Check out these articles from La Prensa about a massive campaign cheating scheme and democratic political consultants caught working for & against the same candidate.

This month our guest speaker is Art Castañares. He will be joining us this Sunday to discuss the latest impact mailers had on local elections and the rules surrounding their use. He has been the publisher of La Prensa San Diego since 2015. We look forward to seeing you this Sunday, October 22nd at 3:30 pm. Here are a few recent articles written by Art Castañares in La Prensa San Diego.

Political Consultants Caught Working For & Against Same Candidate

By Arturo CastañaresEditor-at-Large

A brother and sister team of political consultants worked both for and against a city council candidate during the 2020 election according to a new investigation request filed with the San Diego Democratic Party by the victim of the fraud.

Marcus Bush, who was endorsed by the Democratic Party in his successful campaign for the City Council in National City in November 2020, requested an internal investigation into Andrea Cardenas who runs Grassroots Resources LLC, a local consulting firm owned by her brother, Jesus Cardenas.

Andrea Cardenas, 31, herself an elected member of the Chula Vista City Council, was up for endorsement by the San Diego County Democratic Party last week when the issue of her involvement in negative campaign mailers attacking Bush became an issue used to oppose her endorsement.

Bush alleges that the Cardenas siblings were involved in opposing his campaign while at the same time their company was being paid by the local Democratic Party to support him and other Democrats in the South Bay areas of San Diego County.

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Massive Campaign Cheating Scheme Run by Democratic Consultants

By Arturo CastañaresEditor-at-Large

Political consultants delivered an estimated half million unpaid campaign mailers for South County candidates during their elections and obscured the names of sub-vendors from the public, according to official reports filed by the local Democratic Party and several candidate campaigns.

The Party and the candidate campaign committees failed to properly report the names of sub-vendors who provided the unpaid printing and mailing services as required by state law, leaving the public unaware of who is really covering the hard costs for mailers that may have impacted the election outcomes.

A review of official campaign finance reports filed by the local Democratic Party and candidates in Chula Vista, National City, and for the County Board of Supervisors reveals that several candidates who all shared the same political consultants received hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of campaign literature without paying for the materials before their elections, creating an unfair advantage over their opponents and obscuring their expenditures from the public in violation of state and local elections laws.

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