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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 is the last “Day at the Races” post prior to the opening of actual filing tomorrow, Feb. 10. (More will appear between now and mid-March.) This series chronicles who […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Filing-cabinets-with-paltrow-115x115.jpg "A Day at the Races, Feb. 9 — Actual Filing Opens Tomorrow! Chismes and Speculations Today!")
![The 2014 Tet Parade was fabulous. It was not just normally fabulous, but fabulous for the inclusion of VROC, the Viet Rainbow of Orange County, which patiently and firmly asserted […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/14-VROC-outcolors-its-own-rainbow-flag-115x115.jpg "VROC at the Tet Parade Was — There’s No Better Word for It — Fabulous! (Photos and Video)")
![I’m not normally a fan of attempts to divide the U.S. into “superstates” or the like; they seem ad hoc to me. However, a new study by the Regional Plan […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Megaregions-map-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: Meet the Megaregions!")
![UPDATE, 2/4 — District Attorney Tony Rackauckas takes out papers to file for re-election (which could be a feint), Jesse Petrilla takes out papers for AD-73 (which could be a farce.) […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/race-car-photo-115x115.jpg "A Day at the Races, Part 2: Who’s Taking Steps to Run for What, as of Feb. 3")
![1. The News Vans Showed Up in Anaheim This Tuesday and It Wasn’t Obvious Why Channel 4 and Channel 52 were in attendance at Tuesday’s Anaheim City Council meeting, so […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Own-Goal-Hands-on-Head-115x115.jpg "On Deportation Resolution, Why Did Jordan Brandman Kick the Ball into His Own Goal?")
![One of the best things that can be said about Anaheim City Manager Marcie Edwards is that she did not want to be City Manager of Anaheim. She was appointed […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Marcie-Edwards-with-Garcetti-LADWP-115x115.jpg "Marcie Edwards Gets Her Dream Job — In Two Respects")
![As feared, the whitewashing of the mural in the basement of Santa Ana’s Santora Building, on which we reported a month ago, was a prelude to something even worse. Word […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Santora-whitewash-115x115.jpg "Santora Whitewash Proceeds: Landlord Jakowsky Evicting Those Disgusting ‘Basement Artists’")
![One of the big local political stories coming out yesterday was the disclosure of Rancho Santa Margarita City Councilman Jesse Petrilla’s criminal history. From Martin Henderson in the Rancho Santa […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Petrilla-Gorilla-and-Bear-ic-115x115.jpg "AD-73 Petrilla Gorilla Rips Open His Violent Past; Will Baric Come Out of Hibernation?")
![We’re about a month and a half away from the deadline to file papers to run in the June primary election, so let’s take a look at the PDF of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/OC-Elections-unopposed-incumbents-115x115.jpg "A Day at the Races: Checking in on Who’s Taking Steps to Run for What, as of Jan. 26")
![I’m a bit on the busy side this weekend, so rather than put in the hours that I normally would on a Weekend Open Thread I’m just going to tell […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Suits-unspoken-rules-e1390667419792.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Suit Yourself")
![Here’s what Rep. Ed Royce wants you to know about paying for college, in an e-mail that just went out today under the title “Royce Paying for College Event“: Dear […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Royce-flipped-features-e1606611513605-115x115.jpg "Miserly Ed Royce’s Obscene ‘Paying for College’ Event Tomorrow: ‘Let Them Raise Cattle’")
![1. First, Let’s Bring the Whimsy I fell in love with the official government photo of Neel Kashkari when I first saw it, before he had even moved to a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Neel-Kashkari-close-up-115x115.jpg "NEEL BEFORE ZOD! OC’s Own (Did You Know That?) Kashkari Filing for Governor")
![I’m taking this without permission because I presume that permission would be granted. If Professor Eric Waggoner of West Virginia Wesleyan University, about whom I know nothing beyond what you […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/West-Virginia-Water-Contamination-115x115.jpg "This Seems Like a Modest Request in Response to the West Virginia Water Crisis")
![There will be more to say about the killing of Kelly Thomas, about the trial, about the rally. For now, here’s an impressionistic sense of what it was like there […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/IMG_1928-115x115.jpg "Photos and Video: Rally after Kelly Thomas Verdict at Fullerton Police Department, 1/18/14")
The Republican Party doesn't even pretend to be conservative anymore. The "leaders" have completely capitulated the their worst voters. It's…