- Description
- 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.)
![1. The Master Plan is Not Looking So Well Today I and many others haven’t really focused too much on alternative possibilities for the Great Park because the initial plan […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Great-Park-Location1-115x115.jpg "If the Master Plan’s Gone, a Better Use for the Great Park would be Service for Veterans")
![Many, many people writing in Orange County know more about the Great Park than I do. But I think that I do know when it’s time to write a story […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Great-Park-Balloon-Pop-115x115.jpg "Up and Away: Irvine’s Bucolic Great Park Plans Become 9,500 Homes and a 188-Acre Golf Course")
![Against what may have seemed to be enormous odds for a man made of less stern stuff, on Friday Rep. Ed Royce DID successfully complete an entire work week of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Pastors-Fasters-Unionists-and-Activists-prepare-to-address-the-crowd1-115x115.jpg "Royce ALREADY in Campaign Mode: No Meeting Protesters and ‘No Photo or Video Allowed’ in His Office!")
![From yesterday’s edition of Scott Lay’s Around the Capitol: As the referendum against AB 1266 proceeds to random sample, proponents would need 92.1% validity to qualify the measure for the November 2014 […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Truman-Dinner-Clapping-for-Cassidy-Campbell-115x115.jpg "Anti-Transgender Student Referendum Petition Looks Likely to FAIL for 2014!")
![This video was posted a week ago this past Tuesday — and as two days later it already had over 1.2 million views. So there’s a good chance that you […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Katella-Deli-fare-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Here, Have Some Having What They’re Having!")
![A friend rattles our cage with the implicit suggestion that this deserves to be posted. Yeah, I’d say so. For coverage, go check out the story at the Voice of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Pulido-gives-an-award-to-Akoubian-115x115.jpg "Might As Well Post ‘Em While We Still Got ‘Em: Real Orange/VOC on Pulido’s Property Swap")
![Harry Reid just gave a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate that will rightfully belong in the history books. He’s taking on the filibuster — at least as […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Filibuster-reform-graphic-115x115.png "Major, Huge, Breaking, Groundbreaking News on the U.S. Senate Filibuster’s Rule")
![[SEE THE UPDATE (WITH THREE PHOTOS) AT THE BOTTOM! THIS FIRST PART WAS INITIALLY PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY] A friend asked me last night about the fast that was taking place […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/fast-in-brea-wed-nite-600px-115x115.jpg "UPDATED! Will Ed Royce MEET with the Immigrant Reform Activists Sleeping Outside of His Office?")
![By now, you’ve probably heard of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. If you know only one thing about him, other than that he’s both the Mayor of Canada’s largest city and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Rep-Trey-Radel-as-coke-fiend-115x115.jpg "Political Drug Scandals: Why is Crack So Hilarious While Cocaine is So Forgivable?")
![Today is, as you may have heard, the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address — widely considered to be the single best known of all American writings. (If I ever […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Four-Score-and-Seven-115x115.jpg "The Gettysburg Address: ‘Four Score and Seven,’ Seven Score and Ten Years Ago Today")
![Sometimes, I find my political perch as a mainstream liberal Democrat in Orange County amazing and amusing. On the one hand, I get grief from the Oh-So-Leftists Duane Roberts and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Eastman-endorsers-highlighted-115x115.jpg "Highlighting the Democratic ‘Messaging Problem’ in Anaheim — or is it More than Messaging?")
![Here’s a sampling of some events that you can attend this week. [1] TODAY at 12:00 At the Guru Nanak Sikh Temple (7122 Orangethorpe Ave in Buena Park, north of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Hennad-Hands-@-BP-Sikh-Temple-115x115.jpg "Sharon Speaks Today to Sikhs, and Other Events of This Upcoming Week’s")
![Lucille Kring announces her campaign for Mayor today. Let’s celebrate by listening to an album of her “greatest hits”! In the video below, you will literally see her tell EIGHT less […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Kring-lying-115x115.jpg "Kringeworthy! See Lucille Kring Tell EIGHT More-Than-Half-Lies in 85 Seconds!")
![In yesterday’s LA Times, David Lazarus assesses the question of whether President Obama deliberately misled the public about their ability to keep their own current health insurance. The verdict: pretty much […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Obamacare-meme-part-time-115x115.jpg "Obamacare — the Grandfather of All Explanations of Why Obama Didn’t Lie")
Change is hard, for old farts.