Today’s OC Register features Martin Wisckol’s assessment of the stealth Otto Bade write-in campaign that undermined and ultimately defeated Lynn Daucher. Wisckol was able to talk to Bruce Matthias about this and his comments are very revealing. He says that the Bade gambit was legal – but if it can be proven that Lou Correa’s campaign coordinated with the folks who financed this effort, then people are going to end up in jail. Read on:
Explaining Otto the Spoiler’s bid
THE BUZZ
After trailing in the 34th state Senate District race for the first nine days of ballot counting, Democrat Lou Correa took the lead Thursday. He’s now 783 votes ahead.
If he holds on to defeat Republican Lynn Daucher, Correa’s victory could be credited in part to last-minute write-in candidate Otto Bade. Otto the Spoiler, who has 899 votes so far, is a Republican whose campaign mailers and phone calls were funded by a committee that also supported Correa.
In other words, a decoy candidate intended to suck votes from Daucher.
“(Correa’s campaign) needed Otto Bade to pull this off
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