🙄 I’d rather be your friend than your frenemy, but you’re not making it easy. I didn’t recall there was ever any factual question that Elissa told you and another candidate about the substantively relevant findings of her polling results. Were those facts ever in dispute? Looking back at the all filings, it doesn’t appear there was any disagreement. We probably have both heard the same story about which of our fellow Palasadians was able to use his connections with BOE to beseech them to let Elissa off with just a slap on the wrist after she had lost the election. The facts were never in dispute. OCF’s finding against Elissa comported to campaign finance law on the books both then and now. BOE muddled the law in granted Elissa a reprieve, and our city is now paying the price for BOE’s actions four years later.
To repeat what I posted on another reply, “As you well know, Troy Kravitz called me up, and was recording the call. I took his call even though I was busy taking my dogs out during a rainstorm and getting my kids dinner. At one specific point in the call, which you have clipped here, I misspoke and said I “saw” polling results instead of I “heard” polling results. These were the same polling rumors that everyone was discussing during our early signature-gathering. I even shared these rumors with you at the Palisades Market when we were collecting signatures together. This purported poll information wasn’t even noteworthy, because all that was rumored was that Matt was starting out several percentage points ahead of the rest of the field in name recognition from having run most recently, but that it was anybody’s race to win. A complaint was filed against me and quickly dismissed, and also there was never any confirmation that anyone had ever done any polling in the first place, so it may have just been a rumor. It did teach me a valuable lesson to always speak with clarity at all times.”