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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.)
![. . . 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’")
![. . . Yesterday’s opening of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia was marked by several significant things happening off of the stage — but onstage it was marked by […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Sarah-Silverman-DNC-speech-115x115.jpg "Democratic Convention: See Monday’s Speeches from People Who Should Have Been Chosen Vice-President")
![. . . This diagram — based on what Nate Silver’s 538.com poll aggregator produced today and taken from there — shows Trump winning by a landslide if the election […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Trump-Leads-Poll-on-Day-1-of-DNC-Convention-115x115.jpg "Welcome to the Democratic National Convention! Here’s the State of the Race as of Today!")
![. . . With the first week of filing complete, the four Anaheim City Council races have shaped up well-enough to start to handicap them. And, as many people expected, the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Anaheim-Council-Candidates-115x115.png "Anaheim Elections: Disney Slate Advantaged as Opponents Fissure the Vote?")
![. . . One of my themes of this campaign season is that most politically engaged Democrats seem to have no idea how those other than politically engaged Democrats see […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Melania-Speaks-@-RNC-Convo-115x115.jpg "Convention Monday: Faced With Fascism, Racism, and White Supremacy, GOP Critics Beat Up on a Girl")
![. . . The 2nd quarter donations for our Congressional races were due last Friday. Scott Lay did the hard work (possibly not very hard) of posting them on his […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Money-Makes-the-World-Go-Round-115x115.jpg "Second Quarter Fundraising Report in Congressional Races is OUT — and There’s a Surprise or Two")
![. . . From the very moment it saw the new logo of the Trumppence campaign, Orange Juice Blog obsessively spent ALL OF FRIDAY AND SATURDAY doing research on its guide to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Trumpence-breaking-mattress-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: GOP Convention Preview; Pokémon Go Study Materials; and Whoa, Cop-Killing Doesn’t Work!")
![. . . 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")
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