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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.)
![. . . I know that big local things are happening this week, but in my house we’ve been following the first ten days of the insurgent Presidency of Rodrigo […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Duterte-videoke-limit-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Trump’s Somewhat Plausible Model for Success, New Philippines President Digong Duterte")
![. . . I feel terrible for the victims of the coordinated sniper attacks in Dallas — as I do for Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, this year’s other victims of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Philando-Castile-killing-image-from-phone-of-Diamond-Reynolds-115x115.jpg "Days of Rage, Days of Reconciliation")
![. . . This is part of a series that is (mostly) just for election tabulation nerds who enjoy the minutiae of a statewide vote count. This particular one will introduce […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Crumbs-115x115.jpg "Cleaning Up the Crumbs: Election Results Roundup Four Days Before Every County’s Final Totals are Due")
![. . . For political observers, Jeff Greenfield’s recent article “Is This Why Hillary Clinton Is Trusted By So Few Americans?”, on why so many people don’t trust Hillary (and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hillary-lying-image-115x115.png "Ask for My Vote, Sure — But Don’t Make Me Swear That There’s Nothing Seriously Wrong With the Clintons")
![. . . If you want to see a left-wing candidate — Bernie Sanders, to take a random example! — run for President as an independent or third-party candidate, then you […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/John-Quincy-Adams-long-arm-of-the-lawmaker-115x115.jpg "Third Party Presidential Candidacies and the Fracking Twelfth Amendment: Why Bernie Won’t Run Green")
![. . . Here’s a simplified explanation of how government incentives to private interests are supposed to work — to the extent they work at all — if, like Jordan […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Moreno-video-on-half-bil-hotel-subsidy-115x115.jpg "Holiday Weekend Open Thread: Anaheim is 11 Days Away from a Half-Billion-Dollar Giveaway; Will You Help Stop It?")
![. . . At the July 12, 2016 City Council Meeting, the Anaheim City Council is getting ready to do something that you don’t see every day: giving away $500,000,000.00 […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/SOAR-Loser-Gloria-Maae-e1467162808545-115x115.jpg "SOAR Losers: ‘STOP DISNEY’ Strikes Back at Voracious Mouse’s “GIMME YOUR MONEY!” Propaganda")
![. . . The one thing from 2016 that will definitely be in the history books (if such still exist) 100 years from now just happened: the United Kingdom has just […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/British-Joker-imitating-Trump-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: In ‘Brexit,’ Brea Votes to Secede from OC. Wait — No, Uh … the United Kingdom Did WHAT???")
![. . . December 6 of this year will be the 50th anniversary of the recording of the all-time greatest protest-song-that-wasn’t-actually-a-protest-song. As Democratic politicians have taken over the House of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Sit-In-in-House-NO-BILL-NO-BREAK-115x115.jpg "Floor Leaders: Democratic ‘No Bill, No Break’ Gun Control Sit-In on House Floor Will Echo for Decades, Probably Badly")
![. . . [Ed. Note: because there is such a thing as too many copies of the same photo of bok choy, we’re going to double, triple, however many -iple […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Bok-Choy-close-up-115x115.png "Final OC Primary Results by Day (Updated 6/24): Dem Turnout 72.5%, GOP 52.1% — and … Scene.")
![. . . [1] Today’s Anaheim LGBT Flag Resolution I would generally hesitate to accuse someone of “politicizing a tragedy” — but it does happen. Deciding to respond to an atrocity […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Rainbow-Flag-graphic-115x115.png "Yes, Anaheim CAN Honor Gays in the Wake of Orlando — With OR Without a Council Resolution")
![. . . Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, a declared candidate for Attorney General in 2018, has announced his request that the federal government apply an ancient and dormant legal principle called “anti-trust law” […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/dave-jones-best-115x115.jpg "Dave Jones Issues Report Opposing Big Insurance Merger; What Will Bao and Correa Say?")
![. . . Before anything else: I’m looking for someone to write a piece explaining the pros and cons of upgrading the Windows 10 from either the excellent Windows 7.1 […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/bernie-happy-1-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Sanders Stays, Was the Dem Primary ‘Rigged’?, and Melahat Knocks Out Environmentalist")
![. . . [Editor’s Note: I posted this on Facebook early this morning after, to my shock and dismay, I found that I was being exposed to the “Melahat Rafiei […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Melahat-half-face-115x115.png "Brandman’s Political Guide Melahat Rafiei is Running for DNC Today; I Can’t Keep Quiet Any Longer")
It does raise the question of why fight it in the first place. Dems are so dumb. They might as…