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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.)
![. . . It’s that time of the political cycle again! Four year terms on the Democratic National Committee — you know, the one run by Debbie Wasserman Schultz and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Debbie-Wasserman-Schultz-115x115.png "Will Any Sanders Supporters Be Added to the DNC? Application Deadline [was Thursday] at 5!")
![. . . Bill Honigman of Progressive Democrats of America posted this video of yesterday’s Bernie speech. I think that it’s it’s intended to be shared. So let’s get to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Bernie-hands-with-flag-115x115.jpg "Bernie’s Anaheim Convention Center Speech. (Got 65 Minutes?)")
![. . . OJ Blog is represented at the Bernie rally in Anaheim and will be live blogging until its phone’s pitiful battery gives out. Others here and on the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/image-2-115x115.jpg "Liveblog from Bernie’s Anaheim Convention Center Rally")
![. . . At the request of his family, we’ve been sitting on the story of Amin David’s illness for a long time. His months of treatment, his weeks of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/amin-scaffold-115x115.png "Amin David, the Scaffold of His Community, Has Died After a Life of Great Success and Service")
![. . . O joy! 538’s honcho Nate Silver has discovered “the hidden importance of the Bernie Sanders voter” — that we are largely non-Democratic and that those who aren’t Democratic are […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Nate-Silver-Blinded-by-Hillary-115x115.png "The Democratic Party Won’t Even ACKNOWLEDGE the Science of What It Must Do to Beat Donald Trump")
![. . . This piece is going to be controversial, but if you don’t agree with it you should be prepared to say why. And, in doing so, you’re probably […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/bruno-deity-115x115.jpg "It’s Sad That Bruno the Police Dog Has Died. Now Retrieve the Bullet for Ballistics Testing.")
![. . . Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait produced a letter to the editor in Sunday’s Register. As the entire letter is newsworthy, we feel justified (after having given the Orange Lady […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Disneyland-Getaway-with-murder-115x115.png "Mayor Tait Sets the Table for November: Anaheim’s Election Will Be About Insane Subsidies")
![. . . The CA-46 primary (to replace Loretta Sanchez in Congress) is the only major one where I feel conflicted this year. Voting will begin within a week, so it’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Amante-fixed-per-Gustavo-115x115.jpg "CA-46: Why I Prefer Joe Dunn for Congress Over the Impressive Bao Nguyen")
![. . . Today was the Indiana primary. It will all-but-surely (barring something truly untoward) spell the end of the Republican Presidential race. And it looks like it will reinvigorate […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Indiana-Results-538-is-way-off-115x115.png "Youse Lose Cruz, Clinton Loses but Takes Kentucky Border, Nate Silver Should Resign, and Other Election Thoughts")
![. . . Hate to spring this on you at the last minute, but: read and sign this petition, “NESTLE STOLE OUR WATER FOR 28 YEARS.” You won’t BELIEVE how […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/nestle-steals-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: You Have Until Monday to Stop Another Water Giveaway to Nestle")
![. . . The battle between the two Republican mediocrities who are spending the most money in AD-68, Anaheim Hill’s Harry Sidhu and Irvine’s Steven Choi, got even stupider this morning. [Ed. Note: […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Choi-Sidhu-Pauly-Chuchua-115x115.png "AD-68: Neither Harry Sidhu NOR Steven Choi Seems to Understand the Meaning of the Word ‘Mayor’")
![. . . Press release from the Orange County Veterans Memorial Park Foundation (“OCVMP”), marking iheartoc Giving Day: Today is the day we begin our 30 hour fundraiser to benefit the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OCVMP-Bill-Cook-Gov-Brown-e1461795389782-115x115.jpg "It’s iHEARToc Giving Day! We Heart the OCVMP — Whom Do You Heart?")
![. . . We Democrats (just talking between me, Vern, Ricardo, and a few others here, but others are welcome to kibitz) are seriously moving towards nominating someone who can […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Presidential-candidate-favorability-ratings-likelies-4-16-115x115.jpg "Democrats Preparing to Nominate Candidate Easily Beaten by a Bribe of Trump")
![. . . Here’s a few developments for you on this New York primary day. (Photos via usuncut.com.) (1) Poll-Axing the Voters If you need to get caught up on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/New-York-Disenfranchised-Voters-115x115.jpg "A New York State of Disarray — and Was Hillary’s DNC Joint Fundraising Just Unethical, or More?")
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