Fake Letters To Newspapers A Misdemeanor In California

Looks like Mike Dalton dodged a bullet.  Late last year I reported on the false letters that were to be used to bolster the case for e911 services in Jefferson County.

Forefront Organizing recognized that Martin’s editorial was a danger. 
Their response, was to write up a couple of Letters to the Editor, and
ask Brenda Shular to find people "not offically connected to 911" who
would sign their names to the letters, and forward them to the Leader. 

Mike Dalton, through Forefront Organizing, forwarded two letters to Brenda Shular and asked her to find shills to put their signatures on the fake letters.  This was part of the media strategy, supposedly written by self-professed Marxist Glenn Burleigh, now head of MO Acorn.

It’s a good thing the Dalton boys didn’t try to pull this trick in California.  From Patterico, we see this fun fact about the laws in California being strictly against such trickery and malfeasance.

"California Penal Code section 538a states:

Every person who signs any letter addressed to a
newspaper with the name of a person other than himself and sends such
letter to the newspaper, or causes it to be sent to such newspaper,
with intent to lead the newspaper to believe that such letter was
written by the person whose name is signed thereto, is guilty of a
misdemeanor."

Whew!  Talk about your close calls.  We never did hear whether these letters were published, but we do know the blatant attempt to sway the public with a false letter writing campaign was part and parcel of the organizing campaign run by former SEIU employee Mike Dalton.

It’s almost as if you can’t trust these guys.