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The radicals on the Solana Beach Council are reconsidering their plastic bag ban.  Read all about it at The Del Mar Times .  You may recall that I exposed the unintended consequences  predictable  health hazard of  Lesa Heebner’s silly policy just a few days before the Solana Beach City Council considered a partial repeal of the ban. Reusable grocery store …

Last night, the Republican Party of San Diego County endorsed three people for three different elections: Hector Gastelum for State Senate in District 40, Sandy Spackman for City Council in San Diego’s 4th District, and Harmeet Dhillon for Vice Chairman of the California Republican Party.  While local media could trumpet that each of those candidates might not look like the …

If you’re wondering what the future of the conservative movement looks like, Julie Borowski is the face of it.  She’s a 20-something,  limited government constitutionalist, who works as a policy analyst for FreedomWorks.  I met tons of young people like her last year and the Republican party needs to court them. They hold differing personal opinions on gambling, prostitution, gay …

What started as a ceremonial gesture to appease the radicals who influence the Solana Beach City Council, has now turned into a possible health epidemic.  Lesa Heebner’s radicals scared the rest of the City Council into passing a ban, using religious groups, anti-progress non-profits, and animal-rights groups, to produce on-line videos.  The thrust of Heebner’s message is that plastic bags …

Press release from Stop Taxing Us alleges nefarious link between The MiraCosta College Foundation and the Yes on Proposition EE bond issuance campaign. From the press release: December 19, 2012:  (Carlsbad, CA)  The MiraCosta College Foundation appears to have violated the law and jeopardized its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by making a large political contribution to the Yes on EE campaign.  …

Like most folks on the right side of the aisle, I’m thrilled that the Michigan Legislature and Governor advanced economic freedom by passing right-to-work legislation.  Closed shops, created by law (Wagner Act), are reprehensible. But as much as we don’t want to force workers to join unions, can we prevent business owners, from entering into agreements, with a labor union, …

Radio host Mike Slater sai, on his program today, that if you’re Mayor Bob Filner you answer that question by saying, “to create union jobs.”  I don’t disagree with Slater.  Filner is taking aim at the managed competition process, a program which San Diego voters overwhelmingly passed some five years ago.  While the voters told the public-sector unions to “compete …

Free market competition fosters the highest quality products for the lowest possible consumer costs.  Republicans from the most local of volunteer precinct captains to the the Speaker of the House hold this tenet to be true.  Republicans decry centralized planning boards, death panels, executive orders, and TARP bailouts of banks.  But what happens when Republican elected officials engage in the …

Tony Young, current President of the San Diego City Council and Councilman from District 4, announced that he would be resigning his office to take over as CEO of the American Red Cross San Diego-Imperial Counties Chapter.  Voice of San Diego reports that his resignation will trigger a special election, leaving the opportunity for the Republican Party to lean the …

What the heck does SANDAG do?  Its mission statement, from its website: The 18 cities and county government are SANDAG, the San Diego Association of Governments. This public agency serves as the forum for regional decision-making. SANDAG builds consensus; makes strategic plans; obtains and allocates resources; plans, engineers, and builds public transportation, and provides information on a broad range of …

I said this Tuesday evening and I’ll say it again today; Barack Obama defeated Carl DeMaio and Bob Filner was along for the ride.  I’m not making excuses but it appears that the top of the ticket is going to have a lot of influence on the San Diego Mayoral general election in the future. The North County Times explained …

A group of California “Liberty Republicans” has issued a statement supporting Mitt Romney for President of the United States. The group represents a significant body of the support in California for Texas Congressman Ron Paul’s campaigns for the Presidency in 2008 and 2012. Most are also members or former or current officers in the Republican Liberty Caucus and Campaign for …

Mark Powell is the reform candidate for the San Diego Unified School District Board.  He is endorsed the Republican Party of San Diego, The Lincoln Club, and San Diego Tax Fighters. The American Federation of Teachers, a labor union, put out a hit piece on him The Voice of San Diego, hardly a house organ for the Republican Party, Lincoln …

Dr. Gary Gonsalves, MD, the founder of taxpayer advocacy group Stop Taxing Us, published the list of largest contributors to Proposition AA, the bond issue for the San Dieguito High School District, Proposition CC, the bond issue for the Del Mar Union School District, and Proposition EE, the bond issue for the Miracosta Community College District. Stop Taxing Us has …

Is the Solana Beach City Manager, David Ott,  electioneering against Paul Frankel? Is he protecting incumbent Lisa Heebner,  County Supervisor candidate Dave Roberts (outgoing Councilman), and the agenda of the Democratic Party-endorsed slate (Heebner, Zito and Zahn)? Heebner and Roberts mismanaged the City’s finances as Council members last decade.  Ott served as Director of Public Safety, then as City Manager …

San Diego County limited government activists have two reasons to be enthusiastic next month:  San Marcos’ Mike Hansen and Coronado’s Richard Bailey are running for City Council seats in their respective cities.  Both gentlemen are under 30, both are active in the local Republican Party (Hansen as a donor and volunteer and Bailey as a donor and Central Committee Member), …

Scott Rasmussen, generally regarded as the most accurate pollster in the business, mentioned that debates have little or no influence on the eventual election results, but I disagree.  I think both the first Presidential debate and the recent San Diego Mayoral debate gave the fence sitters “permission” to vote for the respective Republicans in each race. I favor former Libertarian …

Guest Commentary by Brian Brady Is it any surprise that Bob Filner is going negative so early? When you consider his consultant’s propensity for negative campaigning, the latest attack on Carl DeMaio’s fundraising success is but a preview of the scorched earth campaign Tom Shepard will have Filner lead this Fall. Mimicking Harry Reid, Filner charged the DeMaio camp with a …