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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 what my inbox is looking like right now: I received 46 end-of-quarter political fundraising appeals on Monday, December 30. By 1:00 p.m. today, I had surpassed it. So […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/fundraising-pennies-115x115.jpg "Fundraising Pitches are the Worst Thing in the World Except for No Fundraising Pitches")
![Santana Artist Alicia Rojas has released a open letter to the new landlord of the Santora Building, who over the holiday season whitewashed a mural created by many artists who […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Santora-Mural-Whitewashing-Begins-non-artists-conception-115x115.jpg "Whitewashing the Santora Building of Its Community History")
![You’re welcome to add your favorite Christmas carols and songs in comments and I’ll try to add them to the text — eventually. I’m self-indulging and putting up three of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Monkees-Riu-Chiu-115x115.jpg "Christmas Music Videos: Half of Them ‘Ríu, Ríu, Chíu,’ Most of the Rest ‘Christmas Time is Here’")
![This question may have a simple answer, but if so I don’t know it — so maybe one of you will. Who is this guy? More on the above images […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dewars-shirt-hair-extension-man-115x115.jpg "Who is Dana’s Dewar’s-T-Shirted, Hair-Extensioned, Videographer/Grime-Scene-Witness?")
![All right, all right — all right! Enough whining! By popular demand, you say want to celebrate Festivus together in your online home away from home? OK, then we’ll do it! […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/festivus-poles-115x115.jpg "Gather Round the Aluminum Pole and Air Your Grievances in OJB’s Festivus Open Thread!")
![I’m more a bluegrass fan myself, but it so happens that the vagaries of life has put me into a social circle where I’m in touch online with contemporary country […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Country-Music-was-awful-in-2013-Grady-Smith-115x115.jpg "Girls in Tight Jeans with Beer in Trucks by the River in the Year in Country Music 2013")
![For those of you who hadn’t seen it — and being a dinosaur myself, I had not — soon-to-be-Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon’s current show has been featuring a recurrent […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Fallon-and-Timberlake-rap-115x115.jpg "‘History of Rap’ — A Quick Hippity-Hoppity Hip-Hop Primer for the Ignorant Among Us")
![If you’re the sort of person who needs to be reading the blogs on a cold Saturday afternoon, I suppose that we should nourish you. So welcome to my Facebook […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/brazil-pope-2-115x115.jpg "Solstice Reading: Robot Telemarketers, That McDonald’s Lawsuit, Stupid Bloody Kansas, and More!")
![Two treats for you today! For the first, you have a peak into the weather outside during a Category 1 storm (the worst level) in Antarctica. You’ll have to go […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Rohrabacher-stain-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Staina Rentalbutcher’s Grime Spree and a Peek at Some Cold Weather")
![What a big day it has been for the world’s justice systems! I won’t even get into a Utah federal judge finding that state’s ban on marriage equality unconstitutional, or […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/sexy-mountie-115x115.jpg "Oh, Canada’s Supreme Court! North of the Bordello Border, Harm Reduction Legalizes Some Prostitution")
![I hate to get crude, of course, but sometimes the right analogy is indelicate: the recent denials by Anaheim Chamber of Commerce President Todd Ament that the Chamber has anything […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/cunningham-raincoat-city-hall-e1387473341194.jpg "It’s OK Because Todd Ament is Only Paying Matt Cunningham for the Massage")
![For those of you who fail to understand that my own style of writing — long, with ample use of asides, side-references, and other subordinate clauses en route (at least one […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Mr.-Banks-children-115x115.jpg "Famous Author Harlan Ellison’s Incisive YouTube Review of ‘Saving Mr. Banks’")
![1. Anaheim Stadium Deal Starts Getting Pecked by the Larger Birds Come one, come all! Watch and see Martin Wisckol perform some real investigative journalism so strong that even the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Wisckol-Angels-Press-Room-115x115.jpg "Martin Wisckol Vaults the Paywall, Goes Full-Tilt Journalist on Anaheim’s Stadium Giveaway")
![This story going around Facebook has a serious error that seems to obscure an important core of truth. The supervolcano that lies beneath Yellowstone National Park is 2.5 times larger than previously […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Yellowstone-Magma-Pocket-115x115.jpg "So Could We Tap Into This Baby? Yellowstone Supervolcano Grows in Stature")
Wait, it PASSED? Agran joined the other Dems? And it didn't need a vote of the people? I see this:…