- 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.)
![In what looks like a political attack coordinated with his favored Assembly candidate Chris Norby, FFFF honcho Tony Bushala accused Norby’s opponent Sharon Quirk-Silva of not attending a candidate forum […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Norby-sideways-115x115.png "FFFFwads Offer Unsourced Attack on Quirk-Silva, Accuse Her of “Penus Envy” [sic]")
![[Senator McGovern died today, Oct. 21. Hail and farewell. Our best wishes go out to all who loved him. — GAD] George McGovern — former U.S. Senator from South […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/McGovern-flag2-115x115.jpg "George McGovern is Dying (Update 10/21 — Ave Atque Vale. It is finished.)")
![There’s a video out now of a campaign event where Barack Obama defines the term “Romnesia.” Here’s the link. Don’t click it yet. (Note: this is as of 2:10 p.m. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Josh-Romney-McKayla-115x115.png "Clicking on This Video May Break Your Computer")
![OC has got John Campbell in Congress. We’ve got Dana Rohrabacher. We’ve got (for now, at least) Ed Royce. But hard as it may be to believe, the worst Congressperson […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Issa-Mad-115x115.jpg "IssaLeaks: Aspiring OC Pol Leaks Names of Cooperative Libyans Fast & Furiously")
![“Saturday October 20 , 2012: OSA 1 Year Occuversary Extravaganza” — or so they want you to think! I’m not quite sure whether or not the plans for Occupy Santa Ana’s anniversary […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Necessity-Village-telethon-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Occupy Santa Ana Anniversary Tomorrow Evening!")
![1. Hearing Time is Here Today, Oct. 19, at 9:30 a.m., is when a Sacramento court will consider Steve Young’s complaint that his opponent in the 37th State Senate District […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Mimi-forked-tongue-115x115.jpg "It’s Sham Residence Hearing Day! Is Mimi Walters More Like a Canadian or a Corpse?")
![Desperate Ed Royce has been coming out with what seems like one mailer for every day that mail gets delivered. The effects of supersaturating voters like this will be the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Royce-3-Reasons-3-115x115.jpg "Desperate Ed Royce’s Mailer on Economic Policy is a Binder Full of Lies!")
![Well, it’s not like Long Beach’s Belmont Shore is near the water anyway …. Yep, seriously: here is CA-47 candidate Gary DeLong — AND NOT AN ACTOR PRETENDING TO BE HIM […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Cambodia-flooding-115x115.jpg "Stupid Candidate Tricks: Gary DeLong Denies Science of Climate Change. On video.")
![I hadn’t heard about this until I just saw Fullerton City Council Candidate Jan Flory’s post on Facebook, so I’m going to quote it in full before getting to my […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Water-tax-money-115x115.jpg "In Post-Midnight Water Tax Vote, Fullerton Council Pushes City Closer to Bankruptcy")
![A friend passes on an e-mail from the California Clean Money Campaign. What caught my eye, in its review of the fates of the three bills it discusses — two […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Lou-Correa-liquified-smile-115x115.jpg "Giving Lou His Due: Correa Introduces a Good Bill; Now Gov. Brown Has Signed It")
![We had a pretty good Liveblog for the first Presidential debate — even though (or perhaps especially because) I (Greg) was not there — so we’re going to try it […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Debate-2-Obama-Romney-115x115.jpg "Presidential Debate Liveblog 2")
![Two weeks ago, Santa Ana’s proposed “Sunshine Ordinance” passed its first reading, with the Four Rebellious Barons prevailing over Prince Mayor Pulido and his two remaining supporters on City Council, Republican Carlos […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Sunshine-Santa-Ana-115x115.jpg "“Good Day, Sunshine!” Santa Ana’s Sunshine Ordinance Rises Early, Still Passes")
![I’ve talked to enough of you about politics this year that I know where you’re coming from. Fine — you don’t like either Obama or Romney, Democrats or Republicans. You’re […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Poll-monitors-115x115.jpg "Election Related Activism for Those with Contempt for Candidates")
![Fifty-two weeks ago today, on Saturday, October 15, a bunch of activists who had been meeting for the previous couple of weeks put into motion their plan to establish a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Occupy-OC-anniversary-poster-115x115.jpg "Occupy OC Celebrates 1st Anniversary at Irvine’s Bill Barber Park, Sunday 10/14, 1-5 p.m.")
Footage of IRVINE’s rcv agenda item last Tuesday https://irvine.granicus.com/player/clip/7324?view_id=68&redirect=true