Today the San Diego POA announced its support for Nathan Fletcher in the San Diego mayoral contest. Considering the assumption by many that D.A. Bonnie Dumanis would rake in the bulk of the big law enforcement endorsements, that’s a nugget for Fletcher. The obvious foremost reason this is a surprise — Fletcher is in disagreement with the POA on a …
Huge News! Deputy District Attorneys Endorse Dumanis for Mayor
See the press release here. Seriously, the only news possibly bigger than that would be the Deputy DAs not endorsing Dumanis. Also, this just in, an informal poll of Bob Filner’s staff members shows them to be supporting their guy for mayor. Carl and Nathan, if your staffers end up supporting you, please let us know. _____ Oh, this is …
Governor Brown Pushes Eleventh-Hour Tax Increase
This in from SD Rostra friend and Taxpayer Advocate Jennifer Kerns: Governor Jerry Brown is pushing an eleventh-hour Tax increase in final days of Legislative session. The Governor and his Democrat allies in the Legislature are pushing to eliminate business owners’ ability to choose which formula they calculate their Tax liabilities with. If this passes, it will be devastating to …
Dumanis “Changes Mind” on Pension Reform
In what can only be described as a San Diego mayoral campaign continuing to sputter while searching for a focus (any focus), yesterday Bonnie Dumanis announced that she flip-flopped her position on the Comprehensive Pension Reform Initiative. She is now in support. Not only did her position change for no apparent reason other than she figures she can’t win while …
Was Kehoe responsible for Brown’s clumsy purge of Republicans from the Del Mar Fair Board?
Just before the opening of this year’s Del Mar Fair, Gov. Jerry Brown’s staff hurriedly rushed to inform three long-time Del Mar Fair Board members their services would no longer be required: Chairman Barry Nussbaum, Kelly Burt, and Vivian Hardage. All three are Republicans. A controversy is now swirling around the dismissals, and there’s a whiff of Sen. Christine Kehoe’s …
Mobile Home Rent Control doesn’t work
A follow up to Greg Larkin’s post yesterday about today’s Oceanside City Council meeting… Mobile Home Rent Control doesn’t work by Steve Gramm It didn’t work in Cuba, or behind the Iron Curtain, but some politicians in San Diego County still think the government should be setting prices for one form of housing—mobile home parks. It will come as no …
Message from FPPC Heard Loud and Clear. Not.
During the June 2010 primary, 36th district State Senate candidate Jeff Stone was caught red-handed failing to comply with campaign finance laws by not reporting contributions over $1,000 within the mandated 24-hour period, all received in the final days of the election. As a reminder, we’re not just talking about a couple of donations here. Stone’s campaign admitted to receiving …
Jeff Stone Ignores Race for Humanity Issues
As a follow-up to Marion Ashley’s guest commentary, I am happy that the Riverside chairman of the Board of Supervisors is so passionate about helping organizations in the community. I hope he will become a better advocate of taxpayer funds and ask his colleague Jeff Stone some tough questions. What Supervisor Ashley does not seem to understand is that this …
Jeff Stone’s Race for Humanity – Part Two
Following up on my last post, it looks like there may be much more to the whole “Third District Supervisor Jeff Stone’s Race for Humanity” story than meets the eye. The organization was launched in 2006 as a non-profit corporation according to their filings with the Secretary of State. It appears that the organization received over $100,000 in taxpayer funds …
Jeff Stone takes “Slush Funding” to a New Level
Just when we thought the San Diego County Board of Supervisors was as blatant as it could get in spreading their “discretionary” taxpayer monies (slush funds, to be exact) around the community as a way to promote their names and curry favor, then we take a look next door. Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone has taken the use of taxpayer …
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