The October Surprise In The San Bernardino City Attorney’s Race
October 31, 2011 Leave a comment
By Michael Reiter, Attorney at Law
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There is a memorandum on the Internet that purports to be a memorandum from a department head to the City Attorney, with carbon copies to a variety of people in the City Attorney’s Office. I have this to say, I have read the writing of many engineers, and many attorneys, and the memorandum reads as if an attorney wrote it. Note the memorandum is dated October 11, 2011, but came to light on October 28th. Consider who might have released it to the press and blogs.
However, it is the very definition of an October Surprise: an attempt to release something in late October to influence an early November election. We will have to see what effect, if any, it has on the election. Probably none, because voters probably made up their minds a long time ago.
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Michael Reiter, Municipal Attorney with Milligan, Attorney, Beswick, Levine & Knox LLP Blog 