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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.)
![. . . 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")
![. . . I don’t know who is putting out “The Real Lucille” page on Facebook, but they are doing a fantastic job. Since September 26, this page has been pounding […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kring-pickpocket-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: ‘The Real Lucille Kring’ on Facebook is the Best Anaheim News Digest You’ve Been Missing!")
![. . . The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. – Popular misquote of a similar statement by Mark Twain This Saturday, Republican Anaheim Mayor Tom […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Twain-never-argue-with-stupid-people-115x115.jpg "The Reports of My Disenfranchisement Have Been Greatly Exaggerated! (DPOC People, You’ve GOT to See This)")
![. . . As the most-quoted source on the “Ling Ling Lies” website – and no, I don’t know who created it or owns it and I have no dealings with […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ling-Ling-a-Lot-of-Lying-115x115.jpg "‘Lying Lying Chang’ – Ling Ling’s Lies About Career and Education Finally Arrive in Independent Voters’ Mailboxes")
![. . . The time to do what everyone should have known was inevitable has come. The Presidential debates have dwindled down to a not-at-all precious one; the most contentious Presidential […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/fugu-fish-Trump-OC-Repubs-115x115.png "Red Alert! It’s Time to Ask OC Republican Candidates Whether They’ll Swallow the Political Puffer Fish!")
![. . . Irvine City Council candidate Farrah Khan put out a post on Facebook late last night to 50 or more people within an interest in either Irvine politics or in Orange […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Irvine-Gets-Muddy-115x115.png "Illegal (or Worse) and Racist Signs Attacking Two Council Candidates Appear on Irvine Streets")
![. . . Republican State Representative Don Wagner has created a committee to run for California Attorney General in 2018. Sometimes, this sort of act is a mere formality, a ruse engaged in to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Wagner-for-Attorney-General-2018-115x115.png "Irvine Mayoral Candidate and Developers’ Darling Don Wagner Has (Seriously) Filed to Run for Attorney General in 2018")
![. . . 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!")
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