[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 …
5.7 Million Slate Cards Can’t be Wrong — Conservative Leader Jim Lacy makes voter contact More affordable
It was a good primary for Republicans, and for Jim Lacy, whose “Landslide Communications” ruled the Slate Card roost again. Slates are popular with most candidates and consultants because they are a relatively inexpensive way to reach numerous likely voters. It is not just a business to Jim Lacy, however, a committed philosophical conservative who served in the Reagan Adminsitration, was …
City Leaders Lay Out Prop B Pension Reform Implementation Plan
“San Diegans expect results. We must implement Prop B without delay.” That was the message City leaders delivered today following the landslide approval of Proposition B at the ballot box Tuesday. More than 66 percent of voters endorsed the measure, otherwise known as Comprehensive Pension Reform, to eliminate traditional pensions for new employees and replace them with a 401(k)-style plan, similar …
Should Arlie Ricasa Return to Work?
Yesterday, the U-T broke the news about Arlie Ricasa receiving clearance to return to her 6-figure salaried position at Southwestern College. Ricasa, a boardmember of the Sweetwater Union High School District, has plead not guilty to eight felony corruption charges. Do you think Ricasa should return to work? Vote in the U-T’s online poll and let your comments be heard!
Where is GWEN?
Rostrafarians were entertained/vexed in recent weeks by longtime Gadfly “Gwen”. She predicted, with supreme confidence, that we’d all get our come-uppance June 5th as SD Liberal candidates rolled to victory after victory. She pitied our naive hopes. But since Election Day, she has gone Radio Silent. What happened, Gwen?
The Left Blames Messaging, Money,
. . . anyone but themselves. I’m not going to waste time searching out all of the left wing excuses for yesterday’s taxpayer victories in Wisconsin, San Diego and San Jose. The tried and true playbook will be to turn to the courts to defeat the will of the voters in the California elections and to blame money and a …
Bullies from Sacramento Are Having a BAD Morning…. Prop A WINS BIG!
by Jim Ryan, Executive Vice President, Associated General Contractors of America, San Diego Chapter I assume at least a few of our Monday Morning Quarterback readers have woken up in the morning after drinking too much cheap red wine. You know the feeling…..the headache…the bad taste in your mouth….. trying to recollect exactly what happened last night….and then trying to …
June 2012 Primary: N. County Perspective on Supe D-3
The District 3 County Supervisor’s race race looked early on like a battle between Steve Danon, the challenger, and Pam Slater-Price, the 20 year incumbent. After Danon racked up a serious list of endorsements and accumulated a respectable war chest, indicating he was serious about “bringing it,” the incumbent folded her tent, said “no mas,” and withdrew from the re-election …
Three Biggest Upsets — Mary England (AD 79), Mark Powell (SD Schools), Gary Kreep (Judge) —- These Inspiring underdogs confirm Democracy still works in 2012
Here are my Nominees for Biggest Upsets in the June 2012 San Diego primary. Readers are invited to add more names or causes with your comments…. (1) Mark Powell SD City Schools, Seat A. A late entrant who proved that a solid, fact-based message is what voters hunger for. Powell (R) leads incumbent John Evans (D) 9,961 votes to 9,915. A citywide runoff …
Liberals hype Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election — until they realize that they are losers
Fun new ad — showing how critically important the Democrats claimed the Wisconsin recall election was — until they realized that they were going to lose. Suddenly the recall election outcome became no big deal. Michael Moore is one of the stars — inadvertently demonstrating that occasionally he CAN be funny. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/flashback-scathing-new-ad-uses-maddow-and-michael-moore-to-remind-how-important-recall-election-was/
Election Hangover? A Polling Postmortem Cures What Ails Ya’
Hungover? Well, depending on your horse(s), you were either drinking victory punch (Go Walker!) or suicide smoothies well into the night. I joined in the Golden Hall festivities via the scrappy San Diego CityBeat live election night blog hosted by our very own San Diego Rostra and our lefty friends at OBRag. If you didn’t follow along with our 100 …
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