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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.)
![. . . That was quick! After several days of slowly creeping up on incumbent Robert Hammond, hoping to stay in a range where the provisional ballots could push her […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Beckie-Gomez-squashes-Robert-Hammond-115x115.jpg "OC Board of Education Will Apparently Return to Sanity as Gomez Blasts Past Hammond")
![. . . The chatter of the evening — after the new returns (with more than a third of the initially outstanding ballots counted) came in — is that, in CA-46, Bao Nguyen has […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Bok-Choy-e1465888429601-115x115.jpg "Elections: Choi Just Edged 32 Votes Ahead of Sidhu; Bao’s Up; Hammond Falls as Gomez Rises")
![. . . A friend of mine from Washington DC wrote up a funny bit: From the minutes of the meeting: “Ok, folks, dangerous terrorists have vowed to kill us. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Pulse-reading-with-target-115x115.png "The Atmospheric Density of Accelerated Matter, and Other Cultural Touchstones")
![. . . Some national political news for all of us to enjoy, since this past week was the week for it. (1) California Has 2.4 Million Ballots Left to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Ivanka-Trump-at-Seeds-of-Peace-Event-in-2009-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: A New Hillary Scandal; Disdaining Leverage; and Ivanka Soon Turns 35")
![. . . UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE 46th District Completed Precincts: 226 of 226 Vote Count Percentage LOU CORREA (DEM) 27,734 41.7% BOB PETERSON (REP) 9,652 14.5% BAO NGUYEN (DEM) 9,416 […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/17-Alan-Lowenthal-and-Bao-Nguyen-at-the-parade-115x115.jpg "Bao Makes His Move — Deficit for CA-46 Runoff Spot Falls from 550 to 236, and Projections are Optimistic")
![. . . Here’s a page (from the pro-CCW perspective) that has links to all of the critical information on the Peruta v. San Diego case. Because there is an evenly […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Concealed-Carry-Crotch-Shot-115x115.jpg "Ninth Circuit Decides En Banc That There’s No Second Amendment Right to Carry Concealed Weapons")
![. . . We’ve already covered the big “good news” story from Tuesday: the victory of Josh Newman in the SD-29 primary. Now let’s look at the rest of the news — […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Leucocytes-115x115.jpg "Primary Results, Run 2 — Federal Races: ‘That’s REPRESENTATIVE Whitish Discharge to You!’ Plus: Is Issa Vulnerable?")
![. . . Vote-by-mail ballots mailed by 5:00 yesterday have until Friday to arrive. The provisional ballot situation within the county (and probably beyond) seems to have been a colossal snafu. Orange […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Newmans-Campaign-Fun-115x115.png "Say Hello to a New Man for the 29th State Senate District: He’ll Be Easy to Bear [UPDATED, Final Results!]")
![. . . The first tranche of ballots that the OC Registrar of voters puts out on the evening of a major election are marked “0 precincts of N” (N, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016-Primary-Signs-1-600px-115x115.jpg "Primary Results, Run 1: What the Absentee Ballots Had to Say")
![. . This is a special Election Day Open Thread in which you can report on recent developments in the election, anything worthwhile you’ve recently read about it, anything you have […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/HOLYNE-115x115.png "Special Election Day Open Thread: Chismes, Reports, Citations, and More!")
![. . . (1) The Premature Whistles An embarrassing moment in California’s political history is mercifully coming to an end. For three weeks here in California — and three months, nationwide, and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Hillary-as-Daffy-Duck-115x115.png "Hillary Has Asserted Victory, But California Will Still Be Counted and the Left Shall Know Its Numbers!")
![. . . If you are a Democratic or NPP voter who is still undecided — or even still persuadable — in the Democratic Presidential primary race, here’s my closing […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/bernie-revolving-door-115x115.png "“It’s the Appointments, Stupid”: Bernie Will Lock the Revolving Door and Hillary Emphatically Won’t (Plus: NPP Voter Form!)")
![. . . [Editors note: See correction at the end, although this story remains in its original published form.] The Bernie Sanders campaign in Orange County has so far been […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Hillary-and-her-OC-friends-spotlight-600-px-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: Sanders Releases Devastating Final Photo Bomb Attack on Clinton! (UPDATE: Denied!)")
![. . . Recently Dishonest Dave Gilliard-acquired mouthpiece Matt Cunningham published a piece on Friday slamming the breaking news story published here Thursday morning about signs being posted within the 68th District attacking Deborah Pauly […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Sidhu-Anti-Pauly-DUI-Poster-with-Strickland-115x115.png "Who’s Behind the Pauly DUI Attack Signs? Harry Sidhu’s Cronies, Including Tarnished Tony Strickland")
It does raise the question of why fight it in the first place. Dems are so dumb. They might as…