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Just interviewed Mike Valles. He denied targeting Latino voters only for the Judith Valles attack letter that suggested Joseph Turner would use the office as an instrument of immigration enforcement.

This is Mr. Valles, pictured below outside of Monday council meeting at City Hall:

Here are Valles' answers to questions I asked this morning:

Mike Valles, a retired state legislative consultant, has served as City Clerk Rachel Clark’s campaign boss in her race versus challenger Joseph Turner this year.
Valles is a veteran of many campaigns over the years in San Bernardino, including two successful races he ran for his younger sister, Judith Valles.

Here is the interview:

*Rogers: A scathing letter writen by Mayor Judith Valles in opposition to Joseph Turner’s campaign was distributed by you. Some have suggested you only targeted voters with Latino surnames, is that true?

Valles: "No, what we did was target voters who were strong for Mayor Valles in the past, voters in precincts of the 1st, 3rd, 6th and 7th Wards. When you look at the demographics of the city and those wards in particular, a high preponderance of residents happen to be Hispanic.
But they were not earmarked to only Hispanic (voters), no."

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The city clerk debates between incumbent Rachel Clark and Challenger Joseph Turner had gone about like this: Turner rips Clark for not being vigilant enough in ensuring tax code compliance and requiring business licenses of renters who house parolees and sex predators while Clark sticks to her 17 years of strong service platform.

A forum sponsored by two women's groups Tuesday night was a little different.

Turner came out swinging on a new front, ripping Clark for the campaign mailer written by former Mayor Judith Valles that overtly plays on the notion that Turner is a racist who would target Latinos.

"Now you tell me who's playing the race card," an indignant Turner said.

But Clark had some firepower of her own ...

click below for more and video clips ...

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City Clerk Rachel Clark has stuck to her message, despite the unrelenting pressure of Joseph Turner, who has ripped her career as "17 years of mismanagement."

The closest Clark has come to firing back is touting her office staff as "coureous to all people," a veiled swipe at Turner's past anti-illegal immigration activism.

But now Clark's campaign has bankrolled a barbed letter-writing campaign by former Mayor Judith Valles.

Valles, in a letter sent to thousands of voters last week, rips Turner on Clark's behalf as fueled by "hatred" and set to turn the city clerk's office into "a branch of the INS."

We have obtained the letter. Read an excerpt of this thought-provoking piece below ...

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Incument Clark squared off with Joseph Turner for a third time Wednesday, this time in front of the local Kiwanis Club at the San Bernardino Golf Course.

Click below for a few interesting notes and some pictures of Clark, Turner, and two other major San Bernardino political figures who were among the small crowd. Also below, for the first time on SBNOW, we have video clips to enhance our news coverage of this event.

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We reported last Friday that Mayor Pat Morris was suddenly ubiquitous on telephone lines pitching Milligan for city attorney.

Now, thanks to a tip from you, SBNOW readers, we've nailed down the news that Union President Rich Lawhead is on the phone hyping Joseph Turner, (see pic below taken Sept. 6 during a Sun interview), as the right guy for city clerk ...

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