Capo incumbents can keep candidate statements as is

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…