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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.)
![This 30-second ad was done by a friend of mine a published on Daily Kos. To some it will be devastating; to others it will be emotionally unaffecting. How you […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Ryan-booed-at-AARP-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Possibly the Best “Paul Ryan & Medicare” Ad You’ll Ever See")
![A Republican Facebook friend has written to remind me that in late 2006/early 2007, when Tom Umberg was running to fill Lou Correa’s seat on the Board of Supervisors (which […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Umberg-va-Walters-on-Residency-115x115.jpg "Matt Cunningham (from 2007) Supports Steve Young’s Case Against Mimi Walters")
![District 37 State Senate Candidate Steve Young filed a complaint in Sacramento today [warning: PDF] requesting that his opponent, Senator Mimi Walters, be struck from the ballot. He contends that Walters […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Mimi-Walters-from-Bear-Brand-to-Bear-Paw-115x115.jpg "“She’s Not There!”: Steve Young Files Suit Slamming Schemin’ Mimi Walters on Sham Residence")
![So much is revealed in Romney’s surreptitiously recorded Rat’s Mouth fundraiser speech (that’s “Boca Raton,” if you prefer) that the media hasn’t been able to figure out how to get it […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Chinese-factory-laborers1-115x115.jpg "Romney Brags About His Happy Little Chinese Slave Laborers")
![Assembly member Diane Harkey has been considered a prohibitive favorite against Jim Corbett — a libertarian-leaning Democrat — in the South County’s AD-73. After all, AD-73 is the most Republican […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Harkey-Crop-115x115.jpg "Hark and Behold! AD-73’s Diane Harkey Actually Could LOSE This Autumn!")
![This is not a joke. I just received this e-mail. You know this will work, because Decline to State voters just love people deeply respect those who pay for endorsements […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Voter-Guide-DTS_Email_blast-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: The Pay-for-Play “Decline to State” Voter Guide")
![My campaign for California’s State Senate District 29 is now out in force — money concerns have led me to play possum until now — except for signs and literature. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Diamond-online-graphic-115x115.jpg "How My State Senate Campaign Publishes a Political Smackdown for Just $50 a Day")
![In being both a candidate and an Associate Editor of this here blog, I want to be fair to my opponent. I really do. And so, because I have a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Bob-Huff-Donors-pics-115x115.jpg "Giving Bob Huff the Bird (Press Releases): OJB Stays Fair & Not Entirely Unbalanced")
![“It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep, but there’s a phone in the White House and it’s ringing. Something is happening in the world. Your vote will […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Romney-3-am-call-115x115.jpg "It’s 3 a.m., Updated")
![The FFFF blog has posted a video making sport of Jan Flory’s comment about Travis Kiger appearing to have a problem with “strong older women.” In the interest of fairness […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Jan-Flory-115x115.jpg "FFFF Goes for “Humor” Against Jan Flory — PLEASE DON’T DELETE THE VIDEO!")
![I had forgotten to put up a Weekend Open Thread on Friday, and then again on Saturday, and then again earlier today — so I found a story that I […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Pot-Brownies-115x115.jpg "College Students, Beware of Pot Brownies! (U R Doin It Wrong)")
![A drastic provocation calls for a drastic response. And so, I find myself impelled to make the following offer: if I can be satisfied that Probolsky’s Associates new poll on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Probolskys-Hair-115x115.jpg "‘New’ Lowenthal-DeLong Poll Forces Me to Offer to Eat Adam Probolsky’s Hair")
![Someone get Ed Royce a stiff drink — or if he’s already read this before the staff comes in, pry him off of the ceiling. The Democratic National Convention has […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/DNC-Jay3-115x115.jpg "‘Rising Star’ Jay Chen Speaks to Dem Convention Vets & Military Families Council")
![One of the long list of things that I have intended to do since I returned to Orange County in late 2006, but have not yet done, is to ring […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/SAINT-CONSPIRACA-115x115.jpg "If You Read Only One Social Psychological Study This Year, This Should Be It!")
Even Progressive icon Barney Frank knows it. There are folks in the Democratic Party that have taken things too far.…