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As of May 31, 2016 at 5:00pm, 937,801 ballots have been mailed to registered voters throughout the county. 181,010 voters have voted (either by returning their ballot, or through early voting). This equates to an overall voting rate of 19.3% among all ballots mailed. Breaking down the ballots by party, total returns are comprised of 39.41% Republicans (6.76% above registration), 42.22% Democrats …

It’s fascinating to Google Ed Harris, the Democrat’s main candidate for Mayor of San Diego.  He hypes his status as a career city lifeguard (a wise decision), but systematically hides the fact that he was a public employee labor union boss — a boss that was particularly belligerent about protecting overpaid and overpensioned city employees from any reforms. Harris has …

  As of May 27, 2016 at 4:00pm, 934,852 ballots have been mailed to registered voters throughout the county. 157,078 voters have voted (either by returning their ballot, or through early voting). This equates to an overall voting rate of 16.8% among all ballots mailed. Breaking down the ballots by party, total returns are comprised of 39.36% Republicans (6.71% above registration), 42.23% …

  With the filing deadline occurring last night, please click this link for a fundraising overview for all of the competitive races throughout the county (Supervisor D3, City of SD, and Chula Vista District 4).

A new honeypot for California state government is the periodic “cap and trade” auctions of pollution rights. Actually CO2 rights, which is NOT a pollutant.  But I’m being churlish.  The lesson is that, when able, government will sell us the very air we breathe. Here’s the fun part.  The latest quarterly “cap and trade” auction was projected to bring in …

As of May 24, 2016 at 5:00pm, 933,340 ballots have been mailed to registered voters throughout the county. 130,572 voters have voted (either by returning their ballot, or through early voting). This equates to an overall voting rate of 13.99% among all ballots mailed. Breaking down the ballots by party, total returns are comprised of 39.07% Republicans (66.42% above registration), 42.26% Democrats (6.20%% …

You have no doubt heard the story about the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus being snubbed on the field at Saturday’s San Diego Padres game. Instead of hearing the Gay Men’s Chorus, everyone heard a woman signing when the wrong national anthem soundtrack was played. At first everyone suspected the worst – homophobia. Now we know the truth – it …

As of May 24, 2016 at 5:00pm, 931,608 ballots have been mailed to registered voters throughout the county. 115,077 voters have voted (either by returning their ballot, or through early voting). This equates to an overall voting rate of 9.88% among all ballots mailed. Breaking down the ballots by party, total returns are comprised of 39.01% Republicans (6361% above registration), 42.20% …

As of May 23, 2016 at 5:00pm, 928,331 ballots have been mailed to registered voters throughout the county. 91,739 voters have voted (either by returning their ballot, or through early voting). This equates to an overall voting rate of 9.88% among all ballots mailed. Breaking down the ballots by party, total returns are comprised of 38.86% Republicans (6.21% above registration), 42.13% …

As of May 19, 2016 at 5:00pm, 927,729 ballots have been mailed to registered voters throughout the county. 58,779 voters have voted (either by returning their ballot, or through early voting). This equates to an overall voting rate of 6.34% among all ballots mailed. Breaking down the ballots by party, total returns are comprised of 38.64% Republicans (5.99% above registration), 41.81% …

California gains another “superlative.”  We are ranked the worst state for “online access to government spending data.”  We make less spending data available than any other state. Two things to note about this latest CA “award.” 1.  The study was done by U.S. PIRG, a decidedly left wing outfit that would LOVE to present the Golden State in a positive …

As of May 18, 2016 at 5:00pm, 926.901 ballots have been mailed to registered voters throughout the county. 44,878 voters have voted (either by returning their ballot, or through early voting). This equates to an overall voting rate of 4.84% among all ballots mailed. Breaking down the ballots by party, total returns are comprised of 38.65% Republicans (6.00% above registration), 41.45% …

As of May 17, 2016 at 5:00pm, 925,522 ballots have been mailed to registered voters throughout the county. 28,942 voters have voted (either by returning their ballot, or through early voting). This equates to an overall voting rate of 3.12% among all ballots mailed. Breaking down the ballots by party, total returns are comprised of 38.66% Republicans (6.01% above registration), 41.43% …

  Sadly, here’s a NON-news story I run in May of every year.  For the 12th straight year, CEO Magazine ranks California as the worst state in which to do business.  Over 500 CEO’s are polled in the annual survey.  Every year, New York tries to challenge us for the bottom spot, but every year, they fail to dislodge us from …

Scott Lewis digs into the details of a battle for control of the Dem Central Committee between labor strongman Mickey Kasparian and Councilmember David Alvarez, along with the latter’s cause getting an assist from the Lincoln Club’s David Malcolm. It’s a fight worthy of a political wonk’s wet dream. Read it at Voice of San Diego

A common gun control canard is that “guns cause suicides.” They point to our nation’s high gun ownership rate, and our “resulting” high incidence of suicide. Only one problem — the U.S. DOES NOT HAVE A HIGH SUICIDE RATE. Japan, which bans guns, has a suicide rate more than double ours. Indeed, among the 26 OECD “civilized” countries — ALL …

One wonders what San Diego County Democratic Party Chairman Francine Busby thinks about her officially endorsed candidate for San Diego City Council District 5 posting this gem about teachers having sexual relationships with their students? #stayclassy

Yesterday I fielded one of those automated voter polls concerning the San Diego downtown stadium. The recorded voice read the glowing summary of how many things the stadium would do for the city, and said that the cost would be borne (entirely) by a higher hotel tax. None of the many arguments against this boondoggle were presented. Then it asked …