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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.)
![Every Sunday afternoon, from 12 until 2, a group of protesters picket outside of the Anaheim Police Department in protest against police brutality. Today, they had a lot of company. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/anaheim-police-sidewalk-demonstration-crop-115x115.jpg "100+ Demonstrators Protest Anaheim Police Actions")
![. Weekly protests have been taking place on Sundays from 12-2 at the Anaheim Police Station at 425 S. Harbor Blvd. It’s a fair bet that today’s protest, in the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Anaheim-Police-Shooting-115x115.jpg "Protest Rally today against Anaheim Police Brutality, Noon to 2, 425 South Harbor!")
![. Anaheim Police shot a fleeing man twice, the second a fatal wound to the head, at around 4:00 p.m. Saturday, near La Palma Ave. where Acacia St. turns into […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Anaheim-shooting-dogs-and-rubber-bullets-115x115.jpg "Anaheim Police Shoot Man + Residents Throw Rocks = Dogs + Rubber Bullets")
![UPDATE: Occupy has canceled its protest due to the Aurora shootings. Mitt can do what he wants. To: Mitt Romney, Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee From: Occupy […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Romneys-Ann-and-Mitt-bitch-115x115.jpg "Mitt Romney, Postpone or Cancel Monday’s Orange County Fundraiser")
![We have eleven mostly interesting ballot propositions in store in November. The first poll on the whole batch, so far as I am aware, just came out — and it […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Hiram-Johnson-red-tie-115x115.jpg "The First Big Poll is out on the Newly Numbered Props")
![. Tell me if this sounds familiar to you. Aurora is the third largest city in Colorado, part of the same metropolis as Denver, of which it is half the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Aurora-Century-16-red-115x115.jpg "The Dark Midnight Premiere Threat Rises")
![. Tonight brings the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, notable in part to those not of the faith for the custom of fasting (no food or water) […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ramadan_mubarak_by_rizvigrafiks-115x115.jpg "Ramadan Mubarek, U.S. Muslims! (Sorry about all of the McCarthyism)")
![. Mitt Romney has a dilemma. Everyone on the left, center, and now much of the right is telling him that he HAS GOT TO release his tax returns for […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Romney-Prince-Harming-115x115.jpg "Is Romney’s “Way Out” of His Dilemma to Release Bogus Tax Returns?")
![. At least real libertarians, like those now in the majority of the Fullerton City Council, are rational about drug legalization. (They aren’t about things like unions and pensions and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Fullerton-Dispensary-City-115x115.jpg "A Financial Path for Fullerton: “We’re Gonna Live in Dispensary City!”")
![, Gustavo Arellano and I are Facebook friends — until, my guess is, about the moment that he reads the title of this post — but he is the only […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Gustavo-as-Lawyer-115x115.jpg "Eye-rolling at Gustavo Arellano’s Especially Embarrassing Anti-ACLU Rant")
![As our readers can tell, we’ve got plenty of local and regional news to cover right now — but can we take just a moment to savor what’s happening to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Romney-My-Bain-Hurts-115x115.jpg "Mitt Romney is Reportedly Suffering From Severe Bain Damage")
![. First, sign this petition! A lot is happening right now in relation to the July 12 Downtown LA ArtWalk Police Action. I’m just going to present this as series […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/hopscotch-with-rubber-bullets-115x115.jpg "Felonious Hopscotch; Petition Launched; ArtWalk Blames Occupy; and More")
![. As I’ve written (to jeers from many of my Occupy colleagues), I don’t think that Occupy should try to make defending the First Amendment right to protest its main […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Art-Walk-Chalk-Shock-LAPD-July-121-115x115.jpg "A Call For an Independent Investigation into LAPD Actions at 7/12 ArtWalk")
![. One continuing disagreement that we’ve had within Occupy Orange County is over the extent to which Occupy should focus on defending our First Amendment rights to free speech and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Chalkupy-arrests-in-LA-115x115.jpg "LA Police Arrest Art Walk Chalkers, Including Non-Occupiers, Fire Rubber Bullets")
Even Progressive icon Barney Frank knows it. There are folks in the Democratic Party that have taken things too far.…