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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’s Memorial Day Concert is this afternoon at 4, at the Huntington Beach Central Library! As you can see below, musically it will bring together disparate artists operating in wonderful […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Vern-concertin-with-Greg-background-mural-115x115.jpg "Come Hear Many Different Tunes at Vern’s Concern Today at 4:00 in HB!")
![Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva, author of AB-1453 which will bring a Veteran’s Cemetery to Orange County (at federal government expense, as they really appreciate this sort of thing) if Jeffrey Lalloway follows […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Veterans-Cemetery-graphic-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Do We Celebrate Memorial Day — or Denigrate It?")
![I have little to add to the coverage about former Brea-Olinda High School math teacher Michelle Johnson pleading guilty to “three felony counts of oral copulation of a minor and two […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Michelle-Johnson-story-stats-before-plea-deal-+-face-115x115.jpg "Brea Teacher Michelle Johnson Pleads Guilty of Sexual Crimes; Some Knew in Advance")
![1. An E-Mail List for Hire Convicted embezzler of public funds, nominal Democrat, and mailing-list-wielding political shakedown artist Basil Kimbrew has gone way, way too far this time. (That’s a change from his […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Farrise-for-Assembly-banner-with-Kimbrew-cheap-shot-excerpt-115x115.jpg "Poorly Rehabilitated Felon Cherry-Picks Facts to Slam Major Democratic Donor and Assembly Candidate Simona Farrise")
![FIRST — TODAY, MONDAY MAY 19, IS THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE FOR THE JUNE 3 ELECTION. YOU CAN REGISTER — INCLUDING RE-REGISTERING IF YOU HAVE MOVED WITHIN ORANGE COUNTY […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Skeletons-having-conversation-fudd-and-bugs-115x115.jpg "Sit Back and Enjoy Parts 1-5 of a Conversation That Might Bore You to Death")
![[In PART 1 of this excruciatingly long exchange between myself and a veteran anonymous commenter named “beelzebub” — perhaps Orange County’s prototypical conservative — on the Voice of OC, he […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Skeletons-having-conversation-4-115x115.jpg "Sit Back and Enjoy Part 4 of a Conversation That Might Bore You to Death")
![[In PART 1 of this excruciatingly long exchange between myself and a veteran anonymous commenter named “beelzebub” on the Voice of OC, he and I bonded over our shared desire […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Skeletons-having-conversation-3-115x115.jpg "Sit Back and Enjoy Part 3 of a Conversation That Might Bore You to Death")
![[In PART 1 of this excruciatingly long — but in its way fascinating to some tastes, tastes that are not likely to be those of more readers — exchange between […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Skeletons-having-conversation-21-115x115.jpg "Sit Back and Enjoy Part 2 of a Conversation That Might Bore You to Death")
![You might call that headline “provocative”; I call it “truth in labeling.” If you’ve really wanted to get a sense of what it’s like to run for office, you could […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Skeletons-having-conversation-115x115.jpg "Sit Back and Enjoy Part 1 of a Conversation That Might Bore You to Death")
![I wasn’t going to write about this matter here today, but now it appears that I should. First, for context, read this from Bloomberg News; I’ll print only the first […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Anaheim-Convention-Center-Expansion-115x115.jpg "CATER’s Settlement Offer to the City of Anaheim: You Might As Well See It")
![The biggest political story of the year is not the 2014 midterm election, not the fighting and map-redrawing in the Ukraine, and not even the political struggles in and around […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Modi-victory-superimposed-over-Indian-Flag-115x115.jpg "Why Care So Much About Corruption? Take a Look at India’s Recent Election.")
![Two of the topics that I most enjoyed teaching as a social science professor were Statistics and Research Methods. Statistics, in particular, scares the hell out of some students. I’m […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Stats-unhappy-face-115x115.jpg "Letter to a Young College Student Who Dreads the Idea of Taking Statistics in the Fall")
![For this Weekend Open Thread, I’m going to engage in some shameless self-promotion. I’m having a low-cost fundraiser for my District Attorney campaign — $20 in advance, $25 at the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Bowling-Fundraiser-Excerpt-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Shameless Promotion for Low-Ticket Bowling Fundraiser on May 17!")
![As most of you know, 276 girls from Chibok, Nigeria — a report today suggested that eight more from elsewhere may have been added to that total — have been kidnapped […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Malala-Bring-Back-Our-Girls-115x115.jpg "The Nigerian Girls and the Differences Among Terrible Forms of Slavery")
The Republican Party doesn't even pretend to be conservative anymore. The "leaders" have completely capitulated the their worst voters. It's…