- Description
- 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.)
![. . . [Author’s Note: if you want to jump down to what map Brian and I actually favor, it’s down in Part 4C!] [UPDATE: Here’s a table of the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Reyes-Map-2-with-Names-115x115.png "‘Reyes to the Top’ UPDATED: Anaheim’s Districting Committee Makes Its Pick; Will the Council Accept It?")
![. . . Brea’s City Council has already settled on its plan — not coincidentally, it’s the plan supported by the Downtown Owners’ Group (“DOG”) which wants the City to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Brea-Taxpayer-Alert-Part-2-115x115.jpg "Brea to Ponder Which Funds to Plunder for $12.6MM Parking Structure Giveaway")
![. . . Today’s WOT features a group that really knows how to put on a great political stunt. I don’t particularly support the group “Neighborhood Legislature” — which wants […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/NASCAR-badges-protest-wide-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Branding Legislators, NASCAR-Style, in Sacto")
![. . . Two of the three maps that are still officially in consideration for the retired judges’ Advisory Committee on Electoral Districts — the Gagne 1 and Reyes 2 […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Chuchua-Map-9-snip-115x115.png "What’s on Tap for Tonight’s Anaheim Districting Meeting? More Maps — and Maybe a Fight with LULAC")
![. . . [Author’s Note: When I began this story, it was a lark, exploring the newly redesigned Anaheim.net website. I needed to see the agenda for the next meeting […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Anaheim-Website-1-Splash-Page-115x115.png "Do You Want to See the Agenda for Tuesday’s Anaheim Districting Meeting? So Did I….")
![. . .. . So this happened during a discussion about Hillary this morning at the Washington Monthly site…. I’ve been planning to write a story at some point […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/WaMo-Hillary-Blocked-115x115.jpg "‘Elp! ‘Elp! I’m Being Repressed! — Blocked by Washington Monthly Over Hillary!")
![. . . I wasn’t at this past week’s Anaheim City Council meeting due to work, so I missed Lucille Kring’s over-the-top attack on Anaheim’s homeless while celebrating the creation of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Lucille-Kring-if-she-were-a-puppy-115x115.jpg "Murray’s Great (I Presume) Response to Kring’s “Dog Parks Keep the Homeless Out” Comment")
![. . . Being serious students of Presidential politics and international policy, Orange Juice Blog readers surely already know that Republican Presidential candidate Scott Walker stated, in response to a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Scott-Walker-on-Meet-the-Press-with-Canada-Wall-115x115.jpg "The Terrifying Gaps in Scott Walker’s Idea for a Canadian Border Wall")
![. . . I haven’t had time to pursue a real serious Weekend Open Thread this week, so here’s a controversy snagged off of the web, featuring local blog product Vox. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Trump-and-Salt-Monster-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Washington Post’s Deployment of Pinocchios is Worse Than Hitler")
![. . . It was a hot night at Western High School. In the sweltering non-air-conditioned cafeteria, the retired judges of the Advisory Committee on Electoral Districts even, for the first time […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Anaheim-Redistricting-Judges-e1440680360300-115x115.jpg "Anaheim’s (Now 3+) Maps, Part 7: On a Hot August Night in the West, the Euclideans Win")
![. . . Last Wednesday evening, the retired judges on the Advisory Committee on Electoral Districts (“ACED”) chose five maps for further consideration. Three of the maps came from the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Anaheim-Maps-Gagne-115x115.jpg "Anaheim’s (Now 5+) Maps, Part 6: Euclidean vs. Non-Euclidean Cartography in the Remaining Maps")
![. . . I’m scrambling from one busy week — Council meetings, Anaheim Districting Committee meeting, CATER Climate Change fundraiser — to the next. (Another Districting meeting comes up […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Trump-and-Malyk-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Malyk Bonnet’s Great Day — and is Donald Trump a Fascist?")
![. . . NOTE: SEE UPDATE AT THE END! As most readers know, CATER is holding a serious, significant public event tonight where we have a man who is arguably the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Thats-a-Bingo-115x115.jpg "We Planned to Advertise Tonight’s Dog Park Bingo Game, But Then We Got a Disturbing Email")
![. . . The final stretch of the judges’ Advisory Committee on Electoral Districts portion of the Anaheim’s Districting process kicks off tonight at 6:30 in City Hall. The public is […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Resort-District-Sites-115x115.jpg "Anaheim’s 25.25 Maps, Part 4: Deviations from Equality — and from the Judges’ Charge?")
You are such a pushover Vern.