The most striking part of Saturday's U-T story may be Luis Acle's contention that his consultant failed him. Let's see...he didn't pay his consultant what was owed, and then his consultant had the audacity to continue to demand payment. Only in a skewed mind could anything other than blind loyalty and outright forgiveness of debt be considered a failure.

Acle fined $75,743 over '05 council run

SAN DIEGO - The Ethics Commission has imposed a fine of $75,743 on former City Council candidate Luis Acle - more than four times as much as the previous top penalty levied during the commission's seven-year history.

The commission ruled that Acle had violated city campaign laws 42 times during a November 2005 special election and a January 2006 runoff for the District 8 City Council seat. Acle lost in the runoff to City Councilman Ben Hueso.

If he cannot afford to pay the fine, one option is bankruptcy, said Stacey Fulhorst, the commission's executive director.

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