Two police officers used in a campaign mailer by Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait have sent a letter to the mayor demanding that he stop using them in political materials.
The letter from Anaheim police chief Raul Quezada and other officers says thir likenesses were used without their consent. The Anaheim Police Association has endorsed Tait’s opponent, Lucille Kring, in this fall’s election.
In a letter sent to Tait’s campaign, Anaheim Police Association President Kerry Condon demanded the materials be changed.
“Mayor Tail knows that all of Anaheim Public Safety is united in opposing him and the use of our image otherwise is dishonest to every resident he seeks support from,” Condon said in a statement.
“Mayor Tait does not know what it is like to live in the neighborhoods controlled and plagued by gang violence every day, and for him to send out a mailer claiming that gang crime has dropped in this city due to his leadership is not only false, it is insulting to all Anaheim police officers.”