Fact #1. September '95.In the Pierce County Official Local Voter's Pamphlet that Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek produced for the September 19, 1995 Primary election, Stipek left out a full paragraph of Tacoma School Board candidate Angela Strege's candidate statement.
   (Stipek eventually had to print and mail out - at taxpayer expense - a City of Tacoma supplement to Official Local Voter's Pamphlet for the November 7, 1995 General Election that included the full candidate statement of Tacoma School Board candidate Angela Strege and a notice that read, "Due to an error during production of Edition 1 of the Official Local Voter's Pamphlet, a portion of Angela Strege's statement was left out of the publication. Both candidate's statements are reprinted below in their entirety.")

Fact #2. Friday, October 27, 1995. The "Tribune" endorsed her opponent, Bryan Haley and Bryan Haley did not have any "error during production" involving his candidate statement.
   (Tacoma News Tribune 10/27/1995 Page # A-6)

Fact #3. Tuesday, November 7, 1995. Angela Strege is elected to the Tacoma School Board.
   (Tacoma News Tribune 11/8/1995 Page # A-4)

Fact #4. Sunday, April 7, 1996. Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek calls Curt Mehlhaff at his home and leaves a message on his answering machine that states that she will edit the statement that he has turned in against passage of the Metro Parks Bond issue if he refuses to rewrite the statement.
   (Curt Mehlhaff, Dan Mulholland, and Gordon Peterson - all members of C.R.P.M., Citizens for Responsible Park Management - had written a statement against passage of the $37.5 million bond proposal to be included in the voter's pamphlet.)

Fact #5. Sunday, May 5, 1996. The "Tribune" endorsed passage of the $37.5 million bond proposal and Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek did not tell the committee that wrote the statement in favor of passage of the bond proposal that they needed to rewrite their statement.
   (Metropolitan Park District Commissioner Doug Miller, Skip Vaughn and Marion Weed wrote the statement in favor of passage of the $37.5 million bond proposal to be included in the voter's pamphlet.)
   (Tacoma News Tribune 5/5/1996 Page # D-4)

Fact #6. May '96. In the Official Local Voter's Pamphlet that Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek produced for the May 21, 1996 Metropolitan Park District of Tacoma Bond election, Stipek printed a "softer, watered down" version of the statement against passage of the $37.5 million bond proposal.

Fact #7. Tuesday, May 21,1996. Citizens throughout Tacoma and Pierce County vote NO on the $37.5 million Metropolitan Park District of Tacoma Bond proposal.
   (Tacoma News Tribune 5/22/1996 Page # A-1)

Fact #8. Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1996. Citizens of Tacoma and Pierce County vote on eight proposed amendments to the Pierce County Charter (the constitution for Pierce County). Most of the proposed amendments had to do with making government more accountable to citizens and increasing the voting rights of citizens. Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek mailed out a voters' pamphlet that contained statements written in favor of passage of the amendments and against passage of the amendments. However, she did not print the text of these amendments. This violates RCW 29.81A.040. Stipek then appointed her husband to the committee to write statements against passage of amendments.
   (Please Note: RCW 29.81A.040 clearly states that the text of all ballot measures are to be printed in the voter's pamphlet so that voters do not have to take the word of the people that write the statements for passage of a ballot measure or against passage of a ballot measure; instead, voters are to have the opportunity to be able to read the measures for themselves.
   Basically, by withholding information that the law says is to be made available to voters in the voter's pamphlet and then naming her spouse to committees to write statements in the voter's pamphlet that were specifically designed to persuade voters to vote a certain way on certain ballot issues, a reasonable person could make a strong argument that Stipek used her office to try to influence the outcome of the election.)

Fact #9. Wednesday, October 30, 1996. The "Tribune" recommended that voters vote No on six of the eight proposed charter amendments.
   (Please Note: The "Tribune" recommended that voters vote No on virtually all of the amendments that were designed to increase the voting rights of citizens.)
   (Tacoma News Tribune 10/30/1996 Page # A-6)

Fact #10. Section 5.6 of the Tacoma City Charter (the constitution for the City of Tacoma) clearly states that the city clerk must arrange for a voter's pamphlet to be mailed to each individual place of residence in the city at least ten days prior to the date set for the primary municipal election.

