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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.)
![. . . Talk about your “triggering events”! Paul Emery negotiating with the Angels about their lease appears on the closed session agenda for tomorrow’s Anaheim City Council meeting: CONFERENCE WITH […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/mike-trout-red-115x115.jpg "What Fresh Hell is This Angel’s Stadium Lot Agenda Item (If Any)? Also PULL ITEM 3 to Ask Disney Questions!")
![. . . This came in from the Green Party (I think intended for publication here), so those of you who want to see and possibly communicate with Dr. Jill […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Jill-Stein-Green-Skin-115x115.jpg "Jill Stein is Coming to Irvine; As a Democrat, Here’s What I’d Say to Her If I Went (Which I Won’t)")
![. . . Chances are good that you, mostly here in OC, neither knew nor cared much about the City of Los Angeles’s Measure S, which was soundly defeated by a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/LA-skyline-squeezed-by-about-58-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: Visiting Los Angeles for a Moment to Talk About Measure S")
![. . . Dana Rohrabacher will be holding a tele-townhall at 6:00 p.m. tonight (this post is being published at almost 4:15) for people within the 48th Congressional District. The […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/dana-goofy-115x115.jpg "“Timid Dana” Rohrabacher’s so-called “Town Hall.”")
![. . . (1) Bernie and Me and the Near Left’s Big Three (Note: You Can Skip This Section) (Seriously, if you don’t want a leisurely read you can skip […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MoveOn-Taken-for-Granted-115x115.png "MoveOn Should NOT Take Drastic Efforts to Fight the GOP Health Care Deform")
![. . . Today is International Women’s Day — and is also the demonstration “A Day Without A Woman,” which has become unexpectedly controversial. Some feminists think that, unlike the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Statue-of-Liberty-Dark-115x115.jpg "A Day Without a Woman.")
![. . . Something absolutely amazing has been happening at the Anaheim City Council, last meeting and tonight: Anaheim Hills has been poor-mouthing the rest of the City — including […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Murray-and-Murray-115x115.png "Murray’s Bad Leadership Leads Anaheim Hills Into Conflict with City’s Non-Profits Over Fireworks Money")
![. . . For both of you who’ve missed this, the presenters of Best Picture award at Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony announced that the wrong picture — La La Land, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Oscars-So-Confused-115x115.jpg "Here’s How the ‘Best Picture’ Snafu Happened — and What it Reveals About How We Think")
![. . . Years ago, when some of us were a little more hopeful about Disney playing a productive role in resolving Anaheim’s problems, this blog took the position that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Southern-California-cop-1000x532-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Anaheim’s “Ferguson” Makes the National News as Focus of Mass Protest")
![. . . Hey there, Fiscal Watchdogs! Join Orange County Auditor-Controller, Eric H. Woolery, CPA and guests: Senator Josh Newman, Assemblymember Sharon Quirk Silva, and Voice of OC’s Norberto Santana […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Accoutning-for-Activists-event-115x115.jpg "Accounting for Activists at CSUF Tonight, 7-9, featuring Josh, Sharon, Norberto, & OC Auditor Eric Woolery")
![. . . All fourteen judges of the Richmond-based Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decided today that states do have the right to ban so-called “assault weapons” (which they define both […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/4th-Circuit-Judge-King-Broken-AR15-115x115.png "Federal Circuit Court (Not the Ninth) Rules That States Have the Right to Regulate (Including Ban) ‘Assault Weapons’")
![. . . [Reprinted from Facebook, on the event of the publication of the LA Times story “Angels to stay in Anaheim through at least 2029“.] In the late afternoon […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Angels-Hell-Pringle-and-Moreno-7-115x115.jpg "Tait, CATER, and Other Stadium Lot Giveaway Opponents Vindicated: the Angels are Staying Put. (Yay!)")
![. . . An engorged Chumley takes to his blog to trumpet what he believes to be his moment of triumph: At the next Democratic Party of Orange County meeting […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Chumley-Elephant-Seals-fighting-115x115.png "Walrus Poop 2/14: Yearning to Destroy Jose Moreno Induces Biz Dem to Sacrifice Dems Councilmembers Countywide")
![. . . Vern here. I noticed this great (although not entirely completed) interview with Mayor Tait, sitting among Greg’s “drafts” from last September, and thought it was still well worth […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Tait-hardhat-115x115.png "How “Anti-Union” is Anaheim’s Mayor Tom Tait? OJB’s Diamond Asks Him the Hard(hat) Questions")
It does raise the question of why fight it in the first place. Dems are so dumb. They might as…