Guest Commentary by Brian Brady Some nostalgia for San Diego Republicans. The message hasn’t changed; person-to-person contact wins elections. Make some time this afternoon to help make history in San Diego today. (schedule below) 4 PM: Targeted Precincts Get-Out-The-Vote Operation Republican Party Satellite Office 3915 Murphy Canyon Road, San Diego, 92123 ALL DAY Until 8 PM: Go To Any Office …
Bad and Worse: Planned Parenthood Endorses Obama
From the column Forbidden Table Talk, Communities At Washington Times SAN DIEGO, May 31, 2012 — Hold on to your seats: Planned Parenthood has decided to support Barack Obama for President in November. What a surprise! The nation is absolutely stunned. Who could have seen this one coming? According to the Los Angeles Times, “the Planned Parenthood Action Fund launched a …
The Great Rostra/FlashReport San Diego Primary Election Contest
(Originally posted a couple of weeks ago.) It’s that time. Make your picks. Pick your seats. Will your picks be seated? The rules: Read the questions closely. No tricks, just read the durn questions. Send guesses to info@sdrostra.com ONLY. The Rostra peeps are assisting on this, so don’t send to my email. Do NOT post your answers here (you know …
New poll on HSR — voters would kill it if again on ballot
New poll: If another California HSR vote were held today, 59% would vote against it. With 8% undecided, it probably would end up going down by a 2-1 majority. http://www.cssrc.us/web/4/news.aspx?id=12294&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Pre-Election Outlook for Team Taxpayer
I played high school football and tonight feels like Thursday night before an important Friday game, not the big game, but an important one we need to win. Team taxpayer is favored to win two important contests tomorrow, the Wisconsin governor’s recall and Proposition B in San Diego. The U-T is reporting that Proponents of Proposition B have spent $1.8 …
Strong Closer — GOP ballots now 8.5% ahead of Registration — and +12,879 vs. Democrats among Mail Voters
Sunday, June 3 countywide data reveals mail ballots now trend 43.7% GOP, outperforming the 35.2% of registration by 8.5%. Democrats are also ahead, but by only 3.0% (38.3 vs. 35.3%). Net result is the +12,879 overall GOP mail ballot lead shown in the chart. When Rostra began following this on May 21, the Rep. lead was just 2 points (41-39). Now …
Texts From Mayoral Candidates – Part V
We texted the San Diego mayoral candidates and asked them, “What movie and song best describes your campaign?” Here are their replies: That’s easy. Movie: The Empire Strikes Back. Song: “Stranglehold” by Ted Nugent. In case you haven’t noticed, we’re a laser focused take-no-prisoners team of crusaders armed with a Roadmap that returns Republican control to San Diego. ___ We see Purple at …
Rider does videos for San Diego’s Prop A – the “PLA” Prop
A couple weeks ago I did some taping for the folks backing the San Diego City Prop A, the excellent measure that will make our city contracts transparent, online and not subject to mandatory PLA restrictions. Just recently I found that a number of my sound bites appeared on their website. I thought these excerpts were good enough to share …
Report: Demographic Changes Will Impact SD City Council District Elections
Demographic Changes Will Impact San Diego City Council District Elections, Future Policymaking SAN DIEGO – Demographic changes and neighborhood-level concerns are likely to impact San Diego City Council District elections and future policymaking at City Hall. Those are the major findings of a new study published today by the National University System Institute for Policy Research (NUSIPR). On August 25, …
Bill Wells talks Charter City on the Mark Larson Show
I’ll be a guest on the Mark Larson Show tomorrow to discuss El Cajon’s Charter City initiative; Prop D. The interview is scheduled for 8:25 am on KCBQ 1170 AM.
New 50K Mail Ballots break 45% Rep, 38% Dem — GOP countywide lead now +11,383
Nearly 50,000 new voted ballots arrived on Friday and Saturday, making a new grand total of just over 225,000 countywide. Those recent 50K divided GOP 22,240 (45%), Dem 18,944 (38%), Independent 6,609 (13%) and Minor parties 1,539 (3%). The new overall countywide totals are Republican 97,834, Democratic 86,451, Indys 32,125 , and 8,513 minor party. These figures convey the party affiliation of …
Election Night Live Blog
SD Rostra will participate in a live blog discussion on Tuesday night with writers, bloggers and tweeters from — GASP! — SD CityBeat and the OB Rag. We may have political differences throughout the year, but once the polls close, whatever, it becomes about pure results analysis, not smack. Ok, well, there may be a little smack, but it will …
All the Ballot Recommendations in one place
Here’s a one-stop-shop list of links to all the Rostra posts related to voting recommendations for Tuesday’s primary (in no particular order)… The Lincoln Club of San Diego County Family Voter Information San Diego County Taxpayers Association Republican Party of San Diego County San Diego Tax Fighters Tea Party Perspective from B-Daddy
Here’s the best darn voter guide in San Diego County
Perhaps it’s too late in the election cycle, but here’s what is, hands down, the best overall conservative voter guide in the county — bar none. And no, it’s not the San Diego Tax Fighters guide. What makes this such a great overview is that it includes the recommendations of quite a number of groups, including opponents such as the …
Fletcher Wins Race For Most Klout
Politics & Media Mashup I wrote a post six months ago comparing the Klout scores of San Diego mayoral candidates, council members and a few others who know their way around Facebook and Twitter. It generated a little buzz. Tony Krvaric, Todd Gloria and others compared their scores on Twitter. Former U-T San Diego columnist Tom Blair mentioned the post in …
The Need for Prop A – the Documented Proof
Is the City of San Diego’s Proposition A (on the June 5, 2012 Ballot) Meaningful and Necessary? Absolutely! Here’s the Documented Proof. by Kevin Dayton One of the most ridiculous arguments thrown at voters by opponents of the Fair and Open Competition ballot measure (Proposition A) for the June 5, 2012 election in the City of San Diego is that the …
Shawn Steel: The future of San Diego
Guest Commentary by Shawn Steel Once every generation comes along a unique political leader. Carl DeMaio is the real thing. In an age of political defeatism and angst, Carl earned San Diego citizens’ trust when they elected him to the city council. With a platform of fiscal reform, Carl offered honest and real solutions to San Diego’s financial melt-down. Carls’s ideas …
Fletcher’s Family of Friends
Recently, Nathan Fletcher raised eyebrows for accepting a financial donation from the minor daughter of Lorena Gonzalez, the local labor union boss. Nathan Fletcher’s continued move to the left appears to mirror his growing support from the Gonzalez family as a whole. The most recent financial disclosures show Marco Gonzalez, Lorena’s brother, donating to Fletcher’s Mayoral campaign. Marco Gonzalez is a well known …
Another Side to this Story — San Diego Military Ballots were NOT delayed — Multiple sources state today
Multiple reliable local sources tell me that (1) the approximately 3,000 overseas military ballots from San Diego County were mailed out in time for the June primary election, and (2) that when about 30 of those came back with expired addresses, the Registrar of Voters office found updated addresses and re-sent those by Fed-Ex (“They Deliver”). The litigation referred to an earlier post involved mainly …
Jim Miller: My experience for Superior Court Judge
Guest Commentary by Jim Miller I am running for Superior Court Judge, seat 25. The vote for judge is county-wide. So wherever you are in San Diego County you will be able to vote for the judges. It is hard to find information about judge candidates so here is a brief run down on my qualifications and the state of …
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