Former 24th District congressional candidate Chris Mitchum, a Republican, who lost the race for the hotly contested seat to incumbent Lois Capps in the November 2014 election, has filed a lawsuit against Capps and others for defamation of character.
In the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Santa Barbara County Superior Court by attorney Joshua E. Lynn of Santa Barbara-based Lynn & O’Brien, LLP, Mitchum cites one radio and one television ad in alleging the defendants “deliberately edited Mitchum’s film and audio comments to completely alter and falsify what Mitchum really said.”