Actions Speak Louder: Taking Issue with Councilwoman Fox’s Public Statement (Part 3)
Here is Part 3:
“Developers spent millions of dollars trying to defeat me in the last election, and no doubt will do so again.”
It is true that she ran as someone opposed to runaway development and was attacked by developers in the 2016 City Council election. But soon after her election, she experienced some “evolution” in her views. Besides her votes for the Concordia University Expansion Plan and the 15 stories for the two buildings on MacArthur, this evolution of views is demonstrated by her receiving considerable money from the OC Victory Fund which is funded by developers.
https://www.irvineliving.org/single-post/2018/03/01/What-We-Know-About-the-VoteNow-Action-PAC
Under Irvine’s law, the biggest campaign contribution permitted is $490. But Councilwoman Fox took advantage of loopholes to avoid contribution limits by having her executive committee receive $10,000 from this OC Victory Fund (on November 2nd of last year).
Part 4 will be released tomorrow.
1 Comments
James Troup
June 23, 2018 at 10:12 amThe extent to which developers are essentially buying off our local politicians really needs more attention. The public should know about this since I believe it would, and should, influence the choices we make in our local elections. Please take a look at the following article from the OC Register providing additional details about how a local politician like Melissa Fox can avoid strict campaign finance rules in order to accept very large donations from developers…developers who’s fortunes rest on the votes Ms. Fox makes while sitting on the Irvine City Council. Notice the article uses the words “launder campaign money” in the title. Their words, not mine. This type of thing should be illegal if it isn’t already.
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/01/politicians-use-a-once-obscure-committee-to-launder-campaign-money/