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Your Weekend Links
As blog content naturally drops off during the weekend on an all-volunteer site like SD Rostra, we bring you the following political news and blog links as a “portal” for your ease of use during those droughts. If you’d like a link added, please let us know at info@sdrostra.com.
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REPUBLICANS RETAKE STATUS AS LARGEST PARTY IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY
From the local GOP…
IT’S NOT THE “LEFT COAST” ANY MORE: REPUBLICANS RETAKE STATUS AS LARGEST PARTY IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY
Democrats lose control in America’s fifth largest county as Republicans surge in voter registration
SAN DIEGO – In the latest sign of a Republican Party on the rise in California, Republicans surged past Democrats last month to become the largest party in San Diego County - the fifth largest county in America and second largest in California.
The latest report from the San Diego County Registrar of Voters shows that within the last month Democrats lost their majority party status as Republicans turned a deficit of -4,850 voters into a plurality margin of +891.
NEWS 8: Audio recording captures scuffle with county planning commissioner
From KFMB Channel 8…
An East County community activist is accusing a county planning commissioner of assaulting her after a public meeting last week. The activist recorded the entire confrontation with a digital audio recorder she uses to record the hearings.
The confrontation happened Friday in Kearny Mesa right after the county planning commission meeting had ended. Fifty-one-year-old Planning Commissioner David Pallinger suddenly sat down next to community activist Charlene Ayers. Her tape recorder captured he exchange.
Anderson’s IOU Bill Passes Senate
From Assemblyman Joel Anderson…
Dear Friend,
Thank you!
At a time when many citizens think their Legislators in Sacramento don’t listen, your voices were heard loud and clear.
Just minutes ago, with the help of you and 2,561 California citizens that submitted a letter of support, AB 1506 – the common sense taxpayer protection bill that forces the state to accept its own IOUs – passed off the Senate floor by a 34-0 vote!
Local GOP burglarized during convention
From the Republican Party…
SAN DIEGO REPUBLICANS’ OFFICE BURGLARIZED DURING STATE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
County Republican headquarters targeted for theft as Republican delegates met
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, AUGUST 23rd SAN DIEGO – As Republican delegates from throughout California met in San Diego for the state GOP convention, the offices of the Republican Party of San Diego County were burglarized and a laptop computer stolen.
Some time between 6 PM Friday and 9 AM Monday, the main headquarters of the county Republican Party were forcibly broken into and one specific laptop computer removed while other high value and technology items were left behind, raising questions as to the nature of the burglary.
News Room: Prop D challenged by Rider, Cicero
From SD News Room…
Five provisions of Proposition D, the San Diego sales tax increase, were challenged in court Thursday with a lawsuit filed by Richard Rider, chairman of the San Diego Tax Fighters, and political activist Stephen Cicero.
The proposition calls for a half-cent tax increase once the following benchmarks are accomplished:
SurveyUSA: 66% oppose sales tax increase in San Diego
Thanks to Vince Vasquez for the tip. To quote Vince from his Twitter post, “SurveyUSA polling data shows 66% of San Diegans oppose sales tax hike, even when tied to vague promises of reform.”
Coalition Letter to Mayor Sanders, Re: Sales Tax Ballot Proposal
REFORM BEFORE REVENUE COALITION
Asian Business Association of San Diego
Republican Party of San Diego County
Building Industry Association – San Diego
San Diego County Apartment Association
California Restaurant Association
San Diego County Taxpayers Association
Neighborhood Market Association
San Diego Tax Fighters
Lincoln Club of San Diego County
July 29, 2010
Honorable Mayor Jerry Sanders
Honorable City Councilmembers
City of San Diego
202 West C Street, 11th Floor
San Diego, CA 92101
Re: Reform Before Revenue
Dear Mayor Sanders and City Councilmembers:
City of San Diego moves headlong toward “something”
Voice reporter Liam Dillon is literally camped out at SD City Hall. From Voice of SD…
City Sets Emergency Financial Meeting; Frye and Mayor to Present Joint Proposal?
