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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.)
![NOTICE!!!! Due to other obligations on the part of those involved, the exorcism of Herman Cain and whatever other beasties from the corporeal body of Vern Nelson is POSTPONED! — […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Exorcism-115x115.png "Exorcism of Vern Nelson, POSTPONED!!!!! (OJB’s 10,000th Story!)")
![After much of a month off, Orange Juice Blog is back on the No 405 Toll Lanes beat — with some good news of progress in the battle against “Lexus […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Sonny-Corleone-whacked-115x115.jpg "OC Democratic Party Goes on Record: NO TOLL LANES FOR THE 405!")
![Video and transcript of Clint Eastwood’s routine below. Transcript: EASTWOOD: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Save a little for Mitt. (APPLAUSE) I know what you […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Chairface-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread, Starring Clint Eastwood as “The Man With No Shame”")
![RomneyLYIN The Fact-Checking Dictator’s Friend “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.” — Romney pollster Neil Newhouse, August 28, 2012. But first, a note to our […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Romney-not-even-President-yet-115x115.jpg "RomneyLyin")
![I’ve heard stories about the lame-brained action of returning a $50,000 grant because the Bushalalibertarian Council majority doesn’t like checkpoints for drunk drives. I wasn’t at the Tuesday Fullerton Council […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Flory-Martial-Arts-crop-115x115.jpg "Now I See Why the FFFFsters are So Scared of Jan Flory: She Has a Way with Words")
![So how do you counterprogram against a Republican National Convention? Barack Obama did something clever, going to a group where he’d get wide readership, and among whom few were likely […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Reddit-Obama-Interview-115x115.jpg "Obama’s Reddit Interview, Copied Over, Because This Information Wants to Be Free")
![An extended roller. More details to come. 2 miles ENE of Yorba Linda. OK, maybe more newsworthy here than elsewhere. 4.1, 5 miles down. Must have been a Fullerton City […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Earthquake-08-29-2012-115x115.jpg "Earthquake at 1:30 (UPDATED with a New Conspiracy Theory!)")
![The Democratic Party of Orange County Central Committmet last night with two items of business on the agenda: endorsements in non-partisan races and a resolution favoring the construction of two […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Democatic-Party-Endorsed-Candidates-sampler1-115x115.jpg "OC Democratic Party Endorses Benavides, McLoughlin, Flory, Alderete, Reyna, etc.")
![I can’t say that there haven’t been murmurings. Anonymous comments in these pages and those of other local political blogs have warned that something was coming down the pike, that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Tommy-AD-69--115x115.jpg "Special Delivery: Anonymous Letter Accuses Tom Daly of Sexual Harassment")
![This one goes out to my landsmen in Newport Beach, which may well be the very capital of Jewish Republicanism — its Mecca, so to speak. You are being tweaked. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/IKvetch-115x115.jpg "“It is to Laugh!” Weekend Open Thread")
![A particularly interesting poll came out yesterday (and, why yes, that is the link to it!) from the Pew Research Center in its section on Social and Demographic Trends. For the first […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Middle-class-vanishing-115x115.jpg "“Pew! Pew! Pew!” Survey Shows Rich are Shooting Down the Middle Class!")
![Politically, one is supposed to choose a side: cops or Kelly Thomas. Reality, though, is more complicated than that. It’s possible that the truth regarding culpability for the death of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Fullerton-Officers-4-5-6-colorized-115x115.jpg "Officers 4, 5, & 6: Blatney, Hampton, and Craig Cleared for Return to Duty")
![As some of you may know, I’ve been hanging around Bushala blog Friends for Fullerton’s Future (aka “FFFF” or “4F”) this year, serving as a not so much a fly […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Flory-stone-tablets-115x115.jpg "Flory, FFFFwads, and FFFFalse Witness")
![I’m going to post Lindsey Beyerstein’s short piece from In These Times in its entirety, because she is a Facebook friend and I don’t think that she’ll mind. The Republican senate […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Watership-Down-violence-115x115.jpg "Emergency! Missouri Politician Needs Remedial Sex Education, STAT!")
Even Progressive icon Barney Frank knows it. There are folks in the Democratic Party that have taken things too far.…