LONG CLAIMS CHALLENGER VIOLATED ELECTION LAWS.Byline: Daily News VENTURA - Supervisor Kathy Long filed a petition Tuesday, saying her challenger in the November election violated vi·o·late tr.v. vi·o·lat·ed, vi·o·lat·ing, vi·o·lates 1. To break or disregard (a law or promise, for example). 2. To assault (a person) sexually. 3. election laws by attacking her several times in his ballot statement. In court papers, Long alleged that Michael Morgan Michael Morgan is an Olympic-level rower, who has competed for Australia. overstates the cost of the failed merger of the Mental Health Department and Human Services Agency and that he wrongly implies she has accepted considerable donations from special-interest groups while he has not. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an report from the auditor-controller, Long said, the merger cost about $1 million. Morgan Morgan, American family of financiers and philanthropists. Junius Spencer Morgan, 1813–90, b. West Springfield, Mass., prospered at investment banking. claims the bill is closer to $35 million because he included the fallout fallout, minute particles of radioactive material produced by nuclear explosions (see atomic bomb; hydrogen bomb; Chernobyl) or by discharge from nuclear-power or atomic installations and scattered throughout the earth's atmosphere by winds and convection currents. from a Medicare overbilling scandal. Morgan, a Camarillo City Council member, criticized Long's petition as a ``political game.'' ``She could have done this days ago, and to do this last minute is to try and keep me from defending myself,'' Morgan said. A hearing date for the petition will be decided this morning. The deadline for printing the ballots is Friday. |
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