The City of San Diego is moving down a path which could once AGAIN result in increased water rates for San Diego’s working families. I have adamantly opposed water rate increases since taking office and will continue to fight against further rate hikes in the future.
The water department is beginning to move forward on a cost-of-service study which will guide water department policy for years. The last study released in 2006 resulted in water rates rising 65 percent.
At the same time, the water department has failed to give a detailed report that accounts for existing funds and how ratepayer money has been spent. As a result, I have sent a memo requesting an analysis to be presented to the City Council to explain where the money has gone since 2006.
It is important to hold city leaders accountable and ensure that every taxpayer dollar is being spent wisely and efficiently before going back to struggling families for more of their hard-earned money.
I hope you will join me in demanding accountability.
For additional information, please read the following story by KPBS: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/feb/10/san-diego-considers-raising-water-rates-again/
To view my memo please visit: www.sandiego.gov/cd5
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Carl, thanks for stepping up and fighting for the taxpayers. Remember, these are the same wingnuts who tried to give themselves a 25% raise a few years ago. To make matters worse, they rolled out an on-line water payment system that didn’t work and caused a lot of misery over many months. If this happened in private industry, they would have been fired for incompetence. But not in the Water Department, they probably patted themselves on the back and gave themselves bonuses.
Wonder how much water this revelation holds, considering DeMaio’s problems with his credibility. He has a propensity for poking various City services, personnel, etc in the eye without competent research to back it up.
Is this just another case of the “energizer bunny” striking again?
DeMaio has problems with credibility? He was elected to the City
Council with 66% of the vote in 2008. Virtually every poll shows
him now in 1st place for San Diego Mayor. Looks pretty credible.
Carl is not “credible” with city employees — such is the plight of their devil incarnate.
Remember the city employee/labor union mantra concerning this mayoral race — A-B-C-D — Any BUT Carl DeMaio.
Actually, their REAL problem is that Carl is TOO credible. WAY too credible.
Feel their fear.
CHICK HEARN: “Gwendolyn yo-yo up and down with the
dribble at the top of the key. Ball tipped away by
Sills! Outlet pass to Richard Rider. SLAM DUNK.”
Credibility…oh yes DeMaio does have a problem.
Witness the most recent PERB ruling. The CPR measure will most likely now be off the June ballot.
Related to this is the fact that now twice in a row, DeMaio has fumbled the high-profile ballot measure. Remember his failed signature gathering in 2012 when too few signatures were found to be valid registered voters in City of San Diego (VOSD http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/survival/article_370ffc24-8320-11df-8ae5-001cc4c03286.html).
Now the PERB’s ruling recently came down in favor of a complaint by SDMEU, saying that Mayor Sanders broke state labor laws in his effort with DeMaio to compose and promote the DeMaio pension initiative.
The complaint filed by the Municipal Employees Association alleged that Sanders created the so-called citizens initiative as a “sham device” to avoid the city’s obligations to meet-and-confer with unions over significant changes to the pension system.
“As the city’s CEO and chief labor negotiator, this mayor has used his city-paid time, resources, power, prestige, visibility and ‘good offices’ to inspire, write, negotiate, endorse and sponsor the proposed citizens initiative which he has described as his legacy as mayor,” the complaint said. https://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/feb/13/state-board-will-sue-block-401k-initiative/
Obviously, this is a big deal for DeMaio’s mayoral election plans. The energizer bunny zigged when he should have zagged…and taken the Mayor with him.
Marion Barry was elected Mayor of Washington D.C. repeatedly by wider margins than DeMaio was elected to a City Council seat. Barry was even elected after being convicted of a felony.
Sorry, Jim; popular support does not equal credibility.
Alger has a point. If you were to highlight dissenting positions in the past where his point of view was vindicated, you would demonstrate credibility.
But popular support?
That would make Diane Feinstein the most “credible” elected official in California…
This discussion raises a good point, such as how much the level of credibility is in the eye of the beholder. I’m not sure Marion Barry is a good example in this context. Could it be the citizens of DC found Mr. Barry very credible, regardless of our view of the reality? Could it be they viewed him as one of THEM? (Read anything you want into that last question, but jes’ askin’.)
This is a wonderful example of how Liberals become Astronauts,
shifting a conversation to someone who is 3,000 miles, and 20
years, away.
Losing the argument on Carl DeMaio? [Blink] Switch to Marion
Barry!
The purpose of an election is to find out who people BELIEVE.
Believe is the Latin root word for “Credible”. His neighbors
in D5, and lots of others citywide, believe in Carl DeMaio.
Jim,
I am not sure what your deinition of “lots” is, but the latest polls show about 25% of the voters City-wide are supporting DeMaio.
More to the point and closer to home… By your definition, I guess you would find Bob Filner, Susan Davis, Toni Atkins, Chris Kehoe, Ben Hueso, Todd Gloria, Richard Barrera, Sheila Jackson and Pearl Quinones all “credible” since each have won elections with more than 66% of the vote. Thank you for clarifying.
“As the city’s CEO and chief labor negotiator, this mayor has used his city-paid time, resources, power, prestige, visibility and ‘good offices’ to inspire, write, negotiate, endorse and sponsor the proposed citizens initiative which he has described as his legacy as mayor,” the complaint said. https://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/feb/13/state-board-will-sue-block-401k-initiative/
Question:
Can an elected official work on an initiative to be voted on the Residents of San Diego….doing so while sitting in his Mayoral Office, who’s salary is paid by the same Residents who might not agree with his point of view? I usually think of initiatives being started by citizens and not elected officials.
The Mayor has already shown he can fly fast and free in spite of what his legal advisors tell him i.e. the Snapdragon flap. Perhaps, this is another case of his flying fast and free.