Horton: Ammar Campa-Najjar doesn’t live in Chula Vista, commits felony voter fraud

9/28/22 UPDATE below: Ammar Campa-Najjar responds with a statement.

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Press Release from former Mayor of Chula Vista Shirley Horton

Chula Vista Mayoral Candidate Doesn’t Live in City

Ammar Campa-Najjar and Family are Committing Felony Voter Fraud

Chula Vista, California, September 26, 2022 – California State Law states when someone commits corruption of voting, that person is punishable by imprisonment of up to three years in a county jail. Ammar Campa-Najjar has lied to the voters about where he really lives. Professional Private Investigator and former FBI agent, Lawrence Hamilton, has obtained more than 70 videos and photos that show Campa-Najjar living at a condo, Building 41 West, located on Fifth Avenue in San Diego. Hamilton has agreed to sign an affidavit under penalty of perjury that states he conducted an investigation of Campa-Najjar.

Hamilton found that Campa-Najjar does not live in Chula Vista. He discovered that Campa-Najjar had been living with his girlfriend, Congresswoman Sara Jacobs, every night at the condo for 32 nights straight even when Jacobs was away, never once attempting to stay in Chula Vista.

Chula Vista municipal code states “a person running for Mayor must be a resident of Chula Vista and a registered voter of the City. If someone commits a crime, it needs to be addressed” said David Oyos, President of the Chula Vista Police Officers Association.

According to the County Registrar of Voters, there are eight people who are registered under his voting address, which is a two-roomed condo, and most of them do not even reside there, including Campa-Najjar’s grandmother, Abigail Campa; his mother, Abigail Najjar; and his aunt, Teresa Gonzalez, which all four of them voted in the June 7th Primary Election.

Campa-Najjar has a pattern of misleading voters for his own personal gain by using his family’s addresses to run in different districts; for example, he used his mother’s Jamul address for 2018’s East County’s 50th Congressional District, his aunt’s Bonita address for 2020’s California State Assembly race, and now his cousin’s Chula Vista address for 2022’s Chula Vista Mayoral race.

“Campa-Najjar has never served on any City commission, group, board, or even attended a City Council meeting before he decided to run for Mayor and now we find out he doesn’t even live here” said former Elected Official Shirley Horton, who served as 37th Mayor and a California State Assemblywoman.

When it comes to local office, there are certain guidelines that candidates must follow and the simplest of them is: you must be a resident of the city you are planning to represent.

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Shirley Horton is a former public servant who once served as the 37th and first Asian-American Mayor of Chula Vista and a California State Assemblywoman.

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The Campa-Najjar campaign responds:

This is McCann’s desperate attempt to try and deny the likely outcome of an election, before even a single vote is cast.

There’s no question Ammar Campa-Najjar, a third generation Chula Vistan and resident of the city beginning in 1993, meets the residential requirements to run for Mayor. Today he lives in the same home he did while attending high school, community college, and working his first job at his local church. Ammar is not new to this residence, in fact he first started living in this very Eastlake home in 2003.

Termed out Councilmember John McCann is currently under five separate investigations with the California Fair Political Practices Commission, referred by the Chula Vista Ethics Commission. The District Attorney’s office has a sworn statement that contradicts McCann’s cover up of criminal behavior.

Chula Vistans should not fall for creepy stalking or smear tactics of a desperate career politician and his cronies. Chula Vistanas should vote against McCann and vote for the only ethical choice: Ammar Campa-Najjar.