Tony Krvaric, Head Coach of San Diego’s Republican Team, watched President Obama’s State of the Union address before Congress, and offers these reflections on its content: “The President tried to rebrand himself as a fiscal conservative tonight, after a two year spending spree of unprecedented proportions, to position himself for re-election in 2012. Tax simplification, earmark bans, and budget freezes …
Representative Issa’s PR machine hits a snag known as “The New Yorker”
Presumably The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza told Darrell Issa that he was going to do an article about him, with or without him… or at least implied as much. Issa would have been better off going the “without” route. In an article ironically titled “Don’t Look Back“, writer Ryan Lizza does nothing but look back. Now that Issa is the …
FLASH! Walmart ban to be repealed next week
http://open.salon.com/blog/richard_rider/2011/01/25/sd_walmart_superstore_ban_is_being_repealed_by_our_cc FLASH!! City of San Diego Walmart superstore ban will be repealed by our city council next week — by Richard Rider It looks like — as I predicted in December — one or more of the San Diego city council labor union toadies will vote to repeal the Walmart ban, rather than risk another crushing “Prop D”-like defeat in …
Larry Stirling’s brief History of Monopoly Water Rate Hikes — And how the City of S.D. Can Change course — If it has the Will
Rostra Exclusive…. In plain English, here’s why San Diego Consumers pay more for water, even as they reduce their consumption. Larry Stirling says the answer is “Monopoly” and he has eyewitness testimony on where we went wrong, and how to return to a rational and fair system. _____________________________________________________________ In 1969, fresh off of active Army duty, I was honored to …
Lead, don’t follow
The San Diego City Council yesterday adopted a resolution in opposition to Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to get rid of local redevelopment agencies. A real shocker of a news story there, that San Diego, or any city would be opposed to such a move by the State. The only surprise is that Councilmember Sherri Lightner opposed the resolution, apparently needing …
The State of Predictions
Here is my prediction regarding Obama’s State of the Union address tonight. First of all; (Now hold on to your seats) We will hear that the State of the Union is good! Whew! What a relief! While watching the Republicans bite their lips in an attempt to hold in the laughter at such an assessment and avoid a glaring New …
Poway Patch: One on One with Public Relations Superstar Gayle Lynn Falkenthal
She is a superstar. And, she’s Rostra’s. Some excerpts from yesterday in the Poway Patch… Down Home Marketing by Alyson Rybar Each week I select a public relations or marketing topic to educate readers on and this week my goal is to do something a little different. Instead of providing marketing tips, I’d like to give readers an opportunity to …
Rider on KUSI pans Brown’s tax increases
Friday (1/21/11) at o’dark thirty I did a lively 6 minute KUSI TV interview panning Governor Brown’s planned tax increases — well, the special election he wants to raise taxes later this year. I think the interview went well, do I’m putting it out for Internet viewing. I think you’ll like it. Or perhaps hate it. Depending on who “you” …
DeMaio Makes Final Push to Stop Water Rate Hike
Asks Residents to Return Prop. 218 Notices and Contact Their Elected Officials to Oppose Increase on Eve of Vote Releases Eight Point Plan as an Alternative to Rate Hike Councilmember Carl DeMaio, community leaders and residents gathered Sunday to urge San Diegans to return their Prop 218 protest forms to City Hall and contact the Mayor and City Council to …
Would you like some Water with that Baloney?
Note to reader [This is a rant, not a properly organized posting]: Today, the City Council will vote on whether to raise our water rates…again. They’ll claim this is merely a “pass through” because the price of buying water has gone up on the open market. We don’t see an across the board increase (by relatively equal amounts) in different …
Police Department contest to seize guns results in lawsuit after arrest
The Southern California City of San Fernando and its Police Department will pay $44,000 for negligence because an officer did not know the rules and regulations for individuals or law enforcement officers to lawfully carrying a firearm. The City agreed to pay approximately $44,000 to San Fernando former Coast Guard Reserve maritime law enforcement Officer Jose Diaz. The City must …
Walmart San Diego – Labor’s Flawed Logic
Lorena Gonzales makes some absurd arguments in today’s U-T editorial section on the law to block WalMart from setting up “big boxes” that sell groceries without a special economic impact analysis that no other business is subject to. Here is the core of her argument, Superstores have unknown and potentially economic impact, so they should be required to submit to …
Can Journalism Be Saved? Should It?
Gayle Falkenthal, a multimodal media maven for many moons, made some pertinent remarks to my column about John Culea at last week’s media panel. I’m going to give you the comment in full and then elaborate. (I’m bolding especially important points) Take it away, Gayle! “As a veteran (!) former broadcaster who also spent time representing elected officials and public …
UPDATED: Breaking Bad – CA vs. the Other States
REVISED: Breaking Bad – CA vs. the Other States by Richard Rider on Saturday, January 22, 2011 Here’s the URL to my latest “Breaking Bad” fact sheet. Not good. “HIGHLIGHT”: Last month, CA moved up into a tie with Michigan for the 2nd highest state unemployment rate. The only “good” news? — we are no longer tied by Michigan. In …
John Culea Takes On The Local Media
John Culea, spokesman for Supervisor Bill Horn, bluntly criticized media accuracy in its coverage of the supervisor and its competence in general Thursday night at a panel sponsored by the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists. Whatever I write can’t possibly match the experience of seeing Culea dissect the media, including challenging a Nazi comparison made to Horn. So I’m …
2010 in Review – Misc Year-End Political Analysis
All in one place, various Rostra “2010 Year in Review” posts from our bloggers — the prolific Jim Sills leading the way — with loads of analysis on the “Best Of” the just passed election cycle… http://sdrostra.com/?tag=year-in-review-2010
California madness continues — free college for illegals proposed
California is broke. It owes more than $25 billion, businesses and residents are fleeing like dine-and-dash customers to less taxed states; this financial catastrophe is leaving a gaping spending and revenue problem for the Golden State. Rational lawmakers would see the writing on the wall and start cutting the budget line by line. However, adding insult to injury, one California …
Maienschein Thinking About A Comeback?
Brian Maienschein served for eight years on the San Diego City Council. A Republican heavily supported by the labor unions, he cast many of the votes that put the city in such dire straights. He then ran for San Diego City Attorney – and was slaughtered. He now works for a help the homeless nonprofit. But he can’t shake the …
San Diego Mayor’s Race Part 3
Normally I feel somewhat obligated to fact check posts by “mouth of the local gop” Mr. Murphy. So I did some calling around about the San Diego Mayor’s race. Turns out Murphy is correct: it sounds like Dumanis and Filner are in the race. To Filner first: if he runs, and he is the only Democrat, he is pretty much …
No Maass!: Voice of San Diego Fact-Checked
Voice of San Diego lavishly uses “fact checks,” a trendy journalistic device often used to disguise opinions as factual reporting. SD CityBeat’s Dave Maass has given VoSD a taste of its own medicine with his own fact-check of a VoSD claim that it gets no government support. He labels the statement “huckster propaganda,” VoSD’s category for the most egregious falsehoods. …
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