Rostra friends: This morning DA Dumanis continued to demonstrate leadership on the issue of getting San Diego Unified back on track and preventing a disastrous takeover by the state. Below is her statement weighing in on Scott Barnett’s proposal to declare the district insolvent and turn the schools over to the state. Dumanis is the only candidate for mayor to …
A Q & A with City Attorney Jan Goldsmith
[captionpix imgsrc=”http://sdrostra.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/imgres.jpg” captiontext=”Jan Goldsmith”] Goldsmith weighs in on the San Diego Mayor’s Race, the San Diego Convention Center expansion and more As the only candidate for citywide office with no opponent in the upcoming election, Rostra thought it would be a good time to check in with San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith to discuss his first term in …
Haven’t served in the Military? Fletcher says: “Shame on you”
Nathan Fletcher released an ad called “Character.” Handpicked veterans call out the leading mayoral candidate, Councilmember Carl DeMaio, for not having served in the military. The well-rehearsed veterans, one after another, said: “Shame on you.” Given this ad, you might be surprised to learn DeMaio has never expressed anything but admiration for Fletcher’s military service. So why would Marine veteran …
Campaign Flyer Contains False Info
A judge ordered judicial candidate Terrie Roberts to strike false and misleading information from her ballot argument. She did. But Roberts then used some of the stricken statements in her campaign literature. Some of the campaign literature Superior Court Commissioner Terrie Roberts is distributing contains information that a court has ruled is false and misleading. Last month, a judge …
The U.S. 1st or 2nd most progressively taxed nation
Most people in the U.S. — even many conservatives — think that the rich in America get tax breaks that exceed what the wealthy get in the more socialist countries of the world. Concurrently, it’s assumed that the middle class pays too much of the taxes. Oddly enough, not true. The United States has the first or second most “progressive” …
SDCTA Announces Golden Fleece Award Finalists
Dubious recipients revealed at Golden Watchdog & Golden Fleece Awards Dinner May 16 (San Diego) – The San Diego County Taxpayers Association (SDCTA) today announced the finalists for its annual Golden Fleece Awards categories including Metro and Regional Fleeces, and Repeat Offenders. Golden Fleeces are given to government programs/services that exemplify the wasteful, inefficient or downright absurd use of taxpayer …
“Intimidation by Proxy” — major reason to ban “defined benefit” pensions
The WALL ST JOURNAL story below details how labor unions are increasingly using their shareholder status to bully corporate management into supporting only liberal causes. This excellent article inadvertently highlights perhaps the biggest problem with defined benefit (DB) guaranteed pension plans — yet it’s the one DB pension problem that is seldom mentioned. DB plans are the back door for …
Rostra’s High Tide
We tweeted yesterday and posted a comment that Monday was Rostra’s biggest day ever, with 1,453 unique visits to the site and over 2,500 individual page views. It’s clearly campaign home stretch. Well, Tuesday we exceeded both those numbers! Over 1,500 visitors browsed 2,768 Rostra pages. Thanks to all of the bloggers, readers, commenters and critics for making this little …
Rhinerson Campaign Signs on School Property
The campaign of Bernie Rhinerson, big labor-backed candidate for San Diego Community College District, has been placing 4′ x 8′ signs on school property throughout the district — as evidenced by the following photos. Rhinerson works as chief of staff for the embattled San Diego Unified School District, and has long been considered the chief architect of the district’s financial insolvency. The daytime photos …
Ron Paul’s California Delegates Released
SD Rostra has the list first… from Brian Brady The Ron Paul for President campaign released its list of California delegates today. Most of the delegates have tea party connections and/or are grassroots liberty activists. You’ll be hard-pressed to find any lobbyists, political consultants, or elected officials on this list. View the full state list. The San Diego delegation includes: …
Cherokee Professor Elizabeth Warren is neither a scholar nor Cherokee
It appears that one of the Left’s superstars has moccasin feet of clay. Professor Elizabeth Warren’s scholarship is shoddy at best. And evidence strongly suggests that she claimed bogus “American Indian” status to gain affirmative action advantages. Amazingly, she uses her unsubstantiated 1/32 Cherokee heritage to claim she is an American Indian on “race” designation questionnaires her bio. And the academic bozos at Harvard …
Richard Lugar is OUT as U.S. Senator
BREAKING NEWS: CNN reports that Indiana’s U.S. Senate GOP incumbent Richard Lugar has lost his Republican primary to a Tea Party challenger. Impressive, given that Lugar has been in the Senate for 36 years!