The San Diego City Council will meet Friday morning at 10 a.m. to discuss City Councilwoman Donna Frye’s proposed ballot measure linking a sales tax increase to a series of cost-cutting reforms. Read more here
Also: Mayor Jerry Sanders and Frye are about to announce a comprehensive financial reform package, San Diego County Taxpayers Association CEO Lani Lutar has told VOSD reporter Liam Dillon.
Follow Dillon’s The Hall Blog for updates all day.
Taxpayers Are From Mars, Unions Are From Venus
The following commentary by San Diego Republican Party Chairman Tony Krvaric appears today on the FlashReport…
In San Diego, like everywhere, the appetite of public employee unions for higher taxes is insatiable
San Diego has some unique attributes – most notably our near-perfect weather – it’s no different than many other cities in at least one notable respect; when times were good, city politicians acquiesced to public employee labor unions’ insatiable appetite for higher salaries and ever more generous benefits for its members.
Read the entire piece.
Site Problems
Due to technical difficulties beyond the control of simple Luddites like those of us at SD Rostra, the website was down this morning. We are also working to correct the slow downloading and posting issues many of you have noted over the last several days. We apologize for the problems.
FlashReport: Salas Concedes to Vargas
From: @FlashReport
Sent: Jul 21, 2010 10:11p
**Breaking News** Moments ago Salas called Vargas and conceded the 40th SD Dem Primary. The recount is over!
sent via UberTwitter
On Twitter:
http://twitter.com/FlashReport/status/19230531413
Read additional comments from Jim Sills’ prior post this evening:
http://sdrostra.com/?p=6789&cpage=1#comment-58669
IVP “Cartoon” and Resulting FlashReport Column cause Stir
Barry Jantz column from yesterday about Imperial Valley Press cartoon depicting Nick Popaditch…
http://www.flashreport.org/blog.php?postID=2010071211113461
Dianne Bell column today…
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jul/13/celebrity-chef-still-needs-id/
LA Times: Bob Filner criticizes cartoon…
http://tinyurl.com/2b56gh9
Imperial Valley Press apology…
http://www.ivpressonline.com/articles/2010/07/13/our_opinion/ed01_07-13-10.txt
Legal Barriers and Costs Prohibit Full Count of Competition Ballot Signatures
Carl DeMaio ends effort…for now:
DeMaio Pledges to Continue Campaign to Reform City Finances
SAN DIEGO – The campaign supporting the “Competition and Transparency in City Contracting” Initiative today announced that after seeking extensive legal counsel it will not pursue a full hand count of all signatures submitted for qualification.
Taxpayers Association: No Sales Tax in City of San Diego
Just in from SDCTA…
SDCTA Denounces Sales Tax Proposal by City of San Diego
Association urges reform before revenue and full implementation of managed competition
The San Diego County Taxpayers Association will testify in opposition Thursday against an increase to the sales tax or business tax in the City of San Diego. The discussion is scheduled on tonight’s agenda of the City’s Citizen’s Revenue Review and Economic Competitiveness Commission. The Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the City Administration Building, 202 C Street, San Diego.
DeMaio Requests Full Count
See attachment. Here is the text…
June 30, 2010
Liz Maland, City Clerk
City of San Diego
202 C Street
San Diego, CA 92101-4806
Dear Ms. Maland:
Please accept this letter as a formal request to challenge the determination of the Registrar of Voters regarding the sufficiency of signatures submitted under the Competition & Transparency in City Contracting Initiative.
This ballot initiative was filed because the labor unions and city leaders have not respected the votes cast by the vast majority of San Diegans in 2006 under Proposition C on Managed Competition.
Brian Jones’ Mail in AD 77
Click below to see four examples of the mail used by the Brian Jones campaign to win the GOP primary to succeed Joel Anderson in the conservative 77th Assembly District…
Jones 1 – Conservative Track Record
Jones 3 – We Must Control the Border
Jones 4 – Had Enough – Don’t Believe Smears
Here is the message Jones posted on Rostra a couple of days ago.
