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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.)
![. 0 . Here’s my list of voting choices from my eight — yes, eight! — lists of how to vote. I’m sending this message to myself before I go […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Vern-and-Greg-on-the-phone-115x115.png "FINAL CALL FOR VOTING: What I am Sending to My Own Phone")
![. . . WATER BOARDS! This is a truly extraordinary year for reformist Water Board candidates. I’m one of them — and of the major boards, my race is the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/vrska-water-115x115.png "2018 Vote #8: Water Boards and Other Boards (Including My Race)")
![. . . Let’s try this alphabetically by city, shall we? Aliso Viejo Democrats have endorsed two candidates, newcomer Tiffany Ackley and School Board Trustee Gary Pritchard. I agree with both endorsements, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-Candidates-El-Farra-Lathus-Perez-115x115.png "2018 Vote #7: City Council Races – READ BEFORE YOU VOTE!")
![. . . If I lump the Anaheim City Council in with other cities, it will use up all of the oxygen in that post, so instead it gets its […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Brandman-wiki-face-Mickey-Mouse-Dora-in-Anaheim-115x115.png "2018 Vote #6 – Anaheim Council: Dr. Moreno and Mr. Brandman")
![. . . With all of the excitement, we forgot to post a Weekend Open Thread! And we’re clearly going to need one, so here it is. I’d been looking […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Duke-Nguyen-Car-Sign-edited-crop-115x115.png "Pre-Election (Post-Weekend) Weekend Open Thread!")
![. . . Doubling up on topics here to save room as the Recent Posts List gets swamped as he election approaches! STATE SENATE RACES SD-32 OK, Central Buena Park […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-Vote-State-Legislative-Candidates-115x115.png "2018 Vote #5: Greg’s Take on State Legislative Races & Supervisor")
![. . . Doubling up on topics here to save room as the Recent Posts List gets swamped as he election approaches! Plus you probably know how you’re going to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-Vote-Congress-and-CA-Executive-Collage-115x115.png "2018 Vote #4: Greg’s Take on Congress and State Executive Officers")
![. . . [Read more, as usual, on Ballotpedia’s entries on these propositions!] The main reason that my ballot hasn’t been mailed in yet, despite Gil Cisneros’s team of excited volunteers […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/kidney-dialysis-e1531521521990-115x115.jpg "2018 Vote #3: Greg’s Choices on the Blasted PROPOSITIONS")
![. . . Preface: Here is the list of DAIR endorsement pages for each of the six covered OC Congressional Districts, shares from Facebook of which SHOULD propagate the DAIR […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DAIR-Endorsements-Logo-115x115.png "Democrats and Allied Independents for Reform — Endorsements Page"){kind=logo}
It does raise the question of why fight it in the first place. Dems are so dumb. They might as…