NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ELECTION CHALLENGE
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04-02-16
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Eve Sinclair
10228 Russett Avenue, Sunland, California 91040

(818) 640-9422
Inappropriate endorsements of candidate
On Tuesday, March 29, 2016, at 2:52am, an endorsement for Krystee Clark as STNC president (currently, she is a group rep on the STNC board) was posted on the official Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council Facebook page, which links directly from the official STNC website (stnc.org). It was posted by Jon von Gunten, candidate for a Group Rep position (he is the current group rep for Neighborhood Watch on the board), and liked by Dana Stangel and 5 others. On March 30, at 12:52am, an endorsement for Charlie Bradley as STNC's First Vice President (he is the current First Vice President on the board) was posted on said STNC Facebook page. On March 31, at 2:02am, an endorsement for Dana Stangel as STNC's Second Vice President was posted on said STNC Facebook page. On April 1, at approximately 2a, an endorsement for Nina Royal as Secretary of STNC (she is the current Treasurer of the STNC) was posted on the STNC Facebook page. I discovered these violations April 1 at 2:05a, as the endorsement for Nina Royal happened to come across my Facebook feed, as I am a follower of the STNC official Facebook page. I reported these board endorsements to appropriate election officials on the morning of April 1 at 8:25am, along with supporting photographic evidence. All of the board endorsement posts were suddenly and summarily deleted from the official STNC page later that morning after the endorsements had been reported. Terrence Gomes replied to me April 1 at 10:13a that the STNC claimed the posts had been put onto their Facebook page by another party. This was an inaccurate response, as posting to the STNC Facebook page requires admin approval; posts that aren't approved by their admin do not make it onto their page. In addition, the exact same endorsements were posted to other Sunland-Tujunga community Facebook pages by Jon von Gunten at the same times, along with instructions to the candidates to 'BOOST'. These endorsements were then liked, shared, and commented on by board candidates, showing that this was part of an organized social media campaign by board members; these posts are still active on those pages (I have photographs as well). At 11:13a on April 1, I asked election officials for an official public acknowledgement, apology, and retraction by the STNC board; none was ever provided.
The five candidates (Krystee Clark, Charlie Bradley, Dana Stangel, Nina Royal, and Jon van Gunten) that were directly involved in and who benefited from the endorsements by the STNC board during this election process violated Candidate Guideline #4: "You shall not receive endorsements from the governing Board of the NC." I request the appropriate remedy for violating the board endorsement guideline.
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