Candidate Assails Supervisors on Firm Picked for Airport Opening
Peer A. Swan, who plans to challenge incumbent Supervisor Thomas F. Riley in June, Tuesday criticized Riley and other supervisors for their choice of a firm to handle the grand opening of the expanded John Wayne Airport in April.
Swan, an official with the Irvine Ranch Water District, pointed out that Nelson Ralston Robb Communications also handles Riley’s political campaigns.
Swan, who appeared at the Board of Supervisors meeting in Santa Ana on Tuesday to register his complaint, urged that the county develop a policy prohibiting firms that do political work for a supervisor from landing “substantial” contacts with the county during election years.
Swan, an unsuccessful candidate in the 40th congressional district race in 1988, said the selection of the firm “appears unethical.”
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