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Paulette Marshall Chaffee Drops into 5th District for Fullerton City Council Race

August 16, 2018 //
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Paulette Poppins Flattened

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….):

Paulette's Endorsements

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.

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Categories 2018 Elections, Carpetbagging, Fullerton 5th District Election, Paulette Marshall, Paulette Marshall Chaffee, Uncategorized

Paulette Marshall Chaffee Wants Endorsements for her Carpetbagging Run for Office

March 14, 2018 //
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Paulette Chaffee Endorsement Form copy

Why not wait two years and run in District 2?

Matthew Leslie

A friend sent me a picture of the endorsement request form Paulette Marshall Chaffee is mailing to supporters of her husband Doug Chaffee. The form is pretty clear about where she intends to run for office, listing  District 5 twice, but she didn’t bother to mention that the Chaffee residence is up the hill in District 2. Perhaps she should add the word “carpetbagging” to the text somewhere so prospective supporters might make a more informed decision about whether or not they want to be associated with such a presumptuous and patronizing pursuit of power.

 

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Categories 2018 Elections, Doug Chaffee, Paulette Marshall, Uncategorized

Paulette Marshall Chaffee Carpetbags into District 5 to Run for Fullerton City Council

March 1, 2018 //
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Marshall 501 Copy

Matthew Leslie

Paulette Marshall Chaffee, wife of current Fullerton Mayor Doug Chaffee, is evidently so desperate to get elected to the Fullerton City Council this year that she has filed papers of intent to run in District 5. As far as I know, Mr. and Mrs. Chaffee reside in District 2. Ms. Marshall Chaffee filed both a Form 501 Candidate Intention Statement and a Form 410 establishing a candidate committee called “Paulette Marshall Chaffee For Fullerton City Council 2018 District 5.” Candidates may not actually file for the office until this summer. According to law, candidates must be registered to vote in the district in which they intend to run for office.

Fullerton voters adopted district-based city council elections in 2016, but were given only one map, divided into five districts, to approve. One of the lawsuits that prompted the change specifically cited the difficulty Latino candidates have historically faced in at-large elections. Although severely flawed, the map the council ultimately recommended to the voters did at least include a district with a Latino majority—District 5.

Despite Doug Chaffee’s best efforts, District 2, where the Chaffees live, was not selected by the Fullerton City Council as one of the two districts scheduled to appear on the ballot in 2018. The at-large terms of both Doug Chaffee and Greg Sebourn end in 2018.

The question of which two districts would be selected to go on the ballot in 2018 was taken up by the city council last year. On February 21, 2017, Doug Chaffee voted in a majority with Jesus Silva and Bruce Whitaker for Districts 2 and 5 to be up for election in 2018. However, then-Mayor Bruce Whitaker re-agendized the item for the following council meeting. Less than three weeks later, on March 7, he brought the same item back for reconsideration by the council. This time, Districts 3 was selected, instead of District 2, to appear on the ballot in 2018 along with District 5. Jesus Silva and Doug Chaffee opposed the change.

During public comments preceding the March 7 vote, I asked council members to divulge whether or not they were aware of any members of their households who might be planning to run for election to the council in 2018 so the public might consider whether or not any such plans might have a bearing on the decision scheduled to be made that night. No council members responded.

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Categories 2018 Elections, District Elections, Doug Chaffee, Paulette Marshall, Uncategorized
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