Capo incumbents can keep candidate statements as is
September 03, 2010 Filed in:
Elections
Scott Martindale, The Orange County Register
An Orange County judge
ruled Friday that the five incumbents in Capistrano Unified's
contentious school board race do not have to change their 200-word
campaign statements, rebuffing opponents' demands for dozens of
revisions and deletions. Orange County Superior Court Judge Michael
Brenner in Santa Ana also ruled that the incumbent trustees – led
by the Committee to Reform CUSD – could accuse their opponents in
the Nov. 2 sample ballot materials of having close ties to labor
unions, a key point of contention in the election. The ruling comes
just two days after Superior Court Judge Kim Dunning, allowed the
other side – led by the Capistrano Unified Children First group –
to deny labor union involvement in sample ballot arguments for
Measure H, which seeks to change election rules…