Demand for Retraction

Published: Monday, October 15, 2007 9:48 AM PDT

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Assistant City Attorney Karen Heumann, who was named in The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial last week that accused City Attorney Mike Aguirre of breaking the law, has demanded a retraction from the paper for "false and libelous accusations."

The letter, from Heumann's attorney, Karen Getman, says the U-T's legal analysis was wrong, something one of the state's top election attorneys told us.

From the letter:

It is extraordinarily reckless to accuse Ms. Heumann, who as you know is a top-level city attorney, of violating city law without bothering to check whether your legal analysis is correct.

The only conclusion one can draw from that quote is that Mr. Kittle and the Union-Tribune, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, are deliberately disseminating a false statement of the law in order to impugn the integrity of the City Attorney and his employees, including Ms. Heumann.

-- ANDREW DONOHUE