Wittke supporter wants “absolute transparency, honesty and integrity” from her supervisor.

October 30, 2024

It’s a rare moment, during any heated political campaign, when candidates for a coveted office are in complete agreement concerning the importance of transparency, honesty and integrity in service to constituents.

The upcoming Calaveras District 2 Supervisor election unexpectedly became one of those rare moments, thanks in part to candidate Trevor Wittke's avid supporter Carrie Biggs-Adams.

Here’s how this occurred:

• Biggs-Adams wrote a Letter to the Editor (October 25, 2024) published in the Calaveras Enterprise.
• Biggs-Adams serves as a District 2 representative on the Calaveras County Democratic Central Committee that endorsed Wittke’s candidacy.

Here are the facts: 

• Biggs-Adams cast aspersions suggesting nefarious campaign finance activity by Wittke’s opponent, exploiting a political novice’s inexperience with FPPC campaign filing requirements for Wittke’s short-term political gain.
• Biggs-Adams conflated an unfortunate sequence of non-intentional filing errors on required FPPC campaign documents by Wittke’s opponent into an overblown implication of an intentional lack of “transparency, honesty and integrity.”

I was most struck by Biggs-Adams’ final sentence, “I want a Supervisor who understands how to fill out common forms and knows what it means to say they will act with ‘absolute transparency, honesty and integrity.’”

Common Ground Challenge:

• I challenge Biggs-Adams to join me in common cause and refocus her ire on wanting not just one, but five District Supervisors who are required to understand their legal requirements to correctly and timely file their FPPC forms, and know what it means to act with “absolute transparency, honesty and integrity.”
• I challenge Biggs-Adams to voice her ire at four incumbent District Supervisors where it appropriately belongs – Supervisors Folendorf and Huberty – who have FPPC cases open and pending for their multiple alleged serious violations of the Political Reform Act, and Supervisors Tofanelli and Stopper – who have FPPC complaints pending for their multiple alleged serious violations of the Political Reform Act.

Regardless which District 2 candidate prevails, Biggs-Adams declaration of wanting transparency, honesty and integrity in a supervisor must extend to all five supervisors.

I’ll be watching for Biggs-Adams’ statement of condemnation of four incumbent supervisors for their collective multitude of alleged FPPC violations.

Christopher Buttner

Publisher

Calaveras2024Election.com