- 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.)
![It is becoming clear that after Jay Chen absorbed his meaningless primary loss against Ed Royce’s $2.1 million onslaught of mailers — and then retooled and kept on gathering steam […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/dr-strangeroyce-115x115.jpg "Ethically Crippled ‘Desperate Ed’ Royce Scares Seniors with Lie about ‘Wheelchair Tax’")
![The people who put together MeetEdRoyce.com for Jay Chen’s campaign really know what they’re doing. Then again, they’ve had so much to work with! Meet Ed Royce. A career politician who […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Meet-Ed-Royce-Accomplishments-115x115.png "MeetEdRoyce.com: It’s Much Better Than Actually Meeting Ed Royce!")
![I’ve been provided with a copy of the moving papers filed last Friday by SD-37 candidate Steve Young against Marian K. “Mimi” Walters, in Case No. 34-2012-8000 1270, Young v. Walters, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Mimi-getting-drunk-with-friends-115x115.jpg "“ZOT!” Steve Young Files His Argument Against Mimi Walters — and It’s Devastating")
![If you live in Fullerton or Costa Mesa, or really anywhere in Orange County, you should read this story from today’s New York Times: To Fight Crime, a Poor City […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Camden-NJ-115x115.jpg "A Story You Must Read: Camden, NJ, Moves to Replace Its Police Department")
![One of the unexpected benefits (or … “benefits”) of running for office is that I am now on the e-mail distribution lists of more lobbying groups than you can shake […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Gun-Control-Aurora-115x115.jpg "California Rifle and Pistol Association and NRA “Identify the Bad Guys” on New List")
![[Disclosure: this is about as conflicted as my writing here gets, as I’m both the author and the subject of this story — but given that it’s a direct response […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Greg-Diamond-Bad-115x115.jpg "GOP Flack Slams Greg Diamond for Failing to Prostitute Himself; Called ‘Worse Than Hitler”")
![. I hate to mix politics and religion, but — well, someone is mixing politics and religion. From Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois comes a column entitled “Think and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Bishop-Paprocki-115x115.jpg "Damned If You Do: Religious Extortion as Political Strategy")
![I’m on Yom Kippur duty today until sundown, but through the magic of advanced scheduling I’ve been able to set this acrid stink-bomb to go off in the middle of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Point-Center-website-graphic-115x115.jpg "South County Voters — Have You READ This SHOCKING Website? (Re. Harkey Trial)")
![I’m off soon to a political event (a fundraiser for the Democrats of North Orange County, featuring Loretta Sanchez), so I’m going to miss a lot of what’s apparently going […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Spanish-Revolution-resign-115x115.jpg "The Reign in Spain: LOTS of Street Protesters Call for Government to Resign")
![In 42 days (or fewer), people from all around the country will experience a rude surprise: they thought that they were registered to vote, but — thanks to voter purges, failures […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Vote-Here-elevator-shaft-115x115.jpg "You THINK That You’re Registered to Vote, but You’re *NOT*: It’s Registration Day!")
![Vern and I are having one of our occasional power struggles, in that we both want to write about what happened at today’s OCTA meeting so badly that we’ve had […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/OCTA-meeting-9-24-crop-115x115.jpg "OCTA Board Kicks the Can on “Kick the Can” Proposal; Plus, Problematic Populism")
![Today’s OCTA Vote Line-up: In a little over an hour, the Orange County Transit Authority Board of Directors will vote on which if any proposal (or which hybrid proposal) to adopt […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/OCTA-bus-115x115.jpg "To the Ramparts! Off to Orange for OCTAgeddan! Your scorecard for votes!")
![. . . The Chen for Congress Fullerton Campaign Headquarters was vandalized early this morning. Some people tore down signs and placards outside of the office. and then sped away in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Royce-flipped-features-e1606611513605-115x115.jpg "First Royce Attack Ad Flips Facts on Medicare, Fullerton Vandals Rip Down Jay Chen Signs")
![I was at the Truman Dinner — the Democratic Party of Orange County’s major annual fundraiser — last Monday night. Someone at one point came to my table and noted, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Sharon-QS-at-Truman-2012-cropped-115x115.jpg "*WHAT* “Barack Obama Who?”? Moxley Finds ‘Putrid Elephant’ but Misses the Mark")
Footage of IRVINE’s rcv agenda item last Tuesday https://irvine.granicus.com/player/clip/7324?view_id=68&redirect=true