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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.)
![The battle is finally joined in CA-39, the race where half of Ed Royce’s district has been shoved across the Puente Hills into territory where his long legacy of attacks […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Pauly-at-anti-Muslim-rally-115x115.jpg "Ed Royce Isn’t A Racist; He Just Wants The Racist Vote")
![Sometimes, When “All the Facts are In,” It’s Worse: The UC-Davis Pepper-Spray Report By J. Brad Hicks, Apr. 15th, 2012 at 8:24 PM [Original story is here (including PayPal link to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Pepper-spraying-cop-Seurat-115x115.jpg "Remember UC Davis’s “Pepper-Spraying Cop”? The Report is In.")
![So, did you enjoy paying your taxes by yesterday’s deadline? Whether you did or you didn’t, you’ll want to check this out: That’s how Mitt Romney pays a lower tax […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Romney-All-Your-Wealth-115x115.jpg "How you’re paying Mitt Romney’s taxes (which he’s keeping secret)")
![I’m not a fan of smoking, both because I am a fan of healthy lungs and cardiovascular systems and because I am not a fan of tobacco companies. I discourage […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Smoking-Patch-and-Jude-Patch-115x115.jpg "Are “No Smoking” signs comparable to the Nazi Holocaust?")
![Occupy Santa Ana’s “Necessity Village” protest action — designed to push the argument that people have biological needs to sleep and eliminate body waste and that the City should facilitate […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Necessity-Village-last-day-crop-115x115.jpg "At the Crackdown of Dawn: SA Police Bust Homeless in last 15 minutes of Occupy Protest")
![You and I, Dear Orange Juice Blog reader — we live in the real world. We’re proud of it. We care much more about who wins the next Presidential or […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Christina-stares-dagger-at-Jesse-115x115.jpg "What the hell happened in Monday’s “The Voice”? (Spoilers)")
![This press release from Occupy Santa Ana came to the Orange Juice Blog blogcave last night. I’ve rewritten it very slightly (because that’s what I do) and am glad to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Necessity-Village-medic-gives-first-aid-115x115.jpg "Occupy Santa Ana ends a successful week of ‘Necessity Village’ protest")
![When I say that I didn’t believe that this would ever happen, I’m not playing some cheap political game. I had a lot of respect for Michele Martinez before she […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/trannie-tran-115x115.jpg "The Tran’s Formation is Complete: Michele Embraces Hispanophobe Van Tran.")
![You probably haven’t even heard of Prop 29 yet — I’ll explain what it is down below — but you’re going to. You’re going to be seeing a whole […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Reagan-Chesterfield-ad-crop-115x115.jpg "Tobacco Companies Spending Like Desperate Addicts to Beat Prop 29")
![[I thought that maybe people could use a bit of a break from local electoral and protest politics, so here we go. An uncle of mine sent this to me […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Holocaust-train-115x115.jpg "The French Railroad and the Holocaust Survivor")
![Copyright law contains a fair-use exception for quoting something for the purpose of criticism, so I’m going to reproduce a large portion of this post by one of Eleazar Elizondo’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Candidate-with-egg-on-face-115x115.jpg "Eleazar Elizondo Opponent Demonstrates HIS Analytic Chops, Too!")
![I wanted to get a little more information about OC Board of Education District 1 candidate Eleazar Elizondo — the link is to his campaign web page — who with […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/OCBOE-Money-115x115.jpg "Eleazar Elizondo Demonstrates His Chops Analyzing OCBOE Issue")
![Since its first rebuffed attempt at taking public space on October 22, Occupy Santa Ana has said all along that it would return to the tactic of civil disobedience when […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Necessity-Village-Alicia-Rojas-Stretching-crop-115x115.jpg "Occupy Santa Ana’s “Necessity Village” Entertains Its Guests")
![I have two stories to tell today about the homeless. Their juxtaposition is almost as incongruous as the composite photo shown at the left. Official Santa Ana/Orange County, represented in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Homeless-Court-composite-115x115.jpg "Occupy Santa Ana kicks off 17 hours of action for homeless at 2:00")
Even Progressive icon Barney Frank knows it. There are folks in the Democratic Party that have taken things too far.…