Challengers likely to split vote and elect Kranz for mayor

By request:

Jeff Morris and his wife Kim alleged over the past few days that mayoral candidate Cindy Cremona deleted and blocked Jeff Morris’ political posts on the Nextdoor app. Escalating their accusations with increasingly extreme language over the past 72 hours, they posted their claims extensively on social media.

Here are the facts:

1.) Cremona as a “Welcome Team” member has no delete authority, in writing, per Nextdoor. From Nextdoor support: “Leads do not have the ability to remove neighbors, or otherwise affect a neighbor’s account in any way. Only Nextdoor’s Support team can take those actions."
2.) Jeff claims he spoke by phone with Nextdoor support to prove his claims. It is highly unlikely that he spoke with them; he needs to prove his claims in writing
3.) Jeff’s photoshopped screenshots do not constitute proof of his claims. This is hardly the first time Morris has made a baseless claim.

He needs to stop hiding behind his private social media sites and put his proof out here in the open. In other words: put up or shut up.

For the uninitiated, Cremona and Morris are both running for mayor as outsiders against the current council majority. Councilman Tony Kranz is the Blakespear ally, status quo candidate.

Cremona is involved with the Encinitas Viewpoint forum, which has a lot of overlap with the Prop A community character folks. Jeff Morris is more of an independent firebrand, and has pointed a spotlight on the city's homeless encampments with his Encinitas Watchdog group.

Best guess is Cremona is the stronger of the two challengers by a wide margin, and splitting the vote only helps elect Kranz.

UPDATE: Morris’s claims of Cremona’s supposed Nextdoor moderation appear to be unfounded: