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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.)
![. . . This is the first installment of this year’s “A Day at the Races” feature on who is running for what in OC elections, based on the nightly reports […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/President-Edie-115x115.jpg "A Day at the Races, March 6: OC Candidates from Atkinson-Bukewihge to Zelnic")
![. . . Hi — I’m back posting again. Had a busy month behind me, but more on that another time. This will be short for now, but Vern and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/pre_existing_health_condition-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: In Which a Pre-Existing Condition is Cured")
![. . . California Attorney General Kamala Harris last night received the state Democratic Party endorsement for the state’s first open U.S. Senate seat since 1992 with an overwhelming 78.12% […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/kamala-loretta-convention-115x115.png "Kamala v. Loretta: OC Dems are 58.8% Out of Step with the Rest of California.")
![. . . These are some of my opponents today as I my wife and I head to Nevada. I’m there to be a legal observer; she’s there to check […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Nevadas-Political-Whores-e1455941967195-115x115.jpg "Off to Nevada to Oppose Some Political Whores. No, Literally.")
![. . . This time, it IS time, Anaheim! The Recommended Plan — also known as the People’s Map and the Reyes 2 Map — has a new name tonight: It’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Anaheim-6-stripe-map-for-campaign-115x115.jpg "PEOPLE’S MAP WINS! Some Pictorial Memories (Plus a Few Words from Neil DeGrasse Tyson)")
![That . . . (1) BIG NEWS That Probably Isn’t News at All Kleptocracy-associated blogs are all atwitter over news, reportedly from the Anaheim City Council’s hired demographer Justin Levitt, suggesting […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Anaheim-Population-Unit-93-in-central-map-115x115.jpg "District 3 is Still as Majority Latino CVAP as It Ever Was: A Close Look at Block Groups 93 & 106")
![. . . This question is primarily for Democrats and Independents, but Republicans and others are welcome to answer as well. If Bernie Sanders had been born a girl named […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/harvey-clinton-and-bernadette-sanders-115x115.png "Would You Vote for Harvey Clinton or for Bernadette Sanders?")
![. . . UPDATE 2/2: Sorry, folks — I was in a rush and I blew it. Mea culpa. I’ve been working on an emergency matter in a case involving […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/correa-dunn--115x115.png "CA-46: Correa Brags on 17-15 Vote; but … TO BE CORRECTED, BUT NEW CALCULATIONS BELOW!")
![. . . Well, this is an unhappy turn of events. More on this story of an apparent escape from the OC Central Men’s Jail in Santa Ana as it […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/3-escapees-1-115x115.jpg "UPDATED 1/30: Persian Dickchopper & Viet Hoodlums re-captured; All Well With World.")
![. . . (“Don’t Tell Me”: Words by Bernie Sanders, Animation by Rodd Perry) Why is Hillary suddenly hemorrhaging supporters in Iowa? Perhaps it is that she does the sort of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Bernie-from-Dont-Tell-Me-115x115.jpg "Hillary’s Hopelessness: All in All It’s Just Another … Plate of Spaghetti Hurled at the Wall")
![. . . Journalist and Professor Robert Scheer published a must-read column yesterday that is 100% dead right. It addresses the absolute worst moment of the Democratic Presidential nomination fight so […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Hillary-eyes-unfocused.-attacking-Bernie-on-CFMA-no-text-115x115.png "A Moment That Should Cost Hillary the Nomination: Blaming Bernie for Her Husband’s Sin")
![. . . Let’s quote from the good Professor — and, in between each paragraph, take apart Professor Paul Krugman’s argument from his Monday New York Times column: Health reform is […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Krugman-sidelong-glance-Bernie-115x115.jpg "A Letter to Dr. Paul Krugman: Dare to Be Great — or At Least Don’t Get in the Way!")
![. . . So this just came out from the organization “US Uncut.” (Ignore the group’s odd name; it’s legit, if a little prone to exaggerate, and these videos appear […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Hillary-said-cut-it-out-and-Bernie-laughs-115x115.jpg "Hillary Blamed Home Buyers for Their Bad Loans — but for a Good Cause! Just Not Good Enough.")
![. . . Let us now praise State Senator Pat Bates. At least a little. At least provisionally. Pat Bates has done something pretty extraordinary for a California State Legislator: she has […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Pat-Bates-right-50-115x115.jpeg "Holiday Weekend Open Thread: Pat Bates Touches the Third Rail! Why This Isn’t More Shocking.")
It does raise the question of why fight it in the first place. Dems are so dumb. They might as…