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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.)
![. . . Sweet Loretta Sanchez thought she was a winner, she was Absolutely Fab On stage with Kamala, tried to get all hip-hop — then she learned she shouldn’t dab Get Back! […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Loretta-Dabs-115x115.png "GET BACK, LORETTA! Sweet Loretta Sanchez Thought She Was a Winner, Then She Learned She Shouldn’t Dab")
![. . . CLICK THIS LINK if you plan to attend the memorial tomorrow from 2 to 4 for our friend and mentor Amin David. And you should. The long awaited […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Amin-David-Memorial-115x115.jpeg "Weekend Open Thread: Sunday @ 2 @ Anaheim High’s Cook Auditorium, ‘Forever and Ever Amin’")
![. . . Damien Carroll Explains the Propositions Weekend Open Thread Haikus of CA State Propositions This November 8th Seventeen propositions Are on the ballot: Proposition 51 Nine billion dollars […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/OJB-haiku-cultural-appropriation-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: LA Democrat Damien Carroll Haiku-splains All 17 Statewide Propositions For You")
![M. . . UPDATE: The revised headline pretty much speaks for itself. At Monday night’s DPOC meeting, Ben Vasquez showed up and gave a nice speech, aided by other DPOC […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Pulido-and-Alvarez-angled-strokes-115x115.jpg "UPDATE! Process Still Sucks, But DPOC Endorses Ben Vasquez Over (Absent) Pulido for Santana Mayor, 23-1-4!")
![. . . I published an earlier version of this story on July 29, just as the party conventions closed. A friend of mine soon afterwards published a (better-written, I’m sure) […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2016-Electoral-College-Map-0728-115x115.png "With the Presidential Race Tightening, Let’s Look at That “Tie in the Electoral College” Scenario Again — and Stare at Nevada!")
![. . . “In my experience, that’s unique,” said Jeffrey Neslund, a lawyer who negotiated the $5 million settlement between the city of Chicago and the family of Laquan McDonald, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ron-Thomas-intervew1-e1474046465633-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Sandra Bland’s Mother Will Tentatively Get What Kelly Thomas’s Father Sought in Court")
![. . . For what she would probably claim to have been a good week, Lucille Kring has actually had a pretty terrible one. Kring at this point has about the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Kring-with-Trump-hair-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: Pringly Wordsmith Displays “Trump vs. RNC” Style Panic Over Kring in Anaheim District 4")
![. . . Surely you remember late last year, when Orange County’s mayors voted to replace Miguel Pulido on the South Coast Air Quality Management District with a hand-picked Republican anti-environmentalist Dwight Robinson, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Daly-pretty-fly-for-a-white-guy-115x115.jpg "When the Vote for Cleaner Air Was Close, Tom Daly Was There! But He Voted the Wrong Way, and We Lost")
![. . . This is both a “feel-good” story and a “smack-yourself-in-the-head-for-not-realizing-this first” story about how the solutions to major social problems — like student absenteeism among poorer students — may […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Larval-Version-of-the-Machine-e1472240299115-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: The Machine That Helps Impoverished Students Succeed in School")
![. . . It’s August 25, 2016 — and you know what THAT means! OK, maybe you don’t. The three hotel subsidies — one to Disney, the other to interests […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Speedy-Delivery-115x115.jpg "It’s Speedy Delivery Day! UNITE-HERE’s Anti-Hotel Subsidy Referendum Sigs Due. UPDATE: They’re turned in!")
![. . . Bill Cook , Chair of the Orange County Veterans Memorial Park Foundation — (“OCVMP,” or maybe “OCVMPF” by now) and a group with which I have been, sometimes am, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Farrah-Khan-with-OCVMP-115x115.jpg "Veterans Group Speaks Out on the Cemetery Swap — Which Petty Political Bickering Can’t Be Allowed to Block")
![. . . Endorsements in local races are one of the main events of every political cycle. Helping one’s favored candidates get into a position to win is one of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Democrats-at-August-2016-Endorsement-Meeting-115x115.jpg "Big DPOC Endorsements Winners Include Dr. Moreno, Montoya, Lahtinen, Fox, Khan; Big Loser was Fair Process")
![. . . Preface Some of my writing about Jordan Brandman — mostly dealing with his reckless support of subsidies that benefit his patron Curt Pringle and major donors to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Brandman-saying-Greg-is-Right-about-STRs-115x115.jpg "A Rush to Misjudgment: Brandman’s Grandstanding May Cost Anaheim Hundreds of Millions Before STR Lawsuits End")
It does raise the question of why fight it in the first place. Dems are so dumb. They might as…