Bates Withdraws Lawsuit Against DeYoung

This also came over the transom yesterday (I'm catching up from vacation):

Pat Bates Withdraws Suit Against Cassie DeYoung

(Laguna Niguel, CA) – Orange County Supervisor candidate Pat Bates, who is the founding Mayor of Laguna Niguel and former Assemblywoman, has withdrawn her legal challenge against Cassie DeYoung.

Pat Bates came in a commanding first place in the campaign for Orange County Supervisor. “Cassie DeYoung spent almost $3 million waging a negative smear campaign.  She has had her day in the court of public opinion, and her deceptive campaign lost – receiving only 37.3% of the vote.  Therefore, we have decided to withdraw our legal filing against DeYoung which saves the court time and taxpayers money,” said Bates campaign manager Sergio Prince.

For more information on Pat Bates and her campaign for County Supervisor, please visit www.BatesforSupervisor.com or call (949) 249-7900.

A winner can afford to b be magnanimous.

Comments

[One Who Knows]

Excuse me Jubal, but I think Ms. Bates lost the lawsuit.

As best I can remember, the Court of Appeal quickly reversed the former Assemblymember's short-lived victory.

The only remaining issue was how much Ms. Bates had to pay Ms. De Young in legal fees for bringing the lawsuit in the first place.

[one who really knows]

the court of appeals did not reverse anything, they simply stayed implementation of the TRO. the litigation was very much alive and moving forward. bates, gracious as always, concluded that the voters, through the lawsuit, saw cassie for what she was and concluded that she had achieved her goal. the final vote proves her right.

I apologize for being unclear. My use of the word "winner" was in reference to Bates' commanding first-place finish in the June primary.

[Bates is a goner]

This is pretty funny considering how many people predicted that Mr. Greer esq. was going to kick Cassie's behind in court on this matter.

The more likely scenario is that Bates realized the case was a loser and didn't want to spend resources on a legal case when she is going to need every nickel available for the campaign against a much better funded opponent.

[the watcher]

ok, so let me understand this...bate's attorney gets a restraining order against cassie. cassie spends the next few days fighting a court battle, redirecting resources and watching her mail stack up at the post office. she finally gets the order over turned but has lost time, momentum and focus. desperate to catch up, she pours more and more money down a sinkhole, further exposing her vile and vicious side and ending up with somewhere around 37% of the vote. sounds like the attorney did his job and ms. bates has some very smart people running her campaign

[Cassie DeDoomed]

she is going to need every nickel available for the campaign against a much better funded opponent.

Yeah, that spend as much money as possible strategy really worked wonders in the primary, didn't it?

If DeYoung is smart (a big if) she'd fire Forde Mollrich, formulate some kind of positive agenda to present to voters, and saty out of their mail boxes until after Labor Day.

[Bates is a goner]

Why does anyone care about the amount of personal resources spent by someone?

No one seemed to care when Harkey was spending her personal wealth on her bid for a senate seat. And no one cared when Mimi Walters spent her personal wealth on her assembly bid.

Yet DeYoung is savaged on these boards for doing the same.

How funny.

[the watcher]

its not the money she spent, its the manner in which she spent it and the dismal results that she achieved for that amount of money

[Cassie DeDoomed]

The only person making an issue of how much money Cassie spent is you, pal. The "savaging" she's received is over her camapign, not how much she has spent on it. She can spend all her husband's money for all I care.

[represented by idiots in socounty]

i met cassie. she was not impressive at all and had nothing much to say except asking about her mailers which were too numerous. how can i stop the political mailers and robo callers in the fall?

[Bates is a goner]

Could DeDoomed then tell me why there was a thread on this blog titled $95 per vote? Or words to that effect.

If that isn't taking an issue then we will have to agree to disagree.

Heck I'm glad DeYoung stepped up to give voters a choice instead of just allowing someone to be annointed by the local GOP.

[Cassie DeDoomed]

That poster was simply quantifying DeYoung's stupendous expenditures on a per voter basis, as another way of illustrating what a huge amount of money she spent to disappointing effect.

I don't believe the poster ever said it was wrong for DeYoung to spend the money or that she had no right to spend it.

You seem to be objecting to a criticism no one is making.

[larry gilbert]

At the end of the trail this Primary election, with the flood of mail, ads and telephone calls, will impact future voter follow up. In today's OC Register's Saddleback Valley News someone questioned getting daily recorded phone messages including 10 in the last two days prior to the election. The advise was to contact the Registrar of Voters and request that her phone number be removed from the registered voter database.
So as we sit in phone banks and attempt to contact voters this fall, we may find ourselves staring at blank pages.
That's what happens when we engage in overkill. And the June 6th election was truly an overkill. Living in the Fifth Supervisorial District I can speak from personal knowledge.
Larry Gilbert, Mission Viejo