Malibu Community Action Network activist Ozzie Silna’s attorney, Abraham Rudy, wrote a letter to City Attorney Christi Hogin and Campaign Ethics Consultant Xandra Kayden that accused Kayden of misrepresenting Silna in an article she wrote that appeared in The Malibu Times last week. Rudy wrote that Kayden implied Silna had been found guilty of violating campaign laws in a ruling regarding a lawsuit filed against Silna by Wade Major. In response, Kayden wrote a correction that appears in this week’s newspaper (p. A4). Hogin wrote to Rudy that she disagreed with his assessment of Kayden’s original statements.
Kayden wrote in her weekly report that several illegal signs advertising for the campaigns of Jay Liebig and Walt Keller were found on telephone poles. Liebieg denied knowing anything about them. Caltrans has removed the signs. Also, the Campaign Watch Commission ruled in favor of several complaints made by Councilmember Jeff Jennings against a Malibu CAN advertisement that accused Jennings of supporting intense development and for having wasted millions of dollars of the city’s money on legal costs. The commission declined to rule on a complaint by Keller against letters that appeared in The Malibu Times by Anne Hoffman and Tom Fakehany.