Anti-Alvarez campaign sparks controversy
Anti-Alvarez campaign sparks controversy
- January 21, 2014
- Al Valdez, social sciences lecturer, is quoted in the UT San Diego January 21, 2014
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From the UT San Diego:
A negative campaign mailer criticizing mayoral candidate David Alvarez is drawing
attention not for what it says but for how it makes him look. The pro-business Lincoln
Club through its campaign committee paid for the piece that depicts Alvarez, who would
be the city’s first elected Latino mayor, holding a wad of cash in a manner that some
say is similar to a gang gesture. Others, including gang experts, don’t see the doctored
photo as intimating any relationship to gangs. …Al Valdez, a professor at the University
of California Irvine, with decades of law enforcement experience related to gangs,
doesn’t agree with those assessments. “I don’t see anything that looks like a gang
sign. not even close,” said Valdez, who retired from the Orange County District Attorney’s
office in 2006, where he was the gang unit supervisor. “I find it funny. There’s nothing
there. I talked to two colleagues very familiar with gang behaviors, and they agree.”
For the full story, please visit http://m.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jan/21/tp-anti-alvarez-campaign-mailer....
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