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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.)
![Oh yes. In the spirit of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the KOCE becoming PBS SoCal, the Orange County Register has tipped its cards. What Los Angeles journalism needs […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/OC-Register-of-OC-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Say Hello to “the Los Angeles Register of Santa Ana!”")
![If you’re going to run against Rep. Ed Royce — and if you’re stuck in a primary that you have a good chance of not winning, you should be thinking […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/tppa-protest-new-zealand-115x115.jpg "Ed Royce Auditions for New Role as Supervillain of Secretive TPP Trade Agreement")
![On Wednesday night, Fox News Host Megyn Kelly tried to deceive children into believing that Santa Claus — a fictionalized version of the Greco-Turkish St. Nicholas — was a rosy-cheeked white man. She also […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/megyn-kelly-is-black-115x115.jpg "Fox News Host Megyn Kelly Desperately Hiding Fact That She Herself Just is Black")
![The advent of Covered California has been changing my employment law practice — and for the better. It used to be that a terror among clients being wrongfully terminated was […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Covered-CA-Folders-115x115.jpg "December 23 Covered California Deadline for January 1 Coverage Approaching Quickly!")
![The OC Weekly posts its most popular article of the past week on (at least some) Sundays; this week it was Scott Moxley’s provocatively titled report on the first day […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Cicinelli-and-attorney-Michael-Schwartz-115x115.jpg "Did Cicinelli’s Lawyer REALLY Say That Kelly Thomas ‘Killed Himself’? (That Question Isn’t Rhetorical)")
![These two videos below could hardly be more different in content and tone — but they serve a common theme. This first one contains graphic scenes of an elephant birth. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Mommie_Dearest-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Two Short Videos on Parents Helping Their Children")
![. . . Maybe some people think that it’s funny to give poor old John Moorlach a fainting spell by printing an ad for a Dec. 16 holiday fundraiser for Anaheim […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/tait-murray-mistakes-115x115.png "The Tom Tait Congressional Trial Balloon that Wasn’t — but What If It Had Been?")
![Nelson Mandela died this evening, South African time. So much can be said about him that, at this moment, we will just refer you to the words of some of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Nelson-Mandela-115x115.jpg "Nelson Mandela, Prisoner #46664, Dies an Exalted and Free Man at Age 95")
![I give Californian Republicans some credit for what they did yesterday. They revised the website they had used to trick people looking for Covered California health care exchanges into going […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Covered-California-disinformation-site-115x115.jpg "Seriously, Can ANY Republicans Out There Defend This?")
![I saw this photo — one of many of seen in its genre in which animals that aren’t supposed to “get along” do so, something that I’ve experienced in my […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Cat-sleeping-with-ferrets-115x115.jpg "If You’re Not Programmed to Eat Those You Grow Up With You’re Programmed to Love Them")
![For a long time now, Talking Points Memo (published by Joshua Micah Marshall) has been one of the best political sites on the web. To keep you maniacs busy, let’s […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/mr-t-bling-115x115.gif "“Why Do Poor People ‘Waste’ Money On Luxury Goods?” (from TPM)")
![This is massively cool. The site seems to allow sharing but not embedding, so you’ll have to click the link. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/11/bob-dylan-rolling-stone-video/ Yes, as you no doubt expected, this is indeed a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Like-a-Rolling-Stone-video-still-4-115x115.jpg "Long Holiday Weekend Open Thread: Hooooooww Does It Feeeeeeeel?")
![An (unknowing) Orange Juice Blog correspondent (who can claim authorship of the dispatches below for the asking) documented last night’s goings-on. I’ve cleaned up some of the spelling and grammar, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Lalloway-and-Choi-brick-texture-115x115.jpg "Dispatches from Irvine’s (Until 2 a.m.) City Council Meeting Approving Great Park Construction")
![That question is rhetorical: of course there are politically ambitious leading Democratic attorneys in Orange County. But that question gives rise to a second one: why aren’t any of them apparently thinking […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Spitzer-Donkey-Rackauckas-115x115.jpg "Are There NO Politically Ambitious Leading Democratic Prosecuting Attorneys in Orange County?")
Wait, it PASSED? Agran joined the other Dems? And it didn't need a vote of the people? I see this:…