The Encinitas’ City Council decision to purchase the former Pacific View Elementary School is proving to be an issue in the Encinitas Mayor’s race. Deputy Mayor (and Democrat) Tony Kranz fully supports the decision to purchase property for close to $10 million, before the School District put it out to bid in a public auction. Mayor (and Republican) Kristin Gaspar …
San Diego LBGT “Leaders” Owe DeMaio An Apology But Nobody Is Holding Their Breath
The “leaders ” in the “Big G” gay political movement owe Carl DeMaio an apology. After decades of chastising straight America for holding homophobic stereotypes about gay men, they refuse to stand up for a small g gay candidate, while similar tactics are used against him. They were silent when DeMaio’s Mayoral campaign opponents tried to dig up dirt on …
Kick or Punt, Ms. Dumanis.
Citizens need closure on the recent allegations against Carl DeMaio. Last week, Todd Bosnich accused the former San Diego City Council Member and U.S. House candidate of sexual harassment. If true, DeMaio has no business holding public office. The timing of this claim is suspect. The accuser’s decision to lodge the complaint in the media, rather than through law enforcement, …
All you need is a few facts. You sure don’t need truth.
The politics of envy is on full display in Illinois, Connecticut, and Kansas elections this cycle. Their genesis was the attacks the Obama team levied at Mitt Romney. This quote, from this Politico article, boils the strategy down to a few sentences: “What private equity companies do and their business makes for a very easy target for people to twist …
The San Diego State Purple Penguins
Let’s start with this current bid of madness, about doing away with gender identification in Nebraska grade schools: Nebraska school district has instructed its teachers to stop referring to students by “gendered expressions” such as “boys and girls,” and use “gender inclusive” ones such as “purple penguins” instead. “Don’t use phrases such as ‘boys and girls,’ ‘you guys,’ ‘ladies and …
Scott Peters: Petty Bully Who Seeks To Balkanize San Diego With The “Tea Party Extremist” Label
Let’s start with this; there is no “tea party”. There is a “tea party movement,” there are “tea party groups,” there are “tea party activists” and there are “people who agree with tea party principles.” In that tea party movement, there are libertarians, social conservatives, immigration activists, fiscal conservatives, Second Amendment defenders, and other conservative-leaning Americans. While I haven’t seen …
Observations from #ConstitutionDaySD
I spoke today, to a classroom of young people at a private high school in San Diego. This is my second year as a speaker for the ACLU-sponsored “Constitution Day”. Last year, I presented to 60 middle school students in Chula Vista so I was looking forward to changing my presentation for a high school class. Here were some of …
Amanda Young Rigby Is The Lone Vote For Freedom…Again
The U-T reports that the Vista City Council granted Dollar General a permit to build a store in its kingdom but decided what it can or can’t sell. Let’s look at quotes from both sides of the alcohol permitting process. “Combine those two factors and there is no way that additional (alcohol) sales would add anything to the city of …
One If By Land, Two If By Sea. Our Borders Are Porous; That’s Easy To See.
As fire fights with foreign soldiers, on the southern land border increase, the Border Patrol reports that foreign nationals are attempting high-speed amphibious landings in San Diego County: In the early morning of Aug. 26, agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Air and Marine (OAM) stopped a panga off the coast of San Diego County loaded with …
San Diego Assembly Members Vote For Taxi Cab Cartel, Republican State Senators Vote For Freedom
Katy Grimes wrote a great piece about the attack on free market transportation over on Flash Report today: This free market response to the heavily regulated, unionized and expensive taxi and shuttle industry, is brilliant. Uber, Sidecar and Lyft work beautifully, and usually flawlessly, unlike unreliable shuttle services, and sometimes hostile and unscrupulous taxi drivers. And it is significantly less …
Mike Nichols Votes To Appoint Himself To Solana Beach Council
The City of Solana Beach had two open Council seats in the November election: Tom Campbell was retiring and incumbent Democrat Mike Nichols filed to run for re-election. Three other candidates pulled papers to run against Nichols and for Campbell’s seat: 1- Ginger Marshall, the endorsed Republican candidate. 2- Patrick Germon, an independent businessman 3- Shannon Lerach, a newcomer to …
Ginger Marshall Running For Solana Beach Council
Virginia “Ginger” Marshall filed papers with the Solana Beach City Clerk today for the November City Council election. Marshall has until Friday to submit a petition with 20 signatures of registered voters in Solana Beach to qualify for the November ballot. Marshall has lived in Solana Beach for over 12 years and has resided on both the West side of …
Wanna Win Over Millennials? Privatize Social Security and Drop Opposition To Same-Sex Marriage
Americans aged 13-30 are much more libertarian than liberal, says a Reason-Rupe report. That’s important for California Republicans to know because that generation represents close to one in five voters. In five years, that number will grow to one in four voters. Millennials have oft been described as the enigma generation when it comes to politics. They eschew party labels …
Celebrate Independence, Not Government
We read the Declaration of Independence aloud last night at the Republican Liberty Caucus of San Diego meeting. This tradition started last year when a few of us read it at the Del Mar Fair. I won’t print all the words on this site but I invite you to read it before I continue. This was (and still is) a …
Hobby Lobby SCOTUS Decision Shows Why We Need To Get Rid Of The Government-Based Health Insurance System
Everywhere I look, I see the command /control economy failing. I knew this instinctively, some thirty years ago when I attended “bottomless cup” fraternity parties. What started out as a “too good to be true” deal ended with an early dismissal for the guys and an invitation to the girls to stick around for the “after party”. Naturally, I joined …
Escondido Revolt Against Refugees Avoids the Real Federal Policy Problem
What happened in Escondido the other night was very unfortunate. The populist revolt against the conditional use permit, to house Central American refugee children at a temporary facility in Escondido, is an understandable reaction to failed federal immigration policy. The federal government has failed to enforce our borders (almost willingly) for at least two Presidential administrations now. Naturally, people are …
BOOK REVIEW: Father’s Day: More Married. More Husband. More Father. More Man.
My friend, author Greg Swann released his controversial book Father’s Day: More Married. More Husband. More Father. More Man on Amazon.com this past weekend. I had already read the advanced release of the manuscript but bought a few digital copies for friends (the Kindle version is less than a buck). This hard-hitting, in your face, 80-page book is an important …
Lesson For Tea Party Conservatives — Be A Brat
Dave Brat, economics professor, neophyte, and “underfunded” candidate has done the unbelievable — he decidedly defeated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor for the Republican nomination in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. Brat ran a campaign that attracted heavy tea party support, criticizing Cantor for his votes for the debt ceiling increase and his support for comprehensive immigration reform (italicized and emboldened …
Do Second Amendment Voters Matter in San Diego County?
How relevant are Second Amendment supporters in San Diego County elections? In a county-wide election, it could mean as much as a 2-4% margin. Let’s look at two unopposed, county-wide races. With 92% of the vote in: Sheriff Bill Gore, running unopposed, had 100% of the vote with 240,394 County Treasurer Dan McAllister, running unopposed, had 100% of the vote …
Marine Andrew Tahmooressi Imprisonment in Mexico Demonstrates What’s Wrong With Our Borders
Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi has been sitting in a Mexican prison since March 31 for crossing the border with guns in his car. Mexican citizens are not allowed to own firearms and American tourists should be aware that transporting ammunition or firearms, across the Mexican border, is a crime punishable by jail time….Mexican jail time…sometimes in the La Mesa Penitentary, …
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