Let me start with this: I am in it to stay. I will win this seat for Republicans.

No doubt, certain public employee union bosses don’t want to see me back on the Board. They attack me because I am the best-known officeholder in Orange County and the overwhelming favorite to win. They say I wouldn’t report a sexual assault if I knew about it? Don’t believe it.

Let me take you back to 2012. I led the charge to remove Santa Ana Councilmember Carlos Bustamante from his County job over similar acts, and I was not afraid to lose the county CEO over it. I’ve confronted injustice and many times, even when my colleagues don’t like it.

Friends, I’m a devoted and protective father and a husband in love with my wife, and I cannot imagine her or any woman in that kind of pain. The idea of any woman suffering such a sacrifice of her human dignity and having to endure that kind of fear is an outrage.

The fact that the victim was a part of our Senate office family brings the grief so sadly close to home. I never knew about it until recently – 5 years after it happened. If I knew any woman was a victim of assault, I would strain every fiber in my body to encourage her to report the criminal perpetrator and bring him to justice.

These politicians and paid-for political consultants aren’t pursuing justice for her, they are using her and the terrible things that happened to her for political and financial gain. We saw how a woman’s pain was used unjustly against the innocent in Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings. This tactic has now come from Washington, DC to Orange County.

I will not stand for it, and I will call out those that are using her. Thank you for your support and for seeing this outrageous stunt for what it is."

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