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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.)
![. . . 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.")
![. . . [Editor’s Note, Jan. 10, 2016: This Part 4, which ends this 4-part series. (It will be followed quickly with other series and one-offs, but using different illustrations.) Part […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Whither-Jordan-pt-4-115x115.jpg "Whither Jordan, Pt. 4: Can New Census Bureau Data — or Disney’s Exasperation — Save the Day?")
![. . . I’ve got things to say, you’ve got things to say. Put them in comments and we’ll eventually port most of them up here so that we can […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ziggy-Stardust-e1452545203885-115x115.jpg "David Bowie Tribute: He’s Told Us Not to Blow It ‘Cause He Knows It’s All Worthwhile")
![. . . [Editor’s Note, Jan. 10, 2016: This Part 3 of a projected 4-part series. Part 1 covered two topics: Jordan Brandman’s betrayal of his supporters (culminating in unanimous condemnation […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Whither-Jordan-pt-3-115x115.jpg "Whither Jordan, Part 3: How to Betray Your Party’s Voters and Still Stay Politically Viable")
![. . . It may be fair to call the Council majority’s treatment of the City’s “Recommended Map” for its districts a “horror show” — but that doesn’t mean that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Anaheim-Map-Mother-May-I-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: City Bars Tait’s ‘People’s Map’ Item from Agenda Using New ‘Simon Says’ Rule")
![. . . THIS IS A BREAKING STORY. Here’s agenda item 26 for next Tuesday’s Anaheim City Council meeting. This is a public hearing, held pursuant to direction given at […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Anaheim-Map-Consultant-2-115x115.jpg "Anaheim to Hold Public Hearing on Districting on Jan. 12, but Recommended Map Still Alive")
![. . . [Editor’s Note, Jan. 7, 2016: Part 1 of this story covered two topics: Jordan Brandman’s betrayal of his supporters (culminating in unanimous condemnation of his actions by the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Whither-Jordan-pt-2-115x115.jpg "Whither Jordan, Part 2: Here’s How He May Try to Destroy Dr. Moreno While Surviving Politically")
![. . . [Editor’s Note, Jan. 6, 2016: The decline in readership (and the increase in work obligations) just before the holidays led me to decide to postpone subsequent installments […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Whither-Jordan-pt-1-115x115.jpg "[REPUBLISHED] Whither Jordan?, Part 1: Rolling Over the People’s Map and Everyone Supporting It")
![. . . On Tuesday, Jan. 5, Bernie Sanders sent around this message entitled “Greed, fraud, dishonesty, and arrogance.” It spells out his policy on the banks and the rest of the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Bernie-Too-Big-to-Fail-115x115.jpg "Bernie’s Banner: Sanders Explains His Plan for Regulating Banks and the Financial Sector")
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