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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.)
![After 3773 straight hours of protest stretching back to October 15, 2011, the Occupy OC encampment ended today at 3 p.m. — with a little bit of a bang, a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HBPD-Lodging-photo-115x115.jpg "Occupy OC Camp: 3773 hours and out (but eventually back)")
![From my Inbox, a press release: Fullerton Mayor Sharon Quirk-Silva Calls For Transparency and Accountability in Water Rates Fullerton, California, March 19, 2012 City of Fullerton Mayor Sharon Quirk-Silva is […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/water-down-the-drain-115x115.jpg "Water Rates, a Thirst for Revenue, and What Goes Down the Drain")
![The Unwanted Touch In law school, I forget if it’s in Torts or Criminal Law in both, students may learn that simply lightly touching another person, if in a way […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Occupy-Trashes-Bank-sort-of-115x115.jpg "When Confetti is Trash: Occupiers’ Terrible Bank Vandalism in HB")
![St. Patrick’s Day is a great day to post this story from the pst week on the relationship between having sex and the desire to drink alcohol. No, it’s probably […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Fruit-fly-115x115.jpg "On the Scientific Relationship Between Sex and Drinking Alcohol")
![Yes, this 2010 slate mailer suggested voting for Jerry Brown and Abel Maldonado, Tony Strickland and Bill Lockyer, Kamala Harris and Larry Aceves. Now that’s what we call “Independent […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Slate-Mailer-example-115x115.jpg "Campaignkillers #1: Dear Ginny of ACME Slate Cards")
![(This is Part 1 of a series, and is relatively light-hearted. Unfortunately, Part 2, appearing later today or tomorrow, won’t be.) This post was originally to be entitled “Why does […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PICT5464-115x115.jpg "Occupiers “Going to Surf City, Gonna Have Some Fun!” (Part 1)")
![In the critical race for the District 1 seat for the Orange County Board of Education, we have now learned that … what? You don’t even know what the Orange […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Robert-Hammond-chalkboard1-115x115.jpg "OC Board of Ed: “Conservative” to take Santa Ana seat? (Updated!)")
![I’m not sure that these figures in the 8 p.m. version of the Registrar of Voters roster of candidates is truly complete — it looks like they ran out of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/crowd-arms-up-115x115.jpg "The June 2012 Rosetta Stone: Meet your O. C. candidates!")
![Because I’ve been waiting to see whether Fullerton Mayor Sharon Quirk-Silva really would jump into the race against Chris Norby, I haven’t written yet about who would be running in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/melee-115x115.jpg "The Scramble for Fullerton Recall Seats Ends Tonight")
![Fullerton Mayor Sharon Quirk Silva has been spotted at the Registrar of Voters office today taking out papers to run against incumbent Chris Norby in AD-65. She will have to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Quirk-Silva-Norby-AD65-115x115.jpg "Breaking: Sharon Quirk-Silva takes out papers to run against Chris Norby in AD-65")
![An uproar tomorrow in Anaheim? People just won’t sit still for the hotel tax giveaway! This just in: The people planning this action are looking for speakers who represent the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Anaheim-Let-People-Vote-115x115.png "Anaheim Activists for Accountability Demand Vote on Tax Giveaway!")
![Let’s get all intellectual to start off the week and grapple with an editorial in the New York Times by Nobel Prize-willing economist and bon vivant Paul Krugman. Here’s an […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Krugman-Syriana-115x115.jpg "Give yourselves some credit: why make local govt pay high interest rates?")
![I was driving back from a political meeting in Fullerton Saturday evening and I decided to stop by the Occupy Fullerton encampment at the “Duck Pond”; the portion of Hillcrest […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Occupy-Fullerton-gone-cropped-115x115.jpg "Occupy Fullerton Keeps Its Word; Grass Expected to Recover Soon")
![AND SO IT BEGINS.... “Some polling results” that were “conducted by the Daly campaign” of “those likely to participate in the June 2012 primary election” that Republican Area Blog OC […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Daly-pretty-fly-for-a-white-guy-115x115.jpg "Pretty Fly for a White Guy! GOP luvs them some Tom Daly in AD-69")
Don't touch the Pink Toad. You will get poisoned and it will just keep going on its ignorantly blissful way.