“Irvine Community News & Views
(ICNV),” “Liberal OC,” and Mary Ann Gaido are all under FPPC investigation
“Irvine
Community News & Views (ICNV),” “Liberal OC,” and Mary Ann Gaido are all
under FPPC investigation, they have some serious questions to answer:
- The money involved in the political activities of the “Irvine Community News & Views (ICNV),” and that of “Liberal OC” are both way over $2,000 threshold. These political activities should all be conducted under a Political Action Committee (PAC) or a Super PAC, and subject to all the FPPC rules. How can they operate without setting up a PAC first? Even the CBS talk show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, has to set up a PAC to talk about political figures.
- It seems like “Irvine Community News & Views (ICNV),” and “Liberal OC” have broken many rules of FPPC. Please look into these violations.
- “Irvine Community News & Views” (a political mailer that disguised itself as “newspaper” and an online “news” blog) provides free resources to Mary Ann Gaido.
- “Liberal OC”, an online blog provides free resources to Mary Ann Gaido.
- “Irvine Community News & Views” has published a number of articles to make Mary Ann Gaido look good, and put other mayoral candidates down. This publication is actually a political mailer, not a newspaper. I do not think Mary Ann Gaido has reported the resources that she is receiving for free from “Irvine Community News & Views.”
- “Irvine Community News & Views” also did not offer a proper disclosure statement at the bottom of their “articles”, such as “Paid for by…”
- Besides all the free promotional articles she has received from these two publications, Mary Ann Gaido had a full page “paid” advertisement at the “fake” newspaper, Irvine Community News & Views, in June 2016, but she did NOT report the expense of the paid advertisement on her Form 460. She is under FPPC investigation now.
- Please see the following link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f7bbwwvqb6bgcnw/AABd4fbxIZZLgk3SiPO02sTOa?dl=0
- In the June 2016 Issue of the Irvine Community News & Views (ICNV), on the last page there is a full page ad for Gaido. The so-called "Open Letter" entitled "Why Am I Running for Mayor" at the end of the ad says "Mary Ann Gaido for Mayor 2016, ID# 1383418." We cannot find any expense about this ad on Gaido's original Form 460. Why is she getting all this free advertisement, coverage and promotions, when other candidates did not receive any?
- Mary Ann Gaido claims that she represents the Irvine people. What a joke? With all the big money, free resources, and promotions funded by special interest groups, you can expect a big “pay back” from Mary Ann Gaido to these special interest groups if she does get elected.
11. Who is she trying to fool? Mary Ann
Gaido just filed the amended Form 460 on 8/31/16 after she was caught for not
paying for the “paid” ad, and not reporting the expenses to FPCC. However, she
should still be punished for her mishandling in the first place. Whoever
filed the amended Form 460 tried to fool people and manually overwrite the date
on the form as 8/5/16, but the city’s e-file system clearly shown the amended
Form 460 was actually filed on 8/31/16.
This evidence is a smoking
gun, and shows Mary Ann Gaido is either incompetent and mishandled campaign
finance at best, or intentionally tried to cheat FPPC and the people to conceal
the truth, and claim the “free” ad that she got from the “Irvine Community News
& Views (ICNV)” was a “paid” ad at worst. So far, she still has NOT paid
for the $6,000-worth of “paid” ad to ICNV. On her latest amended Form 460 filed
on 8/30/16, it still shows the $6,000-worth of alleged “paid” ad as actually
unpaid bills on the Schedule F on her Form 460. “Paid” ad? Well, she has NOT
paid for the ad yet. That is a blatant lie.
She cannot claim that she did
not know about this and it is her staff’s fault. Every candidate is required to
sign the Form 460, and she did sign it and is responsible for it.
See the following link:
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