- 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.)
![. . . Fewer than two hours remain in the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the “Day of Atonement,” as this is published, but there is one more area of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/No-Muslim-Ban-Ever-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: A Final Act of Atonement in These Waning Hours of Yom Kippur")
![[Author’s note: If I argue with someone in a public Facebook group, and if I think that the conversation sheds useful light on the issues of the day, I reserve […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/homeless-woman-115x115.jpg "Did Anaheim’s Council ‘Unite’ in Betraying the Homeless? Greg and Gabriel Argue on FB")
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![[SOME LIVEBLOGGING FOLLOWS BELOW] [Author’s Note: Due to a surprise announcement at the beginning of the meeting from Supervisor Todd Spitzer, it’s unclear how many of the issues I prepared […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Spitzer-at-Anaheim-City-Council-115x115.png "How is an Anaheim ‘State of Emergency’ on Riverbed Homelessness Authorized and What Would It Do?")
![My wife and I and our daughters are currently planning a wedding for our daughter who is now out on deployment in the Navy, and it has struck me that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Greg-CDP-EBd-Day-1-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: So, Two Weeks Ago I Had A Stroke….")
![. Ed. Note from Greg: This is welcome news — and not only because it means that I don’t have to run for DA! Former Brea Mayor Brett Murdock, who […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/murdock-115x115.jpg "MARVELous News! Attorney Murdock Announces Bid for OC District Attorney!")
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![. . . The recall effort against State Senator Josh Newman has always had a hidden upside for Democrats in North Orange County (and beyond): One could not ask for a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Newman-Anti-Recall-Precinct-Walk-8-12-excerpt-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Anti-Recall Precinct Walk Saturday With Newman (Between Breakfast & Lunch)")
![. . . We here can print press releases too when the time is right! And today it is: Kimberly Ellis Offers Arbitration to End Dispute For Immediate Release Contact: ___________ […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CDP-Chair-Kimberly-Ellis-Eric-Bauman-e1548256842418-115x115.png "CDP Chair’s Race: Kimberly Ellis Offers Arbitration to End Dispute")
![. . . From today’s The Nooner by Scott Lay (with some minor spell-checking and final-line emphasis added): CAUGHT: The Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica is in trouble with the FPPC for asking […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Sue-Burnside-115x115.png "I Did Not Know This About Democratic Operative (Active in OC) Sue Burnside! Who’s Hired Her Again?")
![. . . Because some people won’t read past the first paragraph, I’ll put this link up here before discussing it later: read this piece on the quiet decision of Ben […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Homeless-angry-with-stogie-e1502131320267-115x115.jpg "All the Rooms for the Homeless Supposedly Going Begging — and a Proposal to Take the McAdams Test")
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It does raise the question of why fight it in the first place. Dems are so dumb. They might as…