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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.)
![OK, this is mainly for the political geeks out there; if that’s not you, avert your eyes. It’s time to ask that eternal question when it comes to ballot slate […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Obama-at-press-conference-115x115.jpg "Who PAID for and Who Got DRAFTED onto this slate mailer?")
![The Friends for Fullerton’s Future blog has two stories out since Friday on Democratic reactions to the Fullerton recall — one of which you see cross-posted just before this story. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Fullerton-Bankruptcy-Monopoly-Man-115x115.jpg "Which Fullerton Recall Candidates Will Rule Out Municipal Bankruptcy?")
![I find Friends for Fullerton’s Future (FFFF), which most people seem to call “Tony Bushala’s blog” so I’ll do the same, to be important reading for understanding Fullerton and OC […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Greg-and-Josie-16-days-after-we-met-115x115.jpg "My Exchange with a Vicious and Bigoted FFFFwad")
![Something interesting has happened over the past day in our comments section. A new and pseudonymous commenter to this site (and no, I don’t know who it is) writes: I have […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Fullerton-Drowned-in-a-Bathtub-115x115.jpg "A Well-Crafted Bushalafesto — and My Response")
![The political world is abuzz today with a $6.1 million ad guy from “Americans for Prosperity”, the Citizens United-fueled independent expenditure machine. AfP, the creature of twisted oil billionaires Charles and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Koch-Bros-ad-vs-green-investment-115x115.png "Romney backers spend $6 million attacking Obama for investing in Anaheim’s Fisker Automotive")
![If you want to understand what has been going on with the economy since World War II, you should start with this chart from the Talking Points Memo website. (You […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Productivity-Chart-TPM-115x115.png "A Key Chart: Do Workers Share in Economic Gains?")
![This is apparently Texas U.S. Representative Ron Paul’s last campaign for President — unless, of course, he defeats both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama this year, in which case […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Ron-Paul-at-Titans-Stadium-115x115.jpg "Paulapaulooza tour appears Wednesday night at CSUF!")
![Today is May Day. More than in most years, the advent of the Occupy Wall Street movement has brought it back from the maypole to its roots as the real […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/May-Day-Santa-Ana-115x115.jpg "May Day (artist’s conception) — Rally in Santa Ana from 1:00 on")
![Headline from California Watch: CSU Fullerton spends $300,000 to remodel president’s house. Now granted, a university President’s house is not merely a university President’s home. It’s a place to invite potential […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/El-Dorado-Ranch-115x115.jpg "Killing with Kindness – the 300K CSUF President’s-home Remodel.")
![Former Democratic (believe it or not) State Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero continues her jihad against public education– derailed when she finished third in the race for State Superintendent of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Gloria-Romero-115x115.jpg "Costco Education Alternatives and Walmart Education Alternatives")
![When Ralph Waldo Emerson visited Henry David Thoreau after the latter’s arrest for tax resistance (to avoid paying towards the Mexican-American War), he asked him what he was doing in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Bees-and-Monsanto-115x115.jpg "This May Sting a Bit: Monsanto Buys Bee Die-Off Investigators")
![Why do people keep on comparing the now-all-but-inevitable Republican nominee Mitt Romney to a robot or a space alien? (For the record, I don’t think he is either — at least […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Romney-feel-your-pain-115x115.jpg "Is Mitt Romney Unable to Experience Empathy?")
![Who runs Sacramento? There’s a good argument to be made that, despite Democratic control of the Governor’s seat and both houses of legislature, it’s the California Chamber of Commerce that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/backstabber-backstabber-115x115.jpg "CA Chamber of Commerce Struts Its Status as “Job Killer” Killer")
![The visit to OC of Mayor Rocky Anderson — a man whose perspective and accomplishments I respect and a man who I wish weren’t running for President — prompts me […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/monk-carrying-woman-115x115.jpg "Why I’ll support “the lesser of two evils”")
Even Progressive icon Barney Frank knows it. There are folks in the Democratic Party that have taken things too far.…