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UPDATE – I’m not sure what the difference is between a progressive and a liberal, but progressives were hitting the phones today. They seem to be building a theory – that with at least one strong pro-business candidate in the race and one progressive Fletcher doesn’t really have much of a voter base. Listening in (forgive me!) today I heard …

There are so many polls going on in San Diego this week I have no idea where to start. First the Fletcher “poll” that is mentioned earlier in this blog. I say “poll” like that because I just got off the phone with a pollster friend and he pretty much confirmed what I thought: this isn’t a ‘real’ poll. It …

It’s been a couple weeks since my last post so I thought I’d play some catch up. #1 I don’t believe Bob Filner will resign unless he has to negotiate away his office to avoid prison time for the other financial scandals that are roiling him. So what that all the Democratic officials in town are calling for him to …

Thank you MIGHTY THOR for letting those of us who drop off for a while continue to post! I can’t stand it… not saying something… so here we go – Because of my job and some of my outside duties I’ve been exposed to quite a bit of talk about this Mayoral thing over the last couple weeks. It’s too …

A couple months ago Sherry Hodges (once a staffer for Assemblyman Martin Garrick, then after some sort of fight now a staffer for Orange County Assemblywoman Diane Harkey) declared for State Assembly. The general feeling around town was that Hodges had the endorsement of Martin Garrick. I wondered about it though in a post a few weeks back… the Garrick …

There is some talk that with various possible financial scandals involving her arts gifts (remember what happened in Encinitas recently), Supervisor Pam Slater might still pull the plug on her campaign for County Supervisor.  This mixes the race up and opens the door for more candidates. Two names floating around are Democrat Scott Peters, who previously served on the San …

The only declared candidate for the Republican nomination in the 74th Assembly District is Sherry Hodges, District Director to current Assemblyman Martin Garrick. Hodges has been making phone calls rounding up supporters from as far back as the summer of 2010. It was pretty clear from everyone I’ve spoken to that the assumption was that Garrick supported Hodges’ bid, although …

Anyone ever notice when there are budget cuts to be made, the politicians and bureaucrats generally pick those items to cut that are the core services (ie public safety, roads, education, parks) instead of going through the budget line by line and cutting administration? Why would that be? Because these folks don’t want to change the way they do business …

Got to hand it to liberal Democrat Del Mar Councilwoman Crystal Crawford. After running a negative campaign against Republican Martin Garrick for State Assembly she managed to gather up a big 38% of the vote, losing by some 25,000 ballots cast. But in the last few days Crawford is already telling anyone in North County that she plans to run …

OK sometimes I agree with San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio, sometimes I disagree. Sometimes he seems to go a bit to far. But in the case of DeMaio’s move to cut the arts budget of the City of San Diego DeMaio is not going far enough. People – the gravy boat we have been riding on for decades is …

San Diegans do not live within Pacific Gas & Electric’s service fiefdom, but we are nonetheless affected by the giant utililty’s political weight-throwing. Following the wake of its disastrously expensive and failed attempt to persuade voters — via Prop. 16 — to grant a virtual monopoly, PG&E is now trying to rehabilitate its image and grow its bottom line by …

Over the email Monday night I got an invitation to an “Elections Panel: Issues and Trends” hosted by J.W. August, Managing Editor of Channel 10 News. Channel 10 is an official co-sponsor of this event. The speakers on the “Expert Panel”? Francine Busby, Democrat candidate for the 50th Congressional District, Steve Freeman, an author of a book that asserts that …

Great news for Poizner supporters this morning: his campaign strategy worked! Congratulations to everyone involved – you’ve taken a campaign that was 50 points down (is that even possible in the real world) and spent millions upon millions to get to… 30 points down. The last Field Poll showed Whitman around 63 and Poizner around 14. The poll circulating this morning …

I don’t know about other readers, but I haven’t heard a good thing about the Poizner campaign’s erratic charges that Meg Whitman was Sopranos style threatening him in order to make him drop out of the race. Want to have some fun? Do what I did yesterday and call a few local Poizner supporters and ask them what they think. …

We all enjoy the fun and games of politics, like public safety workers coming to doors during an election in “costume uniforms” during the recent special election here in Oceanside, but I got a press release from the Poizner for Governor campaign today that makes me think that the Commissioner, or maybe his staff, have lost their collective minds. In …

Watched some of the news this morning where the MSM newscaster was virtually apoplectic over the news that the unemployment rate had fallen. I listened closely: no actual numbers. Then I went to CNN. Same thing. Both networks were crowing that the Obama plan was working, of course. So what are the numbers? This month, with a plus or minus …