- 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.)
![. . . 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/2015/08/2525-Maps-Table-Approaches-to-Latino-Districts-top-3-only-v3-115x115.jpg "Anaheim’s 25.25 Maps, Part 3: Varying Approaches to Creating Latino Plurality Districts")
![. . Anaheim was forced to impose election districts because Latino voters and candidates were getting excluded from power under the previous system. So, of the 25 maps we have to examine (not counting […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Anaheim-Maps-Xtra-1-Stats-115x115.jpg "Anaheim’s 25.25 Maps, Part 2: Creating Latino Plurality Districts")
![. . . OJB took a lot of photos of Hoagy Holguin’s graveside service yesterday at the beautiful Anaheim Cemetery. Unfortunately, your author is off to another memorial service, for […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Hoagy-on-a-Hog1-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: We Say ‘Vaya con Dios’ to Hoagy Holguin – photos, testimonials…")
![. . . Next Wednesday, August 19, the Advisory Committee on Electoral Districts (the panel of judges that will draw Anaheim’s first-ever district maps) will meet for the first of its […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Anaheim-Maps-Xtra-1-115x115.jpg "Anaheim’s 25.25 District Maps, Part 1: The Maps and Their Stats")
![Today is the first anniversary of the killing of Ferguson, Missouri teenager Michael Brown. (It is also the 70th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, which bears at […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Michael-Brown-with-headphones-e1439143589248-115x115.jpg "A Year After the Killing of Michael Brown: an Accounting Statement of OC’s Solidarity")
![. . . . . Both editors: This video doesn’t seem to want to embed properly here, we blame Huffington Post. Click the link though, it’s worth it! Trump at […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Daily-Show-Correspondents-at-Finale-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Republican Debates, Daily Show Finale … and Saturday event reminders!")
![. . . We here at OJB love to salute the Register when they do their job right. So … wait a moment while we look up the directions in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Santa-Ana-Cops-Pot-Raid-Video-e1438713082676-115x115.png "Santa Ana Cops: Don’t Harsh My (Recorded) Buzz; Quash the Video Instead!")
![This is the “Slate” story that you have to read before you install (or as soon as you can after installing) Windows 10. It comes with easy to understand and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Windows-10-spy-clippy-115x115.jpg "Invasions of Privacy: Everyone Installing Windows 10 Must Read This RIGHT NOW")
![I’m taking these quotes from this TIME Magazine story on the Koch Bros. trip to OC this weekend, which I encourage you to read in full. Charles Koch spoke (pronunciation […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Charles-Koch-attacks-corporate-subsidies-115x115.jpg "Charles Koch, Visiting Dana Point, Badly (and Delightfully) Misjudges His Audience")
![. . . I didn’t go to Monday night’s Democratic Party of Orange County meeting. Partly I just had too much work to do; partly it’s because I have an […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Erik-Taylor-e1438207046921-115x115.jpg "DPOC Appoints New Executive Director: Welcome to Erik Taylor")
![. . . I was going to write about how I didn’t know why I was more affected by the death of Sandra Bland in prison than some of the other […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Sandra-Bland-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: The Murder (or at Least Negligent Homicide) of Sandra Bland")
![. . . That was … sudden. Jordan Brandman announced today that he will be running for Loretta Sanchez’s seat in Congress. OJB does not know whether the sudden timing […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Dunn-Brandman-Murray-Sidhu-115x115.jpg "Brandman Fires Up the BS Express, Suddenly Announces for Congress; OJB Prepares")
![. . . LATE UPDATE: The Mayor’s resolution passed on a 4-3 vote. Peotter, Muldoon, and the other one voted “no.” I was busy yesterday, so I didn’t get to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Peotter-Pops-115x115.jpg "The Passion of the Peotter: An Inside Look at How an Ignorant Fool Squeals for Public Support")
![. . . It’s Pluto Day! And aside from the science, which is pretty clearly amazing, we on this blog turn to the politics — where the question is […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Pluto-Heart-photo-e1436911391688-115x115.png "Special Pluto Open Thread (Because You Know You Want It): It’s My Happy Heart You Hear")
You are such a pushover Vern.