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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.)
![. . . Garden Grove Mayor Bao Nguyen, who is expected to run for the 46th Congressional district for Congress being vacated by Loretta Sanchez, chose the occasion of the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Bao-with-Beauty-Queens-1-115x115.jpg "BAOUT! Garden Grove Mayor Bao Nguyen Comes Out as Gay at Reception for Ambassador to Vietnam")
![. . . Here’s what Dr. Jose Moreno has had to say in an open letter to the City Council this afternoon, after which my thoughts will follow: An Email […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Sucker-Punch-Mayweather-vs-Ortiz-115x115.jpg "Tonight’s Disney Power Grab: Why the Rush? Because That’s Just How Sucker Punches Work!")
![. . . I wear both the hat of a Democratic Party of Orange County (“DPOC”) Committee Member and the hat of a local political blogger, which means that there […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/walrus-embarrassed-115x115.jpg "Chumley Prints Pro-Disney Dem’s Leak of Dr. Moreno’s ‘DPOC-Only’ Email on ‘Tax-Free-Disney’ Vote")
![This year, the 5th of July may be as big for Anaheim as the 4th, as the Dalai Lama — apparently approving of the “City of Kindness” campaign of Mayor […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Dalai-Lama-Global-Compassion-Summit-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: 4th of July Music — and HELLO DALAI and the ‘Global Compassion Summit’!")
![1. A Sort of Historic Day for Anaheim Anaheim’s creation of its first-ever voting districts will shift into a higher gear tonight at 6:30 in the City Council chambers as about […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/July-1-Anaheim-Maps-Bengochea-Whole-City-115x115.jpg "A Dozen or So Anaheim Public Districting Maps Unveiled; Discussion at City Hall Tonight at 6:30")
![The whole bunch of us slipped up on producing a Weekend Open Thread this week, but we’re peeling off this story we spotted before the weekend’s over, while it’s still […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/bananas-allen-stallone-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread (Belated): Say Adios to Your Favorite Bananas")
![Today is the 150th anniversary of the surrender of the last Confederate general actively fighting the Civil War, which makes the bugle calls of “RETREAT” among Neo-Confederates finally willing to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Tet-LGBT-115x115.jpg "The ‘Sodomy Suppression Act’ Has Been Relegated to the Closet")
![If I were attending tonight’s meeting of the Democratic Party of Orange County at 7:00 p.m. – which I won’t, despite being a voting member, because there seems little point […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/pulido-and-raid-115x115.png "If I Were Attending Tonight’s DPOC Meeting: Charleston and Santa Ana")
![So you, like many others, have decided in the wake of the Mother Emanuel Church massacre (the 2015 one, not the earlier ones) and have decided that it’s time to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/image1-115x115.jpg "How to Burn a Confederate Flag (Without Supporting Slave Labor)")
![. . . Today is “Juneteenth,” anniversary of the 1865 day in Texas when slaveholders there belatedly lost their slaves. Under U.S. law, they had lost their slaves three years […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/image-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Juneteenth and the Persistent Fear of Slave Revolts")
![The result of Brea’s City Council meeting was a decisive … something or other. It’s not clear precisely what happened – the motion passed puts two plans on parallel tracks […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Brea-Taxpayer-Alert-115x115.jpg "Brea’s Folly, Part 7: Manley’s Parking Structure Wins Hard, or Wins Soft, or Loses Soft … It’s Unclear …")
![Here’s the big argument we’ll hear from the people who want us to pay for the parking structure, which I call the “Domino Effect.” Like many hard sells, it uses […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Manleyzilla-and-Tower-Records-Building-e1434442340719-115x115.jpg "Brea’s Folly, Part 6: Manley’s “Domino Theory” Hard Sell — and How to Respond to It")
![The other main local political blogger in Brea showed up on the Facebook page I had set up to turn people out for today’s meeting — sure, go ahead, read it and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Fool-and-His-Money-Calculations-115x115.jpg "Brea’s Folly, Part 5: How Proponents’ Funding Plans are Deceptive (and Ridiculous)")
You are such a pushover Vern.