- 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.)
![. . . Vern and I have taken no end of grief in certain quarters.over our crediting the allegations that have been promoted by 2014 72nd Assembly District general election candidate Joel […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Raven-Nevermore-115x115.jpg "(AD-72) “Sorrow for the Lost Lenore”: Vern, Our Criticisms of Candidate Lenore Albert Sheridan Have Been Vindicated")
![. . . As the news that Brea’s Treasurer (and candidate for be elected to that position) Rick Rios had been busted for a DUI-Hit-and-Run came late on Thursday afternoon, just before […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Rick-Rios-with-Steve-Vargas-115x115.jpg "Hey, BREA! Which Treasurer Candidate Was Just Busted for a DUI Hit & Run? And Who Stole Ed Royce’s Endorsement?")
![. . . Sharon Quirk-Silva and I have our differences, but here she is right on the money. I was going to write that Young Kim should be ashamed, but […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Sharon-Quirk-Silva-in-classroom-115x115.jpg "Sharon Quirk-Silva Slimed by Young Kim Personally and Professionally – Tell Kim It’s Out of Line!")
![. . . This MONDAY is the deadline to REGISTER TO VOTE so tell EVERYONE YOU KNOW who may not already be registered to FILL OUT THOSE REGISTRATION FORMS which […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Anaheim-Republican-Assembly-invocation-at-candidate-forum-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: REGISTRATION CLOSES MONDAY & the Anaheim Republican Assembly Candidate Forum Videos")
![. . . Paul Bokota of the Irvine Unified School District Board seems like a pleasant enough guy — smart, good deportment, Harvard-educated, but (in my limited experience with him) not […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Bokota-115x115.png "Bludgeoning Paul Bokota into Endorsing DPOC-Endorsed Irvine Council Candidates Seems to Work, So…")
![. . . (Brea, Oct. 20, 2016, 4:15 PM) — The City of Brea’s appointed Treasurer Rick Rios was arrested for driving under the influence after being involved in a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Rick-Rios-isnt-working-115x115.jpg "Brea Treasurer Rick Rios, Aiming for Election, Instead Drunkenly Hits Two Parked Cars and is Arrested")
![. . . [SEE 10/24 UPDATE BELOW] Hell hath no fury like a rancid billionaire member of the U.S. House of Representatives trying to hold onto a house seat from […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Issa-Mad-115x115.jpg "Desperate Darrell Issa Snuggles Up to Obama in Mailers, But Nothing Will Remove the Stains on His Record")
![. . . This press release just showed up from the Josh Newman for State Senate campaign, reveling in a rare victory (for anyone) in less than 80 hours over […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/newman-blimp-115x115.png "Josh Newman Forces Ling-Ling Chang to Pull Down Defamatory and Dishonest Cable Ads in Disgrace")
![. . . Lucille Kring made a likely fatal mistake last night at Anaheim’s Council meeting in following the self-serving, scoop-up-the-cash-on-the-way-out-the-door, demands of fellow Councilmember Jordan Brandman. She was the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Brandman-completes-Krings-soul-sucking-115x115.png "Lucille Kring Made a Likely Fatal Campaign Mistake: Followed Brandman’s Self-Serving Agenda 100% in 3-2 Votes")
![. . . Evidence has been mounting that Jordan “Subsidies!” Brandman is trailing significantly in his campaign for election to Anaheim’s substantial Latino majority District 3, where he is running […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Brandman-sucking-down-Krings-soul-115x115.jpg "SPEAK AT 3:30 TODAY! Will Kring Help Brandman Line His Pockets and Cement His Influence on the Way Out?")
![. . . One week since we asked, one week since the Ron Varasteh campaign itself asked, and still not a peep from Schemin’ Mimi Walters so far as we […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Betty-Bowers-trad-Marriage-115x115.jpg "C’mon, “Womens’ Advocate” Mimi Walters — Tell Us Whether You Still Plan to Vote for Trump, and If You ENDORSE HIM!")
![. . . Vote-by-mail ballots are supposed to be arriving right around today, so it’s a good time to take stock on this year’s races, from national to local. Here […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/10-Things-I-Hate-About-Elections-115x115.png "As Vote-By-Mail Ballots Arrive, Here are Ten (Mostly) Generic Thoughts on Voting in This Year’s Races")
![. . . An attentive reader alerted me to Michael Hiltzik’s story from Friday’s LA Times on how Ling Ling Chang took a lazy shortcut in drafting legislation and messed up the law […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Book-Signing-Sam-Bleakley-Surfing-Brilliant-Corners-115x115.jpg "Bumbling Ling Chang Hides from Media As Her ‘Inexcusably Sloppy’ Law May Kill Off an Industry; She Suggests Violating It!")
![. . . I’m not going to ask you to listen to Michelle Obama’s entire speech yesterday in New Hampshire. You can skip the intro and start at 2:20. And […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Michelle-Obamas-New-Hampshire-Speech-Against-Trump-115x115.jpg "Michelle Obama’s Startlingly Strong Speech Against Trump, Without Ever Once Naming Him")
Caught a pro-Mark Pulido IE tv spot this morning.