-Political-Geography-115x115.png "Where You Stand and Where You Sleep: Registration Complete, a Look at 2012 OC Political Geography")
![The 47th Congressional district race between Sen. Alan Lowenthal and Long Beach City Councilman Gary DeLong is now spinning into new heights of craziness. According to today’s OC Weekly: “A […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DeLong-as-Chimney-Sweep-115x115.jpg "Gary DeLong Claims Credit for Another Man’s Record of Cleaning the Environment")
![President Bill Clinton to Endorse Southern California Democratic Candidates For Congress at UC Irvine ~Keynote “California’s Voice” Rally~ Irvine, CA — On Tuesday October 23, President Bill Clinton will attend a “California’s Voice” rally at UC […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Lowenthal-Clinton-115x115.jpg "Big Dog Comes to Irvine: Clinton to Endorse Alan Lowenthal, 4 Others, for Congress")
![Vern and I were each going to do our separate stories before today’s either climactic or anti-climactic OCTA Board meeting. His is out; here’s mine, scheduled for 5 a.m. What […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/OCTA-meeting-9-24-crop-600px-115x115.jpg "OCTA Board’s 405 Toll Road Arguments: A Review and Refresher Course")
![This is incredible. From (with some reformatting) a Facebook post Costa Mesa’s valiant anti-Charter fighter Greg Ridge: I wonder if these people from outside Costa Mesa know they are being […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Indonesian-kids-on-Internet-115x115.jpg "“The Year of Liking Dangerously”: Costa Mesa Charterites Outsource Astroturfing to Indonesia")
Footage of IRVINE’s rcv agenda item last Tuesday https://irvine.granicus.com/player/clip/7324?view_id=68&redirect=true