COSTA MESA, Calif.—California State Attorney General Rob Bonta approved a legal challenge May 5 that seeks to remove Orange County Board of Trustee Rebecca “Beckie” Gomez from office for simultaneously serving on two elected seats whose jurisdictions overlap.
Tustin resident Mike Tardif filed a quo warranto—a legal challenge questioning the ability of someone to hold public office—to Bonta’s office shortly after serving Gomez with the lawsuit on March 2.
Tardif argues that the two elected bodies Gomez serves on—the OC Board of Education and Tustin City Council—are “legally incompatible” under a state law that claims a person who holds two incompatible public offices must forfeit the first office presumed, according to the lawsuit.
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