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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.)
![. . . For baseline reference to calculate changes after first gob of absentee ballots (technically “vote by mail” ballots): FIRST REPORTING, CONTAINING EARLY ABSENTEES Registration and Turnout Completed Precincts: […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Orange-Homegrown1-e1415242498971.jpg "Orange County Election Results: FIRST ELECTION NIGHT TALLY (“Early Enough Absentees”)")
![This post is for presentation and discussion of California results that are either statewide or outside of Orange County. Just start this one without me. Here’s the Secretary of State’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/California-foot-tattoo-115x115.jpg "Statewide Election Results Liveblog and Open Thread")
![This post is for discussion of national election results as they filter in, starting in earnest at about 5:00. It probably won’t be closely monitored until sometime between 7:30 and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/US-map-tattoo-115x115.jpg "National Election Results Liveblog and Open Thread — UPDATED MANY TIMES!")
![. . . (1) The Philosophy of the City Council Majority The organization for which I am General Counsel, the Coalition of Anaheim Taxpayers for Economic Responsibility (better known as CATER), […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Anaheim-Mayoral-Council-Candidates-115x115.jpg "Where Team Tait Says “Let’s Face the Voters,” Team Pringle Schemes to Evade Public Accountability Forever")
![Return to Oct. 6 16:07 when done. . . Why is everybody in Huntington Beach – everybody whose door you knock on – suddenly all up in arms over the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Beach-Ellis-Monstrosity-115x115.jpg "IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: VERN’S EXPOSÉ ON WHO OK’D HUNTINGTON BEACH’S HI-DENSITY MONSTERS!")
![A good rule of thumb: a candidate who thinks that voters are gullible would try to cheat them once elected. Young Kim, who happily complied with orders from the Ed […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Young-Kim-Big-Lie-on-Prop-13-Fake-Issue-115x115.jpg "Young Kim’s Two Biggest Lies: Quirk-Silva DOESN’T Oppose Prop 13, Kim DOESN’T Support Veterans When It Counts")
![. . . [Editor’s Note: this story originally appeared late Friday night, but it is being republished to find a larger audience.] I wish that I and others had been […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Brandman-Betrayal-full-mailer-600-px-Red-X-115x115.jpg "As Predicted, Jordan Brandman Betrays Latinos and His Nominal Party By Endorsing the Pringle Candidates")
![. . . This is probably the most important piece you will read about the current election. What it describes affects far more than just Anaheim itself. Part of the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Anaheims-Power-Grab-9-115x115.jpg "Anaheim’s Shocking, Terrifying, Theory of Government — The Complete Story")
![If you live in Costa Mesa, but you don’t understand what this is about, just ignore it and vote for Foley and Humphrey, Leece for OC Water District, and “No […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/O-NO-115x115.jpg "Mr. Bill Finally Endorses in Costa Mesa")
![Four of the five current members of the Fullerton Joint Union High School Governing Board — including the three incumbents now running for reelection — have served together for 30 years. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Joanne-Fawley-115x115.jpg "Civics Teacher Joanne Fawley Tries to Break Through the Entrenched Fullerton Joint Union High School Board")
![We are well-passed 100 comments on the second installment of this series — so even though there may now actually be fewer days left before the election than AnaheimBlog has […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Skadoosh-3-115x115.jpg "AnaheimBlog Censortopia Open Thread, Round 3")
![. . . The video below, part of Los Angeles-based journalist/interviewer Roberto Lovato’s series Américans, is about Anaheim’s problems with coming to grips with its emerging Latino majority. (It came […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Lovato-eyes-popping-out-115x115.jpg "Lucille Kring says she’s not sure if more Latino Representation in Anaheim is Good!")
![. . . Halloween is for playing tricks as well as receiving treats — so for this final pre-election Weekend Open Thread I’m just swiping Nick Gerda’s entire story from the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Nader-Shahatit-Octet-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: With Harkey a Blistering Hot Mess, Our Body Politic Needs the Balm of Shahatit!")
![. . . This period of the campaign just before the election is sometimes called “the silly season” — and OC GOP Chair Scott Baugh is living up to that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Elephant-Dung-Throwing-115x115.jpg "Scott Baugh’s Attack Mailer Against Katherine Daigle is Full of His Trademarked Elephant Dung")
It will be interesting to see if the Lauren Johnson-Norris (Irvine resident) led OC Human Relations Commission (of which former…