Friday, February 28, 2020

DIRTY TRICKS: It's Dandy Don Wagner and his Developer Friends!

Court: Dirtiest Election Trick In Decades By Developers In OC Supervisors Race Should Change Rules For Future Candidates
Voice of OC
     Just days before the election mailers arrived exposing the candidate’s crimes. She protected rapists, not women. She wrote a letter about a judge to reduce the sentence for a 3 year old’s rapist. Only, none of it was true.
     The candidate –Orange County Board of Supervisor’s challenger Ashleigh Aitken — is in fact a girl scout leader, mother, and former federal prosecutor of sexual predators.
     The mailer, which disclosed its funding source only as “Californians for A Growing Economy and Safe Streets,”(CFGESS) was in fact funded by real estate developers with an interest in Orange County. They supported the incumbent Republican Orange County Supervisor Don Wagner, who has repeatedly sided with developers in local control matters…. Continue reading
The propaganda in question 

OC Supervisors candidate Ashleigh Aitken demands apology for mailer
OC Reg
     Orange County Board of Supervisors Third District candidate Ashleigh Aitken said on Tuesday, Jan. 25, her campaign has sent a cease-and-desist letter to her opponent, Supervisor Don Wagner, demanding he renounce a mailer she says falsely accuses her of supporting an Orange County Superior Court judge who reduced the sentence of a man who sexually assaulted a 3-year-old relative….

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don, are you reading this? Why have you turned to the dark side? You had likable but questionable qualities in you when you served on the BOT.

You've sold your self out it appears. Head for the monastery to cleanse yourself.

Anonymous said...

I don't remember any likable qualities while he was on the BOT. I remember his arrogant dismissive attitude toward faculty and higher ed. I remember his self-serving photo ops and his own lazy leadership that allowed problems he recognized to get worse for years.

Anonymous said...

Wasn’t he the one to cancel our American Library Association affiliation because he decided the group was too liberal? You know, a typical point of view of people who love education.

Anonymous said...

Yes, - he called librarians liberal busy-bodies. He LOVED Mike Carona. He was terrible in Sacto - ultra right wing, anti-woman.

Anonymous said...

That’s a worthwhile target. Librarians.

Anonymous said...

Who did the same sex benefits hit piece in the BOT elections? Who was running?

Anonymous said...

The infamous same-sex hit piece was in 1996: Fortune, Frogue, Williams and a guy named Don Davis (he lost) - the other three won.

Anonymous said...

And the then officers of the Faculty Association had spent a chunk of money on that hit piece and when they left office some questions were raised: how did they secure credit cards without the ok of the membership? And how, as some have said, was money supposedly not accounted for? There was, I believe, an audit.

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