Politics & Media Mashup: A look at this week’s local political coverage They say a good writer knows when to get out of the way of a good story. So rather then comment on this entertaining Investigative Newsource story — Bob Filner Misses the Boat on the Port — I will just encourage you to read it, and then watch Filner’s …
SB829 a fight between Sacramento and local control of our economy
Guest Commentary by Scott Crosby Yesterday, the California State Assembly approved SB829 sponsored by the State Building & Construction Trades Unions. The bill is an attempt to limit state funds paid to any charter city that enacts restrictions on project labor agreements – including initiatives approved by charter city voters. The bill has serious constitutional defects, and each charter city …
Social Security by Choice: The Terrific Experience of Three Texas Counties
RIDER COMMENT: This little-known story of three Texas counties that set up their OWN unique and highly successful social security plans (a brief option that has since gone away) deserves widespread publicity. Years ago I wrote about this, but frankly had forgotten about their instructive experience. The article below is an excellent summation of their approach — and the impressive …
Party over Principles: More Game-Playing from San Diego GOP
“Local Republican Party chair Tony Krvaric continues to play the political games that helped drive Nathan Fletcher from the party last month. In an email to San Diego Republicans Tony Krvaric distorted the facts and misled voters. It’s shameful. This kind of game playing isn’t new. After Nathan switched the San Diego Republican Party sued Nathan to recover their money after major …
Fletcher Fails Prop-A Supporters and San Diego Taxpayers with Absent Vote on SB 829
Partisan-Republican-turned-something-else Nathan Fletcher failed San Diego taxpayers yesterday by missing the Assembly floor vote on a labor union bill specifically designed to punish the City of San Diego financially. If Fletcher is truly in favor of Proposition A, and protecting taxpayer interests, he could have done no greater service to the Prop A effort and the San Diego taxpayers by …
President Obama’s Latest Campaign Strategy: The Supreme Court
From Bob Siegel’s column, Forbidden Table Talk on Communities@Washington Times.com SAN DIEGO, April 9, 2012 — President Obama shocked reporters last week with comments about the Supreme Court. Even the normally uncritical press corps was obliged to ask, “do you really think the Court can’t strike down an act of Congress as unconstitutional?” The Court’s nine justices will announce their decision …
Obama’s inequality argument just utterly collapsed
RIDER COMMENT: Actually I have touched on this bogus income disparity in the past, but we never had such a specific study to point to as proof. This is a welcome report. This blog is from the American Enterprise Institute, a rather staid, somewhat right-of-center think tank. I now subscribe to their free daily email service and RSS feed to …
Dumanis: Transparency a New Concept to Fletcher
SAN DIEGO — District Attorney and Mayoral candidate Bonnie Dumanis today announced she would release her personal tax returns and issued the following statement: “Nathan Fletcher has discovered transparency — it looks like he’s having another one of his last minute conversions. “Unfortunately, Nathan Fletcher’s sudden interest in transparency comes too late to save San Diego’s redevelopment program. His engineering …
40-point Lead for Pension Reform! New Poll Shows 55% YES to 15% NO
Stop the Presses! Prop. B’s pension Reform is 40 points ahead in a new Survey USA/Channel 10 poll released today. Your Correspondent’s reactions: (1) Labor Council chief Lorena Gonzalez, call your Answering Service. (2) John Nienstedt, take a bow. The head of Competitive Edge told me six months ago that Prop. B was a certain winner. (3) Carl DeMaio and Tony Krvaric, …
Texts From Mayoral Candidates
To Nathan: I’m still in the lead. #iwillbreakyou To voters: I’m independent. Really! #pickme To his campaign manager: !! Who the hell wrote these talking points? #epic #fail To reporters: I’ve been in office since Nathan and Carl were in diapers. #punks
Dumanis Earns Endorsements from Entire San Diego County Board of Supervisors
Cox and Horn Join Colleagues, Cite Dumanis’ Strong Leadership as District Attorney SAN DIEGO – District Attorney and San Diego Mayoral candidate Bonnie Dumanis was endorsed today by San Diego County Supervisors Greg Cox and Bill Horn, making the Board of Supervisors’ support of her Mayoral campaign unanimous. In announcing their formal endorsements, Cox and Horn both cited Dumanis’ track …
What kind of car is your mayoral candidate?
If the mayoral candidates were cars, what kinds would they be and why? For the background on a similar question, read this article by Chris Cillizza in The Washington Post’s “The Fix”… If President Obama was a car, what kind of car would he be? “If President Obama was a a car, what kind of car would he be and …
How to turn a $500 donation into many thousands of dollars of free publicity
How to turn a $500 donation into a major “media buy” Everyone loves firefighters. Especially me. Volunteer firefighters are my heroes. But recently the San Diego media hyped a story of San Diego firefighter charity that is rather odd – odd because it’s reported at all as news. The U-T newspaper made it a front page story in the local …
Fletcher Surges In Poll For Mayor After Dropping GOP
From the Fletcher Campaign PLUS early reaction from the Twittersphere: SAN DIEGO — In a recent scientific SurveyUSA poll conducted by 10News, Carl DeMaio and Nathan Fletcher finish essentially even, with Bob Filner close behind and Bonnie Dumanis farther back. When compared to an identical SurveyUSA poll released 10 weeks ago, there were significant gains for Fletcher, who two weeks ago …
City Still Swimming In Red Ink
Gimmicks aside, the annual budget deficit remains $50 million, with $318 million needed to restore service to 2003 levels City Councilmember Carl DeMaio today released a fiscal assessment of the Mayor’s proposed FY 2013 budget which reveals that instead of a truly balanced budget, the city will run an operating deficit of at least $50 million. When accounting for lost …
Rocky Chavez’s Plans to Reduce wasteful State “General Services Dept”. End its 30% overhead cost on State Projects
In this Commentary, former Undersecretary of Veterans Affairs Rocky Chavez chides a State agency which needs a crash Diet (see their Taj Mahal HQ above). Rocky seeks the open 76th State Assembly District. “The recent resignation of US Government Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Martha N Johnson because of her acknowledgement that “taxpayer dollars were squandered” during a conference that included a “clown” and a “mind …
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien today interviews Judge candidate Gary Kreep on Marine-criticizes-President Obama Free Speech case
It’s not every day a SD Superior Court candidate appears on National TV, but Gary Kreep (office 34) did today, quizzed by Soledad O’Brien on her CNN “Starting Point” show. Read the interview of Gary Kreep and USMC Sgt. Gary Stein here. CNN posted ‘breaking news’ from the 20-minute interview as follows: [UPDATED 8:20am ET]… Sgt. Stein’s attorney Gary Kreep says if Stein loses …
Drag Show At USD: Father, Son and Holy Spirit (of RuPaul) Draws Protest
Last year, when First Things listed University of San Diego as one of the five “least Catholic” (out of over 240) Catholic Universities in the U.S., I was skeptical. First Things is an intellectual, predominantly Catholic, politically conservative magazine, which I rather enjoy. I conjectured that maybe USD had adopted too much of San Diego’s beach culture and affinity …
Meet Nathan Fletcher
Nathan spoke with KUSI this morning about his background, his boys and more. Check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dwgc9tAztQ
Mayorial Race – Where’s the Focus on the Issues?
As we close in on the June 5 primary that will most likely determine the two candidates to compete in November for mayor of San Diego, media interest is heating up. My complaint? Lack of focus on the key issues for the campaign; how will we reform pensions and in general control spending in the city. Here on Rostra, most …
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