Fact #11. Section 5.6 of the Tacoma City Charter clearly states that candidate statements may not exceed 200 words in length.

Fact #12. Section 5.6 of the Tacoma City Charter does not give the city clerk authority to edit candidate statements.

Fact #13. Section 9.6 of the Tacoma City Charter clearly states that the Charter can only be changed with public approval in the form of a public vote by the citizens of Tacoma. Fact #14. At the bottom of the pages in the 1993 City of Tacoma Official Voter's Pamphlet the following words are printed: "The above text is a reproduction of the text submitted by the candidates. The Office of the City Clerk is not authorized to edit statements, nor is it responsible for their contents." Fact #15. At the bottom of the pages in the 1995 Official Local Voter's Pamphlet that contain the candidate statements of the Tacoma City Council candidates the following words are printed: "The Above Statements Are An Exact Reproduction Of Those Submitted By Candidates. The Pierce County Auditor's Office Has No Editorial Authority." Fact #16. January 1997. Will Baker tells State Auditor Brian Sonntag that he believes the number one issue in the 1997 Tacoma City Council election ought to be the illegal and unethical election practices used by the person who runs City of Tacoma elections and current city council members who have attempted to protect these practices.
   Will Baker tells Brian Sonntag that he has a plan to bypass the News Tribune and bring public pressure to bear to clean up City of Tacoma and Pierce County elections.
The plan includes:
A. Running a slate of four candidates who could link their candidate statements together like four chapters in a book or four runners on a relay team to educate the public on this issue;
B. Use the City of Tacoma video voters' pamphlet the same way;
C. Boycott the News Tribune; and
D. Boycott the Municipal League.

Fact #17. Jan. - Aug. 1, 1997. Will Baker contacts Scott Smith, Dale Washam, Sherry Bockwinkel (Executive Director of CLEAN, Citizens for Leaders with Ethics and Accountability Now) and many others about plan to run slate of candidates.
(Please Note: Scott Smith was unable to find anyone willing to run in the City of Tacoma elections and Dale Washam and Sherry Bockwinkel were uninterested in the plan.)

Fact #18. January through August 1997. Will Baker contacts Rick Bower of the Republican Party, Dave Doss, Kelly Haughton, and Robert Hill of the Libertarian Party, Connie Smith of the Reform Party and Paul Sporich of the Natural Law Party with the plan to run a slate of candidates to clean up elections in Tacoma and Pierce County.

Fact #19. January through August 1997. While almost everyone agrees that it would be nice to have two names on the ballot in every race and that Stipek's handling of elections is a problem, no one wants to take the heat from the Tribune that the jury in the Riccobono case took and that Supreme Court Justice Charles Smith received.
(Please Note: On Tuesday, Jan. 23, 1996, a jury of twelve Pierce County citizens awarded former county employee, Sally Riccobono, $741,000 because Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek had retaliated against Riccobono after she had filed a racial discrimination complaint against Stipek. Taxpayer money. (Tacoma News Tribune 1/24/1996 Page # A-1)On Thursday, Jan. 25, 1996, the "Tribune" responded by printing an editorial criticizing the jury. "On balance, the award seems excessive - another example of a sympathetic jury being generous with funds from the government's deep pockets."
(Tacoma News Tribune 1/25/1996 Page # A-12) On Friday, Sept. 13, 1996, Washington Supreme Court Justice Charles Smith ordered Stipek to "cease and desist" tabulating ballots early. Isn't tabulating a fancy word for counting? Counting ballots early. Justice Smith ruled that Pierce County could suffer irreparable harm if this practice were not halted. (Tacoma News Tribune 9/14/1996 Page # A-1) On Tuesday, Sept. 17, 1996, the "Tribune" responded by criticizing State Supreme Court Justice Smith and the group that brought the complaint. "His order was rash." (Tacoma News Tribune 9/17/1996 Page # A-10)

Fact #20. Tuesday, June 17, 1997. The Tacoma City Council passes Resolution #33734 directing the City Clerk to participate with the Pierce County Auditor to prepare a Voter's Pamphlet for the primary election on September 16, 1997 and the general election on November 4, 1997.
(Please Note: Basically, the Tacoma City Council voted to fulfill Section 5.6 of the Tacoma City Charter by having the City Clerk contract out the City of Tacoma's Voter Pamphlet to the Pierce County Auditor.
Basically, the Tacoma City Council hired the Pierce County Auditor to print the City of Tacoma's Voter Pamphlet.)

