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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Deceptive Campaigns/Politicians

The following candidates have been identified with using voter deception tactics:

Kevin Jeffries: Running for his third term as State Assemblyman admits he won many elections as a water district director using "Fireman" as his profession. In fact, he was finally successfully sued in 2006 by the California Department of Forestry for this false claim. They said, "We cannot stand for voter deception". His most notorious voter deception tactic was using his subordinate, staffer Dave Everett at the Riverside County Republican Party, to fool the voters of Murrieta into the deception that Jeffries had nothing to do with the mail piece that was sent to voters opposing the 2005 Murrieta Recall Measure. He had indeed made a quid-pro-quo deal with Dan Stephenson of Rancon in order to advance his political career to the State Assembly. Full story and documents available in The Community Bugle "Archives" menu item by clicking August 2010. The story begins on the front page and carries over to page 2 with the quid-pro-quo payoff evidence, signed by Dan Stephenson, on page 9.

Kelly Bennett: Running for Murrieta City Council is not an elected Mayor. Don't be deceived by this ballot designation. The position of mayor is just a figurehead in Murrieta and is a rotated position to give every council member a chance to chair the council meetings. Using this title is a deceptive practice when you are not elected to the position. In fact, there are no mayors in our region that are elected by their constituents as all of the cities in our region are general law cities. Mayors are only elected in Charter cities.



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