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First, the city employee who leaked a confidential document committed a terrible wrong and must be held accountable. The attorney-client privilege exists to protect taxpayers - that’s why a breach is a crime.
Second, someone doctored an official city document with the intent of hurting Todd Gloria and his campaign for Mayor. That someone needs to be exposed held accountable as well.
Third, the Barbara Bry campaign put a lot of money behind an attack ad knowing it was based on false information and continued running the ad long after it was clear the report was false. That’s a breach of ethics that we should not want in an executive.
Burke Williams issued a memo the same day the story posted stating unequivocally that the footnote was fabricated, as did the City Attorney. Barbara Bry is an elected official who should apologize for knowingly pushing a false narrative.
Finally, while I’m glad @nbcsandiego has now retracted the story, and the reporter has apologized, it should have happened sooner. Now, it is incumbent upon them to make this right and tell the public who did this.
It’s true they were duped, but they are guilty of shoddy journalism. Now they should expose the people who used their news organization to spread false information in an attempt to influence a municipal campaign.
