electoral and ethical quagmire

READER'S EDITORIAL: CONCERN OVER LOCAL STATE SENATE ELECTION

 

By Jeffrey Meyer

Photo: State Senator Joel Anderson

October 9, 2014 (San Diego's East County) - The upcoming November election for Senate District 38 has become both an electoral and ethical quagmire. It is a situation with few solutions but one that demands to be understood.

 The ethical morass is rooted in the recent reports about the involvement of our district’s State Senator Joel Anderson with a shadowy lobby group that has corporations like Google and Microsoft scrambling to separate themselves from its membership.


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