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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.)
![. . . (Hat tip to Mark Daniels for noting and publicizing this.) I’d like to think the Vern’s reporting here may have played at least a small role in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Jesus-Aguirre-115x115.jpg "Gov. Jerry Brown Commutes Sentence of Jesus Aguirre!")
![I’m not normally one for made up holidays — but I’ll go along with this one. Today is “National Homeless Memorial Day.” (I didn’t know it was “National” until today; […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Homeless-Memorial-Day-115x115.jpg "Today is ‘Homeless Memorial Day’; 12:45 March at Santa Ana’s ‘Walk of Honor’")
![UPDATE: The first thing that Brea Mayor Glenn Parker did after the Pledge of Allegiance was to seek — and receive — unanimous consent to take the item off of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Fast-outside-Rep-Ed-Royces-Office-115x115.jpg "[POSTPONED!] To Protect Manley (and Royce?), Brea Council Offers Tuesday Sneak Attack on Most of the First Amendment")
![As the brunt of the most recent post on Liberal OC, entitled “Theories on Julio Perez Case Stretch Imagination, Suggest Incompetence” quotes directly from me, but I’m not allowed to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Walrus-drooling-115x115.jpg "This is the Hard Way to Converse About Sexual Harassment, But Here Goes")
![[Editor’s Note: Mike Padian, a proponent of the existing veterans cemetery proposal (at the Bake Parkway “Strawberry Fields” site) sent OJB and another few publications a detailed refutation of a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Strawberry-Field-in-Irvine-115x115.jpg "Refuting Propaganda from the Anti-Veterans’ Sham “Save the Cemetery” Drive")
![[Ed. Note: This is a press release from Five Point on Friday’s dedication ceremony, to which I’ll be adding some analysis in comments. For those confused by other commenters, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/OCVMP-Cemetery-Dedication-Flag-Raising-600px-115x115.jpg "OC Veterans Cemetery Dedicated to the Ones We’ve Loved")
![. . . Independent public interest media organization Pro Publica is sort of the Voice of OC of the U.S. at large, doing the sort of investigative journalism that others […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/RAM-Members-flex-muscles-for-their-mutual-gratification-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: Meet OC’s Racist Stormtroopers (Shared with LA’s South Bay)")
![. . . I don’t know whether people truly get what Trump has done with his Executive Orders to, in effect, bring about the destruction of the public health insurance […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Monty-Python-Shes-a-Witch-scene-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: Trump Executive Orders Dress Up Obamacare as a Witch")
![. . . [Ed. Note: I had a different WOT in mind for today, but then this press release came in this morning and it is just too hard to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Newman-Baby-Right-ON-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: Locking in the Liars’ Leverage on Newman Recall")
![. . . 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")
![. . . I’ve been working on what could have been a Weekend Open Thread for this week, but I’m being conscientious about it so it’s taking longer than I’d […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Hot-dog-vendor-bi-duotone-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: “Return to Vendor”")
![[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….")
Sandra de Anda is running against Phil Bacerra for Santa Ana Council... that kind of makes me want to put…