- 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.)
![. . . A candidate for President has a maximum level of support under optimal circumstances –an aspired level of popularity that fuels their dreams. If Rick Perry were merely […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Gingrich-cry-baby-115x115.jpg "The Clotted Candidate: Why Gingrich Has Bobbed to the Top")
![. . . We’re going to end up talking about it today anyway; might as well have a comments section dedicated to it. Here are links to some stories that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Occupy-Irvine-from-Politics-Outdoors-115x115.jpg "Occupy Open Thread! (And also Irvine and Santa Ana)")
![. . . What you may have read about Monday night’s Santa Ana City Council meeting, as it pertains to Occupy Santa Ana, is in its most critical aspects not […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Occupy-Santa-Ana-collage-115x115.jpg "Monday’s ‘Occupy Santa Ana’ Council Discussion Was No Failure")
![. . . I’ll start with a disclaimer: I have been the primary negotiator for Occupy Orange County (Irvine’s) “Letter of Understanding” and now it’s “Amendment 1” to that “LOU” […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3girls_OccupyOC11-5-11038-115x115.jpg "Occupy OC’s amended agreement with Irvine")
![. . . Here’s another reason that I am a plaintiff’s employment lawyer: Of course, this is merely an accusation — but it’s one that I’ve heard from clients before, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Cain-want-a-job-bumper-sticker-115x115.jpg "“You Want a Job, Right?”")
![. . . I first wrote about this matter lat week in this post, but new things have happened since them. This is going to be one of the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/McConnell-Molotov-cocktail-115x115.jpg "Republican Economic Saboteurs, Part 2 of ∞")
![. . . I thought that I had posted this. I was assured that I had not. I was incredulous. And … I was incorrect. My sincere apologies to everyone […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Irvine-City-logo-with-tends-overlay-115x115.jpg "Hey, Santa Ana! Irvine’s model agreement with Occupy OC!"){kind=logo}
![. . . I am happy to announce that Geoff Willis’s “shape-shifting hooker” story, published here in Oct. 27, has officially gone viral. (Vern might not like to get into […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Shape-shifting-hooker-ad-115x115.jpg "Your Top Venue for Shape-Shifting Hooker News")
![. . . Early in the 2010 election cycle, polling turned up the survey question that would really matter: what later came to be known as the “intensity gap.” To […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Calculated-Risk-recession-chart-with-elephant1-115x115.jpg "Public figures out that GOP Congress is intentionally tanking economy for political gain")
![. . . Yesterday, I defended Herman Cain here based on the evidence that was at hand as of that morning. Today, I am feeling a little bit less charitable. Changing […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Cain-ripped-115x115.jpg "“Just Cain Let Go!” Why Cain should let accusers speak")
![. . . Herman Cain is not facing a “high-tech lynching” on sexual harassment charges due to his race, no matter how Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are trying to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Yes-Weak-Cain-115x115.jpg "In Defense of Herman Cain. (I can’t believe it either.)")
![. . . a.k.a. Who is Killing the Great Candidates of Teabaggerdom? “Killed,” here, is a metaphor, obviously, although an appropriate one for a sanguinary Halloween. Mitt Romney’s rivals merely […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Mitt-Romney-Vampire-115x115.jpg "Why Is Anyone Who Gets Ahead of Mitt Romney Suddenly Killed?")
![. . . October wanes to one last spin of the globe and thoughts of Halloween turn a not-so-young man’s fancy to writing about Christine O’Donnell. Remember her? It wasn’t all that long […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Christine-ODonnell-115x115.jpg "Bewitched, Bothersome, and Bewildering")
![. . . When Vern hired me (and I should note, boss, that I have still not received my magic beans) to use my years of experience at Daily Kos […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Orange-Juice-links-115x115.jpg "Orange Juice Links, 10-29-31")
Oh shit. I agree with oh myopic booby one. He is the only path to victory for the Democratic party.