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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.)
![. The outside of ARTIC is constantly transforming. Maybe it’s time for the inside to do so as well. Art Marroquin of the Register really earned more than his usual shell […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ARTIC-115x115.jpg "“Oh, But ARTIC Won’t Impact the General Fund!” said Kris Murray and the Pringle Ring….")
![. . . Orange Juice Blog regrets starting off the weekend on a sad note, but it is what it is: In a listing on giveforward.com this year, [Bellefontaine, Ohio […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Charcoal-grills-from-Ohio-double-suicide-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: A Not Very Neighborly Harbinger from Ohio, & some Edith Piaf & Percy Sledge!")
![We’ve covered the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, or “TPP,” literally for years now — ahead of even most non-mainstream-media venues. The arguments against it — that it would be a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Leaders-of-TPP-member-states-115x115.jpg "Sad, Sad, Sad, Incisive Story on Obama Administration’s Trying to Sell the TPP Fast Track Vote")
![[Cross-posted from THE BREAN, where I also spend some of my bloggin’ time.] Here it comes — as suddenly as predicted, as ridiculous as expected: it’s the $9,000,000 parking structure giveaway. On […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Breas-9M-Downtown-Parking-Structure-Ripoff-Profile-115x115.jpg "Brea Taxpayer ALERT – Stop the $9M Parking Structure Ripoff! (Non-Breans: It’s Like Anaheim in Miniature!)")
![When we last checked into Brea politics in late February, we broke the story on Brea Councilman Steve Vargas’s involvement in stealing $1570 in donations intended for the Brea Veterans […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Vargas-Equations-115x115.jpg "Update: Brea Councilman Steve Vargas Returns Money Stolen from Veteran’s Charity — to the WRONG PEOPLE!")
![1. Law Blogging Has Its Unfortunate Responsibilities, So Here I Go I can no longer justify my not weighing in on the matter of Orange County Superior Court Judge Marc Kelly. I […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "The Judge, the Molester, His Sentence, and Its Critics: Are ‘Downward Departures’ Really ‘Illegal’? [EXPURGATED]")
![1. Law Blogging Has Its Unfortunate Responsibilities, So Here I Go I can no longer justify my not weighing in on the matter of Orange County Superior Court Judge Marc Kelly. I […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Judge-Kelly-and-Kevin-Rojano-115x115.jpg "The Judge, the Molester, His Sentence, and Its Critics: Are ‘Downward Departures’ Really ‘Illegal’?")
![INTRODUCTION PATTOO — the “Protecting Anaheim Taxpayers from Their Own Opinions” Act (known by some ideologues as the “Anaheim Taxpayers Protection Act”) first came to the Anaheim City City Council for […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PATTOO-WEEK-8-115x115.jpg "PATTOO WEEK, Part 8: Some Final Thoughts, and Meeting Kris Murray More Than Halfway")
![PATTOO — the “Protecting Anaheim Taxpayers from Their Own Opinions” Act (known by some ideologues as the “Anaheim Taxpayers Protection Act”) first came to the Anaheim City City Council for its […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PATTOO-WEEK-7-115x115.jpg "PATTOO WEEK, Part 7: Murray: Everything’s Perfectly OK So Long As We Don’t Attract Attention!")
![PATTOO — the “Protecting Anaheim Taxpayers from Their Own Opinions” Act (known by some ideologues as the “Anaheim Taxpayers Protection Act”) first came to the Anaheim City City Council for its […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PATTOO-WEEK-6-115x115.jpg "PATTOO WEEK 6: The Question of Murray, Tait’s Rebuttal, and Murray’s Fiscal Con Job in Its Full Glory")
![We’re putting our regular series on hold this day before Easter, when people are generally doing something else than reading blogs and anyway there was basketball to watch and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PATTOO-WEEK-5-115x115.jpg "PATTOO WEEK, Part 5: We’ll Take a Little Break Here for PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE FUN TIME!")
![. . . No main topic today, just a lot of little ones: [1] It’s the 100th anniversary of Billie Holiday’s birthday on Tuesday (when this site will be busy […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Nicki-Minaj-face-healing-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: An Easter Miracle, and Happy Jazzy 100th Birthday on April 7, Lady Day")
![. . . PATTOO — the “Protecting Anaheim Taxpayers from Their Own Opinions” Act (known by some ideologues as the “Anaheim Taxpayers Protection Act”) first came to the Anaheim City City […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PATTOO-WEEK-4-115x115.jpg "PATTOO WEEK, Part 4: ‘Bonds, James — Bonds,’ and Anaheim’s Finance Director Doesn’t Understand Finance")
![. . . PATTOO — the “Protecting Anaheim Taxpayers from Their Own Opinions” Act (known by some ideologues as the “Anaheim Taxpayers Protection Act”) first came to the Anaheim City City […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PATTOO-WEEK-3-115x115.jpg "PATTOO WEEK, Part 3: Two Thoughtful Objections … and Smoldering Acrid Murrbot Ravings")
Hey, if he just said something nice about me, I wouldn't bother re-publishing it. But if this can help Jessie…