Supervisor Greg Cox revealed Friday that his campaign committee now has $325,365 cash-on-hand after adding $109,383 in new donations from Jan. 1 to June 30, 2011. NONE of that $109K came from loans either… all of it represents new donations. Cox, former Chula Vista mayor, represents District 1 (South Bay). Rumors hinted that ex-state senator Denise Moreno Ducheny might oppose him in …
Labor — Thy name is intimidation
The Sac Bee shows how labor is pulling out the stops to falsely scare potential petition signers into passiveness, using the specter of identity theft to keep the voters at bay. Democracy at its best… Radio ad claims signing initiatives increases risk for identity theft Update: The president of the state building trades unions has acknowledged helping fund the effort. …
George Will Praises Book On Libertarian Ideas
George Will gives a nice plug for libertarian ideas, as expressed in a book by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, “The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America“: A generation that has grown up with the Internet “has essentially been raised libertarian,” swimming in markets, which are choices among competing alternatives. And the left weeps. …
CA Congressional Redistricting Maps
Meridian Pacific has a great breakdown of the CA Congressional Redistricting Maps with good stats on voter registration and demographics – http://www.mpimaps.com/mapanalysis/crc-july-28th-final-maps-congress/
Fair Senate Map … San Diegan Gil Ontai hits 9th inning Home Run at State Redistricting Commission this week — Oh Doctor !
Three on, two out, bottom of the 9th. The Chris Kehoe-Toni Atkins team is 1 out away from sewing up the 39th for another decade. Staff-drawn maps will keep it a One Party district. That’s when Gil Ontai, Lone San Diegan on the state Redistricting Commission came to bat … and hit a rocket over the 3rd deck. Scoring ahead of …
Good news! New local taxes CA legislative bill is dead. For now.
GOOD news! CA Senate President Darrell Steinberg recently announced he is tabling, until next year, his efforts to push SB x1 23 (formerly SB 653), an insane bill to expand the types of taxes CA cities, counties and local school districts can levy – including local income taxes. Sadly, the proposal isn’t completely dead. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2011/07/local-tax-measure-shelved.html Part of me hopes this …
Debt Crisis Discussion: What keeps CA afloat?
A question was raised in a Facebook group yesterday from an East Coaster, regarding the federal debt limit, related to our great State: “Since many in this group are Californians, I am wondering what you are thinking about August 2. Didn’t you go through a “debt crisis?” What happened there? It looks to outsiders like you just keep rolling along…just …
Exposed: Empower San Diego’s Talking Points – One Person, One Vote? Whatever!
-“Oh, but wait! There’s more!” A core principle in Redistricting is “One Person, One Vote” which even embattled Executive Director Midori Wong has been repeating over and over again in various media outlets. Apparently that principle is not shared over at Empower San Diego as they are willing to sacrifice it at the altar of forcing their progressive, political agenda …
Dumanis The Democrat?
Early yesterday Dumanis announced her campaign manager, Kevin Klein. The hiring of Klein means Dumanis’ campaign is run completely by Democrats and democrat campaigners, which begs the question, what exactly about Dumanis is Republican other than a check mark on a registration form? With a consultant whose clients include the Firefighters union and the failed Howard Wayne, a fundraiser whose …
The Political File — Deputy Sheriffs PAC has $145K cash-on-hand — and Bill Baber and ABC/AGC close out Countywide anti-PLA win
New campaign finance reports continue to tell their stories…. (1) Fresh from their twin successes aiding Republicans Bill Horn and Ron Roberts to victory last November, San Diego’s Deputy Sheriffs Association has reloaded with new donations by their members, bringing the PAC’s current cash-on-hand to a healthy $145,176. (2) Bill Baber filed papers this week closing out the winning “Fair …
Dumanis Steadies the Wheels
News just weeks into San Diego mayoral race from candidate District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis really got folks talking about her race. It wasn’t big donor dollar numbers (which we’ve yet to see), but that she had already fired her campaign manager, Republican consultant Tom Mitchell. The rumor mill ran amok with folks saying she looked vulnerable. Today, her camp released …
Exposed: Empower San Diego’s Last Ditch Political Play – And Interesting Friends
It’s no secret that various interest groups have been actively lobbying the San Diego Redistricting Commission over the past few months. One of the most active groups has been Empower San Diego which even managed to get one of their own, Commissioner Theresa Quiroz on the actual commission and who has been carrying their water ever since. The commission has …
The bogus UNSTATED public worker pension assumptions
The public worker pension debate rages on. And “rage” is the operative term when the unions and their allies discuss switching to 401-k plans from their current guaranteed defined benefit plans. Carefully selected sob stories are popping up to justify continuing the public worker guaranteed pensions that are roughly three to four times what private sector workers can expect to …
Report: PLAs Increase CA School Construction Costs 13%-15%
New Groundbreaking Study Reveals “Project Labor Agreements” (PLAs) Increase School Construction Costs by 13 to 15 Percent in California School projects built under these contracts cost $28.90 to $32.49 more per square foot JULY 26, 2011 SAN DIEGO – California school construction projects built under contracts that contain provisions known as Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) cost 13 to 15 percent …
The San Diego Union-Tribune’s “Community” Of Tax-Takers
Judging from the San Diego Union-Tribune’s narrow selection for its “community editorial board,” the newspaper’s management appears to think the San Diego community consists entirely of social activists, government bureaucrats and other tax-takers. The people who pay their wages aren’t represented. Richard Rider has documented the narrow range of opinions in this supposedly “diverse” crowd — diverse in everything except …
The UT Shifts to the Left and Nathan Fletcher Sells Out Conservatives
The UT Shifts to the Left I’m really sick of the bias of the UT. There are critical stories breaking every week about the fiscal trouble our country is in, not to mention stories about the corruption of the Obama administration – such as the “Fast and Furious” scandal – but you wouldn’t know much about such stories from reading …
Current Ballot Initiative Petitions – Tea Party Perspective
It’s that time in the election cycle where we are seeing a big push to get petitions signed to qualify ballot measures. I signed four petitions over the weekend, and thought I would share what I consider to be the tea party perspective. (Following Dean‘s lead, I am going to start using small case for tea party to emphasize that …
Todd Gloria Loves District 3 – As Long as It’s Convenient
Guest Commentary by Dave McCulloch Just the other day, Todd Gloria – City Councilmember for District 3 – tweeted his “heart is in D3 and [he] intends to serve it, in whatever configuration, for another four years.” While this sounds noble, I question his motives. Today, Gloria lives in Cherokee Point, a small area of City Heights that was recently …
Rostra’s Richard Rider now a correspondent on statewide “Flash Report” website…. Well done to Mr. R!
Rostra’s statewide media partner, Jon Fleischman’s Flash Report, has named Richard Rider a correspondent. Mr. Rider bolted from the Starting Gate with three new posts there tonight alone! Congratulations to Mr. Rider on being a strong voice for San Diego, and Liberty, on that statewide venue.
The SD U-T’s leftward editorial slant accelerates
I think it’s fair to say that NOT one of these SD U-T “community board” members thinks the government should be smaller — or should even plateau at its present bloated size. Indeed, essentially ALL of them favor BIGGER government, higher taxes and more nannyism.
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