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Two-term Albuquerque City Councilor Michael Cadigan has been vindicated by the city’s Board of Ethics regarding a complaint filed by his opponents in the upcoming October election.
The complaint centered on a postcard campaign Cadigan initiated that urged his constituents to remember to close their garage doors in light of increased burglaries in the area. His opponents in the District 5 council race, Dan Lewis and Jeremy Toulouse, said Cadigan was using city dollars to campaign.
Cadigan said the campaign was simply part of his annual constituent services, paid for by the normal $5000 allotted to each city councilor for that purpose each year.
The Board of Ethics has dismissed the complaint. Cadigan issued a statement over the weekend urging his opponents to now focus on “the issues” instead of “slinging mud”:
I am glad the Board of Ethics agreed that the Antoon-Lewis-Toulouse complaint was utterly baseless. Maybe now they will talk about the issues like creating jobs, solving our traffic problems, and reducing crime — instead of just slinging mud.
The three names referenced by Cadigan in his statement are his two opponents plus Doug Antoon, a political consultant who Cadigan said filed the ethics complaint on behalf of Lewis and Toulouse.
