After Recently Voting to Be Able to Immediately Destroy Her Own Public Records, Steel Hides from the Media and the Voters on the Issues
In case you missed it over the weekend, Michelle Steel declined to comment and avoided discussing her electoral chances in an increasingly blue Orange County.
This is not the first – nor do we suspect the last – time Orange County Supervisor and GOP Congressional candidate Michelle Steel avoided the press and the public in an attempt to dodge the issues that matter most to voters of Orange County. As a career-politician, Steel has made it her mission to hide her record, never provide comment, and avoid any accountability to the voters.
But as the Voice of OC reported last week, this strategy of avoidance from Steel and her Orange County GOP colleagues “was the approach largely taken in 2018 by Orange County’s Republican delegation, to avoid the press, interviews and debates. It turned out horribly for the GOP – losing all four key congressional battles.”
Here is a small sampling from just this year of Steel playing politics and avoiding the issues:
- When she was asked whether she believed the Orange County’s new anti-transparency and public records policy approved by her and her colleagues was legal, Steel wouldn’t comment.
- Steel did not return comment when asked about ending public disclosure of some taxpayer-funded contracts under a new policy adopted earlier in the month by Steel and her colleagues.
- As the public fought for the details on an expansion of John Wayne Airport approved by Steel and the Board of Supervisors – Steel “did not return phone and text messages” when asked how the expansion would benefit private jet companies instead of nearby homeowners concerned with expanded jet noise.
- After being appointed by President Trump to co-chair the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Steel was “tight-lipped” regarding her advisory position and declined “to answer questions about which issues or advice she’ll promote to Trump.”
- When asked by the public on questionable tax-payer funded mailers for a political ally, Steel did not respond to multiple telephone requests for comment.
Sense a theme? When the work gets tough, Steel gets to work avoiding answers on the issues.
“Michelle Steel’s work to avoid the media, public and the details of her decisions impacting millions of Orange County families and taxpayers completely undermines the purpose of serving in public office and disrespects the public’s right to know the facts. If Steel can’t respect the need for our elected officials and government to be fully transparent, how can she ever be honest with the voters as she runs for Congress of Orange County?” said DCCC Spokesperson, Andy Orellana.
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