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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.)
![[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")
![I had barely entered my teenage years when the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam. Even at that age, in that era, I was still aware of the arguments on both […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Vietnam-40th-Evacuation-of-Saigon-115x115.jpg "Marking the 40th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon … With What May Be a Huge Argument")
![Warning: the following video is satire, part of a news broadcast by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes in the wake of one of those days when Orange County made the national news. Those […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Huntington-Beach-riots-e1430238578160-115x115.jpg "Looking Back at That Day in 2013 When Huntington Beach Was the Nation’s Baltimore")
![. . . Orange County picked up 50% of the ribbons and had four of the 15 finalists in the FAME Show Choir National Championship in Waukegan, Illinois this weekend, with the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Los-Alamitos-Show-Choir-2-115x115.jpg "Los Alamitos Sweeps the Gold, Brea Picks Up a Bronze, in Show Choir National Championship")
![The truth will make no one happy. It may lead to a lot of heated comments here; that too will make no one happy but perhaps, fleetingly, their authors. Today marks […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Armenian-Corpses-e1429890134326-115x115.jpeg "Weekend Open Thread: 100th Anniversary of the 20th Century’s First of the Worst")
![9. The Damage Can Be Undone, but ONLY If Proposed by Vanderbilt, and ONLY TODAY It’s time to explain the asterisk in the title. When I say that James Vanderbilt […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Vanderbilt-Part-3-cover-115x115.png "James Vanderbilt Should Reconsider* the 2/3 Tax Vote Measure, Part 3: Here’s How & When")
![4. The Plan for This Part 2 Part 1 of this short series presented the recorded basis for James Vanderbilt’s decision to cast the deciding vote in favor of placing Kris […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Vanderbilt-Part-2-cover-115x115.png "James Vanderbilt Should Reconsider* the 2/3 Tax Vote Measure, Part 2: Here’s Why")
![1. Why This Is an Open Letter James Vanderbilt takes government transparency more seriously than I think any other politician I know. Maybe that applies only to people involved in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Vanderbilt-Part-1-cover-115x115.png "James Vanderbilt Should Reconsider* the 2/3 Tax Vote Measure, Part 1: Transcripts")
![. . . OJB has only obtained pictures of the grudge match between the Westboro Baptist Flaming Bigots and pretty much everyone else in Orange County, which took place this […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Westboro-v-Anaheim-LeTourneau-marching-selfie-e1429554884952-115x115.jpg "Westboro Baptist’s Flaming Bigots Lose Match at Anaheim High in a Rout")
![7. 24 Caplow Claims, 24 BREAN Commentaries I covered the first 30 seconds of Mark Caplow’s first speech to City Council on the $9MM parking structure here (where you’ll also see […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Caplow-Leering-115x115.jpg "Brea Council Meeting on Jamming Through $9MM Parking Structure, Part 3: “Blight” Caplow’s Hard Sell")
![4. Caplow Must Release the Hostage Only one thing about Downtown Brea really does suck : the deliberately blighted Tower Records building, which this November will “celebrate” the end of its tenth […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Mark-Caplow-retail-is-doomed-115x115.jpg "Brea Council Meeting on Jamming Through $9MM Parking Structure, Part 2: “Blight” Caplow Must Go")
![[Cross-posted from this story at THE BREAN.] 1. Introduction Brea’s City Council doesn’t have many Wednesday night meetings, nor many four-hour meetings, but it did both this past week. The meeting […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Riverboat-Gambler-115x115.jpg "Brea Council Meeting on Jamming Through $9MM Parking Structure, Part 1: Audience Matters")
He truly has allegiance to the powerful - corporations, police, Israel. He’s not gonna change. Helping them stay powerful and…