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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.)
![Today at noon will be the third consecutive Sunday noon protest rally at the Anaheim Police Station on Harbor and Broadway since July 21. That was the day that Manuel Diaz […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Peace-sign-in-Anaheim-115x115.jpg "Keeping the Peace Today and Wednesday in Anaheim")
![This should be the federal law regarding voter ID: (1) Pollworkers should have access to computerized voter registration files. (2) If the state requires voter photo ID, these files should […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Poll-tax-graphic-115x115.jpg "This is How Voter ID Laws Ought to Work")
![Sometimes we may get accused of some partisan slant here or there, but when news happens in Orange County we at the Orange Juice Blog try to present it to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Jenna-Jameson-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread for Anything but Comments about Jenna Jameson’s Romney Endorsement")
![So much is happening locally and statewide that this gutty little blog sometimes forgets to take a look at the national election, which seems to be stagnant. But sometimes something […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2012-Electoral-College-Projection-2012-07-24-aggregate-115x115.png "Meanwhile, Back at the Presidential Election")
![. After the protest rally at the Anaheim Police Station ended at 2:00, a “March to Disneyland” began, heading southward on Harbor Blvd. from Santa Ana Street. I wasn’t in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Anaheim-Cambridge-St-march-115x115.jpg "Did Anaheim Almost Arrest Hundreds of Peaceful Marchers on Sunday?")
![I don’t really have a horse in the possibly upcoming race between Miguel Pulido and David Benavides for Santa Ana Mayor. [Note: spelling of “Benavides” corrected. Thanks to Art Pedroza […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Benavides-examining-Pulido-115x115.jpg "The Single Sentence That Might Allow David Benavides to Beat Miguel Pulido")
![Motherhood, apple pie, and fighting human trafficking Early polling suggests that Proposition 35 looks like a sure winner in November — buoyed by voters who haven’t read or understood it […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Klute-and-Cambodian-child-prostitute-115x115.jpg "I Despise Human Trafficking, but I Oppose the Badly Drafted Prop 35")
![. I know that I may lose some readers with this, but I generally support the police. I really do. I generally have good relations with them — easier for […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Anaheim-why-wrong-badge--115x115.jpg "Why are People So Upset? Coyotl Tezcatlipoca’s Detention on Anna Drive (VIDEO)"){kind=icon}
![. I’m seeing two sorts of images related to Anaheim today that I don’t want to see right now. One is a fictional image presented by protesters in cartoons, which […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Camo-soldier-fascist-mouse-115x115.jpg "Don’t Call Disney ‘Fascist’; Call on Disney to Rein in Cops Before Tourism Plummets!")
![. “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historical facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Anaheim-PD-crowd-protesting-115x115.jpg "Anaheim PD, You DO Realize That This is Not Going to Work, Right?")
![. Welcome, protesters and people-in-need alike, to the Anaheim Police Department, site of weekly Sunday protests from noon until 2:00 for over the past year! Last week’s protest was a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Anaheim-PD-a-mighty-fortress-115x115.jpg "Protesters: Don’t Even Think About Parking at the Anaheim Police Department Today")
![. Duane is not feeling the magic [Editor’s Note: Duane Roberts, a long-time occasional writer for this blog, gave permission to those who read this Facebook post of his to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Duane-Roberts-in-front-of-Disneyland-115x115.jpg "Duane Roberts Reports from Behind Anaheim City Council Lines")
![Local journalist Amber Stephens has been on fire since Saturday night. Amber, late of the Daily Titan (and occasionally OJB) and now interning at OC Weekly, has been the go-to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Anaheim-riot-police-at-City-Hall-115x115.jpg "Can we still avoid a summer of ‘Oaklaheim’?")
![. When I posted a story a week ago suggesting that Fullerton should consider opening itself up to medical marijuana dispensaries in an organized and proper way, I started off […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Marijuana-vials-115x115.jpg "LA City Council Votes 14-0 to Close All Medical Marijuana Dispensaries")
Even Progressive icon Barney Frank knows it. There are folks in the Democratic Party that have taken things too far.…