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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.)
![If you don’t believe that a higher power with a sense of humor controls our world, this will test your lack of faith: And this is your weekend open thread. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Twitter-Anagram-115x115.jpg "“Best Anagram Ever” Weekend Open Thread")
![I don’t often get e-mail any longer at my Jerry Brown for Governor address from 2010, used when I wasn in charge of making it look like the campaign was […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/PTA-with-fangs-115x115.jpg "Seriously, Sweet Lovable PTA of California, CUT IT OUT RIGHT NOW!")
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![One image has haunted me since the Fullerton council meeting nine days ago: the look of absolute, unbridled, childish delight on Don Bankhead’s face as he left the meeting from […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Bank-Head-Here-115x115.jpg "Tony Bushala Owes Don Bankhead a Muffin Basket (Update: the 12 Candidates!)")
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![. Sometimes, one reports. Sometimes, one recognizes that others probably have better information — and so one inquires. Today, I’m inquiring. I look forward to your collective insights (which I […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Pulido-Mal-de-Mayor-Smudge-115x115.jpg "Mal de Mayor — Is the Whole Santa Ana City Council Sick of Miguel Pulido?")
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![It’s a hot August (except for you climate change deniers in air-conditioned habitats out there), so the Democrats of North Orange County — who are running a Coordinated Campaign which, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/DNOC-Ice-Cream-Social-8-12-12-115x115.jpg "It’s Hot — So If You’re In Fullerton, Come Have Ice Cream! (Plus, some satire)")
![. I don’t know whether this is more hilarious or pathetic, because it is just so much of both. The news came out earlier this week that Rep. Ed Royce […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Royce-Chicken-a-la-Orange-County-115x115.jpg "Chicken a l’Orange County: Royce Clucks & Ducks Jay Chen at Health Care Forum")
![*(or seven days left if an eligible incumbent is not running for a spot.) We already know who’s running in the federal and statewide races and the county races are […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Lohan-Sheen-Travis-mug-shots-115x115.jpg "Two Days Left* Until the Ballots are Finalized — Who’s on Your Local Ballot?")
![For connoisseurs of the Frantic and Frenzied Fullerton politics of the recent past, last night’s City Council meeting was a special treat. It had everything — conflict, drama, humor, threats, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Quirk-Silva-and-FPOA-people-at-Council-115x115.jpg "November’s Fullerton City Council Election Campaign Began with an Earthquake")
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Even Progressive icon Barney Frank knows it. There are folks in the Democratic Party that have taken things too far.…