- 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.)
![[Ed. Note: The Orange County Grand Jury has released a report analyzing and trying to goose along the resolution of the conflict over the location of a Veterans Cemetery in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Veterans-Cemetery-graphic-115x115.jpg "Grand Jury Report on Veterans Cemetery")
![. . . As readers may have heard, the first real debates of the 2020 Presidential election season are due this Wednesday and Thursday, June 26 and 27. (We don’t […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Donkey-Racing-115x115.jpg "Both Nights of the Democratic Debates are Important")
![. . . This will be your Weekend Open Thread. There is some hope for new content this week as well. Your patience is appreciated. Or at least it will […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Larry-Summers-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread, Sum-Sum-Summertime!")
![. . . You should spend some time on this link: 14 speeches by Democratic Presidential candidates from last weekend’s California Democratic Party convention. Unless you’re a Chump in the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Pushing-a-Car-Safely-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: 14 CDP Speeches and an Auto-Backpat")
![. . . This weekend, the California Democratic Party will be picking its new Chair, who will take over from Acting Chair Alex Gallardo-Rooker and fill the remaining term of former […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CDP-Bauman-with-Kaufman-and-Myers-occluding-Ellis-115x115.png "REVISED/EXTENDED: The CDP Election Fraud I Witnessed in 2017")
![. . . Lenore Albert’s self-proclaimed claim to fame is that she saved 1000 houses from foreclosure in the case of Eddie Yau v Deutche Bank National Trust Company. before Central […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Lenore-at-CA4-3-Appellate-Hearing-115x115.jpg "Lenore’s Claim That She Saved 1000 Houses from Foreclosure Appears to be False")
![Democrats have a 2/3 majority in the State Senate. Once again, that is turning out to be a supermajority more in theory than in practice. (1) SB 529 Here’s the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Umberg-Rent-Control-vote-115x115.jpg "OC Senate Dems Umberg and Archuleta Blocking ‘Just Cause’ Tenant Eviction Bill")
![. . . [Ed. Note: I regret that I’ve been too tied up to write much recently. I’ve been doing much of my writing on a closed Facebook page […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Great-Park-Map-as-Legislated-with-ARDA-115x115.png "(Late) Memorial Day Weekend Open Thread”: Cemetery Bill May Doom Cemetery")
![. . . Farrah Khan has reportedly been calling people in either or both DGI (Democrats of Greater Irvine) and DPOC and literally crying over the phone about her agony […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Farrah-Melahat-@-Coffeeshop-1-FK-hidden-600-px-115x115.jpg "Farrah’s Supporters Pretend Her Melahat/Carroll/Strader Meeting Didn’t Happen")
![. . . This evening brings us to the conclusion of Game of Thrones — and not a moment too soon, as fans are up in arms and revolting against […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Dragonfore-Lamp-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Game of Thrones Finale Will Muse Over War Crimes")
![, , , [1] A Fateful Coffee Klatch As did much of political Orange County, I yesterday received of two photographs that corroborated what a commenter leaked on OJB earlier that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Farrah-Melahat-2-FK-visible-600-px-115x115.jpg "No, Farrah, Carroll Isn’t an NPP; Now Tell Us About Meeting Him & Strader")
![. . . As widely predicted after she refused to rule out voting for a Republican to break a 2-2 partisan deadlock in order to vote an election and criticized […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Farrah-and-Carroll-115x115.png "Farrah Votes, As Predicted, to Cede Power to Irvine Republicans Without Election")
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How many likes can I give this? Thank you so much Derek!