- 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.)
![. . . Thanks to the miracle of Facebook, I reconnected this year with one of the smartest kids from high school (now of course in middle age.) He’s been […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/In-tents-and-purposes-115x115.jpg "For All in Tents and Purposes")
![. . . At the celebration on the lawn outside Irvine’s City Center last night around 11:30 p.m., a fellow activist (who was instrumental in securing the City Council’s support for […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Irvine-Encourages-Free-Speech1-115x115.jpg "Irvine gets it right, unanimously approves Occupy presence")
![. . . I’ve been putting this one off for a while because it just seems like there’s too much to write. But I’ll be leaving soon for the Irvine […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/City-Council-Meeting-invite-115x115.jpg "Occupy Irvine: State of Play, 10/25 (pre-Council Mtg)")
![. . . Occupy Irvine sent out this message this morning (edited slightly for time references): Please attend the Irvine City Council meeting TODAY (Tuesday, Oct. 25) in support […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/OCcupy-115x115.jpg "Occupy Irvine to Talk at the City Council today")
![. . . Reports from the scene are that, this morning over a period of 45 minutes starting at about 9 a.m., the City of Irvine turned on the sprinklers in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Get-Off-My-Lawn-115x115.jpg "‘GET OFF MY LAWN!’ Irvine soaks OCCUPY protesters who are legally on park lawn; $1000s of damage to electronic equipment")
![. . . Now that Vern has reinserted the headlines from “Art Pedroza’s ‘New Santa Ana'” onto OJB’s front page, I am once again able to see what’s happening on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Tom-Daly-and-Santa-Ana-Latinos-115x115.jpg "Should AD-69 be a “Latino seat”?")
![. . . I’ve been on Occupy Irvine’s Civic Liaison and Legal Committees for more than a week now, during which I have had substantial interactions with representatives of Irvine’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Disorderly-conduct-115x115.jpg "The 12 Most Absurd ‘Anti-Occupy’ Laws — and Irvine’s 13th")
![. . . The placement of both the Occupy Orange County daytime rallies and overnight occupations, like everything else political here a source of dispute and consternation, has got me […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Orange-Iowa-115x115.jpg "Orange County as Iowa")
![. . . [Note: I have addressed this letter to only the Democratic majority on the Irvine City Council because residents of Irvine have expressed to the opinion to me […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/OCcupy-Irvine-+-Protesters-copy-115x115.jpg "My Letter to the Irvine City Council Democrats, 10-17")
![. . . [If you want to know what “vampires” is about, skip down to the photo of the vampire. We’ll wait right here.] Occupy Irvine’s Big Kickoff Day […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Vampire-115x115.jpg "Occupy Irvine Log (to Sunrise 10/16): Irvine Needs Vampires")
![. . . This is the third and (for now) concluding part of a trio of “pre-occupation” diaries addressing the prospects for violence this weekend in Irvine when an unknown […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Cops-and-Councilmembers-115x115.jpg "Cops and Councilmembers: Citizen Influence, ASAP")
![. . . (According to current plan, I’ll be giving a capsule version of this report sometime this mid-to-late-afternoon, but I want also to have it available here.) This continues […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Irvine-COP-City-Mgr-IPD-cruiser-115x115.jpg "Occupy Irvine: State of Play, Sat. Oct. 15")
![. . . Will those who stay in Civic Center Park past the 10 p.m. Saturday park closure face legal consequences? That is the question, isn’t it? That’s what I […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Occupy-Wall-Street-2011930-115x115.jpg "Will Irvine’s Occupiers Face Legal Consequences?")
![. . . I’ll be writing a bit today, probably in multiple posts after this one, about “Occupy Orange County – Irvine” (which I’m just going to call “Occupy Irvine” […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Fawkes-Cheerleader-115x115.jpg "‘Occupy Irvine’ Pep Rally Today! (Honest to God.) Now with Sign-Making!")
Oh shit. I agree with oh myopic booby one. He is the only path to victory for the Democratic party.