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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 maxim in OC is that 1/3 of the voters turn in their vote-by-mail ballots right away, 1/3 turn them in sometime over the course of the following few weeks, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Uncle-Sam-Sad-with-crowd-115x115.jpg "Voters Facing High-Profile, High-Conflict Races are Delaying Return of Their Vote-By-Mail Ballots")
![“Orange County resident” and National Republican Committee member Shawn Steel of Greater Palos Verdes, husband of 2nd Supervisorial District candidate Michelle Steel, was quoted in the Orange County Register this past weekend […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Shawn-Steel-on-Meat-Hook-115x115.jpg "(JOKE ALERT!) GOP Leader & SD-34 Candidate’s Husband Shawn Steel Rejects White Women Over 40")
![. . . [1] Overview and Background Allegations surfaced on Saturday about Chinese language leaflets, supplemented by blog posts, allegedly being circulated in Irvine. These leaflets allegedly encourage voters of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Cemetery-Chinese-Language-Flyer-photo-115x115.jpg "Treachery in Irvine? Chinese Language Documents Suggest Choi and Lalloway May Betray Veterans on Great Park Cemetery")
![. . . [Ed. Note 10/27: See updates at the end as more information came in over the past day. Additions and deletions to the text are marked. The first three […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CAHOAs-LIEs-in-Brea-115x115.jpg "[UPDATED] Developers Drop Belated Big-Bucks IE Blitz into Beautiful Brea’s City Council Contest")
![EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Too many self-serving Orange County incumbents get a free ride to reelection. This is the third time in two years that I’ve run against an ethically unacceptable candidate who […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Greg-Diamond-Brett-Barbre-Over-MWDOC-Seat-1-Map-115x115.jpg "To Hold Lobbyist Brett Barbre Accountable, I’m Running for Municipal Water District Board Seat 1")
![. . , . OJB is with Bao. What Bruce Broadwater is doing with the ad below is revolting — and an insult to the Vietnamese community. Calling a Vietnamese […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Bao-Nguyen-red-baiting-attack-ad-with-BB-head-115x115.jpg "Garden Grove Mayor: Broadwater Checks Out of Polite Society with Vicious, False, and Dangerous Attack on Bao")
![OJB could link to posts from our friend Geoff West at our co-“OC Political Blog of the Year” A Bubbling Cauldron without reading them and still feel that we were steering […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Righeimer-in-Cauldron-115x115.jpg "Geoff West Writes THE Definitive 2014 Election Takedown of Jim Righeimer and Measure O — You Have to Read It!")
![. . . Part 1 of this series gives the broad strokes of what the City of Anaheim is trying to accomplish through litigation — unchecked power for a bare 3-person Council […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Anaheims-Power-Grab-4-115x115.jpg "Anaheim’s Shocking, Terrifying, Theory of Government, PART 4: The City’s Attorney Explains the Theory")
![. . . Part 1 of this series, giving the broad strokes of what the City of Anaheim is trying to accomplish through litigation — unchecked power for a bare 3-person […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Anaheims-Power-Grab-3-115x115.jpg "Anaheim’s Shocking, Terrifying, Theory of Government, PART 3: CATER’s Lawsuit Over the Convention Center Bonds")
![2. Understanding PART of the Above Graphic — and Yes, This WILL Hurt Let’s start at the bottom left, the one legal entity with which you’re already familiar: The City […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Anaheims-Power-Grab-21-115x115.jpg "Anaheim’s Shocking, Terrifying, Theory of Government, PART 2: The City Council’s Many Hats, Some With Magical Powers!")
![. . . 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/2014/10/Anaheims-Power-Grab-1-115x115.jpg "Anaheim’s Shocking, Terrifying, Theory of Government, PART 1: The Big Donor’s Idea of Paradise")
![. . . 1. SHORT VERSION! (See below for all our thinking behind each recommendation – mostly Greg’s!) Statewide Races: Vote for the Democrat. Sorry, none of the Republicans are […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Electoral-Collage-2014-115x115.jpg "The OJ Blog’s Guide to Your Whole Freaking Ballot!")
![So this was in my Facebook feed: California Aquifers Poisoned by Fracking While State’s Water Shortage Becomes Grim In July, during the height of the drought, state regulators halted operations […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/San-Francisco-Bay-Guardian-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Fracking and Aquifers News — or, Rather, NOT News")
![We have a recap of some political stories for you — but first, a graphic image so strange that perhaps not even its creator can fully comprehend how much so. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Broadwater-Fertig-Lion-King-115x115.jpg "Election News Roundup 10/16: Stanton, Garden Grove, AD-65, Prop 45, Pulido Perdido, and More to Come!")
I like Vanity Fair, I even subscribed to them in the 80’s, but they put out a really irritating little…