Fact #21. Tuesday, June 17, 1997. Will Baker testifies before the Tacoma City Council that Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek has been editing both candidate statements and committee position statements and that Stipek has left out important information required by state law (RCW 29.81A.040) in previous Voter's Pamphlets despite telling the public that she does not edit statements through disclaimers printed at bottom of page in Voter's Pamphlets.

Fact #22. Tuesday, June 17, 1997. Will Baker testifies that the public should keep a close eye on this practice in the upcoming fall election.

Fact #23. Tuesday, June 17, 1997. Tacoma City Clerk Rick Rosenbladt testifies that candidate statements will be printed as submitted in the upcoming Tacoma City Council elections.

Fact #24. Tuesday, June 17, 1997. Not one current Tacoma City Councilmember speaks in favor of the idea that all candidates should be allowed to say what they want to say to the public with their 200 words.

Fact #25. Tuesday, June 17, 1997. Tacoma City Councilmember Paul Miller responds to the testimony of Will Baker and Rick Rosenbladt by asking City Attorney Robin Jenkinson to see if she can find a RCW that would allow the auditor to use some "discretion" in editing candidate statements.

Fact #26. Tuesday, June 17, 1997. Tacoma Mayor Brian Ebersole responds by saying that the council disagrees with Will Baker.
(Please Note: No councilmember spoke in disagreement to Mayor Ebersole's statement.)

Fact #27. July 1997. Will Baker runs into Ayesha Newell at The Taste of Tacoma. Ayesha had helped Will collect signatures on a voting rights initiative for Tacoma (making it easier for citizens to put issues to a public vote) and had earlier discussed the possibility of running for the East Tacoma District #4 City Council position.

Fact #28. July 1997. Rick Cvitanich introduces himself to Will Baker at the Taste of Tacoma as Will was collecting signatures for his voting rights initiative. Rick stated that he had watched Will on TV Tacoma (Channel 12) and wanted to back Will on any project that Will wanted to work on.

Fact #29. July 1997. Will Baker explains the plan to clean up elections to Rick Cvitanich and has Rick call the City Clerk to find out who his District Council Member is. Rick does so and agrees to run for Tacoma City Council District #2.

Fact #30. July 1997. Unable to find a candidate for Tacoma City Council District #5, Will Baker finally gets David Gruenstein to agree to run so that the fourth candidate statement can get in the Voter's Pamphlet.

Fact #31. Friday, August 1, 1997. Will Baker, Rick Cvitanich, Ayesha Newell, and David Gruenstein file as a slate of candidates known as the "Vote Scam Squad" in the Tacoma City Council elections.

Fact #32. Friday, August 1, 1997. Will Baker, Rick Cvitanich, Ayesha Newell, and David Gruenstein submit their candidate statements to Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek.

Fact #33. Friday, August 1, 1997. The opening line in all four candidate statements is "I believe the number one issue in the 1997 City Council elections ought to be the illegal and unethical election practices used by the person who runs City of Tacoma elections and current City Council members who have attempted to protect these practices."
   The statements include a series of 13 facts. The facts are numbered and laid out in sequence, from one candidate to the next.

Fact #34. Friday, August 1,1997. Will Baker, Rick Cvitanich, Ayesha Newell, and David Gruenstein did not get out of the Pierce County Annex (filing location) when Rick Cvitanich announced that he didn't like the original plan for running a slate of candidates to clean up the Auditor's office. (Obviously, it was too late to try to get someone else to run).

Fact #35. Will Baker wrote the four candidate statements.

Fact #36. Will Baker, Ayesha Newell, and Sally Riccobono spent many hours in the "Northwest Room" of the Tacoma Public Library doing research and collecting documents to support the candidate statements.

Fact #37. Rick Cvitanich and David Gruenstein did not participate in the research/documentation process nor did they participate in writing their voters' pamphlet candidate statements.

