Caforio is not one of us

Lawyer Bryan Caforio’s mailers attacking Steve Knight coming to my home are great fireplace-burning material.

His claims of being a district resident who knows this district, and one who is a part of the community, are false. The reality is Caforio came to the Santa Clarita Valley recently merely to oust a Republican candidate.

He is simply a carpet-bagger, and those of us in this district who recognize that are not alone.

Ballotpedia reported an L.A. Times interview with Jodie Cooper, executive vice president of the Simi Valley Democratic Club, who also called Caforio a “carpet-bagger.”

The excuses for his move to the SCV are fluid. They have gone from not liking one vote of Steve Knight’s (although Caforio lived in Los Angeles) to his wife’s family living in the Antelope Valley (apparently providing some path to the SCV) – and lately it’s that he wants to start a family here.

Local donations for Caforio are paltry; something like 3 percent. A glance at the Federal Elections Commission report tells the story.

The vast majority are from out-of-district and noticeably out of state: many from attorneys and “ActBlue,” a Democratic online fundraising arm.

Bryan Caforio is just a transplant who is seeking power and will clearly do whatever it takes to get it, even if that means putting up a front by pretending to be a part of a community that he is not. Betty Arenson

Valencia