RIDER NOTE: Here’s a quality refutation of two columns that were written by liberal apologists — deniers who assert that the California economy is doing just fine (sound familiar?). ======================= http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2012/06/no-its-deniers-are-wrong/ No, It’s the Deniers who Are Wrong By Bill Watkins Executive Director of the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting at California Lutheran University Tuesday, June 19th, 2012 Crossposted …
Largest Trade Association in San Diego to Endorse DeMaio at News Conference
San Diego Association of REALTORS® endorsement arrives on the heels of DeMaio’s first-place finish in the June Primary Election and five months before the November General Election MEDIA ADVISORY Tuesday, June 19 2012 Contact: Tony Manolatos, 619.549.0137 What: San Diego Association of REALTORS® (SDAR) to endorse Councilmember Carl DeMaio for San Diego Mayor When: Wednesday, …
Assemblyman Brian Jones Releases Another Edition of ‘Are You Kidding Me?’
SACRAMENTO – Assemblyman Brian Jones, R-Santee, releases his second broadcast commentary in the “Are You Kidding Me?” series. ]Assemblyman Jones points out how Californians were not included in the secret budget process. The “Are You Kidding Me?” series consist of brief radio and television recordings on current state issues. http://arc.asm.ca.gov/member/77/?p=media&sid=431&id=12330
UPDATED: All eyes on City Council District 7 in San Diego
Tuesday, June 19 — After yesterday’s update from the Registrar… SCOTT SHERMAN 15542 50.16% MAT KOSTRINSKY 12447 40.17% RIK HAUPTFELD 1791 5.78% NATHAN E. JOHNSON 1207 3.90% As of yesterday morning, 112 ballots were left to count. The race was over a week ago, per the below, but this confirms the current numbers. Tuesday, June 12 — after 5 …
Reviewing Precinct Returns from the San Diego Mayoral Election
The race to become mayor of the City of San Diego has narrowed down to two finalists. In this policy brief the National University System Institute for Policy Research (NUSIPR) analyzed newly released electoral data from the San Diego County Registrar of Voters’ office using GIS software. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • The June mayoral primary was a partisan election. Interstate …
Marty Block Needs to Lead on Statewide Pension Reform
Guest Commentary by George Plescia The budget deadline is today. And yet this morning’s Sacramento Bee headline says it all, “California lawmakers race to pass a budget with little time to read it.” So much for transparency. Nobody would want to read exactly how the state proposes to spend $91 billion dollars before they vote on it. All this so …
The Graying of Governor Brown
This op-ed originally appeared in the Flashreport We are witnessing the “Graying” of Governor Brown. While Republicans started the successful recall effort of Gray Davis, it was Democrats that made the recall possible. Pressure from state government unions, environmental lobbies and other left-leaning and business interests had pushed an agenda destined to fail. The dot-com bust, budget deficits, inability to …
Jim Sills, RIP
It is with great sadness we let you know of the recent passing of longtime Republican political consultant and fellow Rostrafarian Jim Sills. His sudden death, apparently from heart failure, is a shock to all of us. There is no best way to do this, but in keeping with the spirit of a free-wheeling blog — the kind of forum …
“Are You Kidding Me?”
SACRAMENTO – Assemblyman Brian Jones, R-Santee, kicks off the release of insightful commentaries this week entitled, “Are You Kidding Me?” Assemblyman Jones says “out loud” what many Californians are thinking about the Legislature in these brief, eye-opening segments. The commentaries provide common sense thinking about current problems and controversial issues facing California. “I find myself shaking my head at the …
CA Worker’s Comp Cost Soars 45.3% in Six Months
JUNE 12, 2012 7:27PM CA Worker’s Comp Cost Soars 45.3% in Six Months RIDER COMMENT: California state government controls Workers Comp rate increases to contain costs. And how’s that working out for ya, eh? Since January of this year, rate inceases of 45.3% have been approved. While accusing fingers will be pointed in different directions, the bottom line is that …
Tweets don’t equal votes
Guest Commentary by Hugh Akston Now that the high of the election has somewhat faded, I thought it would be as good a time as any to review why some were shocked, SHOCKED by the results of the Mayor’s race. While voters and the general public see the speeches, debates, TV interviews and the commercials; and some in the “bubble” …
California unemployment fund is broke — and getting “broker” every day
California is broke. We all know that. But one component that deserves at least passing notice is the state unemployment fund. Surprise! It’s broke. So broke that it’s borrowed federal funds to keep paying people not to work. Now CA has to charge CA employers a payroll surcharge to pay the money back. It’s not a huge tax per employee, …
Progress Cordoba – The Man behind the Woman
A Tribute by Penny Harrington We often hear the phrase “the woman behind the man” representing the wife whose love and support isn’t publicly known, but who has helped make her more public husband who he is. Sometimes, however, it’s a case of the man behind the woman, and such is the case with Progress Cordoba. Folks active in local …
Faulconer: “People in San Diego were hungry for change”
San Diego’s vote on Proposition B is reverberating across California and the country, creating national headlines. Kevin Faulconer, co-author of the Comprehensive Pension Reform citizens initiative, took to the airwaves to talk about the overwhelming approval of the measure, and how San Diego is setting a blueprint for reform for local governments throughout the nation. Watch the clip here.
Taxpayer resistance to local California school bonds grows
The League of California Cities tracked voting outcomes of the California local tax and bond measures. The brief SACRAMENTO BEE story and a direct link to the League’s results are here: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/06/nearly-two-thirds-of-local-tax-and-bond-measures-pass.html I found one aspect of the story a pleasant suprise. It’s refreshing that only 22 of the 34 school bond measures passed — 64.7%. Since the bar for …
The Oracle Speaks
[captionpix imgsrc=”http://sdrostra.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/john-tj.jpg” captiontext=”John Nienstedt, President of Competitive Edge, and T.J. Zane, President & CEO of The Lincoln Club of San Diego County, at the Lincoln Club’s Election Night Reception. Photo by: Melissa Jacobs”] Politics & Media Mashup I worked on a campaign with local pollster John Nienstedt a couple years ago and after he explained in a group email – a …
A challenge to GOP legislators on franking privilege
SD Rostra Editorial Read the UT San Diego editorial on state legislators’ abuse of the franking privilege… Abuse of franked mail: Enough is enough Tell you what. The first Republican legislator from San Diego — or from any part of the state for that matter — that let’s Rostra know he or she will author or co-author a substantive reform measure …
DeMaio to San Diegans: Let’s Unite for Reform
We did it!! I’m so pleased by the outcome of Tuesday’s election – and hope you are too! We passed Props A and B – to bring transparency to City Hall and to implement my pension reform initiative. We elected two more reformers to the San Diego City Council. And I’m pleased that we won a plurality of votes in …
Thanks to those who helped pass Prop D
I am using this forum to thank all of the people who helped us achieve the goal of becoming a Charter City, with the passage of Prop D. Specifically; I want to acknowledge John Hoy, John Gibson, Greg Brown, Darrin Mroz, and the Lincoln Club who did much of the heavy much of the heavy lifting in this campaign. Passing …
Taxpayer subsidized car battery companies failing
RIDER COMMENT: Obama’s environmental chrony capitalism continues to shine as a stirling example of central planning run amok. Elementary economics is a total mystery to our President. In this case, Obama funded a bunch of electric car battery companies with absolutely no consideration of electric car DEMAND. Hint: there ain’t none. Well not much. What demand exists is FAR, FAR …
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