Fact #38. Monday, August 4, 1997. After three days had passed quietly without a response from Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek since Will Baker's slate of candidates had turned in their candidate's statements, Will Baker reluctantly decided to release copies of the candidate statements to members of the public.
   Will Baker left copies of the candidate statements on the doorstep of the home of the Washington State Chairperson of United We Stand, America.
   Will Baker slid copies of the candidate statements under the door of the office of C.L.E.A.N.
   Will Baker left copies of the candidate statements at John Hathaway's apartment.
(Please Note: Will Baker did not speak with these people because he does not have any respect for these particular individuals; however, Will knew that these three people enjoy talking and thought that if word of the candidate statements got out to the public then the result would be that Stipek would have to make her move quickly which would give Will more time to prepare for court if Stipek were to refuse to print the candidate statements.
Basically, Will Baker wanted to force Stipek's hand.

Fact #39. Monday, August 4, 1997. Sherry Bockwinkle calls Will Baker and tells him that she has read the candidate statements and "had to call and say nice job".
Will Baker asks Sherry if she can put the candidate statements onto the C.L.E.A.N. web site so that the public can read them.
Sherry tells Will that she doesn't have time to type the candidate statements onto the C.L.E.A.N. web site and that the only way that the candidate statements will be shown on the C.L.E.A.N. web site is if Will can find someone who can use a computer to either e-mail the candidate statements or place the candidate statements on a computer disc for Sherry.
Will Baker contacts Curt Mehlhaff who puts the candidate statements in a form that allows Sherry Bockwinkle to post the statements on the C.L.E.A.N. web site without any effort. Sherry Bockwinkle then asks Will Baker to write a report to go with the candidate statements.
Will Baker tells Sherry Bockwinkle that he is too busy to write a report immediately, but that he can write a report within a few days.
Sherry Bockwinkle offers to write a report for Will Baker.
Will Baker tells Sherry NO, and Will tells Sherry that he will NOT have his name listed as author on anything that he hasn't written.
Sherry Bockwinkle tells Will O.K., but asks that he hurry with the report.

Fact #40. Tuesday, August 5, 1997. Will Baker, Ayesha Newell, Rick Cvitanich, and David Gruenstein find out that their candidate statements are being rejected by Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek by reading a story in the Tacoma News Tribune. The headline in the "Tribune" on August 5th, 1997 reads: "Candidate statements rejected - Auditor says voters' pamphlets submissions from Tacoma Council hopefuls are illegal." (Tacoma News Tribune 8/5/1997 Page # B-1)
(Please Note: Stipek did not notify the candidates prior to releasing information to the press.)
(Please Note: The first line in the "Tribune" story reads "The Pierce County Auditor has rejected statements submitted by four Tacoma City Council candidates for the local voter's pamphlet because she says they are illegal."
   The "Tribune" then reported " They can write a 200 - word voter's pamphlet (statement) about themselves, is what the rules say," Pearsall-Stipek said. "They're not about themselves and they're not factual."
   The "Tribune" further reported that Don Whiting, Secretary of State official "...said that in the last 20 years or so, the secretary of state's office has rejected three candidate statement's that officials believed could be libelous. The offending statements were taken out, but the rest of the statements remained, he said.
   The threshold should be fairly high when rejecting a candidate's statement, Whiting said, noting political speech is protected by the First Amendment and often is "rough and tumble".)

Fact #41. Tuesday, Aug. 5, 1997. Sherry Bockwinkel calls Will Baker and tells Will that she has spoken with Sean Newman and that Newman has told her that the "Vote Scam Squad" needs to get into Federal Court immediately.

Fact #42. Tuesday, Aug. 5, 1997. Will Baker goes to work trying to get legal help to force Stipek to print the candidate statements.

Fact #43. Wednesday, Aug. 6, 1997. Will Baker and Rick Cvitanich drop off documentation to the ACLU.

Fact #44. Wednesday, Aug. 6, 1997. Julya Hampton, Legal Director of the ACLU, sets up meeting for 3:00 PM on the following day to get started with plans to get the candidate's statements printed.

