- 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.)
![Something pretty cool is going on right now — and most of you, unlike poor beleaguered high school students, are probably old enough to appreciate it, because in my opinion […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/moby-dick-with-earphones-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread! You should be doing this: the Moby-Dick ‘Big Read’")
![I was up early this morning. On Facebook, I saw that Pam Keller was asking who had received a robocall yesterday that had been put out by the police and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Wilhite-robocall-video-115x115.jpg "FPOA and Firefighter PACs Slam Kiger & Whitaker in Robocall on DUI Checkpoints")
![OK, Irvine residents — can you check in and tell me if this was really the sort of madness that it seems? [NOTE: See corrections in red.] Here’s what I […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Choi-Agran-115x115.jpg "Choi Gevalt! Agran Debates an Empty Chair on a Surprisingly Choi-less Irvine Evening")
![Orange County Democracy This is the long-delayed* story about Chris Norby that I have not wanted to write. Within it, I acknowledge rumors that I heard about Assemblyman Chris Norby […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Norby-close-up-film-grain-115x115.jpg "Norby and His Protectors: Why I Filed a Public Records Request about His Actions")
![A link in FFFF sent me hurtling to Jan Flory’s Facebook page, where I found a longish post of her worth reprinting in full — and without permission, either, because […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Flory-Ad-green-115x115.jpg "A Huge Embarrassment for Jan Flory!!! Or Maybe Not. (Shawn Nelson, pls explain!)")
![This Thursday night <wink!,>Joe Biden will <wink!>, for the second straight election <wink!>, debate an attractive young Republican Vice-Presidential candidate who is physically fit, morally censorious, and a complete destructive […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Watch-Party-115x115.jpg "Here are Two VP Debate Watch Parties — Where’s Yours? (or … OJB Liveblog?)")
![Two energy generation stories today! (1) SAN ONOFRE MEETING: Steve Young’s Campaign Manager Marion Pack has been spreading the word — a next Tuesday will bring a chance for activists to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/San-Onofre-scene-115x115.jpg "San Onofre Meeting Oct. 9; Reopening Request Submitted")
![And again — R. Scott Moxley comes out with another column responding to my reply (which, allegedly, “no one read”) to his first column trashing me for, uh, being a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Journalist-115x115.jpg "Moxley’s Apparent Brain Damage Worsening; Professionalism Circling the Drain")
![I don’t recall seeing it remarked upon before, but three of the seven Democratic Congressional candidates running in Orange County this year are Asian-American. (Exclude Linda Sanchez, who’s territory is limited […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Jay-Chen-closet-commie-sign-600px-115x115.jpg "Can OC’s Three Asian-American Congressional Candidates Finally Register Asian Voters?")
![This will boggle your brain: Part 2 apparently is due to arrive next week. Meanwhile, this here is your Weekend Open Thread. Talk about whatever you’d like, within reason and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Hexaflexagon-from-Wikipedia-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread Celebrates October, Which Is Hexaflexagon Month")
![A Sort of a Coup The Santa Ana Mayoral race is heating up. Since his first election to the position in 1994, Miguel Pulido has never faced a challenge like […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Santa-Ana-City-Council-not-entirely-transparent-115x115.png "Cuidado, Pulido: A ‘No-Nonsense’ Mayor, Maybe — But How About ‘No Shenanigans’?")
![Well now. Though I’d planned on working on other things tonight, mostly this new Facebook page of mine agitating for people to do something about an actual scandal (which I welcome […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Moxley-on-Greg-Diamond-115x115.jpg "Apparently, I Somehow Broke Poor R. Scott Moxley’s Brain and Left Him Gibbering")
![For those who think that Mimi Walters could not possibly get into trouble over a little trifle like running for office based on a sham residence, I give you today’s news […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Richard-Alarcon-115x115.jpg "Someone Get Mimi Walters a Glass of Water Before She Hears about Richard Alarcon")
![To be fair to both sides, if you watch the first video then you have to read the block quote. (You do want to be fair, don’t you?) Watch the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Mary-Tyler-Moore-115x115.jpg "U.S. Chamber of Commerce: “I’ma Get Minnesotan on Alan Lowenthal’s Ass”")
Footage of IRVINE’s rcv agenda item last Tuesday https://irvine.granicus.com/player/clip/7324?view_id=68&redirect=true