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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.)
![This essay turned out to be much more serious than I had expected it would be when it began. Part 1 involves a minor semi-political event that some fool is […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Jeremiah-14-14-115x115.jpg "The Pastor, the Flack, the Messianic Leader, God’s Anointment — and Jeremiah 14:14")
![I haven’t had time to read this entire decision, which just came out today, but from what I can tell it is actually as stupid and vile as it seems. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Marilyn-Monroe-with-upskirt-photographer-115x115.jpg "WOT: Texas Appeals Court Finds a Legal Way to Keep Perverts Out of OC Parks, and MALAGUEÑA!")
![Chumley (whose actual name, “Chmielewski,” he admits in writing today is less readily understood when spoken aloud, justifying my nickname for him as a service for vision-impaired readers) wrote an […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Chumley-the-Destroyer-115x115.jpg "AD-73 – Chumley Being a Dipstick Again ‘Cuz OJB is Mean to Him; Doesn’t See Stillwater Email as ‘Evidence’")
![From Chris Nguyen’s latest (but not necessarily final) report on the OCGOP endorsements, all eyes turn to Fullerton: Mark McCurdy speaks about Sean Paden’s city service and conservative principles. Fred […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Trenches-115x115.jpg "FFFF Memorial Post: In His Fullerton Endorsements, Shawn Nelson Gets Trenchant")
![Your Faithful Author (“YFA”) asked, during Public Comments at the Anaheim Council meeting last week, why Kris Murray had resigned from a prestigious (appointive, not earned) seat on the Metropolitan […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Murray-Baugh-Kring-115x115.jpg "Did Kris Murray QUIT the Metro Water Board Because She SPIT at Scott Baugh by Approving a PLA?")
![I stopped paying much attention to what Mayoral Candidate and gadfly — “gadfly” is practically his new first name — Denis Fitzgerald had to say almost a year ago. A […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Fitz-Can-Be-Bigoted-But-What-About-His-Claims-115x115.jpg "Fitz Can Be Bigoted – But Are His Assertions Against Murray and Eastman Valid?")
![The photo you see below is of African American actress Daniele Watts, who appeared (ironically, as a cop) on the latest season of Weeds, as well as appearing in Partners and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Black-Woman-Arrest-for-Kissing-White-Husband-115x115.jpg "Black Actress Arrested on Suspicion of Prostitution for Kissing White Husband in Public")
![[Prefatory note: While OJB was working on this post, blogger Art Pedroza came out with his own related story, which covers some of the same ground as ours and some […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Bill-Brough-with-Pets-and-Meat-115x115.jpg "AD-73: Is “Unpaid Bill” Brough a Scummy Sadist — or is He Just Running THAT SCARED?")
![This happened in the land of Facebook: Yes, I did unfriend you — why? You insulted the burger flippers and the counter clerks, as if your Big Mac, Coke, and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Tribbles-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Science Fiction Writer David Gerrold Goes Medieval on Minimum Wage Opponents")
![People sometimes ask me why I put so much time into chronicling the ins and outs of people filing for office. Two reasons: One, no one else — at least […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/guillory-nguyen-115x115.jpg "Who Diverted Webster Guillory from the Road to Retirement to the Pathway to Prison?")
![[UPDATE: If you’re interested in this story from Tuesday, you’ll probably also want to read our follow-up from Wednesday, where OJB asks the questions that apparently do not occur to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Assessor-Candidates-2014-115x115.jpg "Jorge Lopez’s Accusations Lead OCDA to Charge Webster Guillory with Three Felonies. Now Vote for Guillory.")
![Joan Rivers’s popularity increased substantially over the past 30 days, culminating in today’s funeral. And she certainly earned a lot of the praise that she’s received, as a feminist trailblazer […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Joan-Rivers-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: A Month Ago Tomorrow, This Was in the News. Plus, Fuck Sharks!")
![[1] It was only a matter of time before we delved into real journalism… OJB has had it up to here with Miguel Pulido — and we’re going to do […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Pulido-hiding-behind-Rackauckas-115x115.jpg "OJB Seeks Powerful Objective Writer Exclusively to Cover the Miguel Pulido Corruption Beat")
![With Chris Nguyen burning up the lines with news of the OC Republican Party’s tentative endorsements, I just thought that this might be interesting. (It’s not like it’s self-serving, at any rate.) […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/smileys-red-and-blue-115x115.jpg "Endorsements Table: DPOC vs. OCLF vs. OCGOP vs. What You Got?")
I like Vanity Fair, I even subscribed to them in the 80’s, but they put out a really irritating little…