Congratulations to Brian on a great campaign and becoming the odds on favorite as the next Assemblyman!
CityBeat: Election post-mortem
Read yesterday’s take by SD CityBeat’s Kelly Davis on Tuesday night’s live blogging effort, which included participation by Rostrafarians Gayle Falkenthal and Barry Jantz…
Last night, CityBeat tried something new: “live blogging” from election central and the W Hotel (where the Democratic Party was camped out, due to a labor boycott of Golden Hall). It got a little chaotic at times, but it was fun and we plan to do it again in November. You can read through the archive here and I’ve included some highlights below:
Results!
Kudos to SD CityBeat for hosting the live blog last night, and including Rostra. Click here if you want to read the running dialogue between the participants and several guests that stopped by.
SD County Results, from the ROV.
Sec’y of State, for statewide results… Remember the ROV site above only shows the San Diego votes for governor, statewide measures and the like, as well as only the area tallies for legislative districts that may overlap other counties. For Salas-Vargas, for instance, it’s Imperial and some of Riverside too, so you have to look here.
www.sdvotes.com: Live Blogging Election Night with SD CityBeat
TONITE: Check out www.sdvotes.com !!!!!!
It’s a match made in … well, San Diego. Rostra is hooking up, so to speak, with San Diego CityBeat for a live blogscan on Tuesday night, starting at 6 p.m.
We may be Center-Right, the folks at CityBeat may like to call themselves Progressives, and they may even be full of turds on occasion (you might need to click the link on that one). Yet, we can all agree that it would be way cool to provide some real time, high-tech election analysis, discussion, and good-natured smack to our respective readers on Tuesday night. Which IS pretty progressive, if not in the philosophical sense.
Lincoln Club Mail for Zapf
More Lorie Zapf for SD City Council mailers sent over to us; these are Lincoln Club of San Diego pieces…
ZAPF1-3884_SD Lincoln Club_DTS_slate 1
ZAPF2-3898_SD Lincoln Club_DTS_slate 3
ZAPF3-3925_SD Lincoln Club Slate 5
ZAPF4-3937_SD Lincoln Club Slate 6
ZAPF5-3951_SD Lincoln Club Slate 7
ZAPF6-3952_SD Lincoln Club Slate 8
To be clear, we will post any mail, regardless of the candidate. But, you do have to send it to us, at info@sdrostra.com
Zapf Mail
Some mailers sent over by the Lorie Zapf for SD City Council campaign…
Please send any mail or ad clips to info@sdrostra.com
CRA Mailer in East County
California Republican Assembly mail piece to high propensity voters in East County…
Keep the cards and letter coming…to info@sdrostra.com
Weekend Campaign/News Hi-Lites
Where to start? In no particular order (other than the order in which we linked ‘em)…
SDUT: Anonymous City Hall blogger calls it quits
UCG: Or does he/she?… Torn – I need time to think
VOSD: Labor says Prop G Discriminates Like AZ Immigration Law
SDUT: Language of distortion / Truth is casualty in unions’ political ad – “Its union-sponsored discrimination – in any language.”
Flash: Sunday San Diego… The 2010 Primary Election Contest
CityBeat: Grading the campaign trail – Our midterm report tallies the poopies and the poppies
La Suer’s YouTube ads
Remember, we have invited all candidates and consultants to forward their mail PDFs and video or audio advertising clips to us at info@sdrostra.com. We will share them all here. Below is a plethora from Jay La Suer for Sheriff (Gore and Duffy are invited to send us what they would like as well)…
http://www.youtube.com/jaylasuer#p/u/0/h62SER1F3WA
http://www.youtube.com/jaylasuer#p/u/1/4Kh9EJiOycc
http://www.youtube.com/jaylasuer#p/u/2/VS3u2ied76A
http://www.youtube.com/jaylasuer#p/u/3/ipaYsBy9JRU
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