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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.)
![UPDATE: Meeting was apparently postponed until this morning and was to begin at 10:00. 1. Big Labor Meeting Will Discuss ‘the Greg Diamond Problem’ As the moon rises tonight, it […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Blood-moon-from-Griffith-Observatory-115x115.jpg "UPDATED! Irony Workers: the Statement of a Very Unlikely ‘Anti-Labor’ Candidate — Supposedly, That’s Me")
![Here’s a “cute story” that isn’t cute at all: Slate as an article up right now entitled “Hillary Clinton Ducks Flying Shoe Thrown During Las Vegas Speech” that shows the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Hillary-Clinton-and-Flying-Shoe-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Flying Shoes and Jailed Marijuana Activists")
![From the Voice of OC, regarding yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting: Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk Silva also drew protests from county supervisors for attempting to move a bill authorizing a veterans’ cemetery in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Shawn-Nelson-update-copy-115x115.jpg "Nelson Pointlessly Bares Partisan Fangs in Refusing to Support Irvine Veterans Cemetery")
![If you check out the City of Long Beach’s Election Results Page for yesterday’s primary, this is what you’ll see — except that it scrolls, slo-o-o-o-o-o-wly, up the page, and there’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Long-Beach-Spruce-Goose-and-Queen-Mary1-115x115.jpg "City of Long Beach Election Results, Presented Without Scrolling")
![Here are comments from Anaheim Police Chief Raul Quezada — someone whom I truly want to respect, because it’s hard to imagine Anaheim hiring anyone much better than him in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/zia-quezada-hernandezes-115x115.png "Chief Quezada’s Comments on Hernandez Lawsuit Get a Grim Reception in Anaheim’s Barrios")
![When I testified three times in 2011 before the Citizens Redistricting Commission, which did a pretty good job of district-making that year, I made one plea to them three times: […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/South-El-Monte-Art-Posse-Mosaic-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Meet Your Northern Neighbor, the San Gabriel Valley!")
![Tonight is the Annual Dinner for the Orange County Labor Federation, which I plan to attend. I’m a longtime supporter of unions, which are one of our sole remaining bulwarks […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Jim-Adams-115x115.jpg "My Gentle Response to the Building Trades Demand for My Removal as DPOC Vice-Chair")
![Today’s Supreme Court’s decision on campaign finance, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, allows the wealthy to give unlimited contributions to party committees — and remember that in California we have […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Roberts-Rootkit-115x115.jpg "The Supreme Court Uploads Rootkit Malware: Context for Today’s Campaign Finance Ruling")
![Hot off the presses! (Actually, in this case, I think that Orange Juice Blog itself IS “the presses”!) From: [BOHS Choir] Date: March 31, 2014 at 10:46:24 AM PDT To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: More News Coverage Exciting […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/IMG_2544-e1396300982994.jpg "Brea’s Daniel Dwyer Finishes His Song, With Six Talented Assistants, on TV Today at 3:30!")
![It’s been over 24 hours now since the 4.4 quake along the ridgeline of the Puente Hills, just barely across the border from Brea into Rowland Heights, that extended the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Brea-Olinda-Library-after-quake-115x115.jpg "Earthquake Report, March 30-31: Necessary Repairs, Aftershock Therapy, Quake Prep, and Fracking Up")
![I’ve been wondering: What About Mimi? Three Democratic Senators have been suspended for various ethical violations ranging from perjury over a statement of residency (Rod Wright) to various kinds of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Huff-and-Walters-Stiff-the-Bees-Residency-Question-115x115.jpg "Watch My Slimy Former Opponent Bob Huff Prevent Mimi Walters from Maybe Lying")
![We’ll try to have some reports during the day about last night’s earthquakes centered near Sonora High School in La Habra and Brea. Watching journalists trying to figure out where […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Earthquakes-the-Sonora-Triangle-115x115.jpg "Earthquake Report, March 28-29: Ground Settling Down Near the Sonora Triangle [UPDATE: But Look to the Hills!]")
![It’s been a long time since I’ve done an OC Register Dearthwatch, which chronicles the state of the Register‘s online readership in the wake of their erecting their toughest-in-the-industry paywall. But April 2 is […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Dearthwatch-decline-graphic-115x115.png "First Anniversary of the OC Register Dearthwatch: How Did the Experiment Go?")
![From the PrevattOC — the remaining readable portion of what we once knew as “LiberalOC” — Chris Prevatt* presents important news about a new lawsuit against the City of Anaheim being threatened […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Jordan-Brandman-angry-at-Council-Meeting-115x115.jpg "[PrevattOC-inspired]: Why is Jordan Brandman Blaming ME for HIS Screwing Up?")
The Republican Party doesn't even pretend to be conservative anymore. The "leaders" have completely capitulated the their worst voters. It's…