Carl the Mayor vs. Carl the Councilmember
Carl DeMaio wants to be Mayor yet he has done little to address a laundry list of problems his own campaign acknowledges remain at City Hall – all on his watch. The question is this: What will be different for Carl the Mayor from Carl the Councilmember? As a member of the Legislative body (City Council), Carl needs only four …
Finally Romney takes a bold position that Obama can’t counter
Finally! Here’s the first Romney position I’ve seen that should make one at least consider voting for Mitt for President. He’s starting to come out strongly for school choice. Well, at least THIS time he did. As I’ve written on Rostra before, to me this is the issue the GOP should take point on. The Democrats view school kids as …
DeMaio Reveals Over $130 Million in Wasteful Spending at City Hall
Among Items on DeMaio’s List: 359% Mark-Ups on Air Filters, $2 Million in Cash-for-Vacation Payouts, and 113 Largely Unused City Vehicles You may have heard of the $10,000 toilet seat that the federal government bought, but have you heard about the 359% mark up on an air filter paid by the City of San Diego? The air filter mark-up is …
FlashReport: The Romney CA Delegates
Jon Fleischman at FlashReport has the list of the Romney RNC delegates from California… http://www.flashreport.org/blog/2012/05/08/fr-exclusive-list-of-mitt-romney-california-delegates/ The San Diego portion of the list… Congressional District # 49 DELEGATES Jonathan Bullan Darrell Issa David Jacinto Congressional District # 50 DELEGATES Mary “Lou” Aspell Bruce Thompson Mark Wyland Congressional District # 51 DELEGATES Briana Bilbray Elizabeth Roach Thomas Topuzes Congressional District # 52 …
Nathan Fletcher/U-T Drama: A Recap
The Nathan Fletcher/U-T San Diego split has evolved into a controversy, according to some local news outlets and the newspaper’s executive editor. So we thought we would bring you up to speed. Here’s a quick recap: First there was this from the U-T: The question for Nathan Fletcher: What does ‘move to the middle’ mean? Then this from Team Fletcher: …
How Democrats/Unions Waste $500,000 on Printing of Election Guides—Use Only UNION Workers
http://capoliticalnews.com/2012/05/07/how-democratsunions-waste-500000-on-printing-of-election-ballots%E2%80%94use-only-union-workers/ How Democrats/Unions Waste $500,000 on Printing of Election Guides—Use Only UNION Workers by STEPHEN FRANK on 05/07/2012 California families are pinching pennies to pay rent, buy food and get clothes for their children. The State of California does not pinch pennies, it pays off the unions. “California voter guides will be arriving at your home starting Monday, but this …
Fletcher for Mayor launches new ad, “Character”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_5OO76YS3Q&feature=youtu.be The Fletcher for Mayor campaign today launched a new television ad entitled “Character.” The ad features veterans expressing support for Fletcher and condemning Carl DeMaio’s attacks on Fletcher.
Everyone Attacks Nathan Fletcher
What happens when you throw aside party polities and surge in the polls? Apparently if you’re Nathan Fletcher the answer is: get attacked by everyone. It’s been a wild couple of days in the mayor’s race. Nathan’s been targeted by the California Republican Party, the San Diego County Republican Party, the UT San Diego’s editorial page (twice), Carl DeMaio, Bonnie …
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