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MAYOR LOSING CREDIBILITY BY THE MINUTE
Since joining with labor union owned City Councilmembers to push a sales tax increase, the Mayor appears to be losing credibility at lightning speed in an attempt to somehow justify increasing taxes by $100 million per year.
In just the past week, he’s been continually called out in the media for peddling falsehoods about the sales tax proposal.
First, the most utterly hilarious:
“Our pension payments after 2012 will start going down instead of up.”
Um…not quite Mr. Can’t Get Out of Office Fast Enough, er, Sanders. Voice of San Diego says:
Our Own Microcosm of Freedom vs. Tyranny: The City Hall Machine vs. The Rest of Us
Kudos to Rostra blogger Bradley J. Fikes for this post calling out the thinly-veiled message in the U-T that actually precluded the sales tax proponents’ simple message:
“Agree to a sales tax increase or you will die.”
May I suggest we haven’t even begun to be spoon-fed this message. The coming months will be filled with it.
This is the strategy of the City Hall Machine. Keep telling all of us this message over and over until we finally say, “OK, here’s my wallet!”
The political drama surrounding the effort to move forward with building a new City Hall building never seems to stop.
Back in February, four members of the City Council announced that they wouldn’t support moving the project forward without it going to a public vote, presumably in the November 2010 election.
The four on the Council to take this stand were Donna Frye, Sherri Lightner, Carl DeMaio and Kevin Faulconer.
Kudos to U-T: Fire Union Goon Called Out for Politicizing Public Safety
In reaction to a tragic fire death in Golden Hill last week, the President of the San Diego City Fire Fighters Local 145 has come out swinging against the “brown-outs” of some fire stations used to curb overtime costs to help with the City’s budget problems.
Thankfully, yesterday’s Union-Tribune contained a column that calls out the union leader for politicizing the death of a citizen.
The U-T doesn’t buy what the union goon is selling:
First of all, an engine got to the scene of the Golden Hill apartment complex last Friday in less than five minutes. National standards say fire departments should shoot for that response time 90 percent of the time.
Yesterday, the Union-Tribune published a story about the City of San Diego recently increasing it’s solar permit fees by a multiple of six.
You may recall the across-the-board fee increases implemented by the City of San Diego in 2009. From the April 2, 2009 Union-Tribune story about that fee increase:
Mary Lewis, the city’s chief financial officer, said the mayor’s goal is to price the fees and permits so that they cover the city’s costs to administer programs and provide oversight, such as police or code enforcement inspections.
Did Marti Emerald Let the Cat Out of the Bag on Funding Scheme for New City Hall?
UPDATE: Comments reveal that this isn’t as under the radar as I thought. Add commenter Jefferson to the hat-tip list.
Hat tip to Mr. Murphy’s post on Marti Emerald advocating for new city revenues and Thor’s Assistant’s posting of the link to the transcript. This interview is filled with marvelous insight from Marti.
The hidden gem: her disclosure of funding plans for building the proposed new million-square-foot, and half a billion dollar City Hall building (obviously, I’ve added the bold emphasis):
The Union-Tribune has a story today about a battle over the value of future pension payments between recently departed San Diego City Employees’ Retirement System (SDCERS) Administrator David Wescoe and Councilman Carl DeMaio.
The story’s headline says that DeMaio was “flagged” on pension payment data and that on his way out the door, Wescoe called DeMaio “misleading.”
Very well, my interest is piqued…what does the story say? Turns out that Wescoe is criticizing DeMaio for using numbers SDCERS provided to DeMaio!
From the article:
E-mail Prominently Displays Labor’s Thug Tactics
To add more specific info on the previous post on this, check out an e-mail sent from the labor leader herself:
Subj: Bobby Glaser to be placed on Labor’s Do Not Patronize List
Bobby Glaser is going to have the unique distinction of being the first consultant to be placed on our official do not patronize list. Although the vote has not taken place yet, I anticipate it to be final by the first week in December. I just wanted to alert people involved in any potential elections for 2010 that may want Labor’s support.
In solidarity,
Lorena Gonzalez
Mayor’s Spokesman Compares Republican Party to Mass Suicide Group
The voiceofsandiego.org has reported the following Twitter message from Alex Roth, a spokesperson for Mayor Jerry Sanders:
“I’m beginning to see more and more similarities between the Heaven’s Gate cult and today’s Republican Party.”
The spokesperson issued a clarification and apology after receiving media attention. Seems like a bizarre statement for a PR person to issue publicly.
Your thoughts?
Todd Gloria: Out of Touch With City Finances
From Gay and Lesbian Times, March 26, 2009
http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=14290
The city will end 2009 with a small surplus of about $2 million. But out of a $3 billion budget, “that doesn’t give a lot of wiggle room, but it’s important to note that we are living within our means,” the District 3 councilmember said.
GL Times states that Pension payments are also down for the year as result of a series of reforms implemented by the city.
Gloria’s take?
“Its not because of any funny business. No one is cooking the books. It’s because the reforms that have been instituted are reducing the overall size of our debt,” Gloria said.
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