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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.)
![Here’s a horrible story to darken your last weekend of the first half of 2014. (Sorry to do this, but OJB just wants to keep you informed.) Libyan lawyer and human […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Salwa-Bugaighis-115x115.jpeg "Weekend Open Thread: Salwa Bugaighis Assassinated on Eve of Ramadan")
![I love Scott Lay’s work and I have great respect for John Hrabe’s. But Lay is now predicting that, if the Election Day turnout in Lake County holds, John Perez […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Blank-Ballot-115x115.jpg "HEY, John Hrabe & Scott Lay! NOT ALL BALLOTS CONTAIN A VOTE FOR CONTROLLER!")
![We’re waiting for the news today on any substantive updates in counting the ballots in the Controller’s race — which doesn’t have to be finished this week, prior to any […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Lake-County-115x115.jpg "Controller’s Race, UPDATE 9: Santa Cruz in, All Others In, Now Trawling for Lake")
![[Note: Updates after the U.S.-Portugal game are in maroon.] OK, Ghana tied Germany. You weren’t expecting that. You were living in the world where Germany was already into the knockout […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/FIFA-German-Ghana-115x115.jpg "Figuring Out USA’s World Cup Status Hurting Your Head? Don’t Worry, it’s EASY!!")
![We’ll be updating you on the updates as they occur. Or soon after. Or not so soon after. Cities in the roster down below will be changed to green type […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Contra-Costa-County-115x115.jpg "Controller’s Race, Update 6: Fears that Contra Costa’s Count Will Be Conclusive")
![It’s sad that this is “progress,” but it is. Click that link to find an LA Times story with a link to a PDF with the federal court opinion on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Living-in-a-car-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Now You Can Legally Live In Your Car (For Now)")
![UPDATE 2: Yee is now up by 318. Many counties have checked in since noon, when it was just Alameda (CCC) Merced (CCC) and Sacramento’s update. Joining the CCC (completed) […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Perez-Day-of-the-Dead-115x115.jpg "Controller Race, UPDATE 2: Northern Coast Puts Yee Up by 318; Yee Projected to Win by 2400!")
![UPDATE 3 (4:15 p.m. 6/18): OK, Mendocino has now been logged, along with additional results from Butte, Siskiyou, Monterey — and Orange(?) (I thought that we were done last Friday!) […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Mendocino-County-Line-115x115.jpg "Controller Race: Perez’s Lead Expands, Mendocino not yet Logged; Sonoma Count will wait a week, Yee Looks Strong.")
![“John Perez pulls ahead of Betty Yee in the race for Controller!” That’s what headlines will scream this weekend, as Perez’ has come from behind to now hold a 322-vote margin […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Election-Results-Map-Controller-June-13-115x115.jpg "John Perez Climbs Barely Ahead of Betty Yee! OJB Predicted This — and Predicts That It Won’t Last!")
![I double-checked — and CNN.com is not a parody site. This is apparently real. A court declared teacher tenure rules unconstitutional — and the Education Secretary to a Democratic President […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Dunce-cap-115x115.jpg "California Judge Orders an End to Teacher Tenure; Obama’s Education Secretary Applauds")
![We’re in the period of madness, between the final election night update (FENU) and the completed county canvas (CCC), known as the time of County Canvas Updates (CCU), where what […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Betty-Yee-115x115.jpeg "How to Watch Election Returns After Election Night is Over")
![Famed singer and proto-rapper Gil Scott-Heron chanted to the world that “the revolution will not be televised.” That doesn’t mean that it won’t be telegraphed, though — and an extremely […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Las-Vegas-Officers-Killed-in-Revolutionary-Murder-Suicide-115x115.jpg "Two Killers Kill Two Cops, Announce Revolution, Walk to Walmart, Kill a Woman and Themselves")
![Well, this is interesting! Vern, you got your wish, even though it didn’t come from Orly Taitz! Republican Ron Gold, the presumptive challenger to Democratic Attorney General Kamala Harris, wants California to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Kamala-Harris-and-Acapulco-Gold-115x115.jpg "Kamala Harris’s AG Opponent, Ron ‘Acapulco’ Gold, Favors Legalizing and Taxing Cannabis")
![Whew! With the election over, I feel more free to discuss topics that would have been a distraction even a week ago. For example, this: Government Surveillance of the Occupy […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Occupy-OC-goes-to-Long-Beach-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Info on Surveillance of Occupy Trickles Out")
The Republican Party doesn't even pretend to be conservative anymore. The "leaders" have completely capitulated the their worst voters. It's…