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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.)
![. . . Before we discuss tomorrow’s Irvine City Council vote about a Veterans Cemetery in the Great Park — a vote that, as predicted long ago here and elsewhere, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Chinese-Flag-Great-Park-Balloon1-115x115.jpg "Why Speculators from Communist China are Snapping Up U.S. Real Estate")
![1. John Perez does the right thing — he wasn’t going to win — and shows some class Here’s the email that Perez just sent around, leading me to wonder […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Rubber-Duck-Deflated-115x115.jpeg "Recount Blackout Fallout Roundup")
![Seem a bit early for election endorsements? Maybe the Orange County Register is acting quickly while it still has some staff left. Maybe whoever vets its editorials is on furlough. The Register […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Quirk-Silva-occludes-Young-Kim-115x115.jpg "Failing Newspaper Endorses Cowering Candidate Shortly Before Unsettling Vote")
![Hat tip to Matt Coker, raking through the muck for the Weekly, who writes: Yes, the city of Brea did hold an informational meeting of its own recently after residents […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/fracking-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Brea Forum Invites Scientist and Activists to Explain Fracking Concerns to Public")
![IT’S OVER! PEREZ HAS CONCEDED. Parke Skelton, Strategist for the Betty Yee for Controller campaign, has notified OJB that Perez has announced that he is abandoning his recount and endorsing […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Cherries-in-cupped-hands-115x115.jpg "UPDATE: IT’S OVER! PEREZ CONCEDES! (Was: Can Perez Still Win Ugly? Here’s How He Might Try)")
![Judge Cormac Carney, 2003 appointee of President George W. Bush, ruled today (warning, 29-page PDF) that California’s death penalty is an unconstitutional violation of the 8th Amendment because the system […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Caryl-Chessman-115x115.jpg "OC Federal Judge, a Bush Appointee, Declares CA Death Penalty Unconstitutional")
![I find the Middle East crisis extremely depressing, as a supporter of Israel’s right to exist who also thinks that there has to be a reasonable limit — in Hebrew, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Gaza-airstrike-July-11-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: J-Street on the Middle East Bloodshed")
![Why, oh why, are kids from trans-Mexican Latin America suddenly lining up for, essentially, asylum on the borders of the U.S.? It’s because of a law passed a few years […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Wilberforce-and-Legacy-115x115.jpg "The Law Behind the Unaccompanied Minors Immigration Crisis, Supported by Conservatives")
![1. Counting Woes Criticism of John Perez’s demand for a selective recount in the State Controller’s race to see who will take on Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin this fall has […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Yee-and-Perez-in-the-Balance-115x115.jpg "CA Dems: Count 306K Votes, at Once, in Ten Full Counties! Plus: the Worst Perez Recount Demand Problem")
![Last update: July 6, 6:30 p.m.; 6:45 p.m. (adding spaces present in the original to OC precinct numbers); July 7, 12:15 a.m. (adding note, locating first precinct on target list). […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Perez-cherry-picking-support-Yee-115x115.jpg "Copy and Paste from Our OCR Text Version of Perez’s Precinct Recount List! How Does Yours Rank?")
![Former Assembly Speaker has swallowed hard and taken one for the team: he’ll call for a recount of the Controller’s election for our own good. Here’s his message: Thank you […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Cherry-picking-115x115.jpg "Just a Cherry Pickin’ Minute Here! Perez Asks for a Recount — of Certain Favorable Counties")
![So … because this is the 2010s … someone set portions of Justice Ginsburg’s dissent in the Hobby Lobby case to music and posted a video of it: Meanwhile, critics […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ginsburg-singer-115x115.png "Long Weekend Open Thread: “The Court I Fear”")
![Going into a holiday weekend tomorrow, we know that people will need something to argue about until Monday. Well, we’ve got the mother of all argument dancers here today. I’ve […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Robben-Marquez-Artistic-View-115x115.jpg "OJB’s Most Contentious Post Ever: YES, Marquez Fouled Robben! An Examination")
![This should be the last of the pre-recount (if there is a recount) election return watching in the race for the second position in the runoff for State Controller. Either […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Controllers-Race-Nail-Biter-115x115.jpg "Controller’s Race: A Nail Biter! UPDATE 4 — YEEEEEE HAWWW! Finals Stats: Yee by 481!")
The Republican Party doesn't even pretend to be conservative anymore. The "leaders" have completely capitulated the their worst voters. It's…