Turney responds to FPPC issue

Someone's commenting about an FPPC fine against the Prop A folks:

". . .Turney and Canler are required to admit to 13 Political Reform Act violations and agree to pay a $1,000 fine, according to the FPPC announcement."

From Susan Turney:

Because of our support of Prop A, I and others became a target of those opposed to Prop A.

My guilty pleas were over minor clerical errors and the FPPC settled with me for a nominal amount - $38 per infraction. Asking the FPPC to impose minimal fines for minor offenses prevented Ken Moser and Harry Eiler, who made the complaint, from filing a civil lawsuit against me that could have led to huge legal expenses.

Since Ken Moser lives in San Diego, he had to use an Encinitas resident, Harry Eiler, to file against an Encinitas resident. Moser makes a practice of filing these frivolous clerical-error lawsuits against political opponents. He and Eiler have a history of harassment in Encinitas in particular, having filed 96 complaints in one year alone against former Encinitas Mayor Maggie Houlihan - anything to hassle the opposition. Because of Moser’s complaints, the FPPC has remarked that there were odd things going on in Encinitas elections.

Moser himself is now facing a $10M fine from the FCC for repeating a fake assault claim against a candidate: https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/politics/political-smear-case-just-took-another-bizarre-expensive-turn/.

Moser has been doing the same thing in Encinitas for years, apparently always against the slow-growth / community character side of the aisle, and also against Democrats elsewhere in the county.


Here's some background from when Moser sued Jim Kydd, publisher of the Coast News.

And here's some history on his partner Harry Eiler.