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With his amazing failure to make the San Diego mayoral runoff, Nathan Fletcher is down.  But not out.  No way!  Fletcher has demonstrated his fealty to the Democrat Party — enough that they WILL find an office for him in a suitable district.  Think not?  Reread his STUNNING labor union questionnaire — seven pages of detailed questions with Nathan answering …

So first, Nate was the only one in his family who went to college. Then it turned out his own mother went to the very same school Nate did. Nate’s response was that she only went for one semester, so if you asked her, she’d say she didn’t go to college. Except on her Facebook page, she does, in fact, …

Government will always thirst for more money to feed its spending addiction. Months after I led a coalition to defeat the Prop D Sales Tax, city bureaucrats cooked up another way to get our money: THE CAT TAX. We can fight and win against big government when make our case on over-reaches like the Cat Tax. There are other bad …

Saturday (26 October, 2013) I received not one, not two, but three big, glossy, expensive mailers for the upcoming San Diego mayoral election. All three were touting Nathan Fletcher for the position. [NOTE:  Since I published this piece, one person said they got 4 Fletcher mailers that day, but the record goes to a friend who got FIVE.] I was …

The Chargers (via the media that usually profit from having professional sports teams in town) are blitzing San Diego, trying to get a new stadium largely at taxpayer expense. Naturally I oppose such a subsidy for millionaires (players) and billionaires (owners). There are many arguments against such subsidies, and I’ve voiced them over the years.  For instance, we taxpayers foot …

I came across the 2002 estimated cost of the [San Diego] “Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project” — the so-called light rail line from Old Town to points north. It was $30 million per mile. http://www.lightrail.com/projects.htm#San_Diego Doubtless because of “galloping inflation” (geezers will recall that term — used by President Richard Nixon to describe the 4.7% inflation in the early 70’s that …

The new San Diego central library is opening downtown with great fanfare.  It’s a monument to learning and knowledge. Well, that’s SUPPOSED to be what it represents.  But in reality, this expensive new already-obsolete building is a monument to an era that is ending — a structure that in a few years will have little more utility value than a …

I’ve been advocating for 2 man fire/emergency response teams since the tragic 2003 San Diego “Cedar” brush fire, when I first became interested in firefighting operational reforms. It’s simple — two 2-man teams properly stationed apart in one fire station’s “district” = shorter response times than one 4-man team. Lives are saved.  Of that, there can be no doubt – and …

NOTE: This article is an expanded version of a comment I made here earlier.  Short answer to the question above — probably legal, BUT . . . . Turns out that the Qualcomm job that Nathan Fletcher landed after his run for mayor in 2012 reportedly pays an absurdly high amount — $400,000 a year. That would provide a comfortable …

Just for fun, here’s the link to one of my PREVIOUS posts on SDRostra — detailing Bob Filner’s extensive connections with and sympathy for socialists and communists.  The reader comments afterwards were fun, especially from Rolland with CityBeat (who announced that this was a good time for him to put his fingers in his ears so he couldn’t hear me …

I’m spending the weekend with my family weighing an important decision. No decision made yet!

I was reminded this morning of an unsettling (to put it mildly!) unemployment figure that crossed my desk early last month from a reputable source.  This report slipped between the digital cracks in my computer, but now I’m getting it out there. Here’s a salient excerpt summarizing this news, from a Forbes article: “Over the last six months, of the …

I added this new item to my always-upbeat “CA vs. the Other States” fact sheet. www.TinyURL.com/CA-vs-other-states “California has the 2nd highest total annual cost of owning a car — $3,966. That’s $765 higher than national average.” http://www.bankrate.com/finance/auto/car-ownership-costs-by-state.aspx

The UT ran an article about Nathan Fletcher’s bipartisan support.  In the article, they cite only one Republican supporter, Duane Roth.  Yes, the recently deceased Duane Roth.

The Great San Diego Fast Food Strike is now done.  Check the results of this much-ballyhooed event, as breathlessly reported by the U-T. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/aug/29/fastfood-mcdonalds-wendys-burgers-cheese-jobs/ In a city of 1.3+ million people, there was ONE well-orchestrated “picketing” protest. But few fast food workers were present in the truly pathetic 100 person San Diego turnout.  Indeed, a “pull back” shot would have …

Four years ago California software entrepreneur Don Fournes moved his small San Francisco business to Texas. He saw his revenues explode 460% since then and now employs 70 people in Texas. Doubtless Jerry Brown will blame it all on Prop 13. Or the Koch brothers. Or some vast right wing conspiracy.  Not to mention George Bush II. Whatever, dude. ========== …

The average impact fee in California for single-family residence in 2012 was $31,100 per unit, nearly 90 percent higher than the next most expensive state and 265 percent higher [that’s more than TRIPLE] than the norm among jurisdictions that levy such fees, which typically pay for capital improvements, like water and wastewater facilities, required by a new development. Many states …

In San Diego, the story is that everyone called for Mayor Filner to resign — except the labor unions who paid big bucks to put “their man” in office. But apparently there’s one other group that refused to call for his resignation — a “nonpartisan,” supposedly politically unbiased outfit — the San Diego League of Women Voters! I’m getting several …

Even for former pro-life, pro-gun conservative Republican Nathan Fletcher and his sycophant supporters, the events of the last few weeks are jaw-dropping. First, in the wake of the tragic passing of Fletcher-booster and biotech leader Duane Roth, Christine Forrester sent an email in the name of the “Draft Nathan Fletcher” “movement” (no doubt organized by Nathan and/or his wife Mindy), …