Carl DeMaio wants to be Mayor yet he has done little to address a laundry list of problems his own campaign acknowledges remain at City Hall – all on his watch.
The question is this: What will be different for Carl the Mayor from Carl the Councilmember?
As a member of the Legislative body (City Council), Carl needs only four (4) of his colleagues to join him in rooting out the wasteful city spending he points out took place during his tenure on the City Council. Why didn’t he address these problems as Councilmember? If he were elected Mayor, he will no longer have a vote on the Council – he would need five (5) votes from the Council to push through his agenda. If he couldn’t get four votes while a member of the Council, what makes him think he can get five votes as Mayor?
The reality is this: Carl has had ample opportunity to fix the problems he is a part of at City Hall – and the truth is he has failed.
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Weak.
This is comical. Can you do math?
Answer, potentially: Faulconer, Zapf. Kersey. Sherman. Ellis.
Even four of them is more than: Faulconer. Zapf. DeMaio.
Matt:
I think people who don’t realize that staunch business/taxpayer advocate Mark Kersey is the Councilman pre-elect for Carl’s district, District 5, don’t actually know anything about local politics.
While outnumbered by labor union sycophants on the city council, Carl still has been successful with NUMEROUS reforms. But it seems that the improvements are inconvenient truths that the Left and Fletcher (now closely allied) wisely choose to ignore or denigrate.
I’ll leave it to the DeMaio campaign to list some of these reforms, but for starters, the ending of the city water department policy of routinely issuing “bonuses” to 90% of its employees. DeMaio made it happen.
Perhaps most important, Carl led the charge against the Prop D sales tax increase, forcing more reforms because of the resulting fiscal necessity after Prop D’s defeat. It’s now conceded by Mayor Sanders that Prop D was never really needed, as we now (supposedly) have a budget SURPLUS — largely because of city reforms.
DeMaio’s sales tax opposition alone saved San Diegans $100 million per year.
Does anyone doubt that Fletcher, if he were mayor this past term, would have acted differently than Jerry Sanders in the sales tax matter? But in fairness, I’m sure that Fletcher would have supported the sales tax increase with a suitably frowny face — while undoubtedly somehow referencing his military background.
I would prefer less threats to various individuals, as reported in the City Beat article from a few weeks ago: http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-10462-carl-demaio-a-to-z.html
Of course, it could just be a stress/defense mechanism. I’m not that knowledgeable about Carl’s psyche and how his mind works to even know why he would behave like that. Just my opinion.
Speculation: this guy did not graduate from Brandeis.
Yes, indeed, The City Beat article says it all. http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-10462-carl-demaio-a-to-z.html
As DeMaio rushes from one issue to the other, his appearance is of one of a demented pol who threatens those who won’t do his bidding or who get in his way.
So far, he’s been ineffective in working with his fellow Councilmembers. As mayor, he would do no better, maybe even worse. Too bad. He has a lot of energy…..just misdirected.
At Rostra, we encourage the bloggers to engage, debate and answer, not just post and disappear. Matt????????
Matt
Carl DeMaio drives the issues of which you are so fearful and for which you feel compelled to attack him. If you were not so afraid of “Strong Mayor” Carl DeMaio leading and/or pushing the City Council with 4 or 5 loyalists and another 2 or 3 fence sitters you would not feel compelled to try and stop his ability to lead. As long as he continues to drive the issues you and Gwendolyn have reason to fear the collapse of the Democrat Party in San Diego city government.
This blog gets the angriest, craziest, most out of touch comments.
Kurt:
You ever read the comments on the UT website? Seriously.