Katherine Daigle, “a conservative-leaning Irvine mayoral candidate has firmly denied being a “fraudulent” contender who naively went along with a plan to “steal” the local election,” according to the O.C. Register.
The OC Weekly broke the story earlier this month that a political consultant named Patrick Strader, allied with Larry Agran, had lured Daigle into the Irvine Mayor’s race in order to split the Republican vote, dooming top GOP challenger Steven Choi. Here are a few excerpts from the OC Weekly article: Continue reading