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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 piece on the Anaheim Convention Center Expansion Contract will be incredibly boring. Seriously — toxic substances warning applies. But it will end up with a real eye-opener, so if […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Tom-Hagen-steal-with-briefcase-115x115.jpg "Let’s Look at the Anaheim Convention Center Contract! (Boring, but Big Punchline)")
![Wow! From Jason Young at Save Anaheim — and please click that link for the graphics: Sources tell Save Anaheim that OC GOP Chair Scott Baugh asked Kris Murray to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Murray-Baugh-Kring-115x115.jpg "Kris Murray Gets Slammed by Chair in a Baugh Fight")
![1. I Should Like to Be Able to Love Bruno and Still Love Justice Bruno the Police Dog is apparently, improbably, healing. Less visibly, Anaheim itself is not. I didn’t hear […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bruno-kring-115x115.png "Good Boy, Bruno — Get Well Soon! Bad Girl, Lucille — ‘Save Us a Recall’ and Resign!")
![I don’t tweet much — but when I do tweet I like to try to start a ruckus with some egotistical goofball I don’t even know. Take, for example, the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/AG-candidate-David-King-115x115.jpg "Republican Attorney General Candidate David King is Serious But Stupid")
![1. Meet Kelvin Doe I hope that you’ll take 10 minutes — or 20 minutes if, like me, you watch it twice — to watch a video produced by the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/MIT-Sierra-Leone-Child-Inventor-Kelvin-Doe-115x115.jpg "I Love Natural Science and Technology; That’s Why I Became a Social Scientist in Law and Politics")
![OCCCO — the Orange County Congregational Community Organization, a — has a finely styled video out this afternoon that will give Matt Cunningham something new (well, actually the same old […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Little-Peoples-Park-OCCCO-Video-115x115.jpg "#ItsTimeAnaheim: OCCCO Video Invites You to Little People’s Park This Saturday, 11-2")
![The only candidates for Attorney General this year that I’ve been able to find statewide are these. Two of these candidates you’ve heard of, if you ever watch political news: […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Orly-115x115.jpg "Orly Taitz Really Could Finish Second in the Attorney General Primary Vote — and Go to November")
![OJB has obtained an e-mail from my fellow Government Accountability Attorney Cory Briggs to the Anaheim City Council, to which they probably should have paid more attention before last Tuesday’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Anaheim-Convention-Center-Expansion-115x115.jpg "Don’t Count Just Yet on that Anaheim Convention Center Expansion Vote Surviving")
![I get that Shawn Nelson is a longtime true friend of former Assemblyman Chris Norby. But that doesn’t excuse everything Nelson does in defending his friend — and he has […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/CIMG0612.jpg "UPDATED: Shawn Nelson’s Completely Absolving Chris Norby of ANY Violence Goes Way Too Far")
![1. I Suppose That I Should Write About This Former OC Supervisor and State Assemblyman Chris Norby was arrested last night on charges of domestic violence and child endangerment, booked […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Norby-mugshot-stained-glass-115x115.jpg "Norby and Me: On Domestic Violence, Character, and Finding the Truth")
![The filing period for state and county offices has finished. Barring write-in candidacies, it’s all over except the litigatin’. Three positions — CA-45, AD-74, and County Auditor Controller — were […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Being-Decommissioned-115x115.jpg "The 2014 State and County Office Field is Set! (Barring the Unexpected)")
![Sharon Quirk-Silva’s AB 1453, which would have the state commission a new veterans cemetery in Orange County, could be one of two things: (1) a symbolic but ultimately ineffectual statement […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Irvine-Council-votes-to-move-towards-Great-Park-Veterans-Cemetery-115x115.jpg "Irvine Council Approves Veterans Cemetery Resolution That May Arm AB 1453")
![MONDAY RECAP: A few noteworthy actions took place in the Registrar of Voters’ race on Monday — but the most important story about the 2014 races took place elsewhere, at […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Moorlach-gradient-115x115.jpg "Moorlach Drops Out of CA-45 Race, and Other Tales from the Registrar’s Office")
![This year, the State Legislature may approve AB 1453, which if all goes as planned would go forward with plans to build a Veteran’s Cemetery in Irvine’s Great Park — […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/OCVMP-meeting-620px-115x115.jpg "An OC Veteran’s Cemetery is Within Our Grasp! Irvine Council Votes TODAY!!!")
The Republican Party doesn't even pretend to be conservative anymore. The "leaders" have completely capitulated the their worst voters. It's…