San Diego – Today, Congressional candidate Carl DeMaio calls for VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign, citing the Secretary’s inability to maintain an environment in which our nation’s veterans can have confidence in the health care the VA provides. DeMaio’s statement follows: “It’s evident that Secretary Shinseki does not possess the ability to lead the VA in such a way …
Threats, Bullying, and Money Poisoning Race for County Board
Press Release County Board of Education Campaign going the way of Sweetwater? Threats, Bullying, and Money Poisoning Race for County Board The San Diego County Board of Education campaign in North County’s Fifth District took an unfortunate and nasty turn recently with threats of mudslinging and special interest money from the American Federation of Teachers. “This Union, which represents no …
Separate But Equal: Rocky Chavez and Carl DeMaio Invited to Sit In The Back of the Identity Politics Bus
I don’t care much for personal identity politics because it treats people like groups rather than individuals. I understand the desire to organize around ideas or principles but organizing because of skin tone, ethnicity, or sexual orientation never quite made sense to me. Having stated that, as long as those groups don’t initiate force (like ethnic heritage groups), its really …
More Zapf Mail: Boot on Pension Reform
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DeMaio Releases Infrastructure Plan & Receives Key Endorsements
San Diego – Carl DeMaio today accepted the endorsements of San Diego’s two leading infrastructure groups – the Associated General Contractors and the Associated Builders and Contractors. DeMaio marked the occasion by releasing his Infrastructure Plan to rebuild our roads, highways, bridges, and other transportation assets. “Politicians like Scott Peters have neglected our infrastructure – spending our precious money instead …
Some Unsolicited Advice for Carl DeMaio
Guest Response by Karen Grube This is in response to Michael Schwartz’s post, Some Unsolicited Advice for Kirk Jorgensen: 1. On the day after the election, graciously accept defeat and endorse Kirk Jorgensen, then tell the Republican Party of San Diego to do the same. 2. Donate time and money to Kirk’s campaign. Not token, meaningless stuff. I mean real …
Obamacare / Covered California News Update
This just in from my inbox: The closed “open enrollment” period is cracked open for some: Covered California Enrollment Opportunity for COBRA & Cal-COBRA Participants Covered California, the California state health insurance exchange marketplace established as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has launched a limited, special enrollment period for people who have COBRA or Cal-COBRA health insurance and …
Unsolicited advice for Kirk Jorgensen
Guest Commentary by Michael Schwartz I like Kirk. I haven’t said a bad word about him and I am a big supporter of Carl DeMaio. I’ve only talked to Kirk three or four times and one of those conversations was just asking if the movie “Spies Like Us” was a realistic representation of CIA work. (He claims it is not.) …
DeMaio Named to WaPo’s Top 40 Under 40 List
ICYMI: Carl DeMaio was just named to Washington Post’s 40 Under 40, a list of “the top 40 political rising stars who are under 40 years old.”
Jon Coupal to address current attacks on Prop 13 as part of San Diego County Taxpayers Association breakfast panel
From Jon Coupal… As taxpayers, it is critical that we do everything we can to maintain the protections of Proposition 13. Some of our state legislators are working hard to change the law and implement a “split roll” tax system that would increase the frequency of value reassessment on commercial properties. I know I do not have to tell you …
Jorgensen supporter uses fires to bash DeMaio for position that Jorgensen himself supports
Excuse me. I just wanted to suggest a more accurate headline for the post linked below: http://sdrostra.com/?p=38226
Zapf Mail: Boot backers want to weaken Prop 13
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Taxation without representation – a reality for 3 million Californians
From the SacBee… ‘Taxation without representation is tyranny.” As the American Revolution gained strength, this phrase was the rallying cry of the colonists. These revolutionaries believed that because they were not directly represented in British Parliament, any laws that body passed taxing colonists were illegal. More than 230 years later, 3 million Californians currently pay taxes without any direct representation …
Unions Fund Libertarian
. . . Campaign Flyer. Who’d a thunk it? This flyer showed up at my house. Unions are getting involved in the San Diego City Council District 2 race and spending money to help the Libertarian candidate, Mark Schwartz. Let’s be clear, Schwartz has no chance of being elected. If you read the fine print at the bottom, you will …
Advice from the campaign trail: failure is an opportunity
Anyone running for elected office wants to win. Pretty darn basic: the person who earns the highest number of votes from constituents gets the job. There is a winner and by default, a loser. A failure. Typically Type A, hard charging, ambitious political candidates and their equally hard-charging, ambitious political campaign managers shirk from failure. Failure is not an option, …
My Observations on San Diego Firefighters
Guest Commentary by Mary Moran Yes, everyone loves and appreciates firefighters when they are saving lives and homes. These amazing men place their lives on the line almost everyday. They are hard working! On a fire, often their shifts are 24 hours (with a few hours break for food and sleep) for up to 14 days straight. That’s extremely challenging …
Nomination for worst mailer of the season…
…or maybe any season. It’s 22 x 22, all in the same font. When you have money to spend but poor advice this is what happens. (click for a larger, even more painful view)
Pratt and Whitney quitting San Diego for other states — 530 high paying jobs lost
This week the San Diego media is focused on ONE story — the dozen or more brush fires that have popped up around the county, thanks to EXTREMELY dry conditions, high winds (Santa Ana) and likely arson. If this fire story were not happening, perhaps we’d all know more about ANOTHER tragedy that hit San Diego this week: Defense contractor …
SD Tax Fighters June, 2014 CA State and San Diego Region Recommendations
San Diego Tax Fighters June, 2014 California State and San Diego Region Recommendations San Diego Tax Fighters is primarily interested in fiscal issues. Thus we have a natural tendency to pick Republicans over Democrats – especially since no third party candidates will be on the November ballot (thanks to the “top two” bogus reform). Some candidates we endorse by name …
No on Prop 41: The State of California Can’t Be Trusted
Proposition 41 seeks to address the problem of homlessness among veterans and that is a noble pursuit. It authorizes $600 million of already approved (but unissued) housing bonds to be issued, with the proceeds to be repurposed for the construction of multi-family housing units for low-income and homeless veterans and their families. It is endorsed by by both political parties, …
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