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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.)
![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 "You’re One in Five Million (OJ views!)")
![. . . 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 "Veterans Turned Away from Attending Open Meeting about Veterans Cemetery — Based on Race?")
![[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 "Brea City Council Member Steve Vargas Found Liable for Embezzling Veterans Money")
![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 "AnaheimBlog Censortopia Open Thread, Round 4")
![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 "TURMOIL IN THE NORTH! In SD-29, Ling-Ling In, Tim Shaw Out, and Does This Mean Young Kim is Worried?")
![. . . 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 "Weekend Open Thread: Bernie Mane Festival, Stupid Vigilantes, Smart Rats, and a Tearful Reunion [plus BREA SUMMERFEST!]")
![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 "Judges’ Anaheim Districting Hearing at 6:30 Tonight in City Hall — and I Think We’re Already 1/3 Done!")
![. . . (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 "OCCORD’s Loss to Anaheim re. GardenWalk Giveaway translated into understandable terms.")
![. . . 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 "Retired Judges Assemble to Initiate Anaheim’s Redistricting Process; Five Meeting Dates Set")
![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 "Flash — and He’s Gone: In Memory of John Farrell, Writer, Bon Vivant, and Tiger of San Pedro")
![. . . 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 "Weekend Open Thread: Your Google History, and a Lesson in What Not to NOT Say to a Bigot")
![[Just as do you probably do, CATER and its officers and staff wish that we did not have to both make the news and cover the news, as well as litigate when the Council doesn’t […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/San-Diego-fireworks-explosion-115x115.jpg "CATER Sends Anaheim Cease and Desist Letter Over Improper Agendizing of Fireworks Ordinances")
![. . . Here is what’s great, and also what’s terrifying, about the Presidential candidacy of Bernie Sanders — one of the rare Democratic candidates who could proudly wear the label “ideologue” (given […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Bernie-Sanders-smile-close-up-115x115.jpg "Bernie Sanders: Great Primary Candidate, Wonderful Would-Be President, But a Terrifying Nominee")
![Maryland is finally showing us how it’s done. Newly elected Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, herself part of a family long involved in policing but but who campaigned on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Freddie-Gray-composite-graphic-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Post-Riots, Maryland Prosecuter Indicts Six Officers on Counts Including Homicide")
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