Hanford, Calif. — John Cox is calling for a formal\u00a0investigation into what appears to be a\u00a0blatant violation of state law by CalTrans at a press availability in Hanford, Calif., today.<\/p>\n
CalTrans workers were recorded distributing\u00a0political materials to drivers at a worksite in San Diego on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred along State Route 78 in San Diego County between Julian and Ramona on Tuesday, Aug.\u00a028 between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m.\u00a0Caltrans contract and task order records confirm that a road project was scheduled there.\u00a0A Caltrans contractor assigned to the project was photographed at this site along with a Caltrans vehicle and supervisor. California state law prohibits the use of private contractors paid for by taxpayer funds for any political purpose. The recording was brought to light by gas tax – Yes on 6 leader Carl DeMaio.<\/p>\n
“This demands a formal investigation – and CalTrans management needs to be held accountable.”\u00a0Cox said. “We need to know if there are more incidents like this around the state of Sacramento special interests using their influence to have Californians pay for their political campaigning.”<\/p>\n
Cox serves as the Chairman of the Yes on 6 – Give Voters A Voice campaign to repeal the gas tax and is\u00a0vehemently opposed to the high speed rail, in contrast to his opponent Gavin Newsom, who is a\u00a0staunch supporter of both the gas tax and high speed rail<\/a>.<\/p>\n Photos,\u00a0video<\/a>, and witness testimony of the incident was released at a press conference held by DeMaio\u00a0along with a Criminal Complaint<\/a>\u00a0alleging violation of numerous state and local laws.\u00a0The campaign flier passed out clearly contains prohibited \u201cexpress advocacy\u201d language such as \u201cVote NO on Prop 6\u201d and the Caltrans work crew member is caught on video admitting he was\u00a0\u201cworking with Caltrans\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0\u201cThey just told me to hand it out.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hanford, Calif. — John Cox is...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9787,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions\/9787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}