If you checked Twitter this morning you would have noticed Carl DeMaio is courting Democrats and Nathan Fletcher is pitching conservatives.
DeMaio tweeted a link to an upcoming “Democrats for DeMaio” fundraiser in Hillcrest. Fletcher’s campaign tweeted he would be releasing a plan today that would ostensibly strengthen the pension reform initiative DeMaio co-authored with Mayor Jerry Sanders and Councilman Kevin Faulconer.
This, of course, comes on the heels of Saturday’s GOP endorsement of DeMaio, something the campaigns for Fletcher and Bonnie Dumanis worked to avoid. Was DeMaio a lock? Absolutely not. But one of two outcomes was going to surface — DeMaio was going to win the endorsement or nobody was. Candidates need a two-thirds vote for a Republican Central Committee endorsement.
The U-T San Diego covered the endorsement and so did NBC San Diego; FlashReport ran a post about it this morning; Rostra broke the news Saturday morning and we also served as hosts last week to the battle between Fletcher and DeMaio that was summed up in Tom Blair’s column, in Voice of San Diego and on NBC.
Stay tuned!