Fact #45. Thursday, August 7, 1997. A story in the Seattle P.I. titled "Inside Politics" reports 'Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek has rejected statements submitted for the county voter's pamphlet by four Tacoma City Council candidates- all of whom used the statements to criticize the auditor.
Pearsall-Stipek said yesterday, however, that she didn't reject the statements for attacking her. She did so, she said, because they violated State and County laws that say candidate's statements for voter pamphlets shall be limited to information about the candidates themselves.
   "There was absolutely nothing about the candidates in the materials," the auditor said of the obviously coordinated statements submitted by candidates Will Baker, David Gruenstein, Rick Cvitanich and Ayesha Newell. They are running for separate seats on the council.

"I am not going to submit a new statement," Cvitanich said yesterday. "I stand by what I say in the statement, and I will not change that statement." All four statements say each of the candidates believes "the No. 1 issue in the 1997 City Council elections ought to be the illegal and unethical election practices" of the county auditor - who conducts Tacoma elections - and of City Council members who "protect these practices." Cvitanich said although the four gadfly candidates aren't exactly running as a slate, "we all are in agreement with this one issue and how Cathy Pearsall-Stipek runs her office." Pearsall-Stipek notified the four candidates that they have until tomorrow to appeal her rejection of the statements. If they do, under county regulations she would rule on the appeal, and her decision would be final. Cvitanich declined to say whether the four will appeal, but said they have asked the American Civil Liberties Union to consider challenging the auditor's action. Pearsall-Stipek said it still would be possible for the candidates to use the statements to criticize her "if they knew how to write" and devoted the statements primarily to information about themselves."

Fact #46. Thursday, Aug. 7, 1997. Will Baker and Rick Cvitanich were supposed to meet at 9:00 AM to pick up more documentation for 3:00 PM meeting with ACLU, however Cvitanich stands Will up and when they finally get together Cvitanich declares that he is going to do what he wants to do in regards to campaign, regardless of past agreements.

Fact #47. Thursday, Aug. 7, 1997, 3:00 PM. Will Baker meets with ACLU Legal Director Julya Hampton and Nancy Talner for 2 1/2 hours.

Fact #48. Thursday, Aug. 7, 1997. While Will Baker meets with the ACLU to try to get candidate statements printed, Rick Cvitanich leaves a phone message on Will Baker's answering machine stating that Will Baker, Ayesha Newell and David Gruenstein are on their own regarding the Video Voter's Pamphlet candidate statements.

Fact #49. Thursday, Aug. 7, 1997. The ACLU drafts the form letter that Will Baker, Ayesha Newell, Rick Cvitanich and David Gruenstein sent to Cathy Pearsall-Stipek demanding an explicit explanation and hearing for Stipek's rejection of candidate's statements.

Fact #50. Friday, August 8, 1997. David Gruenstein is panicked because of the harsh treatment by the "Tribune" and refuses to honor his agreement to work as a team on the Video Voters' Pamphlet. Gruenstein is jettisoned from the Vote Scam Squad.

Fact #51. Sherry Bockwinkel (Executive Director of CLEAN, Citizens for Leaders with Ethics and Accountability Now) called Will Baker to get Will to allow CLEAN to be legal representative for the Vote Scam Squad.

Fact #52. Will Baker told Bockwinkel that he was hesitant to allow CLEAN as the representative for the Vote Scam Squad because of her previous ethically questionable behavior.(For example see TNT 8/3/97, creative use of two 501C-3 corporations in the City of University Place election.)

Fact #53. Will Baker told Bockwinkel that Rick Cvitanich and David Gruenstein were no longer members of the Vote Scam Squad team and asked her to take the title off of their candidate statements on CLEAN's web site.

Fact #54. Unknown to Will Baker, Bockwinkel wrote an article for the CLEAN web site stating that Rick Cvitanich and David Gruenstein were still members of the Vote Scam Squad . She falsely listed the author as Will Baker.

Fact #55. Rick Cvitanich calls the ACLU and tells them that he wants to be part of the legal action to force Stipek to print candidate statements.

Fact #56. Sherry Bockwinkel recruits Rick Cvitanich and David Gruenstein to allow CLEAN to represent them in court.

