Scotty Lew nails the U-T
Congratulations voiceofsandiego’s Scott Lewis! You win the “you rock” award of the day. Over here at CityBeat Central, we were feeling pretty perturbed that San Diego Unified School District Trustee Luis Acle was running for a second term, even after the city’s Ethics Commission hit him with a fine as big as a house (really: $210,000, which is unheard of) for not paying campaign vendors or disclosing campaign expenses. And this guy was president of the school board?
Anyhoo, in his SLOP blog, Lewis weighs in on an editorial in today’s U-T that bids a not-so-fond farewell to Acle who, it ends up, couldn’t gather enough signatures (200) to get his name on the ballot. As Lewis points out, the editorial fails to mention that the U-T editorial board has showered Acle with unequivocal endorsements, even after the news that he had problems being forthcoming on his tax returns (to the tune of $48,500 in penalties and back taxes) and decided to run for City Council only a year after he was elected to school-district trustee (the U-T endorsed him for that spot, too, Lewis notes).
Coincidentally, Acle failed to gather enough signatures to run for trustee back in 2004 but, unlike two other candidates in that race, he managed to petition the Registrar of Voters to get his name on the ballot.
