Before wrongfully accusing South Bay Labor Council Political Director David Urhausen of lying about the reason for misspelling a candidate’s name, the Metro News tried to check out Urhausen’s explanation. Palo Alto City Council candidate Danielle Martell had complained to Urhausen that he misspelled her name by leaving out the last “L”. Urhausen responded by telling Martell that he had simply used the spelling of her name provided to him by the Palo Alto City Clerk. When the Metro contacted the Clerk’s office, they were told that Urhausen had been provided with the correct spelling of Martell’s name, thus the accusation that Urhausen had lied.
Apparently the Clerk had not bothered to look at her e-mail exchange with Urhausen, in which she gave him the incorrect spelling of Martell’s name. Oops. In the Metro’s defense, it appears they had no knowledge that this was the clerk’s mistake, not Urhausen’s, though they were pretty quick to call it a lie.
Here is the smoking gun e-mail exchange in this dramatic and important story (Mr. Urhausen’s email is below the clerk’s response):
From: “Minor, Beth” <Beth.Minor@CityofPaloAlto.org>
Subject: RE: Candidates for Palo Alto City Council
Date: August 3, 2016 at 3:36:59 PM PDT
To: David Urhausen <david@southbaylabor.org>
Hi David, The only person to file is Danielle Martel.
Thanks,
B-
Beth D. Minor | City Clerk | City of Palo Alto
250 Hamilton Avenue| Palo Alto, CA 94301
T: 650- 329-2379 E: beth.minor@cityofpaloalto.org
City Clerks Rock and Rule
From: David Urhausen [mailto:david@southbaylabor.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 3:36 PM
To: Minor, Beth
Subject: Re: Candidates for Palo Alto City Council
Hi Beth,
Any updates, has anyone filed?
David Urhausen
Political Director
South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council
www.southbaylabor.org
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