ENCINITAS — An eruption of party infighting arising from a long-simmering political feud appears to have derailed a Republican incumbent’s chances of retaining her school board seat in Encinitas and jeopardized the party’s chances of reestablishing a conservative board majority in November.
Trustee Maureen “Mo” Muir, serving District 1 on the San Dieguito Union High School District board, announced on Aug. 11 that she would not seek re-election this fall, just days after the San Diego County Republican Central Committee voted to drop Muir’s endorsement.
But a former central committee member, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, told The Coast News prominent Republican Phil Graham, a former 76th Assembly District candidate, and Brian Brady, a former member of the San Diego County GOP, lobbied committee members to withhold Muir’s endorsement based on her connection to robocalls propagating false allegations of sexual misconduct that derailed Graham’s political aspirations in 2018.
In the days leading up to Muir’s endorsement vote last month, Graham, stepson of former California Gov. Pete Wilson, and Brady made a series of phone calls to committee members urging them to vote against Muir’s endorsement at the upcoming meeting.
Brady published a scathing opinion of Muir on Aug. 5 on SD Rostra, a website calling itself the “wild west of San Diego politics,” asking members of the county GOP to reject her upcoming endorsement.
Graham reportedly attended the Aug. 11...
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