Campaign Finance Facts

Campaign Finance Facts
by Joe Holtzman

For a revealing look at campaign finance facts involving the Mission Viejo council race, check out the Mission Viejo Dispatch http://missionviejodispatch.com/2008/10/24/council-candidates-file-contributions-expenditures . Brad Morton has done a great job with it.

While Councilman Frank Ury has broken many promises to the average citizen, the reason is obvious: Ury is in the pocket of the special interests. The Dispatch has listed them in detail. Take another look, folks. Ury’s financiers are not your friends.

Council challenger Richard Atkinson is a newcomer to politics in Mission Viejo. He has Mayor Trish Kelley shaking down the city suppliers and vendors for contributions to fund his campaign. Atkinson, when questioned on many topics about the city, reads the prepared material/answers given to him by Mayor Trish Kelley. When questioned on a one-on-one basis, he has no idea of what has/is taking place in Mission Viejo. His total ignorance on modern roundabouts is alarming! He was against the Rose Parade float –before he was (by Kelley’s direction) for the Rose Parade float.

Both Ury and Atkinson will NOT be citizen-friendly. They are obligated to the special interests who are not the citizens’ friends. You can count on Ury leading the charge to DEVELOP housing on the Casta golf course. Ury is forgetting the folks who are being radiated with EMF from the Edison lines, and Ury’s WI-FI initiative will be pushed at the citizens’ expense if he is elected.

The time is now to JUST SAY NO to Ury and Atkinson.