Sacramento County must remove “doctor” from the local ballot under the name of Board of Supervisors candidate Flojaune Cofer, a judge ruled Friday.
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Jennifer K. Rockwell granted a petition from a resident Friday that asserted that using “doctor” would lead voters to incorrectly believe Cofer is a practicing medical physician.
“I do think (the planned designation) is misleading,” Rockwell said during her ruling Friday. “I don’t think it was intentionally so … If I just introduce someone as a doctor and don’t say anything else, they think it’s a medical doctor.”…