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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.)
![Yesterday, I received the worst campaign e-mail so far this year. It’s for a slate mailer called “Cal Voter Guide” — one of those “pay for play” suckers that tried […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/two-stupid-voters-115x115.jpg "Ed Royce Apparently Thinks That Voters are Incredibly Stupid")
![As political observers have predicted ever since the Supreme Court spat the Citizens United decision at us in 2010, late independent expenditures — yup, “LIEs” –are the things to watch in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Daly-Chevron1-115x115.jpg "Damn LIEs: Who is Winning the “Chevron Cup”?"){kind=icon}
![I asked Eleazar Elizondo a while ago what he thought of the statements produced by his opponents for the Orange County Board of Education District 1 seat, so went and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Elizondo-and-Melissa-Fox-115x115.jpg "Eleazar Elizondo Thinks Qualifications Matter for OC Board of Ed")
![Oh, boy! It’s here! It’s here! The COPS Voter Guide has arrived! I was so excited about this that I did a little online research on it. Here’s what I […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/COPS-logo-115x115.jpg "The COPS Voter Guide Has Arrived! And it says, um … huh?"){kind=logo}
![Do you remember Brandy Chastain? That’s her at the right. Remember, in 1999? Women’s Soccer finals against China? She nailed the fifth penalty kick to clinch the win, whipped off […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Brandi-Chastain-sports-bra-115x115.jpg "“Man’s Man” Norby Trashes Female Athletics in Front of Soccer Mom")
![. . . I think that what Officers Manuel Ramos and Joseph Wolfe did in the first 18 minutes of the Kelly Thomas video was morally and ethically wrong. I […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/rodney-king-beating-115x115.jpg "What Officer Ramos did wrong — and why he’ll be acquitted")
![In the bowels of the OJB archives is a draft article I was composing in a response to this comment from Steve Baxter (which I’ve cleaned up a little for […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Rowe-Ramos-Chaffee-115x115.jpg "Baxter and Diamond on Chaffee and Rowe on Kelly and Ramos")
![[Warning: don’t read this if you want to be a juror in the trial of the officers accused of killing Kelly Thomas. I’m not kidding. As for the rest of you […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Kelly-Thomas-in-surveillance-footage-115x115.png "A Civil Libertarian Review of the Kelly Thomas Video")
![So I’m looking at Sharon Quirk-Silva’s campaign’s Facebook page last night. I want to get some ideas for my own page, snag some design tips without asking for them, that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Martha-Norby-endorsement-115x115.jpg "Humor, hacking — or hacked off? OC politics gets even weirder")
![Another good letter. If the Council Majority has published one and someone points me to it, I’ll post that here as well. So has anyone solved the mystery of why […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/bruce-whitaker-concerned-115x115.jpg "Councilman Whitaker Addresses the Kelly Thomas Hearing")
![I’m sure that for some people this will not be enough — there’s no condemnation of other Councilmembers here, no howl to slake a thirst for blood and vengeance. There’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/quirk-silva-cropped-115x115.jpg "Mayor Quirk-Silva Addresses the Kelly Thomas Hearing")
![Democrats in North Orange County — many of whose districts now cross the Puente Hills thanks to the imperial conquest of the region by Diamond Bar during the redistricting process […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DNOC-Chen-HQ-Kickoff-115x115.jpg "Fullerton Democratic/Chen Campaign HQ Opens Saturday!")
![Breaking reports are that a political earthquake centered in the Anaheim area will be sending a tsunami of printed paper flyers, electronic ads, and other flotsam directly at the heads […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Daly-on-money-tsunami-115x115.jpg "Take Cover! Daly Cash Tsunami approaching!")
![You can get access to this video of the fatal Kelly Thomas beating — “murder” is a legal conclusion, so I’ll describe it just in the objectively undeniable terms of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/kelly-thomas-in-hat-115x115.jpg "The Worst 33 Minutes of Your Month: View the Kelly Thomas Video")
Even Progressive icon Barney Frank knows it. There are folks in the Democratic Party that have taken things too far.…