It’s a jolly holiday when Paulette and her magic carpetbag move into your district to run for office!
Matthew Leslie
It’s official, Paulette Marshall Chaffee has qualified to run for Fullerton City Council in District 5, where she has deliberately moved in order to run for office. Her new residence is a relatively modest apartment condo far away from her family abode north of Brea Blvd. in District 2. I guess everyone has to get out of the house someday to make their own way in the world. Carpe Diem! If your own district isn’t up for election until 2020, move into a district with elections this year…
Fullerton now has a district-based elections system because the city was sued by two clients who alleged that Asians and Latinos were underrepresented on the City Council, resulting in the adoption of five separate (badly drawn) districts who each elect their own candidate to the City Council. Ms. Marshall Chaffee has evidently decided that a carpetbagging white lady from up in the hills is just what the city’s only Latino majority district needs to represent it, even though there are plenty of longtime residents of that district running against her.
Many die-hard Democrats–most notably Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva–are put off by this brazenly patronizing and opportunist campaign, and have withheld their support, but Paulette Marshall Chaffee’s website lists several dozen people who nonetheless have endorsed her carpetbagging run for office. There is no requirement for a candidate to have a specific ethnic background to represent a district, of course, but the district she seeks to lead is majority Mexican-American, and not a single Hispanic sounding surname appears on this list, so far (Update: I missed the name “Perez” on the list. That’s one….):
Her biggest advantage in the election is having lots of her own money to spend, so much so that she is already advertising for paid precinct walkers. Will it be enough to win? Only the District 5 voters can send her packing, back up the hill in November.
fullertonrag.com 
How many people on this list actually live in District 5?
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I recognize at least twenty who I know do not live there.
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Perez.
I know many of the good people on that list. The idea that they support someone buying a 640sq ft condo to run for city council is morally repugnant.
I hope each and every one of them puts some serious thought into the ethical choice they’re supporting.
This is wrong and shouldn’t be supported by anyone.
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Me too. I wonder how many of them realized she was carpetbagging into a different district to run.
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It’s my hope that her loss will be by huge numbers, enough to embarrass her and to discourage others from pulling such a stunt.
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What issue is unique to what part of Fullerton? The whole city has infrastructure problems. I voted against district voting. Maybe a disproportionate number of city Council people are from northern Fullerton. But that said, I don’t see the point of carpetbagging to get on the council unless you have money to burn.
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