From Politico… An off-season mayor’s race in America’s eighth-largest city has become an unexpected magnet for national political groups, as labor unions and Democrats scramble to keep San Diego government in liberal hands and Republicans seek to capture their first big-city mayoral election win in half a decade. The Tuesday special election in San Diego, triggered by the resignation of …
Farrah Douglas resigns from Carlsbad City Council
February 5, 2014 Mayor Matt Hall City of Carlsbad 1200 Carlsbad Village Drive Carlsbad, CA 92008 Dear Mayor Hall, It is with great sadness and a deep sense of commitment to the people of Carlsbad that I am writing to inform you of my resignation from my position as City Council member for the City of Carlsbad, effective Friday the …
Teachers Union Caught Cheating In Its Support For David Alvarez
Spotted about Noon today, on the Jimmy Durante Blvd fence and the Via de la Valle fence of the San Diego County Fairgrounds. The American Federation of Teachers Guild Local 1931 funded and hung two huge “Alvarez for Mayor” signs along the property owned by the taxpayers of California, in the far northwestern part of San Diego today. That property …
Assemblyman Jones Addresses Governor Brown’s Cap & Trade Fund Shift Proposal
SACRAMENTO – Amidst growing backlash for California’s High-Speed Rail program, Governor Brown has suggested using Cap & Trade funds to cover the failing project. Assemblyman Jones says, “Using money from the ‘cap and trade’ program that has taken millions from California companies to fund high-speed rail, are you kidding me? We’re dumping money into a high-speed rail plan that has …
Kashkari: Wrong on taxes and the role of government.
Late to the party, Republican Gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari laid out his plan to the be the “tax collector for the welfare State”. From The Sacramento Bee: When gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari told conservative talk-radio listeners in Los Angeles last week that he would not immediately move to lower taxes on the wealthiest Californians, he suggested his campaign for governor …
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Release: Scott Peters Downgraded Again
Rothenberg Changes CA-52 Race From “Tilt Democrat” to “Pure Toss Up” San Diego – For the second time in recent months, Scott Peters’ chances of reelection have been downgraded – this time to “pure toss-up” – by Rothenberg Political Report, showing continued momentum for DeMaio in his race to unseat Scott Peters. The analysis states Peters “is extremely vulnerable” – and …
The California University Jewish and Asian Student Admission Quota Act
This Associated Press “story” about the California bill to overturn Prop 209 (the anti-“affirmative action” prop passed by the voters in 1996) is essentially the “cut and paste” version of the dishonest press release put out by proponents. The AP is no longer a press organization — it’s become largely a government “information” distribution channel. No fact checking allowed — …
Conviction, Compromise, and Collapse of the GOP
A Response by Founding Father In a recent SD Rostra blog comment, I asked Rostra regular, Brian Brady, to explain his apparent dichotomy as to how he could profess a Sanctity of Life moral position and yet support an Abortion candidate for the GOP nomination, in the 52nd Congressional District race in particular. His response to that inquiry is linked …
Is more storage the key to our water problems? What’s your solution?
Dan Walters, in December: More storage may be California’s most important water issue Today’s UT San Diego: BROWN IMPLORES SOCAL TO SAVE MORE WATER AS CRISIS ESCALATES Water is a complicated issue. Instead of throwing money at the problem, real, long term solutions have to be developed and actually followed. For example, we all like food of course, but agricultural …
#ThrowbackThursday
Once a month I will be highlighting my version of Throwback Thursday: California’s policies of the past, be it for better or worse. This week, let’s take a look at a bill signed by Governor Brown last year that bans all lead ammunition in California. This will place a de facto ban on hunting, because the federal government is on …
DeMaio Op-Ed: Fixing Congress First
This op-ed appears on page A18 in this week’s Poway News Chieftan Tired of members of Congress passing laws for us to live under, but exempting themselves? Now more than ever before, we need a Congress that works for us — not the other way around. The double standards and special privileges in Washington have to end. If we want …
Coast News publisher sued over alleged campaign violations
Dang, Karma is a funny thing sometimes… By Ken Stone for the Seaside Courier Community Newspaper. The state’s election watchdog is suing the publisher of The Coast News in Encinitas over what it calls campaign-spending violations. The Fair Political Practices Commission, in a suit filed Jan. 23 in Vista Superior Court, seeks at least $30,000 in civil penalties against publisher …
Being Pro-Life and Voting to Endorse Pro-Choice Candidates
Regular Rostra commenter “Founding Father” asked me: Your insight and perspective as one who comes from a culture of Life first, while promoting and supporting a Pro-Abortion candidate through the RPSDC (Republican Party of San Diego County) endorsement of said candidate, illuminates what may be the thought process and definitive shift of a core-leadership team within the SDC GOP and …
Jobs Tax and Tourism
From T.J. Zane, president & CEO of the Lincoln Club of San Diego County… (click for a larger image) By now, you may have read or heard reports that the San Diego County Taxpayers Association and the JOBS Coalition submitted over 53,000 signatures to the City Clerk Wednesday as part of the referendum effort to Stop the Jobs Tax in …
Government Gangsterism in San Diego
The news of indictments involving associates of Mexican businessman Susumo Azano makes for entertaining reading. There is a trail of illegal campaign donations to various mayoral candidates funneled through a straw-donor and a social media guru. The U-T is all over the story, with the best overall description of the case published in Sunday’s paper. I also want to give …
The fake San Diego (and CA) jobs recovery
San Diego’s economy is rolling along — as county unemployment percentage improves dramatically! Well, actually — not. Here’s the story by the numbers: The San Diego County unemployment percentage PLUMMETED in December. It dropped from (the revised) 6.9% unemployed in November to December’s 6.4% — a full half percent drop in only one month!!! Yea. Only 600 net new jobs …
El Cajon Sets the Record Straight on Pension Reform
Recently the SDUT published an article stating that El Cajon had not enacted pension reform. This article in today’s UT sets the record straight. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jan/25/tp-el-cajon-has-moved-on-pension-reform/
Remembering Roe 2014
Guest Commentary by Sylvia Sullivan 55 million babies have died in the U.S. since the infamous Supreme Court Roe v Wade ruling 41 years ago this month. It is beyond a national tragedy. It is a choice of descent into barbarism. Because of the ghastly numbers of dead babies, it may be difficult to see that the pro-choice side is …
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