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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.)
![A propos of nothing — not necessarily, anyway — but very funny. This is an open thread. Discuss whatever you’d like, starting with: given Romney’s Mexican heritage, shouldn’t we be […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/IMG_1470-115x115.jpg "Election Edition: “Family Guy” Explains the Tea Party")
![Fullerton City Council candidate Paula Williams between story author Greg Diamond and Sharon Quirk-Silva. (I don’t know whether Sharon has endorsed her, but I know that they do get […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Greg-Paula-Sharon-cropped-115x115.jpg "Why I Support Paula Williams for Fullerton City Council")
![Watch this video of Assemblyman Mike Bost of Illinois having a freak-out at his seat over “pension reform”: My guess is that many people will be enthused. They are […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Mike-Bost-R-IL-Asmbly-goes-nuts-115x115.png "A Political Identity Test That You Can Take Right Now!")
![Over the transom comes a link to an open letter by Fullerton Recall candidate Matt Rowe, who has discovered that the Fullerton Recall has been … you will hardly believe […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Fullerton-recall-poster1-115x115.jpg "Shocked, Shocked, at the Political Hijacking of the Fullerton Recall!")
![The title of this article is not a direct quote; when I’ve heard this said by campaign officials about voters it has started with something coarser than “to hell with.” […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Fullerton-Mailer-1-115x115.png "“To Hell with Them If They’re Stupid Enough to Believe It”")
![Is there room on Memorial Day to remember the nation’s fallen, metaphorical soldiers for social justice, who were not in the military? Or does that cheapen the Memorial Day holiday? […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Medgar-Evers-ship-115x115.jpg "Is There Room on Memorial Day?")
![I’m confused by an article at FFFF, but I’ve learned that that’s not the best place to go for cogent explanations of what they’re saying. (It’s a great place to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/One-eyed-jacks-115x115.png "One-Eyed Jack is Wild")
![It’s time to empty the spit valve — that is, to close some browser tabs with stories about which I’ve thought about writing. Here’s some from the past few weeks: […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/spit-valve-115x115.jpg "Grab bag of stories, late May 2012")
![++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chances are fairly good that you’ve already voted by now, but Vern’s re-registration as Republican and his voting for Orly Taitz in the U.S. Senate primary (even as a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Dems-Against-Dianne-115x115.jpg "Dianne’s Democratic Senate Opponents, Reviewed")
![And the hit pieces just keep on coming! Another day, another ungodly amount of LIEs — that’s “Late Independent Expenditures,” for those who haven’t been following my reports — coming […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Daly-Chevron-May-23-115x115.jpg "Another day, another $117,000 in LIEs for Tom Daly!"){kind=icon}
![I know that I’ve been covering lots of our North Orange County and Santa Ana races recently, but one of the most interesting races is taking place in AD-74, where […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Munger-and-Daigle-115x115.jpg "Wealthy Man’s Sour on Mansoor; Finagles for Daigle")
![Don’t worry, Ed Royce’s “List of Jews” is nothing sinister — at least not in the Nixonian “have an aide count the Jews in the Deparment of Labor” or “Enemies List” sense. It’s a list […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Royce-middle-east-map-115x115.jpg "I am Apparently on Ed Royce’s List of Jews")
![My initial report on the LIEs — that stands for Late Independent Expenditures — on behaf of Tom Daly and against Julio Perez in the 69th district was suppose to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Daly-Chevron-May-21-115x115.jpg "Today’s New LIEs Against Julio Perez from Daly Moneymen"){kind=icon}
![You may not know who Wiley Drake is, so first let’s send you over to the FFFF post celebrating his recent visit to the Fullerton City Council meeting to see […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Wiley-Drake-115x115.jpg "FFFF’ing WILEY DRAKE?!?!?!?!")
Even Progressive icon Barney Frank knows it. There are folks in the Democratic Party that have taken things too far.…