SACRAMENTO : Wolfsheimer Fined $20,000 by FPPC
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The state’s political watchdog fined San Diego City Councilwoman Abbe Wolfsheimer $20,000 Thursday for one count of conflict of interest and 11 counts of sending out unidentified campaign mailers.
The Fair Political Practices Commission said Wolfsheimer, an incumbent candidate in 1989, violated the Political Reform Act by sending out mailers that failed to list required sender identification on their outside. The inadequate identification resulted in voters getting “a false impression of the range of support for Wolfsheimer,” the FPPC said.
The agency also cited Wolfsheimer for a conflict of interest in voting to recommend that “final best offers” be obtained from bidders in a “bidding process where she had a financial interest in one of the bidders.” The commission said Wolfsheimer owned stock in GTE Corp., which was one of the final bidders for a sub-vendor contract with San Diego Data Processing Corp., the city’s quasi-public computer agency.
Under state law, the FPPC said, Wolfsheimer was “required to disqualify herself from voting to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest.”
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