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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.)
![. . . (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")
![. . . When Dean Inada and I walked in to vote in the California Democratic Party elections yesterday at about 5 p.m. — I had been carrying around a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/stuffed-pig-apple-115x115.jpg "Ballot Stuffing in the CDP Elections? Might Have Seen It!")
![PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! *You are not actually stupid. Blame James Carville for that phrase! There is much to like about Eric Bauman, especially if you appreciate his track record as […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CDP-Chair-Kimberly-Ellis-Eric-Bauman-e1548256842418-115x115.png "Closing Argument Against 20 Years of Chair Bauman: “It’s the Autocracy, Stupid*”")
![. . . It’s the morning of the day of the vote for CDP Chair, and desperation tactics abound. Here’s a running total. (1) More Complaints About the Alleged “Pedarasrty” […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/berniecrat-dinner-115x115.jpg "More Last-Minute Bauman Slurs, Spin, and Shenanigans")
![. . . Something truly rotten, and richly worth condemning, reportedly happened to Eric Bauman all of the sudden two weeks ago tonight. Let’s recall how he told the story, which […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Clue-cast-115x115.jpg "Two Weeks Gone and Bauman Still Hasn’t Named the Culprits. Maybe Soon?")
![. . . [Author’s note: If you’re not familiar with my writing, please know that I “write long” and include a fair number of digressions. (Learned that from Herman Melville!) This […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/donkey-hole.jpg "DPOC Insiders Cheat to Gain a CDP Chair Endorsement for Eric Bauman")
![. . . 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")
Sandra de Anda is running against Phil Bacerra for Santa Ana Council... that kind of makes me want to put…