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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.)
![. . . 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")
![. . . The most compelling explanation I’ve seen on the topic of the Second Amendment is that, like much of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, it was […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Fugitive-Slave-Act-115x115.jpg "I Hate Having to Write About the Second Amendment, but Here We Go: Starting with Slavery")
![. . . [Updated 12/3] On Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 17 injured in a San Bernardino shootout with police after the massacre of attendees at […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/San-Bernardino-Shooting-115x115.jpg "A Non-Hysterical Review of What We Know About the San Bernardino Shooting and Alleged Shooter")
![. . . Anaheim Councilman Jordan Brandman — leader of the Brandman Party, which loosely affiliates with both major parties — was last seen being unseen at both the Democratic Party’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Donkey-Brandman-Moreno-115x115.png "“We Must Stop Dr. Moreno!” Brandman’s Defense of his Disenfranchisement of Anaheim Latinos.")
![OJB hopes that you had a great holiday — or at least on offering some respite from the horrors of everyday life under our increasingly desperation-generating economic and pitical culture. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/image-e1448658991632-115x115.jpg "Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend Open Thread: Munch, Munch, Munch!")
![. . . Today is “Kelly Thomas Settlement Day” here at OJB. Vern has a reaction story up reprinted from a short essay by “Bax” Baxter. I’ll have two stories: first […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Fullerton-KT-settlement-mtg-600-px-115x115.jpg "Fullerton Council Reports Out the $4.9MM Settlement — and Explanations for Irked Citizens")
You are such a pushover Vern.