Candidate for Houston City Council District A

City Council District A candidate Brenda Stardig sent a misleading mail piece to District A voters in the last days of the runoff campaign in an attempt to turn her campaign around.

Stardig makes the following false statement in her mail piece that hit mailboxes today, Wednesday:

”Brenda is the ONLY candidate with years of public safety experience.”

“Ms. Stardig is so desperate to win that she has resorted to lying about Lane’s qualifications. The truth of the matter is that Lane has years of public safety experience and Ms. Stardig chose to ignore those facts and lie to District A voters,” said Michael Kolenc, campaign manager. “Ms. Stardig is not the ONLY candidate with public safety experience, but she is the ONLY candidate to resort to lies in order to win this election.”

Lane Lewis has years of public safety experience:

• Developed training programs for the Houston Police Department
• Taught at the Houston Police Academy for over a decade
• Served on the Houston Police Advisory Committee under Police Chief Nuchia
• Mayoral appointee to the Citizen Review Committee (CRC) of the Houston Police Department under Police Chief Bradford
• Elected Chair of the CRC for the Houston Police Department
• Elected by members of the CRC to serve on the Administrative Disciplinary Committee for the Houston Police Department
• Appointed Coordinator of the Houston Police Citizen Review Committee – Internal Affairs Division, by Mayors Lee Brown and Bill White under Police Chiefs Breshears and Hurtt