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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 (Thursday June 14) is probably the last day of the canvass of votes in Orange County’s June 5 primary elections. That doesn’t mean that it’s the end of vote […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Recount-115x115.jpg "Are AD-69 and/or AD-72 headed into recounts?")
![. BREAKING STORY — CONTINUALLY UPDATED (AND OCCASIONALLY CORRECTED) UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Julio Perez started the weekend down by 606 votes to Republican Joe Moreno for the right to enter […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/magnifying-glass-115x115.jpg "69-AD UPDATE: Julio’s margin behind Joe shrinks from 606 to 284; analysis later tonight!")
![The numbers posted by the Registrar of Voters in the AD-69 and AD-72 vote canvasses today are screwy — something for which I do not blame Neal Kelley and his […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Tire-with-screw-embedded-landscape-crop-115x115.jpg "A Screwy Batch")
![From “Friend of the Show” Alicia Rojas: The United Artists of Santa Ana (UASA) has been informed that NewSong Church of Irvine is withdrawing its bid to purchase the Santora […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Santora-155x155.jpg "NewSong Sings a Different Tune; Sayonara to Santora Bid")
![Saturday marked the annual Flag Day celebration by the Teamsters Union and some of their political allies at the Teamsters Local 952 Hall in Orange. The event was emceed by Ray […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Daly-at-Flag-Day-115x115.png "Tom Daly: Democrats are the Party of Patriotism, Barragan is ‘Cool’")
![So far as I can tell, there are five basic ways to keep your valid ballot from being included in the tally at the end of the day on Election […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Julio-rising-115x115.jpg "Julio Closes Another 40% of His Gap; Provisionals Remain")
![. In the past couple of days, I’ve presented two articles on critical primary races in Orange County. The theme has been: “looks (at percentages in the primaries) can be […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/AD-65-SQS-Norby-115x115.jpg "AD-65: Fullerton versus “South of the Freeways”")
![Julio Perez is convinced that the mountains of provisional ballots — which will overwhelmingly be from Democrats rather than from Republicans — will put him ahead of Joe Moreno and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Daly-Chevron-too-much-115x115.jpg "How JOBSPAC May Have Screwed Tom Daly"){kind=icon}
![Election results can be deceiving — none more so than the result in CA-39. Ed Royce walloped Jay Chen last night by 25,000 votes, 65.7% to 30.5%. Looks awful, right? […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Royce-and-Chen-part-bw-115x115.jpg "$33 TO $1: Ed Royce’s Misleading Victory Over Jay Chen")
![. I have one heck of a lot of writing to do today about the election returns, but I want to give people something to chew on in the meantime. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Huff-looking-rightward-e1427389497923-115x115.jpg "Bob Huff’s Campaign Contributions Received and Made Since Jan. 31")
![I was going to entitle this article “The Only Vote That Could Ever Please Me is a Vote for the Teacher Man,” but then I decided not to be too […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Teacher-man-115x115.jpg "Will the Apple Go to the Teacher? Eleazar Elizondo Takes His Final Exam")
![NOTE: I never got around to posting this article, one of my series on Slate Mailers, which I drafted back on March 16. As an unprinted and soon untimely story, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Vote-today-115x115.jpg "Saved from the OJB Cutting Room Floor: ‘I can be on the COPS Slate Mailer!’")
![Tom Daly could have been embarrassed by what was being done in his name during the primary campaign that ends tomorrow. In fact, as a nominal Democrat, he should have […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Daly-Republican-flyer-115x115.jpg "Tom Daly COULD have denounced JOBSPAC’s LIEs, but…")
![I don’t often do investigative reporting on this blog, but when a tip comes my way, I’m willing to get in my car and travel to the scene. Yesterday, a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/IMG_1674-115x115.jpg "Litterin’ Levinson Lawlessly Leaves Lurid Letters!")
Even Progressive icon Barney Frank knows it. There are folks in the Democratic Party that have taken things too far.…