Newport Beach : Center Project Backers Accuse Foes of Falsity
In a letter of complaint filed Monday with City Manager Robert L. Wynn, a residents’ group supporting the Irvine Co.’s planned $300-million expansion of Newport Center charged an opposition group with making false statements.
William P. Ficker, chairman of Citizens for a Better Newport, claimed in the letter to Wynn that Gridlock, a group opposed to the expansion project, had made “false or misleading arguments” in its ballot statement for the Nov. 25 special election on the center expansion.
Gridlock organizer Allan Beek said Monday that his group’s rebuttal statement to the ballot arguments favoring expansion submitted by Citizens for a Better Newport contained one inaccuracy, which he is attempting to remove from the ballot.
Beek characterized other statements challenged by Ficker as “matters of opinion.”
City officials could not be reached for comment Monday about how the complaint will be handled.
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