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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.)
![. As Orange Juice Blog noted in its Pulitzer-Prize winning (or so we anticipate) coverage of the political strategy behind the AD-65 election, the race will likely be decided based […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Quirk-Silva-landscape-face-115x115.jpg "Sharon Quirk-Silva’s Anaheim Campaign Office Opening, Sunday at 1:00. Vern playing piano!")
![. This is exactly the right decision — and people who are happy that PPACA was upheld but thought that it should be upheld on Commerce Clause terms are as […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/obamacare-dewey-115x115.jpg "Obamacare Mandate Upheld as a Tax, Not as Regulation of Commerce")
![. . We are now in the moment when evidence begins to accrue so as to favor one or another story regarding what really motivated the Fullerton recall. I don’t mean […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Kelly-Thomas-Pension-Reform-115x115.jpg "The Truest Basic Purpose of the Fullerton Recall may soon be revealed")
![. . Not doing all that well in this dog-eat-dog economic world? Well, that’s probably your own fault. If you were an on-the-ball capitalist with a penchant for both privatization […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Schemin-Mimi1-115x115.jpg "Schemin’ Mimi’s Staffing Biz Stiffs Desperate Prison Contract Docs")
![Hey, here’s a little something out there for our too-often neglected South County friends, most of whom have just nominated Rep. Darrell Issa to take part in the recall. And […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Issa-Fast-Freudian-115x115.jpg "Issa Confuses Self With Straw Man Version of Obama; Conscience Screams for Help")
![For my money, the best political blogger around is Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly, who is also a producer of The Rachel Maddow Show and contributes to her blog. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Absolut-Bullshit-crop-115x114.jpg "Thirty Dirty Lies in One Week from Mitt Romney — Who’s Just Warming Up")
![. (E-mail ALL the OCTA Board Members by clicking HERE.) .I think that I may be switching sides in the 405 toll lane debate. I think that maybe we should […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Traffic-ticket-115x115.jpg "My Modest Proposal to build “Expensiveways” on the 405!")
![[PLEASE NOTE: IF THERE ARE ANY PROBLEMS WITH THE TRANSLATIONS BELOW, SUCH AS IF IN YOUR LANGUAGE WE ARE ACCIDENTALLY INVITING YOU TO FIGHT A KOALA BEAR TO THE DEATH […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/koala-angry-115x115.jpg "Free Legal Clinic in Santa Ana, Saturday, June 23, 9am-4pm, by OCEA")
![A headline attracted my like proverbial moth to flame to a rival website, where FFFFwad “Fullerton Harpoon” has this to say to Fullerton Planning Commissioner Larry Bennett’s recent televised criticism […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Bushala-viking-115x115.jpg "Expansionist Power — Heading to the Beach?")
![No, he’s not smiling because of the election results. Losing by 242 votes is a wrenching experience. Losing to a Republican who didn’t actively campaign, and who surely got at […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Julio-Perez-115x115.jpg "Why I Think That Julio Perez is Smiling Today")
![. If I had a smile like Barack Obama’s, when I gave speeches I would smile all of the time. Even with a speech like the one he gave […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Obama-Flag-Day-Speech-smiling-115x115.jpg "If I Had a Smile Like Barack Obama’s")
![The Democrats of North Orange County club is having a fund-raiser (aka “fun-raiser”) tonight, with food from Wahoo Fish Tacos — and you’re invited! Oh yes, if you treat me […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DNOC-Taco-+-Karaoke-115x115.png "Dems of North OC: Tacos, Margaritas & Karaoke Saturday night, 5-8!")
Even Progressive icon Barney Frank knows it. There are folks in the Democratic Party that have taken things too far.…