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Fullerton City Council candidate Paulette Marshall Chaffee suspended her campaign after city blogs and watchdogs accused her of stealing opposition signs and the Fullerton Police Department sent the case to the Orange County District Attorney.
The group Fullerton Taxpayers for Reform will be fined $2,500 by the state’s ethics watchdog for distributing 500 campaign signs during the June 2016 primary election that failed to include proper funding disclosures.
Former Assemblyman Chris Norby’s attorney quotes the prosecutor as saying he “didn’t believe he had a case he could prove beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Kiger had won a seat on the City Council in the June recall election, which was prompted by the fallout from the Kelly Thomas police beating.
As if Sharon Quirk-Silva’s upset of Assemblyman Chris Norby isn’t enough, candidates for a City Council seat are only 28 votes apart.
Pat McKinley, Dick Jones and Don Bankhead were recalled and will be replaced by Travis Kiger, Greg Sebourn and Doug Chaffee.
The campaign to oust three Fullerton city councilmen has
qualified for the ballot.
The businessman and blogger spent nearly $150,000 in apparently
successful effort to force a recall election. Meanwhile, police and
their supporters funded much of the opposition effort.
The group received donations from 130 individuals in its
apparently unsuccessful campaign to block the recall vote against
three Fullerton City Council members.
The campaign in Fullerton, led by developer Tony Bushala, is
hoping to place the recall on the June ballot.