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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.)
![[Update, 12/4, corrected from 12/3] County certification of election results comes due tomorrow. The LA Registrar of Voters site shows its results as finally having ticked over from “semi-final,” to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/blue-jay-115x115.jpg "Measure J Passed — and By More Than 15 Votes; Recount Would Be Hella Expensive, Likely Futile")
![Vern does not like the use of plain text in graphics, so using a highlighter I have jazzed up a bit this new poster announcing the state of California’s new […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Paid-Sick-Leave-Poster-115x115.jpg "Paid Sick Leave Poster is Boring, Yet Somehow Exciting")
![It took a little longer than hoped — but Bao Nguyen finally got to celebrate his narrow victory in Garden Grove’s Mayoral race yesterday at the Ramada Plaza in Garden […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Bao-and-Volunteers-2-115x115.jpg "Mayor Bao Nguyen Takes a Bow as a Packed House of Supporters (and a Future Rival or Two?) Celebrate His Victory")
![Here’s something that probably won’t surprise you: [T]hat racist intent is difficult to prove does not mean that discrimination does not exist. According to a study conducted on behalf of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Raisin-in-the-Sun-still-115x115.jpg "Thanksgiving Weekend Open Thread: Housing Discrimination and a Chopin Ballade!")
![The political news has been coming fast and furious in Garden Grove. Bao Nguyen is certified as the winner of the Mayoral election by 15 votes Bruce Broadwater seeks a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Jabbar-Nguyen-Yu-e1417020384686.jpg "Is Garden Grove About to Become Orange County’s Laboratory for Reform?")
![. . . A call has gone out, for those who wish to quietly show their feelings, to wear black today. I don’t know that it will do any good, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Black-field-115x115.jpg "Anger and Fear After Black Monday")
![According to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the announcement is now expected at 8 p.m. Central Time, meaning 6 p.m. here. Resources to help understand today’s decision: Options available to Grand […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Ferguson-Grand-Jury-115x115.jpg "Ferguson Grand Jury Decision Open Thread — No Indictment Against Cop Who Killed Teen")
![. . . It’s been 14 years since a design flaw, compounded by a misunderstanding about the instructions to be used, significantly complicated the recount of “butterfly ballots” in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Bao-with-Books-115x115.jpg "Broadwater’s Recount in the Garden Grove Mayor’s Race May Wreak Havoc in the Viet Community (UPDATE: Or Not, As He Gives Up)")
![I hadn’t heard at the time about Seth Rogen’s testimony before Tom Harkin’s Senate Labor and Health Committee, which occurred nine months ago this upcoming week. (Better late than never, I […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Seth-Rogen-Alzheimers-Testimony-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Seth Rogen’s Testimony Before Congress")
![. . . Comparing this to the First Election Night Tally allows one to calculate how candidates fared in all but “Early Enough Absentees/VBMs.” Comparing it to the Final Election […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Orange-Homegrown2-115x115.jpg "Certified OC Election Results (With Lots More Wonky Election Info)")
![Just 50 paper ballots, of the 640,353 ballots cast from all of OC, still remain uncounted. (Our county’s final turnout number was 45.0%. Not good, but not so shabby.) It’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Crumbs-115x115.png "50 Ballots Left: A Narrow Nguyen Win (By 15) Over Broadwater; Measure ‘J’ Could Still Be Far Closer Than That")
![For those of you who missed the update, those 3,000 ballots that appeared yesterday were “damaged” vote-by-mail ballots (e.g., someone spilled coffee on them) that had to be transferred onto […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/One-Day-More-115x115.jpg "One Day More (Or So) — Hardly Any Movement in Close Races With Only 6,000 Ballots Left; Bao Now Up 16")
It will be interesting to see if the Lauren Johnson-Norris (Irvine resident) led OC Human Relations Commission (of which former…