San Diego – Marie Waldron announced that her campaign will report over $108,000 raised for her first campaign finance disclosure – a period covering April through June 30th. Most impressivley, she will show over $100,000 cash-on-hand! Waldron, a 4-term city council member and small businessowner, in Escondido is running in the North Inland San Diego Assembly district. “I am proud …
Dog Bites Man: Lefty Journalist Robert Niles Hopes News Corp. Will Fail
Yes, I know that a lefty journalist railing against Fox News is about as surprising as a snowstorm when Al Gore opens his mouth about global warming. But this piece by Robert Niles deserves special mention, because it’s in a trade publication for journalists, the Online Journalism Review. Niles takes advantage of the indefensible hacking practices by some News Corp. …
Listen to Rostra’s own Bob Siegel today, Sunday, on KCBQ am-1170, at 6:00 pm …. Best Radio Show You’ve Never heard
If you are near a radio today from 6 to 7 p.m., 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 he’s the Best talker …
Congress moves closer to implementing E-Verify for new hires
Congress voted yesterday for an amendment that would mandate any federal agency funded by the 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations bill to use the federal government’s E-Verify program for the hiring of employees. House legislation, H.R. 2354, adopted the E-Verify amendment in the full Appropriations Committee. However activists promise it will find more scrutiny as it works its way through …
Otay Water District Approves Health Care For Life: U-T
From the San Diego Union-Tribune: The Otay Water District voted Friday to extend lifetime retiree health benefits to district managers and their spouses, and could do the same for a larger group of employees in a month. The Board of Directors voted 4-1 to approve the new benefits. Board member Mark Robak cast the lone dissenting vote. He noted that …
Global Warming Causes Tsunamis! So Saith The Sages Of Grist
Until National Review Online posted about this scary story from enviro mag Grist, I wasn’t aware of this frightening new dimension to the catastrophic effect global warming climate change is having. Already, 2011 is the costliest year for insurance claims due to natural disasters, aided by climate change. The cost so far: $265 billion, greater than the previous record, set …
Bill Horn: Was it a gaffe, or worthy of huckster propaganda label? You tell us.
From Scott Lewis on Twitter: “I figure Keegan did Horn a favor: He must have been overjoyed to learn his friends were alive.” Fact Check: Bill Horn’s Bogus Civil Rights Story – voiceofsandiego.org: San Diego Fact Check www.voiceofsandiego.org Statement: “During the civil rights movement I worked for Ralph Abernathy and went to jail over the rights of the minority,” County …
Jon Timmons is wrong — SD Rostra not afraid to discuss Bill Horn’s Real 1960s civil rights record
In a post at San Diego Politico today (a liberal site whose recent return Rostra welcomed) a Mr. Jon Timmons states of a Bill Horn controversy, “SD ROSTRA won’t write about it either, because he is a conserve now and their site is about looking at the injustices and falsehoods of only the liberals.” Clearly Mr. Timmons has never read SD Rostra! Clearly …
Clarity and Certainty at Last – Another Unbalanced Budget and Taxes on the Way
This op-ed originally appeared in the Flashreport The ink was hardly dry on the Governor’s “balanced” 2011-12 budget, before we learned that the state’s cash receipts were less than expected for the month of May and June of the 2010-11 year we just completed. Also, while claiming to spend only $86 billion, the total was actually $91.5 billion, when one …
Lifetime Health Care To Managers & Spouses: Otay Water District Proposal
UPDATE: 2:40 p.m. Friday – Statement from the San Diego County Taxpayers Association, via the Libertarian Lass: SDCTA Denounces Outrageous Otay Water District Proposal Retirees and dependents receive free lifetime healthcare; customers get the bill (San Diego) – At a time when their customers are paying double digit increases for water, the Otay Water District board of directors is considering …
Oceanside Mobile Home Rent Control Decontrol Repeal Qualifies For Ballot
Yes, I know it’s a convoluted, serpentine headline. What it amounts to is good news for supporters of rent control for mobile homes, long a hot-button issue entwined with Oceanside’s famously factious politics. Fresh electrons from the North County Times give the details: Enough signatures have been collected on petitions challenging an Oceanside mobile-home rent control measure to put the …
Watch This Space . . .
UPDATE: It’s on! ———————————————- . . . more accurately, watch this Website, http://californiarebellion2012.com. Nothing much here yet, but Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone says it will be turned on later tonight. In an interview on the LaDona Harvey show, Stone said his proposal to have 13 counties, including San Diego County, secede from California to form their own state is …
Dustin Steiner files papers for 75th State Assembly seat — It’s “Game on” for rising Scripps Ranch community leader
Another quality Republican candidate is in the Game today, as Dustin Steiner filed papers (form 501) this week to succeed Nathan Fletcher in the State Assembly. Mr. Steiner’s credentials include the Miramar Ranch North planning group, SD Republican Central committee, and valued Deputy Chief of Staff to North County supervisor Bill Horn since 2007. Your correspondent has seen Dustin Steiner in action …
Acceptance is the First Step
The first seven months of my term has been an incredible learning experience. Many of you are aware that I never intended to be a politician; I am a business owner. But I ran for City Council because I was fed up with how the mismanagement of taxpayer dollars was dramatically affecting my quality of life. I believe that, while …
Domestic Workers Would Get Lunch Breaks, Overtime, Vacation Under Calif. Bill
Housekeepers and other home care workers would get new benefits, including lunch breaks, overtime and paid sick and vacation time under a bill now under consideration in Sacramento. The bill, AB889, is called the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. It’s authored by two Assembly Democrats, Tom Ammiano and V. Manuel Pérez. The California Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee …
Pensions help economy — just like the Bloods and the Crips
Recently there have been a spate of “studies,” press releases and articles about how we all prosper from government pension fund investing and pensioners’ spending. Here’s my pithy response: — Actually, if the Crips and Bloods had good PR departments, they could put out similar and equally accurate “analysis” and press releases. The titles could read something like this: …
A 2011 ATF internal report confirms 1 million guns go missing each year
As reported here previously, Senator Grassley has been investigating ATF gun programs “Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast and Furious.” His investigations led to the discovery of Department of Justice and ATF misrepresentations the number of “missing or walked” firearms. An internal ATF inspection report finds, on average, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) loses track of roughly …
DeMaio Campaign Raises $540,000 in 25 Days
DeMaio Campaign Raises $540,000 in 25 Days Demonstrates Deep Grassroots Support in Key First Campaign Reporting Period FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio announced today his campaign grossed $540,000 in the first 25 days of the campaign. Nearly 90% of donations came from within San Diego County and the median contribution was only $150, which illustrates an impressive grassroots donor base …
SD Young Democrats’ Colin Parent To Brown Administration – Congratulations!
The San Diego Reader’s David Rice has the story. Colin Parent, a Two Cathedrals contributor and political director of the San Diego County Young Democrats, has taken over as Director of External Affairs for the California Department of Housing and Community Development as of July 5. Parent tweeted the good news yesterday. According to the Young Democrats press release, at …
Breaking: Labor Corruption…SD Labor Council Seeks to Oust Taxpayer Advocate from Oversight Committee
Turns out it is not just occasional sewage flowing from the Tijuana River that sullies San Diego’s South Bay. San Diego/Imperial County Labor Council’s “Middle Class Taxpayer’s Association” does a fine job of soiling the South Bay as well. Proposition R passed in fall 2008, thus allowing the Southwestern Community College to issue $389 million in bonds to construct and …
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