Our new ad released from my camapaign picked up national attention this morning, getting mentions in USA Today and Politico’s Morning Score. The ad illustrates how cockroaches, zombies, and Lindsay Lohan are more popular than Congress, including Bob Filner and Scott Peters. Take a look: -Carl PS: If you haven’t signed my petition to Fix Congress First, there’s never been …
Obamacare, “The Affordable Care Act”, is the issue for 2014
Guest Commentary by Joel Marchese Happy New Year San Diego! I hope you are recovered from 2013 and ready for 2014. This will be a busy year to be sure. We have so much to prepare for to make sure that our families and friends are well provided for, especially with the skyrocketing costs of healthcare associated with the implementation …
Is Kashkari’s Approach a Winner for Cal GOP? UPDATE
UPDATE Neel Kashkari is officially running: It will take a lot of work to turn CA around, but we can do this. And we must. Join us at http://t.co/rXUUjDZQsl pic.twitter.com/9ETneEaXmD — Neel Kashkari (@neelkashkari) January 22, 2014 END UPDATE I was hoping that my 100th post on San Diego Rostra would be more auspicious, but as the old saying goes …
Mortality risk for police and firefighters surprisingsly low — and dropping rapidly
SUMMATION: Updated data from reputable (even pro-labor union) sources show that the mortality risk for police and firefighters is lower than most people think. It’s even significantly lower than I found in previous research just a few years ago — when the police and firefighter mortality figures were both about 16-17 deaths per hundred thousand — vs. the (current) national …
A moratorium on everything
Read below the letter from a constituent to his council members, then consider the ramifications. Linkage fees are already in play. Next, let’s also “throttle back on construction permits” to address the water crisis. In fact, let’s do all we can to ensure owners can’t use their property and businesses can’t expand. That will save water, moreso as businesses locate …
New Kiplinger study rates California “THE worst state to retire in”
The hilariously mislabeled “Golden State” USED to be ranked “only” number two. But no more. The new Kiplinger study is out. California is now ranked as the worst state to retire in. Easily the lowest percentage of people over age 65. We “beat” ’em all – NY, NJ, etc. https://www.fidelity.com/insights/retirement/10-worst-states-to-retire-2014
Stop the Jobs Tax – Final weekend for signatures
http://www.stopthejobstax.org/ If you are registered to vote in the City of San Diego, THIS IS THE FINAL WEEKEND TO SIGN THE PETITION OPPOSING THE JOBS TAX (Linkage Fees) to meet our goal of 34,000 signatures. Former Mayor Jerry Sanders, City Councilmember Scott Sherman and City Councilmember Lorie Zapf will all be volunteering TOMORROW, SATURDAY to collect signatures. Please visit one …
New DeMaio Ad: Fix Congress First
There’s no doubt about it: Congress is completely broken and dysfunctional – and the work of the American people is not getting done. If we want better results from Washington, we have to start by fixing Congress first – and our first web ad of the campaign highlights just that. Take a look: We’re also having a town hall tomorrow …
The “I’m getting out of the Governor’s race” message I’d really like to see.
Slightly edited from the message circulated today… I’m writing to you this morning to let you know that today I’m ending my campaign for Governor of California. This wasn’t an easy decision. California needs new leadership and better solutions than we are seeing coming out of Sacramento — and, unfortunately, I came out of Sacramento. Our opponents’ plans for California …
Oceanside plays Texas to California’s San Diego – Locate here!
January 14, 2014 Open Letter to City of San Diego Business Owners Dear City of San Diego Business Owner, San Diego is working hard to establish its reputation as an anti-business, anti-taxpayer city. Nothing demonstrates this better than the Linkage Fee, also known as the Jobs Tax; a fee that actually attacks your business and the jobs you create. If …
Malkin: “Love knows no color”
Michelle Malkin’s latest, Tamera Mowry is not alone, is very worth the read. Check out this excerpt… “Oriental Auntie-Tom,” “yellow woman doing the white man’s job,” “white man’s puppet,” “Manila whore” and “Subic Bay bar girl” are just a few of the printable slurs I’ve amassed over the past quarter-century. You wouldn’t believe how many Neanderthals still think they can …
Praying in Frisco Schools
Leave in to San Francisco to bring things full circle. Guess what educators discovered to be effective in public schools? David Kirp at the San Francisco Chronicle reports that prayer…I mean…quiet time, is working Twice daily, a gong sounds in the classroom and rowdy adolescents, who normally can’t sit still for 10 seconds, shut their eyes and try to clear …
How to control government salaries
Regarding the recent Steve Greenhut article, Does Bell Toll for Excessive Public Pay… Part of the problem is that many politicians, no matter how conservative they might claim to be, tend to forget how the money for salaries is generated. Another problem, the politicians believe they must pay top dollar to keep talent. Although that mindset must stop, no agency …
Democrats Kill Public Safety Measure to Add Crimes to the List of “Serious Felonies”
SACRAMENTO, CA— On a strict party-line vote, Democrat legislators killed legislation by Assemblyman Brian Jones (R-Santee) today that would add human trafficking, solicitation to commit murder and felony child abuse to the list of “serious crimes” in the Penal Code. Assembly Bill (AB) 1321 was defeated in the Assembly Public Safety Committee. “I wish I could say I’m surprised, but …
“Must read” post — but you’ll be happier if you don’t
If you’re feeling upbeat about tomorrow’s Charger game in Denver, let me bring you back to earth. Regardless of whether or not “we” win or lose, you’ll still be saddled with California’s problems. Can anyone IMAGINE what CA would be like without the good weather? Here’s a new link to my latest and greatest “CA vs. the Other States” fact …
Cities’ Leaders Reject Free Market And Property Rights
Imagine if Governor Brown said “We have to rein in drive through coffee kiosks in California. They pay low wages and we need more upscale coffee boutiques to service high-income people.” Now, imagine that President Obama said, “We necessarily have to raise the price of electricity,” and offered government loan guarantees to alternative energy companies. (Oh wait, he actually did …
If you use only ONE criteria to decide who to vote for . . .
If I had to select a single criteria as the basis for how one should vote, I would rely most on public employee labor union endorsements. Unions do great work researching the candidates, and making their selections. For them, making the right endorsements is perhaps their highest priority. Let the unions do all your legwork for elections. Whoever the unions …
ICYMI: DeMaio on saving Mt. Soledad Memorial
Yesterday, I appeared on the Roger Hedgecock Show to talk more about our efforts to save the Mt. Soledad Cross – and about endorsing Rep. Duncan Hunter’s proposed legislation that could end the dispute over the Mt. Soledad Cross by transferring federal ownership the site to a private non-profit. Take a look at the segment!
ObamaCare
Never in the history of people talking about Things They Know Nothing About have we had so many people saying so much about something of which they know so little. Of course we are talking Obama Care. The most astonishing thing to me and others in the Health Insurance business is that the people behind this plan clearly know little …
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