Fact #57. Rick Cvitanich previously had called the ACLU and told them that he wanted to be included in the legal action forcing Stipek to print the candidate statements. (Rick didn't feel the need to call the ACLU when he decided to be represented by CLEAN, we learned of his action from another candidate)

Fact # 58. Thursday, August 14, 1997. Meeting with Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek.

Fact # 59. Friday, August 15, 1997. Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek notifies the A.C.L.U. attorneys that she will not publish the candidate statements of Tacoma City Council candidates Will Baker and Ayesha Newell.

Fact #60. ?, August 18, 1997. A press release from the A.C.L.U. states in part, "The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington (ACLU-W) today filed suit on behalf of two Tacoma City Council candidates against Pierce County and The Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek, for refusing to accept their candidate's statements for the local voter's pamphlet. ...Will Baker and Ayesha Newell, two candidates known as the 'Vote Scam Squad', are running for positions on the Tacoma City Council because they believe the Council should act to remedy election practices used by the County Auditor in City of Tacoma elections. Their candidate statements expressed these views. The County Auditor, who was hired by the City of Tacoma to publish the local voter's pamphlet refused to accept the candidate's statements which were critical of her. ...The suit asserts that the Auditor's refusal to accept the statement was based on the content of the candidate statement and therefore violates the government's duty to remain neutral in the election"

Fact #61. Monday, August 3, 1998 4:02p.m., Will Baker - Independent Candidate For Pierce County Auditor - turns in his candidate statement for the Official Pierce County Voters' Pamphlet to current Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek.

Fact #62. Monday, August 3, 1998, Cathy Pearsall-Stipek asks Will Baker how many words are in his candidate statement?
   Will Baker responds by telling Stipek that the candidate statement is the same candidate statement the he turned in the year before - as a Tacoma City Council candidate - and that it contains 200 words.

Fact #63. Monday, August 3, 1998, Cathy Pearsall-Stipek immediately tells Will Baker that if he used 200 words he will be 5 words over the limit.
   Will Baker asked Stipek how could he be 5 words over the limit when the limit is 200 words?
   Stipek responded by telling Will that she would print the word "none" after each of the first five headings in his candidate statement and that she would count the word NONE as 5 words against his 22 words.
   (After last years federal lawsuits regarding the local voters pamphlet, Cathy Pearsall-Stipek charged the voters pamphlet format.
   Last year the candidate simply had a space where the candidate could write a statement of up to 200 words in length; this year the auditor used a format where the candidate could use up to 200 words to respond to 6 headings.
   The six headings are Education, Occupation, Professional Qualifications, Personal Information, Community Involvement, and Personal Views.)

Fact #64. Monday, August 3, 1998. Will Baker told Cathy Pearsall-Stipek that the rules states that the candidate had 200 words, not 200 words minus whatever words the current auditor wished to put into the candidate statement.

Fact #65. Monday, August 3, 1998. Stipek told Will Baker that her rules did give her that authority and when Will Baker challenged her to show him where she simply pushed the " " Election Information And Statistics 1998" booklet toward him and then went to speak with an employee.

Fact #66. Monday, August 3, 1998. After Stipek had spoken with one of her employees, she came back and told Will Baker that he was right, that the word "none" would count against his 200 words.
   (Obviously, having the word "none" appear after the headings Education, Community Involvement, etc. are damaging to the candidates ability to persuade voters to cast their votes for them and this printing if the word "none" is simply a way to punish candidates who resist Stipek's attempts to dictate how candidate statements should be written.
   Furthermore, there is no rule in the " Election Information And Statistics 1998" booklet that states that the word "none" will appear after any of Stipek's heading that a candidate should choose to ignore, Stipek is simply making up the rules as she goes.
   (It is also interesting to note that the candidate statement that was turned in to Stipek by Will Baker is essentially the same candidate statement that Stipek deemed to be illegal in last years Tacoma City Council race under RCW

Fact #67. In the rules for the " Official Local Voters Pamphlet" Section 14.6 states, " The following statement shall appear at the bottom of each page where arguments, and/or candidate statements appear: " The above statements are written by the candidate (committees), who (which) are solely responsible for the contents there in. "
   Obviously, if the auditor is adding words to candidate statements then this particular notice is untruthful and will mislead voters who are trying to evaluate candidates.