More Coverage of Allegations Against Reed; Reed Offers Defense
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ABC-7 picked up the story on the recent allegations made against Chuck. The print story and the video coverage is available here: http://abclocal.go.com/....
The story is yet to be picked up by other major SJ blogs or by the Mercury News.
More Coverage of Allegations Against Reed; Reed Offers Defense
ABC-7 picked up the story on the recent allegations made against Chuck. The print story and the video coverage is available here: http://abclocal.go.com/....
The story is yet to be picked up by other major SJ blogs or by the Mercury News.
In the article, Chuck defends his contested votes with two positions:
(1) He charges that the attorney bringing the charges, Mann, is a supporter of Chavez; and
(2) The votes he made without recusing himself he claims dealt with policy issues rather than specific property.
I am guessing this second argument is that he needn't recuse himself when voting on general policy that benefits his clients but should when voting on specific ordinances that benefit them...
Noticeably absent from Reed's defense is his claim that he made in the original KTVU story that he did not know about the conflict of interest at the time he voted. My buddy SJ Rookie thoroughly discredited that defense two posts ago. Put simply, the timeline proves that he did know about the potential conflict of interest at the time of the vote in question...
Other than those defenses, ABC's story did not present too much else new about the story. However, what was different was Councilmember Cortese's response to the controversy:
"I want to withhold judgment until I hear what he has to say, but it's a troubling set of facts that have been presented."
Cortese - who has not endorsed either candidate - provided much more of a negative response in the KTVU story. It remains to be seen whether or not Cortese is going to make a splash in the final weeks before the election. A onetime front-runner, Cortese has a great deal of credibility and support in the community. Time will only tell...
The article adds that Reed received $10,000 dollars to represent Los Esteros. This leads us to a question we posed about a month ago: who else has Chuck's law firm represented?