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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.)
It's funny. Correa has a safe seat for life. The ONE guy who could afford to do the right thing.…
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You are such a pushover Vern.
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James mai had no problem hanging out with Foreign Agent Farrah when she was just a mere anti-Armenian xenophobe but…
Stfu Jamie nobody likes you
Sandra de Anda is running against Phil Bacerra for Santa Ana Council... that kind of makes me want to put…
Apparently Tracy La of Vietrise fame thinks associating her campaign for Garden Grove school district board member with Foreign Agent…
There's another under-rock creature. I'll never forget this idiot saying Trump learned his lesson from impeachment Number One.
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![Brea’s Folly, Part 2: It’s Either the Parking Structure or the 560 Fund — You Can’t Have Both 1. I’m Afraid That You’re Going to Have to Choose As noted in Part 1 of this series, Brea Republican and environmental advocate Bev Perry (about whom this author has nothing […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Brea-Taxpayer-Alert-Part-2-115x115.jpg)
![Brea’s Folly, Part 1: Spending Half Its Cash Reserves to Build a Parking Structure I’ve been posting most of what I’ve had to say on the separate blog I run to cover the city where I live (which you’ll also see in all caps in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Brea-Taxpayer-Alert-115x115.jpg)
![You’re One in Five Million (OJ views!) OJB will likely pass another milestone tomorrow (or today, when most of you see this, given how late it is being posted on Saturday night. Vern cares not about these […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/five-million-115x115.jpg)
![Veterans Turned Away from Attending Open Meeting about Veterans Cemetery — Based on Race? . . . These veterans came to Irvine on Monday evening to talk to residents who object to the construction of a Veterans Cemetery on this site of Irvine’s Great […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Cemetery-June-8-Event-No-Vets-Chinese-Only-1-e1433845467306-115x115.jpg)
![Brea City Council Member Steve Vargas Found Liable for Embezzling Veterans Money [First published on THE BREAN on June 3; republished with some edits — Ed.] On Wednesday, June 3, Orange County Superior Court Judge Michael Leversen found Brea Council Member Steve Vargas liable for […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Vargas-nose-and-up-firm-grain-115x115.jpg)
![AnaheimBlog Censortopia Open Thread, Round 4 I’ve been promising a fresh post in this series for over a month, and since we need fresh meat right now this seems like a good day for it. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Skadoosh-4-115x115.jpg)
![TURMOIL IN THE NORTH! In SD-29, Ling-Ling In, Tim Shaw Out, and Does This Mean Young Kim is Worried? As in Game of Thrones, so in Orange County: the North is in turmoil! Ling-Ling Chang is switching contests! Ling-Ling Chang, who was elected to the state Assembly just seven […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Ling-Ling-Resume-Liar-with-Shaw-115x115.jpg)
![Weekend Open Thread: Bernie Mane Festival, Stupid Vigilantes, Smart Rats, and a Tearful Reunion [plus BREA SUMMERFEST!] . . . Well, Bernie Sanders is now squarely in the news and reporters are honing in on him — and, if you can’t figure out what’s wrong with this, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Bernie-Sanders-Hair-115x115.jpg)
![Judges’ Anaheim Districting Hearing at 6:30 Tonight in City Hall — and I Think We’re Already 1/3 Done! With the initial organization meeting out of the way, today is the first of three meetings where the panel of retired judges advising the Council on redistricting have their first […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Anaheim-Whole-City-Map-Faint-1-6-Set-5-27-115x115.jpg)
![OCCORD’s Loss to Anaheim re. GardenWalk Giveaway translated into understandable terms. . . . (1) Case Dismissed, Merits Remain Yesterday, OCCORD lost its lawsuit against the City of Anaheim’s giveaways to Bill O’Connell, owner of the GardenWalk hotel project in front […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/gardenwalk-oconnell-115x115.jpg)
![Retired Judges Assemble to Initiate Anaheim’s Redistricting Process; Five Meeting Dates Set . . . I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard more requests for information about what happened at a public meeting that I have in the hours since […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Anaheim-Redistricting-Judges-meet-115x115.jpg)
![Flash — and He’s Gone: In Memory of John Farrell, Writer, Bon Vivant, and Tiger of San Pedro John Farrell, who died last Tuesday, was a throwback — and I mean that in the nicest possible way. He was a man of Victorian England, a man of 1920s newsrooms […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/John-Farrell-Inset-Union-115x115.jpg)
![Weekend Open Thread: Your Google History, and a Lesson in What Not to NOT Say to a Bigot . . . Hey, this looks great! And terrifying. Great and terrifying! I’m not sure that I should do this, because then the government might have easier access to my search […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cunningham-chmielewski-115x115.jpg)
That Florice Hoffman woman doesn't seem particularly bright.