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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.)
![. . . The OCGOP is practically quivering with excitement over the chance to accuse Democrats of gay-bashing: OCGOP STATEMENT ON OC DEMOCRATIC PARTY VICE-CHAIR’S VERBAL ATTACK ON GAY VOLUNTEERS ORANGE […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/LeTourneau-Whitaker-Recall-115x115.png "(Belated) Weekend Open Thread: OCGOP Complaint About Gay-Bashing Leaves Just One Thing Out")
![. . . 4:59 p.m., June 23, 2017 To the California Democratic Party’s (“CDP”) Compliance Review Committee (“CRC”): [1] Introduction I write to you as a Democratic State Central Committee […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CDP-election-layout-of-registration-and-voting-hall-115x115.png "My Letter to the California Democratic Party’s Compliance Review Committee Re Evidence of Election Fraud")
![. . . Kimberly Ellis issued a press release yesterday providing additional details of her claim that the process of the California Democratic Party’s May 20 vote for CDP Chair […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CDP-Chair-Kimberly-Ellis-Lenore-Albert-115x115.png "Lenore Albert Inadvertently Makes Kimberly Ellis’s Case That an Independent Forensic Audit is Absolutely Necessary")
![. . . One main argument made by Larry Agran, Chumley, and others from their camp was that the actual purpose of the “land swap,” to place the Southern California […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Veterans-cemetery-design-plans-115x115.jpg "Vets Cemetery: the Counter-Argument That the Vets Said Was Manure Was Manure Indeed")
![. . . Here’s a story that I’d like you to read about “white liberal racism,” focusing on a bunch of emails from a wealthy and enlightened-seeming school in Seattle that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/black-lives-matter-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: “Black Lives Matter”‘s Missing Words")
![. . . That Mark Daniels guy sure is willing to embarrass people. He plants their photos on Facebook without warning to celebrate something that they’ve done. He’s embarrassingly better at […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Mark-Daniels-holding-candle-115x115.jpg "Let’s Embarrass Anaheim’s Mark Daniels With Our Pre-Surgery Well-Wishes!")
![. . . This post will follow the events of this afternoon’s “special” Irvine City Council meeting as they occur. They will be voting on whether to move the planned […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Great-Park-Map-Possible-Central-Park-like-Areas-115x115.jpg "LIVEBLOG! Irvine City Council Meeting Vote on Siting of the Veterans Cemetery!")
![. . . This was a pretty big day in CDP Chair Election Dispute news. The work day started with a fulminating attack by Eric Bauman against Kimberly Ellis and it […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Donkey-Stubborn-115x115.jpg "Bauman Letter Lambastes Ellis Challenge; So Ellis Outlines Problem Areas of CDP Election")
![. . . (1) “Bury Veterans, not the lede!” Irvine’s City Council will decide Tuesday at 4 p.m., hopefully with you in attendance!, whether it will move OC’s planned Veterans Cemetery from a site […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Strawberry-Field-in-Irvine-115x115.jpg "Strawberry Fields, Eternally? Irvine Council Decides at 4 p.m. Tuesday Special Meeting!")
![. . . [Author’s Note: I often note in my posts that I do not speak for one or another campaign. Here I want to do something a little different: […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Maviglio-115x115.jpg "Bauman’s Mouthpiece Maviglio Visits VOC to Refute Joel Block; Let’s Take His Claims Apart!")
![. . . It’s so nice to disagree with someone whom I like, because it shows that not all disagreement has to be disagreeable. So it is with former 72nd […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Bauman-Brow-115x115.png "I Have to Disagree with Joel Block about Half of His Article on the CDP Convention")
![. . . (1) What’s NOT Happening, and Why It Isn’t, and Why It Also Sort of Is It’s been harder than usual trying to distinguish between what information is and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/CDP-Chair-Election-Ballot-Review-115x115.png "As CDP Chair Ballot Review Nears Conclusion, Here’s What It (Maybe) Was About (Part I)")
![. . . [Note: See 8:00 pm May 30 Update below the Kimberly Ellis letter.] Kimberly Ellis’s campaign today announced a formal challenge to the California Democratic Party’s Chair race […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Ballot-Challenge-Florida-2000-115x115.jpg "CDP Chair’s Race: Ellis Campaign Files Formal Challenge to Result; Updated!")
![. . . Belated greetings after my return from the California Democratic Party convention, from which I am continuing to recover. (And, in some respects, to fail to recover, at […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Janus-faces-115x115.jpg "Two Convention Encounters With the God-Like (If You Worship Janus) Gavin Newsom")
Wait, Vern! I do remember that flyer now.