Andrea Joy Campbell: “I am very sorry to have heard what I have heard tonight, because the references to race and gender are not what concern…”

“I am very sorry to have heard what I have heard tonight, because the references to race and gender are not what concern me. What does concern me is fairness, and the investigation of the honest outcome of an election should concern all of us. The certification by the secretary of state is not a certification that there was no fraud. We know that. The matter deserves to be investigated. It does not deserve to be trivialized and to be said that we are simply doing what we do because of racial motivation. What a sad comment when our attempts to enforce the law, to enforce the prerogatives of our constitutional office, are taken instead to mean that we are acting in a racially motivated manner. The statute says that failure to abide by a subpoena is a misdemeanor. We draw attention to the United States Attorney for the Central District of California of this violation, and we ask that he proceed pursuant to the determination that he would make or she would make. It is a sorry day.”