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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.)
![. . . Apparently, I and people like me were the ones who killed Single Payer. Everything was well in hand and then … whoops! We were mean to people […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Jesus-moneychangers-115x115.jpg "So, Fervent Advocacy by the Desperate is What Killed Single Payer? – UPDATED with important videos!")
![. . . I will be reading the opinion in Perry v. Brown this morning and providing some comments on it. Don’t let that stop you from giving your […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Prop-8-ruling-with-gay-rights-flag-115x115.jpg "9th Circuit rules Prop 8 Unconstitutional")
![. . . This … is … precious. Fast and Furious, the Obama-Holder “scandal” that was going to deliver the Presidential race to Republicans this year (stoked to no small […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Mike-Vanderboegh-on-Murdergate-115x115.jpg "‘MURDERGATE!!!’ is Back in the News! Blogger Behind It Gets Grumpy!")
![. . . [ED. NOTE – As soon as I saw this incredibly wordy and dishonest piece supposedly penned by Irvine Assemblyman Don “Spanky” Wagner, on the Flash Report, attacking […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Don-Wagner-headshot-115x115.jpg "An Open Challenge to Disingenuous Don Wagner")
![. . . I have taken an interest (a political interest) today in a woman whom I have never met. Her name is Denise Moreno Ducheny. She is an immigration lawyer […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Denise-Moreno-Ducheny-115x115.jpg "Why is a San Diego Congressional Candidate on Our Front Page?")
![. . . I don’t want to shock anyone, but if you’ve read Art Pedroza’s breathless writings since Friday about how Julio Perez’s drive to get the nomination in AD-69 […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Julio-Perez-115x115.jpg "Pedroza report that Perez CDP nomination in AD-69 is blocked is — wrong!")
![. . . (For the original of the photo at right, in which Rep. Rohrabacher is not equipped with a Carmen Miranda headdress — which, you have to admit, he makes […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Rohrabacher-as-Carmen-Miranda-115x115.jpg "Am I behind the curve? Is it OK to call Rohrabacher gay?")
![. . . This comes into my inbox this afternoon from a friend: They just took SB 810 up for a 2nd time today because there were members “absent” during […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Leucocytes-115x115.jpg "LouCo-cytes Defend against California Single-Payer Health Plan!")
![. . . Those words! Those beautiful words! “It could all come down to California.” Say those words out loud and they might wend their way into the ears […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/California-background-with-candidates-115x115.jpg "“It could all come down to California” — and *then* what?")
![. . . This was a very interesting day in politics — not only nationally (with the Romneybot requiring serious repair after malfunctioning badly in South Carolina), but to a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/martinez-on-council-115x115.jpg "“So who was Michele talking to?” and other political musings")
![. . . Tomorrow, Region 18 of the California Democratic Party will meet in its “Pre-endorsement conference,” which will consider endorsements for candidates in all of Orange County except […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Daly-in-Ask-a-Mexican-115x115.jpg "In “El Pollo,” are Dems REALLY going to give Latinos the bird?")
![. . . Republican Mitt Romney informed the United States today that, if he swears an oath of fidelity to it a year from now, he will still want it […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Romney-Gingrich-2-115x115.jpg "Romney tells U.S. he will want an “open relationship”")
![. . . You probably know about the big story yesterday, in which the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA) led to a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ICE-seizure-notice-115x115.jpg "The big SOPA story that you probably missed yesterday")
![. . . I’ll be liveblogging the State of the State Address, beginning at 10:00 today. I hope that SOPA opponents will understand: we only get one of these every […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Speaker-Perez-115x115.jpg "State of the State of the State")
Don't touch the Pink Toad. You will get poisoned and it will just keep going on its ignorantly blissful way.