| This Is the Orange County Board of Supervisors' Proposed Solution to Tan-gate:
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Basically, they're doing nothing.
Even Lynn Daucher, the Republican running against Democratic Candidate Correa for the 34th State Senate District, offered to split the expense with Correa's campaign in reimbursing the OC Registrar of Voters for mailing a letter to the over 14,000 targeted LEGAL VOTERS, reassuring them that they HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE in this election.
When she explained what warranted the need for the county to send out a letter to the targeted voters, she simply stated, "I believe that the Tan Nguyen letter is enough warrant to send out the letter."
She also nearly threw me into a coma when she said:
" I offer to pay half the funds of the letter if Lou pays the other half..."
(Until I woke up and realized that this must be her new campaign tactic to cope with the damage that Tan is wreaking on the entire Republican ticket here.)
That is, Lynn offered to pay half of the reimbursement of the OC Registrar for sending out the letter to the 14,000 voters if Lou and his campaign agreed to pay the other half...
"Great idea. We'll work on that."
This was Lou's response to Lynn Daucher's offer that they both reimburse the OC Registrar of Voters for sending out the letter.
Now Lou, who is currently the lone Democrat on the OC Board of Supervisors, also made a good proposal today to his fellow Supervisors on how to deal with this crisis:
He made a substitute motion [to his original planned motion to ask the Registrar to send out a correction letter] to set up a tak force headed by District Attorney Tony Rauckackas to investigate ALL EFFORTS of voter intimidation in Orange County, and that plain-clothed sheriffs monitor various random polling places and contact the task force if they spot any voter intimidation efforts. Though the other supervisors seemed willing to sign on to this, they ended up killing this proposal softly by doing nothing to put this into motion soon.
When the board was about to agree to the toothless resolution and do nothing else, Lou said that "we need to be preemptive on voter intimidation. We need to be proactive, and create a task force."
Though Lou urged his colleagues to act on this TODAY, his fellow supervisors simply said that they "like the idea", but postponed this to the next week's meeting.
Even Supervisor Bill Campbell seemed to agree to this proposal that the two SD 34 campaigns (and possibly the Teamsters as well) reimburse the County for mailing this letter to the targeted voters...
It looked like there could have been a "win-win" situation...
But Supervisors Norby and Wilson objected to any county involvement in this matter oter than the meaningless resolution...
Supervisor Silva remained silent...
In the end, this compromise proposal was killed.
The Orange County Registrar of Voters, the agency which should be involved in correcting this disgustingly messy situation, will be resrained from doing anything regarding this case.
What a travesty. |
