From Nathan Fletcher’s FB page… FLETCHER TO JOIN QUALCOMM AFTER DEPARTURE FROM THE ASSEMBLY Legislative Champion for Innovation To Join San Diego’s Largest Innovative Company Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher announced today that he plans to join Qualcomm as Senior Director of Corporate Development after his term in office ends on December 2nd. “I believe in the power of innovation to improve …
SANDAG or County Supervisors? Please Pick One
What the heck does SANDAG do? Its mission statement, from its website: The 18 cities and county government are SANDAG, the San Diego Association of Governments. This public agency serves as the forum for regional decision-making. SANDAG builds consensus; makes strategic plans; obtains and allocates resources; plans, engineers, and builds public transportation, and provides information on a broad range of …
It is time for real voter reform to ensure honest elections
I, along with what I hope is many others, want honest elections. The appearance of fraud and corruption in our voting process make us appear like just a second rate country. Is it just a “pipedream” to want and to demand reform in the voting process? Why do we as a society, as Americans, allow such deception to occur? We …
Post Election Republican Strategy: Change the Message or Change the Style?
Originally published by Communities @ Washington Times SAN DIEGO, November 8, 2012 — As Republicans lick their wounds over Mitt Romney’s loss, everyone has an opinion about exactly what happened. There are as many Monday morning quarterbacks as stars in the sky. Pundits, politicians, and preachers all over the country, are using their 20/20 hindsight to launch a barrage of …
Veterans Day, Technology and Jobs
By Supervisor Bill Horn The history of Veterans Day dates back to Armistice Day and the end of World War I. To observe what we now know as Veterans Day, President Woodrow Wilson said Americans should “be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory.” Those words …
Did Hueso Bite the Hand That Feeds Him or Kiss It?
City Attorney Jan Goldsmith recently filed a lawsuit against the state of California to try to invalidate a new law requiring the city to provide Social Security coverage for its new employees. A measure authored by Assemblymember Ben Hueso. The real story out of this is that three local labor unions representing white-collar workers, firefighters and lifeguards are joining Goldsmith …
Veteran’s Day – A View of Mount Soledad
Mount Soledad Veteran’s Memorial the morning of November 3, 2012. Happy Veteran’s Day to everyone. I have been taking a break from blogging and taking it easy yesterday and doing research today. As a veteran so it seems a little self serving to thank veterans for their service; so I will say thank you to the Veterans who have served …
Put “paycheck protection” prop on EVERY ballot — EVERY election
http://riderrants.blogspot.com/2012/11/put-paycheck-protection-prop-on-every.html One lesson from the election I HOPE “my side” now understands and should support — we need to CONTINUE to use the proposition system against the labor unions and the left. Hit ’em with propositions they must fight, or else these unions risk dying from the passage of such reform measures. After all, the left doesn’t hesitate to hit …
NBC: Lincoln Club Leader Drops Republican Affiliation
NBC’s Wendy Fry posted a story last night that sheds some light on San Diego’s post-election fallout: David Malcolm , co-chair of the Lincoln Club’s political action committee and one of the organization’s top donors, re-registered as a “decline to state” Friday. Malcolm, a lifelong Republican, said he has been frustrated with partisan rhetoric on both sides of the aisle …
Don’t forget – Prop 30 failed in SD County
While Prop 30 passed handily statewide, it failed equally as handily in San Diego County. It failed 46%-54% in SD County while passing 54%-46% statewide. I did my job opposing Prop 30!! 😉 Just glad I wasn’t campaigning in LA, or SF, or SAC. Note to local SD politicians (especially Filner) — don’t think you can get tax increases easily …
Barack Obama beat Carl DeMaio
I said this Tuesday evening and I’ll say it again today; Barack Obama defeated Carl DeMaio and Bob Filner was along for the ride. I’m not making excuses but it appears that the top of the ticket is going to have a lot of influence on the San Diego Mayoral general election in the future. The North County Times explained …
Thank You
San Diego is an amazing city – and it is time to come together to put the best interests of our city first. All the votes are still being counted, but as the current tally shows us coming up short, I intend to support Bob Filner as he begins transition efforts. Nevertheless I want to assure every San Diegan that …
Election Update
Thank you very much for all of your help with my campaign for Congress. As you may know, I trail my opponent, Scott Peters by 685 votes. There are 475,000 ballots that still need to be counted in the county. This race is far from over. The next release of numbers will take place today, November 8th at 5:00 pm …
But He Got Osama bin Laden
Originally published by Communities @ Washington Times SAN DIEGO, November 5, 2012 — Four years should be enough time for a clear assessment of President Obama’s foreign policy. But don’t expect deep, nuanced discussions from his defenders. Any critique of “the Obama Doctrine” regarding countries such as Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt, Israel and Libya is swiftly silenced with a favorite …
Post-election update of Rider “CA vs. other states” fact sheet
Salient excerpt from my post-election CA fact sheet: Prior to Prop 30 passing, CA already had the second worst state income tax in the nation. Currently our 9.3% tax bracket starts at $48,029 for people filing as individuals. Now our “millionaires’ tax” rate is 13.3% – including capital gains. Increased taxes now start at $250K. CA now has by far the …
November 6: A Devastating Election For Republicans
November 6, 2012 will long be remembered by Republicans nationally as, well, a really bad election day. Governor Mitt Romney’s loss to Barack Obama, when the President was forced to run for re-election on the economy, in a bad economy, smarts. Losing a significant number of U.S. Senate races where polls and pundits had put the GOP in the hunt …
Thoughts and Discussion
Aside from (or in addition to) the facts of last night, as well as that the remaining ballots and the trends between mail ballots and polling place ballots might make at least a couple of area races still in play, please post your thoughts in the comments. In other words, use this space for a post election rehash and/or discussion …
Study: Majority of Votes Cast in SD Mayoral Election Will be Absentee Voters
For The First Time, Absentee Voters Will Dominate San Diego City Mayoral Election SAN DIEGO – In the past three San Diego mayoral elections, the majority of votes in the general election were cast on Election Day. However, a new analysis by the National University System Institute for Policy Research (NUSIPR) projects a historic change this year, as mailed ballots …
FlashReport’s State Ballot Recommendations
From our media partner, FlashReport… The following are FlashReport.org’s recommendations on the eleven measures that will appear on the November ballot measures. These positions were arrived at through discussion by the members of our editorial board. http://www.flashreport.org/blog/2012/11/05/frs-recommendations-on-ballot-measures/
Don’t let Munger buy the 76th state assembly district seat
Guest Commentary by Maureen Guffanti Don’t let California billionaire Charles Munger, Jr. buy the 76th state assembly district seat. Munger likes moderate, or RINO, Republicans, not conservatives. Conservative Sherry Hodges has extraordinary grass roots support, but will billionaire Munger succeed in buying the 76th state assembly district seat for moderate Rocky Chavez? What did Munger donate? And who is Charles …
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