The Santa Barbara Independent recently exposed voter suppression by "Rock the Vote SB," one of the fake non-profits supporting Bruce Porter, a candidate with a history of taking tens of thousands of dollars from oil PACs and vying to unseat 3rd District Supervisor Joan Hartmann. His "non-profit," which was shamelessly discouraging voters from registering and voting in Santa Barbara County, received a cease and desist letter from Rock the Vote National. Porter acknowledged to the Independent that he was personally involved but wouldn’t disclose the donors to this sham non-profit or who is funding the "Bruce Porter Fund for Student Resilience." Porter even boasted in a letter to his supporters after the Independent story broke, that their voter suppression efforts have been successful - "there are 1,400 fewer new voters registered in Isla Vista than this time in 2016."
