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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.)
![Vern is, for reasons presumably having to do with his frequent excess of honorable earnestness, trying to have it out with Chumley in comments on Lib OC. (I’m not linking […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Walruses-fighting-115x115.jpg "Chumley Publicly Seeks Advice on How Best to Batter Women; Now, OJB Has a Question for Galloway")
![. . . How perfect is this? In other heartening news, a prominent commenter here points us to this Stephen Colbert interview of Naomi Klein: The Colbert Report Get More: […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Malala-Nobel-Prize-e1412932530655.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Malala Yousefzey, Naomi Klein, and Cri-Cri!")
![With only four Mayoral candidates and six Council candidates, it’s possible to come up with a Scientific Survey to tell you which way you should vote based on your answers […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Computer-from-Old-Days-115x115.jpg "All You Need to Know About Voting in Anaheim This Year, Part 2: A Formula to Determine Your Vote")
![. . . We have three items for you in today’s Weekend Open Thread: the story of brave police whistleblowers, the bravado of a statewide candidate for office, and a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Waldo-Betty-Beethoven-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Waldo, Betty, and Ludwig")
![I’ve been sounding this alarm for years. Some of my good friends have assured me that this couldn’t happen — that pensions are safe from municipal bankruptcies. Well, don’t look […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Stockton-Bankruptcy-115x115.jpg "Court Ruling in Stockton Illuminates the Road to Hell Via Deliberate Municipal Bankruptcies")
![Summary Ron Varasteh is a candidate for Water Board (Municipal Water District of Orange County Seat 5; I’m a candidate for Seat 1.) Among his three opponents is Dave Ellis […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Dave-Ellis-in-Green-115x115.jpg "How Ron Varasteh and I Turned Dave Ellis from a Fake Water-Engineer-ish Entity to a Common Lobbyist")
![. . . (If you want to skip right down to the mind-boggling evidence regarding Ling-Ling Chang’s lies about her background, it’s down there in red.) [1] Yep — this […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ling-Ling-Chang-Clarence-Thomas-115x115.jpg "National GOP Tries to Use Ling-Ling Chang to Prove That It Isn’t Racist. Too Bad She’s a TOTAL LIAR!")
![I’m not yet writing about CATER’s loss on Friday in trial court because Arte Moreno’s bombshell of ending negotiations with the City over the doomed and diseased Memoranda of Understanding […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Judge-ACC-Bonds-1-Trial-Court-115x115.jpg "The Pringle Ring’s Weird Reaction to CATER’s Loss in Trial Court, Which Will Be Appealed")
![I’m more optimistic than many of my companions in and around CATER about the implications of Arte Moreno’s decision to cut off lease negotiations with the City of Anaheim using […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Arte-Moreno-with-Hello-Kitty-115x115.jpg "Arte Moreno Didn’t Rule Out Negotiating WITH ANAHEIM, He Rejected a Proposed Lease That Made Him Look Like a THIEF!")
![My wife and one of my daughters were driving north on Harbor Blvd. this weekend, between Sycamore and North, when they saw a collection of big candidate signs. You’ll see […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/GalEasMur-Signs-2-115x115.jpg "Running SOARs: Is Disney Shelving Support of Lucille Kring for Mayor in Favor of Lorri Galloway?")
![So much was happening yesterday that this slipped under the radar — but it’s very much worth note: Gov. Jerry Brown has signed AB 1453 into law. What was unimaginable ten […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sharon-and-Jerry-Brown-red-and-blue-115x115.jpg "Signed, Sealed, and Delivered in Under 10 Months: Gov. Brown Signs Quirk-Silva’s OC Veterans Cemetery Bill")
![. . . With everything else going on these day, I have not had time to focus on my own home Assembly race, AD-55, where Republican Ling-Ling Chang is favored […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ling-Ling-Chang-Gregg-Fritchle-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: North County Assembly Candidate Who is NOT a Big Liar Has Fundraiser Sunday")
![[1] The Pinch-Liar Steps Up to the Plate Matt Cunningham seemed sort of down when he last wrote about Doug Pettibone, late of the race for Anaheim City Council. He […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Pet-Sematary-Gage-115x115.jpg "Pringle & Cunningham’s Big Lie Machine Lurches Back Into Action: Priest and His Choir Hit False Notes")
![For anyone wondering how ugly, brutal, and desperate politics in Orange County could get, we learned a yesterday with the attempted character assassination of Doug Pettibone, who two months ago […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Pettibone-Character-Assassination-Attempt-green-115x115.jpg "Character Assassination Misfires: Pettibone Withdraws from Council Race with Grace and Class")
I like Vanity Fair, I even subscribed to them in the 80’s, but they put out a really irritating little…