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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.)
![. . . The video below, from which the graphic above is a still, is about 21½ minutes long. If you want to get a good sense of what it […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Shutdown-Anaheim-Council-Majority-Waits-Out-Protesters-115x115.jpg "Anaheim Protesters Shut Down Meeting When Council Majority Exposes Its “Dignity of Office” as a Sham")
![. . . There are lots of subplots going on regarding today’s Anaheim Council meeting, where they’re going to try to delay the adoption of new Council Districts until as […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Pacino-Justice-for-All-115x115.jpg "So I Spent Much of the Day Drafting thie Demand Letter for Anaheim’s Latest Brown Act Violation")
![. . . [Author’s Note: If you didn’t read my piece from August entitled Anaheim’s 25.25 District Maps, Part 1: The Maps and Their Stats, now — given the Brandman-Murray motion […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Map-Consultant2-flatlands-115x115.jpg "Brandman’s List of Possibly Acceptable ‘Two Latino-Majority District’ Maps are This Mostly Subpar and Sour Sixteen")
![. . . We have four stories for you this weekend; the links are in the headlines and we recommend that you consider reading each one in full. Before You […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Shootings-2015-Interactive-Map-Screenshot-OC-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: DAESH’s Battle Pills, Map of Shootings, the Unbreakable Donnie Trump, and CIF Results")
![. . . [Editor’s Note: Apparently, and to its mild surprise, OJB will accept PR News Release submissions for people who ask us nicely and are actually doing something good. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Cheerleaders-Pee-Wee-Ecaudor-115x115.jpg "FLACKERS: Three Cheers for SEIU’s $2300 Donation to Pee Wee Cheer Team for National Championship Trip")
![. . . Loretta Sanchez is not, despite what some people around here assert, a dummy or a dolt or a lightweight. (Throw your mud at her in the comments if […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Loretta-Sanchez-exasperated-115x115.jpg "On Loretta’s Latest ‘Not Ready for Prime Time’ Moment: Stop Encouraging the Miscreants!")
![. . . 1. What happened on Tuesday, Dec. 8 — the “Day the Council Ripped Up the Map”? Last night was supposed to be the second and final reading […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Council-on-Rip-Up-the-Map-Night-big-heads-115x115.jpg "Anaheim Council Majority Spits on Judges’ Work, Rips Up ‘People’s Map’, Delays Decision by Months to Widen Election Head Start")
![. . . Jordan Brandman has moved to start the districting process over rather than allowing the sole Latino majority district to vote for its chosen representative in the next […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Brandman-Mickey-Mouse-Dora-in-Anaheim-snake-115x115.jpg "Brandman & Co. Tear Down the Temple: Death Before Dr. Moreno! (UPDATED with Brandman’s Statement!)")
![. . . Let’s face a basic fact about Anaheim Councilman’s Jordan Brandman’s delaying the ability of Central Anaheim Latinos to vote for self-representation in the City’s new District 3 until 2018: […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Brandman-Mickey-Mouse-Dora-in-Anaheim-115x115.jpg "Is Disney Now So Blatantly Anti-Latino That It’s ORDERING Brandman to Oppose District 3 in 2016?")
![. . . It’s unreasonable to ask Buena Park’s City Officials to read 3700 words on the City’s Districting process (available at that link) and the maps that are (or should […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/NDC-Map-5-5-districts-rotated-115x115.jpg "[UPDATE: The Choice is NDC 5!] Mapping Buena Park: Executive Summary for Tuesday’s Big Meeting on Districting")
![. . . For the accompanying 900-or-so-word “executive summary” of this post, click here. This Tuesday, December 8, at 6:00 — right around when Anaheim will be starting Part 2 of the drama created when Jordan […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Buena-Park-Latino-Population-Density-115x115.jpg "Mapping Buena Park’s Districts: Where 4 is Far Less than 5 and the Cost of At-Large Voting is Very Clear")
![. . . https://www.facebook.com/cairlosangeles/videos/10156327658820173/ As many politically aware people in Southern California know, the man being interviewed here is Hussam Ayloush, Director of CAIR-LA (the Los Angeles Chapter of the Council […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Hussam-Ayloush-interview-after-San-Berdoo-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Remembering that OC Has One of the Best Civil Rights Leaders Around")
![. . . Apparent Irvine Mayoral candidate Gang Chen either has no political advisor at all, or the worst political advisor in the world, or possibly the best political advisor in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Gang-Chen-for-Mayor-Banner-115x115.jpg "Sudden, Suspicious, and Blatant Gang Activity Noted in City of Irvine")
![. . (Writer’s note: You may wonder why this piece is illustrated with a photo of Lou Correa, when Correa doesn’t even live in Anaheim. Easy: Correa is running to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Lou-Correa-liquified-smile-115x115.jpg "MALDEF and LULAC Let Anaheim Know: No District 3 Election in 2016 Means Lawsuit in 2016")
It does raise the question of why fight it in the first place. Dems are so dumb. They might as…