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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.)
![. . . 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")
![. . . (If you’re a Central Committee member and just want to get to my own views, for some reason, just skip down until after all the list of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/DPOC-Endorsement-Choices-115x115.png "DPOC Proposed Endorsements Come Out Before Monday Vote – Mostly Decent, with Some Puzzling Disappointments")
![. . . We have sort of a “file” on Lucille Kring, containing things that you (and maybe even she) may not remember. (To get a three year-old primer on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Kring-picks-Anaheims-pocket-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: If Anaheim is Prospering, Why Did Lucille Kring Try So Hard to Raise Its Utility Rates?")
![Didn’t finish all of the City Council races — but we do have over half the county by population! Today’s the last day of candidate filing, except when […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Baby-girl-picture-115x115.jpg "Some (Not All) City Council Races for You to Watch")
![. . . IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR OUR 2016 ELECTION ENDORSEMENTS POST, CLICK THIS LINK! THANKS — AND HAPPY READING! Our general election feature chronicling who’s running for what, “A Day […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2016-School-Board-and-Special-District-Candidates-115x115.png "OJB’s 2016 School Board and Special District Offices & Candidates: File Now or Forever Hold Your Peace!")
![. . . The group “Citizens for a Better Anaheim” will announce Thursday morning that it will launch a referendum drive to stop two of the three Anaheim Hotel subsidies […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/UNITE-HERE-protests-Disney-115x115.jpg "Hotel Workers: Referendum Drive Will Stop Two Huge Anaheim Hotel Subsidies; Rally Aug. 4 @ 10 a.m.")
![. . . Something doesn’t make sense about the recent Trump campaign, even by the Trump campaign’s own meager standards. That makes me suspicious that a scenario that I first […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Trump-Convention-500px-115x115.png "Wittingly or Not, Trump is Setting Up a Sept. 29 Rope-a-Dope for a GOP Dream Ticket — and It Could Work")
![. . . Maybe someone else has already noticed and written about this recently — but if so I haven’t seen it. And it’s disturbing. If you don’t want to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2016-Electoral-College-Map-0728-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: States’ Leanings as the Conventions Close Generates a Surprising Electoral College Result")
![. . . Summer Anaheim City Council meetings, whether after holidays or during the Mayor’s long-scheduled vacations, have become excruciating. When the Top Cat’s away, the mice will play the same […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Kring-in-Taits-absence-reads-off-her-pitch-for-rebating-taxes-to-hotels-115x115.jpg "Anaheim Hotel Subsidy: You Know You’re Being Conned when Lousy Projections are called ‘Facts’")
https://powersearch.sos.ca.gov:3000/ You can search pulido and Briceno ies here. Pretty neck and neck and in the high six digits. No…