By Doug Porter
Superior Court Jeffrey Barton will hear from the Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) seeking a temporary restraining order aimed at stopping a referendum overturning the Barrio Logan Community Plan. EHC and community supporters are saying signatures were fraudulently gathered on petitions submitted by the Protect Our Jobs Committee, a group created by shipyard repair companies.
The coalition has submitted affidavits from witnesses claiming petition gatherers were not truthful about the community plan’s details. News media accounts and videos caught paid signature gatherers claiming the US Navy would leave San Diego should the community plan be implemented.
Posted around shopping centers in areas of the city where residents were likely to be unaware of the past history of callous disregard of health hazards by funders of the Protect Our Jobs group, voters were also told that 46,000 jobs were at stake and that the purpose of the plan was to allow developers to build condominiums in the area. [Read more…]