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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.)
![. . . Here’s the lede, lest I bury it: California Democratic Party Board Member Mirvette Judeh has decided to take on incumbent Florice Hoffman for the position of Regional Director […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Florice-Hoffman-and-Mirvette-Judeh-with-Jose-Moreno-115x115.png "Mirvette Judeh Takes on Florice Hoffman for OC’s Top Cal Dem Party Position – now with video!")
![. . . Over at Lib OC — and, yeah, I’m going to link to it this time! — our chum Chumley just republished a story by Larry Agran in Irvine News […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Great-Park-Map-Possible-Central-Park-like-Areas-115x115.jpg "If Larry Agran Just Rebutted Me on the Vets Cemetery, Why Don’t I Feel Rebutted?")
![. . . (1) A misleading poll? [Note: also see the follow-up to this post here, addressing Larry Agran’s “response.”] Now that Gov. Jerry Brown will be coming to Irvine soon […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Great-Park-Map-as-Legislated-with-ARDA-115x115.png "Is the Original (ARDA) Cemetery Site IN the Great Park? Trick Question! (Plus, a Poll!)")
![. . . This story is not funny. Sure, it seems funny. You may laugh at it, like your author did. But afterwards, you should repent your schadenfreude, as your author […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Fyre-Festival-Luxury-Yurts-e1493416256481-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Aim! Fyre! Ready! ‘The Magic Christian’ Comes to Life")
![. . . Anaheim’s City Manager Paul Emery has placed Item 33 on the City Council’s “consent calendar,” which is supposed to contain items insufficiently controversial to require debate. Item […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Reefer-Madness-Item-33-3-115x115.png "Reefer Madness on Anaheim’s Consent Calendar: Behold Item 33, Which Oughta Be Pulled")
![. . . Delegates to the California Democratic Party Central Committee will convene in Sacramento on May 20, They will be voting for a new Chair to replace beloved, liberal, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CDP-Chair-Kimberly-Ellis-Eric-Bauman-e1548256842418-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: Calif Democratic Party Chair Candidates in OC Sunday and Monday")
![. . . This is some sad news — but we’re going to set it right: Former Sen. Barbara Boxer is taking a new gig, joining Poseidon’s lobbying effort to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Demon-Barbara-Boxer.jpg "BOX OUT POSEIDON! Salty Tears Over Senator-Lobbyist Boxer’s Betrayal of OC Consumers")
![. . . Today’s news is that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is going to park its Political Director for the Western U.S. here in Irvine, the first time since 2000 […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Isolde_shea_donkey-115x115.jpg "Can We Help You, Democratic Strategists from Out-of-Town? (Seriously, I’m Wondering)")
![. . . Let’s weed through the international, national, state, county, local, and hyper-local news and find things to eradicate. INTERNATIONAL The story of the day is that President Trumpnocchio […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Roundup-spraying-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Political Roundup for April 7, 2017")
![. . . Longtime Democratic activist, structural engineer, and all-around decent guy John Vassiliades wrote a blog post for us without realizing it when he sent out this open letter […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/broken-bridge-155x155.jpg "Transportation Bills — Including Newman’s Accountability Bill — Come Up for Vote Tomorrow")
![. . . (1) The Players in Tonight’s Veterans Cemetery Drama in Irvine After a year of scant progress, Irvine’s City Council will today take up the questions of where […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Cemetery-Areas-Proposed-with-fwys-600px-115x115.jpg "Irvine Has to Choose: the Bigger & More Visible Vets Cemetery Site, or the One That Punishes FivePoint More")
![. . . The video still you see above is from the Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election campaign against Walter Mondale. Of the two main commercial of the campaign, it is literally […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Bear-in-the-Woods-Reagan-ad-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: “Russia, Russia, Russia!”")
![. . . So I get a call at about 5:00 from an excited friend who occasionally slums on Liberal OC to ask me if I can POSSIBLY GUESS who has […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Lenorira-and-Bauman-115x115.png "Ravenous Attention-Vampire Lenore Albert Sheridan to Run for CDP Chair ‘to Unite the Party’ — IN LAUGHTER")
![. . . Santa Ana Council member and eventual Mayoral aspirant Jose Solorio — mocked by audience members as “Latino Trump” for his support for resurrecting the city’s contract with […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Solorio-as-Trump-115x115.png "‘Latino Trump’ Solorio’s First Reason for Keeping ICE Jail is Proven Wrong; Second is True, But Pitiful")
It does raise the question of why fight it in the first place. Dems are so dumb. They might as…