One of the few bright spots in the 2006 national GOP meltdown was state senator Peter Roskam holding the seat of Henry Hyde, retiring iconic Illinois congressman. Roskam earned a 51% – 49% victory… and he now is Chief Deputy Whip for the House , the #4 leadership position. This tournament-tough, principled conservative leader visits San Diego on Aug. 18. If you’d …
Chris Reed Interviews Barry Jantz On Redistricting
Chris Reed’s Top Story show on KOGO AM 600 (Get yer podcast here) is a dependable staple of my drive home. And yesterday, the show by the self-proclaimed “cranky libertarian” produced a bonus: SD Rostra’s own Barry Jantz. Redistricting was the topic, especially its effects in San Diego County. Jantz made a number of points: – The new San Diego …
Candidate Sherry Hodges endorsed by state Senator Joel Anderson in the new 76th Assembly district
From the Sherry Hodges campaign for SD Rostra: “State Senator Joel Anderson today announced his endorsement of Sherry Hodges for the State Assembly district representing the northern San Diego coastal region. ‘Sherry Hodges is the one I trust on the tough issues facing the legislature like cutting state spending and holding the line on taxes. I know we can count on …
Council Adopts Key DeMaio Small Business Reform
Streamlined Funding Process for 17 Business Improvement Districts Is Part of DeMaio’s Small Business Action Plan I would like to commend my fellow Council colleagues today for passing legislation on a much-needed overhaul to the process for funding the city’s 17 “Business Improvement Districts” (BIDs). This reform is vital to ensuring that San Diego’s BIDs are focused on promoting, serving, …
The Platform for California’s Future
This past weekend in Sacramento, an Embassy Suites room full of Republican activists, elected officials, and donors gathered to draft the 2012-2016 Platform for the California Republican Party. Within a few hours, we emerged with a platform titled, “The Platform for California’s Future” which was supported by an overwhelming majority (25-2) of those on the Drafting Committee. Why the 2 …
Time well spent …… Rostrafarian Bob Siegel’s radio show, Sundays from 6:00 to 7:00 pm on KCBQ, am-1170
If you are near a radio today from 6:00 to 7:00 pm, take a listen to fellow Rostrafarian Bob Siegel’s totally original talk show on KCBQ-1170. Bob has the ability to take listeners with him in reviewing the “Big” issues of life, with the tools of intelligence and genuine humility. If you’ve not heard him before, it’s safe to say …
DeMaio to Hold “Signature Storms” in Support of Pension Reform Ballot Measure
Mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio will spend every weekend at local San Diego stores collecting signatures for the Comprehensive Pension Reform Ballot Measure until the required 95,000 signatures from San Diego voters are collected, his campaign announced today. The announcement comes on the heels of increasing efforts by local government labor unions to “block” signature collection efforts through a well-funded and …
Greg Cox signals “Go” with $109,383 raised in last 6 months…. Has he now Cleared the Field ?
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 …
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