County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer is pushing back against the notion that she attempted a quid pro quo alleged in a lawsuit filed by a former county executive.

Michael Vu, who had sought to become the county’s top bureaucrat, alleged in a lawsuit that Lawson-Remer and ex-supervisor Nora Vargas unlawfully blocked his quest for that promotion. His suit claims that Lawson-Remer’s actions, detailed in an email to the county’s now ex-top lawyer, violated the state’s open meetings law.

Those allegations – and Voice of San Diego’s scoop on the large payout that county counsel will receive after abruptly retiring late last month – prompted Republican Supervisor Jim Desmond to request a federal investigation earlier this week.

In a statement sent to the Union-Tribune, Lawson-Remer deemed the

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