- 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.)
![. . . 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")
![. . . So we didn’t know that we were taking a week off when we published last week’s Weekend Open Thread, but apparently we were. Part of it was […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Josh-Newman-as-Ben-Franklin-reading-letter-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: A Bemused Senator Josh Newman Responds to His Critics Like a Wry Statesman")
![. . . Why do we keep covering the Homeless Protests in Anaheim instead of the fine work that your group is doing? Well, JUST LOOK AT HOW ACTIVE THEY ARE! If […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Homeless-Protest-2017-0721-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: 5:30 TODAY, Honda Center! Another Friday, Another Homelessness Protest!")
![. . . We here at OJB wanted to know how coverage of recent developments such as the Homeless Protest and Riverbed Eviction and the Bus Shelter Seat Removal issues […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Homeless-Honda-Center-Pay-to-Evict-115x115.jpg "Homeless Narratives: Sleepover Protest, Riverbed Eviction, Bus Bench Removal, & Disney Low Wage Hit the News")
![. . . (1) Veterans Cemetery Cleared of Produce, Ready to Break Ground “Sir, there ain’t no more strawberries” touches off touches off serious problems in The Caine Mutiny, but to various […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Veterans-Cemetery-Strawberry-Fields-Forgone-115x115.jpg "Notes from the Weekend: Veterans Cemetery Ready for Groundbreaking, #DEMGLUT, and Game O’ Thrones")
![. . . Friend of the Blog Jeanine Robbins is reporting in on the big homeless action planned for in front of Disneyland tonight at 9:00 p.m. — “under Mickey,” whatever […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Mickey-Homeless-Mouse-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Homeless Advocates Prepare to Descend on Disneyland; What’s the Problem, Anyway?")
![. . . Here’s the content of a press release that came with our order of fire-grilled chicken and soda water: Businessman and Former Anaheim City Council Member Harry Sidhu […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sidhu-eastman-murray-115x115.jpg "Disney and Pringle Apparently (For Now) Place Their Chips on Harry Sidhu for Mayor")
![. . . As we’ve noted in our previous post, the fate of City Manager Paul Emery was to be decided today by 5:00 p.m. It took an extra hour […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Andal-Superimposed-Shape-Anaheims-Future-e1499840025897-115x115.jpg "Linda, Queen (or Actually Interim City Manager) of the Andals, First of Her Name, Ascends to Power")
![. . . Fullerton City Council member and friend of the (Vern portion of) the blog Bruce Whitaker, has announced — as reported on the pages of the not-only-renascent-but-back-in-fighting-form Friends 4 […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Whitaker-and-his-campaign-team-115x115.png "Whitaker Declares Intent to Run to Challenge Chang as Newman’s Replacement if Recall Succeeds")
![. . . Because bus travel on OC’s boulevards is not already uninviting enough, Anaheim has come up with a new way to spend its public money (and civic reputation) on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Disney-Humps-Lyster-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: The Happiest Bus Kiosks on Earth Greet Upstanding Visitors")
![. . . For those of you who are curious: this is an example of what’s usually in our “moderation” box of comments — those with characteristics that we’ve set […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Comments-in-Moderation-cropped-115x115.png "An Inside Peek at OJB’s “Moderated Comments” — and Thus the OC Political Blogosphere Itself")
![. . . If I were to have published the defense of Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon that I had planned to write earlier this week — before Rendon pissed me […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Rendon-and-SB-562-graphic-115x115.jpg "An Actual Path to Single-Payer in California — and Speaker Rendon Can Help? Maybe Yes — and Here’s How!")
Wait, Vern! I do remember that flyer now.