BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Local politics is certainly feeling the one-week-from-election-day tension.
Yet another local race has gotten muddier, after an anonymous voicemail against one city council candidate surfaced Tuesday afternoon.
The voicemail — which sounds something like an automated message — begins, “This is a critical voter alert for residents of the Bakersfield City Council Ward 5. Candidate Mike Miguel Madrigal is a convicted domestic abuser. Kern County prosecutors charged Madrigal with assault with a deadly weapon and false imprisonment after he stuck a knife to the throat of a local woman. When you cast your vote on Nov. 5, send a strong message and tell Mike Madrigal no means no.”
Kern County In Depth: Speaking with Bakersfield City Council Ward 5 candidates
This is the content of an anonymous voicemail that emerged Tuesday afternoon, shaking up the race for the three-candidate Bakersfield City Council Ward 5.
The candidate in question — Mike Madrigal — is up against fellow Republicans Larry Koman and Kevin Oliver.