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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 in case you don’t have the good sense to follow my Facebook feed, here’s a nice quartet to keep you busy this weekend. (1) Obama interviews “The Wire’s” David […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Postmodern-Jukebox-All-About-That-Base-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Obama on Drugs, It’s All About The Banks, a White Power Trip, & More!")
![[Editor’s Note: This comment came from someone using the name “Ana Tansa,” a cleverly disguised anagram for Santa Ana — we have no idea who it is — in our recent […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sarmiento-looking-suspicious-115x115.png "Putting This on Sarmiento’s Santa Ana Table and Awaiting a Reply: Anything to These Allegations?")
![The OC Register reported yesterday that Superior Court Judge Gassia Apkarian has thrown out the three felony charges against Former OC Assessor Webster Guillory for election fraud — the misdemeanor charges remain — on the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Guillory-get-out-of-jail-free-card-115x115.jpg "Judge Throws Out Felony Charges Against Webster Guillory, Because We Live in Orange County, So of Course")
![State Senator John Moorlach — you can call him that now — was sworn in at the Orange County Rescue Mission’s Village of Hope in Tustin at 4:00 today before an what […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Moorlach-swearing-in-115x115.jpg "At Swearing-In, Moorlach Condemns Vicious Politics; Would Be Forgiving, but Wagner Hasn’t Yet Called Him")
![Here’s a nice weekend project for all of you out there who are just lolling (or LOL-ing) around. I had started, back on February 9 or 10, to collect all […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Anonymous-Comments-115x115.jpeg "Weekend Open Thread: The Political Blog Commenter Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name")
![It’s done. Mr. Moorlach — or as OJB has long depicted him, the Sasquatch — is going to Sacramento. Things ended with a whimper rather than a bang as […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Moorlach-Sasquatch-on-Train-to-Sacramento-115x115.jpg "SD-37: And So It Ends — Mr. Sasquatch Goes to Sacramento, but First Has This to Say")
![For John Moorlach to lose the SD-37 election at this point would pretty much take an Act of God. That’s not the way to bet. The sky fell Chicken Little’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Moorlach-sky-fell-plate-8-28-07.jpg "SD-37 — OK, Don Wagner May Really Want to Concede to John Moorlach Now")
![The online voice of political analysis for the DPOC has weighed in with his election post-mortem. He says this: In an ideal world, Democrat Louise Stewardson would have mustered […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Walrus-at-Tea-Party-115x115.jpg "A Signed Confession of Weak Tea at the Kid’s Table: SD-37 and Democratic Strategy")
![The new data for the day is out; let’s dive in. Before that, let’s go back to yesterday’s post to remind ourselves both where we started, back when only vote-by-mail ballots […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Wagner-Bryson-Captioned-115x115.jpg "SD-37: Moorlach Slips Slightly, but His Raw Vote Total Puts Him Closer to Victory")
![Polls have just closed. This will be your Open Thread to discuss tonight’s SD-37 election results. (Remember, SD-37 is about the population of Delaware, so don’t expect miracles of absolutely […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/SD-37-Fears-115x115.jpg "SD-37 Election Coverage Open Thread: UPDATE – Moorlach Breaches 50% with All Normal On-Time Ballots Counted!")
![If anyone momentarily forgets what a treasure we have in Voice of OC, Norberto Santana’s article today on the SD-37 special election should remind them with overwhelming force. It is the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Wagner-bathing-in-money-Moorlach-points-South-Park-115x115.jpg "Wagner’s ‘Sensible Moderate View’ is to Let Powerful Interests Screw the Public. Moorlach Disagrees.")
![This is … stark. I went to the Secretary of State’s Cal Access site for state political contributions to see how much of the money being spent to flood voters […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Wagner-bathing-in-money-South-Park-115x115.jpg "Don’t Be Alarmed: ONLY 69.42% of Don Wagner $266,775.36 in IEs Comes from Public Safety Unions")
![Louise Stewardson is running for State Senate in Tuesday’s election — as a write-in candidate. Judging from the relative lack of chatter about her race among online Democratic circles, the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Louise-Stewardson-waving-flag-at-HB-Parade-crop-115x115.jpg "Louise Stewardson Shouldn’t Have Run – But She Did, So Now Dems MUST Turn Out for Her!")
![When the districting was done in 2011, I dubbed SD-37 — the only State Senate District entirely in Orange County — “the Minuteman.” (I could probably better find a better […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/SD-37-Minuteman-115x115.jpg "That ‘No Dem on the Ballot’ Problem: Democrats Seem Somewhat Less Than Enthused in SD-37")
https://powersearch.sos.ca.gov:3000/ You can search pulido and Briceno ies here. Pretty neck and neck and in the high six digits. No…