Another lawsuit, really?
In a not too surprising but really desperate attempt to intimidate and thwart local citizens from actively participating in government and exercising their rights under the constitution of the state, Trustees Winsten and Maddox sent a very threatening letter earlier this week to the ten proponents who signed the recall petition.
The letter demands that they immediately abandon their efforts or face civil and criminal charges. Pretty intense. One of the claims as to why they must cease is because the two claim they were not personally served the recall notices. Now of course, I along with about 300 other people watched frank try to hand the notices to the trustees but he was intercepted and told to hand it to the board secretary instead. Of course we know that they were properly served because they each filed 200 word responses within the 7 days that they were required to specifically answering those charges.
How can you in one letter answer to the charges against you and then in another say that you were not served? Doesn’t quite add up to me.
Bottom line of course is that it’s not about whether they were served, it’s about them trying to scare people into backing down. It’s all political for them and since they obviously don’t have a good track record to stand on, they resort to intimidation and bullying.
i think it’s a gross abuse of power to try to prevent citizens from exercising their rights. It only confirms why these two need to be removed from office.
Tags: Capistrano Unified, CUSD, erin kutnick