Last week Don Facciano accused his opponent for Treasurer / Tax Collector of many wrong doings, including using his influence to help a convicted sexual offender. Now he continues on the attack with a radio and television campaign.

This ad just started playing on local television:

Steven Hintz has thus far refused to comment or release anything related to the allegations. His opponent claims there is a letter where Hintz asked for leniency for a convicted sex offender but so far no letter has emerged as proof. But Hintz has responded by releasing new endorsements to show leaders are willing to put their name on the line as character witnesses. Here are some of those new endorsements:

The Ventura County Star has a news story that summarizes the race in detail. The news article includes this quote:

In 1992, Hintz was admonished by the state Commission on Judicial Performance for three instances of misconduct: ordering a search of spectators in his courtroom, criticizing jurors for their verdict, and improperly using his judicial office for a personal purpose in ordering a new trial.

I'm not interested in being critical of searching the crowd but I'd like to know more about the state commission admonishing him for ordering a new trial.

People say endorsements don't matter much but in a story like this where it is difficult for a voter to know the truth watching how many leaders are willing to be character witnesses is very powerful.

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Because of legal threats any discussion of allegations made against Steven Hintz by his opponent Don Facciano can be discussed on the news story link.

I will post my thoughts on the allegations later but for now this entry is restricted to discussions about this sign.

Since the primary has ended one of the most energetic campaigners has continued to be Steven Hintz. He sent in some pictures from a recent parade over the 4th of July weekend and today he officially announced he has earned the endorsements of two of the candidates he defeated in the June primary. Because no candidate earned more than 50% there will be a run-off in November between Steven Hintz, and his closest opponent Don Facciano.

I haven't seen many updates to Don Facciano's campaign website or recent news from his team but being that the election is in November it would appear he has time to start campaigning more. I am not sure how much attention voters are paying to an election like this but Facciano is taking a chance that Ventura County political powerbrokers will assume that Hintz is the frontrunner if he waits much longer. I am not sure who is the frontrunner because the power of ballot designations in a low information race can be immense. Retired Judge sounds good but what about something like Taxpayer Advocate?

Steven Hintz's press release came to me from a new public relations firm. He might have been using them before but I didn't notice. Click on continue reading to see the press release and the bio of his consultant.

Steven Hintz was campaigning for Treasurer / Tax Collector on Saturday in Ojai and sent in a few pictures. If you see any candidates out campaigning this weekend send me the pictures and I will post them.

Here is Steven Hintz with the return of his campaign dog plus a new friend:

Click on continue reading for his other photos from the Ojai parade.

I haven't claimed that my online poll of readers is a scientific measure of voter preferences but they do reveal some information including which elections have energetic candidates and/or supporters. My readers correctly picked Steven Hintz to be the top vote getter in the June Primary, although they were off by a large margin. After that the results were wildly off with the exception of Ed Summers, who did almost exactly as well at the polls as he did in my reader survey.

Here are the results of my poll:

Here are the official results from the June Primary:

Because no candidate won more than 50% of the votes the top two candidates will face each other in the November general election. I will be posting almost every press release and photo the two campaigns send in over this long summer. Here is a new poll that only includes those two candidates:

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