- Description
- 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.)
![I drove up Harbor Blvd. from the 91 on Easter afternoon and noticed the first signs of spring. Not, I mean, the first signs that we’re warming up after winter […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/firebreathers-for-fullertons-future-115x115.jpg "FFFF Notable Comments, Easter Weekend Edition")
![Open thread. Possible topics: the inherent dignity of animals, what should happen to someone who does this to their pet, and is it wrong to laugh at it (for 15 […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Easter-bulldog-115x115.jpg "OJB Hopes That You Had a Good Easter Holiday. Discuss.")
![I won’t even get mad about it. Causing anyone with any sense of decency at all to burst all of the blood vessels in their brain simultaneously was probably the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/RFK-+-Issa-before-after-copy-115x115.jpg "Darrell Issa Mutilates RFK’s Corpse, the Better to Insult Unions")
![I have a bet going with a fellow Democratic activist. I’m asking our readers to help me settle the bet by taking this as seriously as possible. (Note: if you’re […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/fill-in-the-blank-card-set-115x115.jpg "Help me settle a bet by answering this one question")
![A Facebook post from victorious attorney Katrina Foley has just reported that the Court of Appeal has denied the City of Costa Mesa’s attempt to get the charter vote onto […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Righeimer-in-blue-115x107.jpg "Righeimer’s Folly Founders: CM Charter Won’t Be on June Ballot")
![This … is … weird. KPCC reports: Traditionally, bridge repair and highway construction is funded by a tax at the gasoline pump, but Republican Congressman John Campbell says that funding […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Cracked-road-with-Campbell-115x115.jpg "John Campbell wants you to pay to drive by the mile!")
![Unfortunately, except for the Senator’s name, this isn’t quite an April Fools’ Day joke. The name is Lieberman — Joe Lieberman. A big hat tip to our friend Adam Bonin […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Lieberman-Palpatine-115x115.jpg "Senator Palpatine prepares to shut down commenting on blogs")
![I’ve long been a loud critic, within the unpaid progressive legal semi-pundit blogger community, of the Obama Administration’s decision to ground its right to impose a health insurance mandate in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PPACA-supporters-protest-posterized-115x115.jpg "PPACA & SCOTUS: An Executive Order Fix? (Warning: deep law discussion here)")
![All right, to review: on Wednesday night someone laundered a hit job through OC Register Sacramento correspondent Brian Joseph alleging that Julio Perez did not live in the 69th Assembly […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/AD-69-questions-115x115.jpg "A Question for All of You to Ask Michele and Tom about Julio")
![An exciting week is coming up for constitutional law geeks of all stripes: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (or “PPACA,” now for some reason usually abbreviated only as […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PPACA-bill-signing-115x115.jpg "PPACA at the SCOTUS: The Case of the Case of the Year (that’s Obamacare to you!)")
![Self-hating Republican blogger Art Pedroza published his picks for the June ballot today. I know that many people won’t click on his links, so I summarize his choices here as […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/chupacabras-115x115.jpg "A few notes and corrections to Pedroza’s June ballot picks")
![I missed a small story yesterday — although it was a story that a sizable community within our country will probably still discuss with pride 50 years from now. A […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/thank-you-in-ASL-115x115.jpg "A Silent Thank You")
![I will admit right up front that this story is SOMEWHAT SPECULATIVE, but as I now understand Orange County journalism (especially as practiced from about 500 miles away) THAT IS OK! […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Joseph-and-process-server-115x115.jpg "Register’s Brian Joseph Hot on Trail of Possibly Rogue Process Server!")
![Here’s what I suspect happened leading up to yesterday afternoon’s big disclosure that a process server asserts that he was told that Julio Perez does not live at his stated […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Buzzkill-Perez-residency-story-115x115.jpg "Buzzkill: Register nonchalantly and remorselessly stabs at Julio Perez")
Even Progressive icon Barney Frank knows it. There are folks in the Democratic Party that have taken things too far.…