- Description
- 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.)
![So much is happening this next week that it almost defies description, but let’s work though our headline — which does not even address the Special Election in Senate District […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Pi-Day-Celebration-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Bougie, Bibi, Putin, and Pi")
![When OC District Attorney Tony Rackauckas was sworn in to his fifth term of office this January, I was featured — although not by name — in the third paragraph […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Judge-Goethals-blue-and-brown-115x115.jpg "Judge Goethals’s Ruling Gives Rackauckas’s ‘Virtual Unopposition’ — and 77,500 Other Voters — Reason for Hope")
![It’s been almost two years since this purgatorial blog unveiled the OC Register Dearthwatch, which sought to chronicle the effect of the newspaper’s paywall upon its online readership, and it’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Kushner-Orange-Glow-Static-Eyes-115x115.jpg "Dusting Off the Dearthwatch as Kushner and Spitz Depart from Running the OC Register")
![. . . Two universities; two groups of students; two tales of democracy, discrimination, dissent, and disdain. But only one group’s critics crossed the line yesterday of personally identifying the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Winning-through-Intimidation-115x115.jpg "UCI and U of Oklahoma, Dissent and Bigotry, Intimidation and Free Speech")
![[Editor’s Note: This is the 4th and final part of the preface to our series begins where the Voice of OC’s article on Tuesday night’s Anaheim Council meeting left off on the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Anaheim-Council-Meeting-2015-0303-Superimposed-TaitHouston-600px-copy-115x115.jpg "Anaheim ‘Taxpayer Protection’ Act Council Transcript, Part 4: ‘Measure N Was Not a Tax.’ Huh?")
![[Editor’s Note: This is part 3 of the preface to our series begins where the Voice of OC’s article on Tuesday night’s Anaheim Council meeting left off on the proposed “Anaheim Taxpayers Protection […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Anaheim-Council-Meeting-2015-0303-Group-Measure-N-115x115.jpg "Anaheim ‘Taxpayer Protection’ Act Council Transcript, Part 3: When Bonds Payments Come Due")
![[Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of the preface to our series begins where the Voice of OC’s article on Tuesday night’s Anaheim Council meeting left off on the proposed “Anaheim Taxpayers […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Anaheim-Council-Meeting-2015-0303-Part-2-Header-115x115.jpg "Anaheim ‘Taxpayer Protection’ Act Council Transcript, Part 2: Laying Out the Dry Foundation")
![[Editor’s Note: We’re kicking off a series today that begins where the Voice of OC’s article on Tuesday night’s Anaheim Council meeting left off and then does what our friends at VOC […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Anaheim-Taxpayers-Protectors-115x115.jpg "Introducing the Anaheim ‘Taxpayer Protection’ Act Series: Part 1, Transcript of Public Comments")
![Oh boy — the UCI flag controversy has hit the media, and surely this will not turn out well. But we have to cover it. And, being who we are, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/UCI-and-US-flags-115x115.jpg "UCI Students Waive the Flag! Release the Demagogues and Angry Candidates! (UPDATE: Vetoed!) (UPDATE 2: Intimidated!)")
![It has been a weird half-day (as this is written) in Orange County weather, starting with a bolt from the blue-black in the dead of night and a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/HB-Snow-2-HB-Cam-of-Pier-605px-115x115.jpg "Weirding Weather: After a North County Boom, Huntington Beach Goes Through Hail — ‘Snow Kidding!")
![. . . . [Cross-posted from “THE BREAN” — a side project that I started last December. This is the first story I’ve done there that I felt was shocking […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/NOCVC-landscape-115x115.jpg "Brea Councilman Steve Vargas Accused of Stealing $1570 Intended for Veterans’ Charity")
![As of yesterday, President Barack Obama had issued an extremely low total of two vetoes over his more than six years in office. Now he has issued a third one: […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Keystone-cork-115x115.jpg "Koch Blocking: Obama Vetoes the Kochs’ Environmentally Ruinous Keystone Pipeline!")
![1. Evidence of Election Fraud Found, but is Too Burdensome to Pursue Former State Senator Lou Correa’s challenge to the election of Andrew Do has ended with a bang — […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Correa-folds-115x115.jpg "Correa Folds His Election Challenge, but Refers Evidence of Fraud to OCDA — i.e., Correa Folds")
![What are the interests of Democrats and moderate NPPs (and, hell, moderate Republicans too) in the March 17 SD-37 race? We’re not going to win SD-37; Steve Young was a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Louise-Stewardson-e1424258779627-115x115.jpg "Jeez, Louise! I’ll Support Stewardson’s Tardy SD-37 Write-In Campaign — But Let’s Not Forget Mark Lopez!")
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…