Local News in Brief : Tustin : Kelly Campaign Posters Covered, His Sister Says
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The sister of Tustin Councilman John Kelly, a candidate for the 40th Congressional District, complained that one of Kelly’s opponents was stapling campaign signs over her brother’s signs in Tustin.
“I think it’s rotten and really low,” said Jane Luppi of Laguna Niguel, one of Kelly’s 11 siblings. She named the culprit as the campaign for Newport Beach businessman Nathan Rosenberg, one of 18 candidates in the race to fill the seat being vacated by Rep. Robert E. Badham (R-Newport Beach).
Ted Long, campaign manager for Rosenberg, said that volunteers are instructed to stay away from other candidates’ signs but added that it is possible that one of Rosenberg’s 400 volunteers got a little too enthusiastic by covering over a few of Kelly’s.
“Everyone I talk to knows nothing about it,” Long said. “Either we have a volunteer who got carried away and did something stupid, or we have somebody picking up our signs and stapling them over Kelly’s.”
He said the Rosenberg campaign is currently posting about 1,000 signs around the district and is losing about 20 to 30 of those a day.
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