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Would you ever compromise on taxes? Ask Sherry Hodges
“There may be a time…”
That’s the answer Sherry Hodges provided on KOCT last week during a roundtable discussion between the run-off candidates in the 76th Assembly District.
Video Link: Journalist Roundtable 76th District Candidates
The question and Hodges’s response begins at the 43:00 mark in the video link above.
Hodges’s opponent, Rocky Chavez, plainly says “no new taxes” when asked the same question. Hodges is endorsed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
Senator Mark Wyland Endorses Rocky Chavez
Press release through the transom this morning, Republican State Senator Mark Wyland has endorsed fellow Republican Rocky Chavez in the open 76th Assembly District race.
Wyland, who represents all of the communities within the re-drawn 76th Assembly District, was elected to the State Senate in 2006 and re-elected in 2010.
Senator Wyland is the latest in a growing list of North County Republican elected officials who have endorsed Rocky Chavez.
San Diego Republican Primary Voters Could Overcome Registration Gap
Is it the solar flare?
Nope, but could be the makings of the perfect storm for San Diego Republicans come June.
Recent polling from Competitive Edge Research & Communication** shows registered Republicans more enthusiastic to vote in June than Democrats.
Well, big whoop. We all expected that, right?
But according to the survey, the enthusiasm factor might be enough to overcome the Democratic voter registration advantage.
The latest voter registration numbers from a report run on March 1 by the San Diego County Registrar of Voters shows Democrats have a registration advantage of 76,521 over Republicans.
Filling the Obama Gap on Immigration Reform
President Obama discussing immigration reform in June 2009, Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.In a clear signal that Obama will demagogue any issue to help his re-election chances, we read this from the U-T.
President Barack Obama told about 70 national leaders in a private meeting Tuesday that immigration reform is still one of his priorities despite the failure of the DREAM ACT and the absence of movement on other immigration reform.
The meeting focused on how to engage Americans in a discussion around immigration reform and Obama asked the leaders to use their influence to shape the public conversation.
Block for Senate, (Insert Name Here) for Assembly
In local political news today, the San Diego Union-Tribune wrote that Marty Block — everyone’s favorite tax-raising-after-he-promised-not-to-do-so Democrat — is looking to run for the State Senate seat currently held by a termed-out Christine Kehoe.
Former Assemblywoman Lori Saldana is in the mix, and there are rumblings that newly-elected Assemblywoman Toni Atkins might jump in.
All depending upon redistricting, of course, SD Rostra’s Jim Sills wrote back in February that Republicans could win a redrawn senate seat. And, with the right candidate, we certainly could!
“Don’t vote Republican” and your reason is???
The writer of this letter to the Opinion section of the Poway Chieftain suggest that we should not vote Republican because they vote to cut. Yes, that is right in a lot of cases, but how are we going to even attempt to solve Sacramento’s budget woes if we don’t cut? Raising taxes and fees, especially during tough economic times, doesn’t make sense. The real problem is the LACK of fiscal constraint in Sacramento. Everyone promises the world to get elected. They know that if they started to cut these programs, that they face a serious chance of defeat (Creating and expanding programs in good years, and giving nice salaries and benefits to workers are a big part of this problem. BTW, I am a government employee who likes money and benefits, but I am also aware that too much was given to my fellow comrades in government).
Sticks and Stones
Recently I had a conversation with one of my clients. He commented on all the mean spirited invective being spewed by conservatives about President Obama, saying that the Democrats “never” said such horrible things about President Bush. He’s not the first person I’ve heard assert this.
Talk about selective memory.
During an exclusive interview with CBS Radio reporter Peter Maer on October 16, former President George H.W. Bush denounced the latest round of political attacks on President Obama, but he also called out MSNBC hosts Keith Olberman and Rachel Maddow for their remarks about his son. “The way they treat my son and anyone who’s opposed to their point of view is just horrible,” said the senior Bush. “When our son was President, they just hammered him mercilessly — and I think obscenely a lot of the time — and now it’s moved to a new President.”
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