Letter to the editor
With regard to Mayor Gary Monahan’s comment that it is “not a big
deal” for a husband to sign a nominating petition for his wife, which is
the allegation regarding the papers filed by new Councilman Chris Steel,
I wonder if the mayor is familiar with the state Elections Code, which
states:
“Every person who subscribes to any nomination petition a fictitious
name, or who intentionally subscribes thereto the name of another . . .
is guilty of a felony and is punishable by imprisonment in the state
prison for 16 months or two or three years.”.
Frankly, it bothers me that Mayor Monahan doesn’t consider an apparent
felony violation of the law to be a “big deal.”
I wonder whether or not the other “powers that be” charged with
investigating this matter will consider it a “big deal.”
MICHAEL SZKARADEK
Costa Mesa
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