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 …
Lincoln Club Campaign Update Video
Submitted by The Lincoln Club of San Diego County
Prop A Debate on KUSI – Judge for yourself
Here are the excerpts from the Prop A portion of the the KUSI Show last night. Judge for yourself whether the Yes side or the No side speaks for San Diego Taxpayers. First Segment – Yes on A – Crosby and Cate Second Segment – No on A – Zaharopoulos Third Segment – Roundtable – Nehring, Zaharopoulos, Crosby
Prop B: May City of San Diego employees rejoin the Social Security system?
A common question for voters about Prop B is whether city employees can rejoin the Social Security system. San Diego County Taxpayers Association Vice President Chris Cate explains how this works in a brief video presentation.
‘Unbiased’ Judge Evaluation panel — ALL Democrats, and ALL Demo Party donors… Surprise! Conservative Attorney gets low Grade from them.
How did successful, well-qualified conservative attorney Gary George Kreep get a ‘not qualified’ rating from a panel of a local attorneys Association reviewing candidates for Judge? POSSIBLE ANSWER : public records show the three-person panel assigned to interview Kreep are All Democrats, and ALL past Democrat donors (to Senator John Edwards (!), the Democratic National Committee, California Democratic Party, etc)! Gary Kreep graduated USD’s famously tough law school with a Juris Doctor in 1975, …
Fletcher Secures Endorsement from banner of Big Gulps
Guest Commentary by Brian Brady San Diego Mayoral candidate secured the endorsement from “Hizzoner”, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg today: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is endorsing California Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher’s independent bid for San Diego mayor. The Fletcher campaign on Thursday released a statement from the three-term New York mayor that says Fletcher represents an alternative to …
CalWatch: 11 Counties miss deadline to send ballots to overseas, military voters
According to CaliforniaWatch.org, San Diego was among 11 counties in the state to miss a primary election deadline to mail over 8,000 ballots to overseas and military voters. CalWatch reports that failure to send the ballots by April 21 is in violation of the Uniformed & Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. Anyone know the stats on what percentage of military …
Coalition of business leaders endorse Carl DeMaio’s jobs plan
A broad coalition of San Diego business leaders gathered today to endorse Mayoral Candidate Carl DeMaio’s plans to foster job creation. Nearly two dozen business leaders were on hand to discuss their support for DeMaio’s – a sampling of over 500 business executives and small business owners who are supporting Carl DeMaio for Mayor. DeMaio’s plan cuts mountains of red …
New Mail Ballots — GOP Lead now 8,087 countywide — Latest 29K returned break…45.1% Rep, 37.8% Dem, 13.8% Indy
Here is your “controversial” SD County mail ballot report for today. The pace of returned ballots zoomed Wednesday as 29,003 Memorial Day weekend votes descended on the Registrar of Voters office. That brings the grand total received to 175,591. The most recent split is Rep 45.1% (13,105), Dem 37.8% (10,953), Indy 13.8% (3,985), and Minor 3.3% (960). Compared to registration, Republicans …
Judicial Candidate David Berry Enjoys Giving Back
[captionpix imgsrc=”http://sdrostra.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Berry-headshot-color.jpg” captiontext=”David Berry”] David Berry learned the value of community service in high school while teaching children how to swim as a volunteer with the American Red Cross and later as a volunteer coach with the Special Olympics in college. “I can’t tell you what it felt like to teach a child confined to a wheelchair how to swim,” …
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