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 …
New DeMaio for Mayor video
Carl DeMaio for Mayor video, put together by the Republican Party of San Diego County. Per the party, all content is courtesy of YouTube.
KUSI Interviews: A Life of Overcoming Adversity
I haven’t spoken much about my childhood, but this morning I sat down with KUSI for a conversation about my upbringing. My experiences growing up shape who I am today – my drive, compassion, and tenacity in tackling every challenge. I’m grateful for the lessons I learned through those challenges. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sroV-cHJWm8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9aH3pp-8Fw
It’s Going to be an Ugly Eight Weeks!
Republican Party Chairman Tony Krvaric has taken a keen interest in who is communicating for Nathan Fletcher. On Thursday, Krvaric tweeted to Rachel Laing: “Just to be transparent, you’re now advocating for Nathan Fletcher in a paid capacity, right?” Laing recently left Mayor Jerry Sanders to take a job as communications director at Public Policy Strategies. Tom Shepard, who is running Fletcher’s campaign, …
The Hill: GOP lawmaker calls for change to how government measures unemployment
From The Hill… A Republican lawmaker is intensifying his push for legislation that would change how the government measures the unemployment rate. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-Calif.) intends to press GOP leaders to move his bill to include the number of individuals who gave up looking for work in the percentage of jobless claims. Should the government measure unemployment with …
9,998 Comments! — Now, 10,000!
Update 6:50 pm… We hit the mark! Republican or Libertarian, or — more accurately — libertarian Republican (note the nuanced difference), Richard Rider is the generator of Rostra comment Number 10,000, with this gem at 3:13 pm: “Filner will present his city pension reform plan as soon as his labor union bosses tell him what it is. And not a …
Rostra Weekend Pool
When does Bob Filner release his pension plan? Next week? In May? Before December? Pick a date and time, and send your guesses to info@sdrostra.com. Whoever gets closest to the actual date/time the Filner plan goes public (meaning, in writing, and released by his campaign), wins Rostra bragging rights. Have a great Easter!
Plans to Fix Schools Rankle Some Voters
Politics & Media Mashup: A look at this week’s local political coverage San Diego’s broken school system has been a campaign issue in the mayor’s race since Day 1, but the feedback I’ve seen lately from voters suggests some people are hardly impressed with what they’re hearing. Two letter writers, including a teacher, rip the candidates in today’s U-T San …
Fletcher for Mayor Launches Web Video, “Momentum”
Today we launched a new web video called, “Momentum!” We put this video together for you all to enjoy and relive the exciting momontum our campaign has experienced over the last 10 days.
Rostra approaching 10,000 comments
Originally posted April 3… Since San Diego Rostra launched in August 2009, the site has been blessed with 2,794 blog entries and — as of this moment — 9,924 total comments from readers on those various posts. Some blog posts end up with no comments. Others garner dozens, some exemplified by passionate debate. We ask who will be lucky commenter …
Tony Strickland: Fletcher best-positioned to move San Diego forward
Guest Commentary by Sen. Tony Strickland Nathan’s decision to leave the Republican party must have been a difficult one. It isn’t easy to leave a party you’ve been a member of for nearly 20 years. While I’m disappointed we’ve lost Nathan, I know he feels this is what is right in his heart. It’s okay to be sad he left …
Convenience, Not Conviction – Nathan’s Play In The San Diego Mayor’s Race
This year San Diego voters are being treated to a very lively contest to see who will succeed Republican Jerry Sanders as mayor of California’s second largest city. I have and will continue to write about this and other races taking place in the City of San Diego – but I think it is important to share with you that …
Lightner Says She is Yes on Prop B
U-T San Diego reporter Jen Kuhney, apparently writing a story on City Council District 1, sent out a surprising tweet earlier: @jenkuhney: .@SherriLightner said she supports the pension reform ballot measure “but the devil is in the details.” The Ellis campaign was quick to respond… Ray Ellis’ Statement on Sherri Lightner’s Stance on Proposition B: “Sherri Lightner has opposed pension reform …
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