Cargill Threatens a Negative Campaign

THE PHANTOM: Behind the curtain
Daily News Columnist
Updated: 07/10/2010 12:16:57 AM PDT
“The South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council wasn't the only special interest behind the attack mailer that targeted state Assembly candidate Yoriko Kishimoto in the weeks before the June 8 primary election.
… Ed McGovern, a well-respected campaign manager who has worked on the Peninsula for two decades, told The Phantom that he and his client DMB Associates brought the idea for the mailer to the labor group and paid $30,000 to help make it happen.
"It was my idea and I told the folks at DMB we should do it and we went to labor," McGovern said.
…Why did DMB want Kishimoto to lose? McGovern said she opposed the developer's plans to build up to 12,000 homes on the 1,436-acre Cargill salt flats in Redwood City. McGovern said other candidates who oppose the controversial project should take note. … “We're going to continue to look for opportunities in November to do the same thing."”

Because I oppose Cargill building a city in the Bay and because Ed McGovern is Don Horsley’s campaign consultant, I may be one of the targets for Cargill’s attacks. The combination of union and developer money is the way San Mateo County’s power structure determines election outcomes again and again. That’s why I need your help to get our message out. We need to keep residents safe from flooding by keeping the salt ponds unpaved.
Thanks for your support.