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. …
New filings show the S.D. Deputy Sheriffs Assn had a good 2010 election Year — Here’s How they did it
2010 was a year to forget for much of organized labor, but at least one local employee group was celebrating on Election Night…the San Diego Deputy Sheriffs Association. Reports filed in the last 24 hours reveal the DSA found success through a willingness to back (gasp) Republican candidates ! The DSA did significant Independent Expenditures for Supervisors Bill Horn and Ron Roberts …
A strategy to repeal ObamaCare and/or shrink the Federal Government?
I recently received this email, and though I’ve never met the author and have no way to know if the proposed strategy would work or is in fact being considered in Congress, I thought it was intriguing and well written enough to share with my fellow Rostra-farian’s… Enjoy! Jerome MAKING BOEHNER’S BONES Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler Thursday, 13 January 2011 …
Media Belatedly Discover Calif. Gun Law Was Overturned
This is a followup to my earlier post on AB 962 being overturned by a state judge Tuesday. Read the post for the background. The Associated Press ran a story Wednesday on the decision. Written by Garance Burke, the story predictably dragged in the Arizona shootings. (Burke is a lefty; read her paper on “Indigenous Mexican Migrants” (PDF), which refers …
Anchor babies cost Los Angeles welfare $600 million last year
California harbors the most illegal aliens in the nation and a new report out from the Los County Board of Supervisors shows the incredibly high cost of welfare for parents of anchor babies. The $600 million tab was tallied using county statistics released by Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich who says social spending for those families rose $53 million …
La Raza targets lawmakers who voted against the DREAM Act
The National Council of La Raza (NCLA) announced it will begin a new ad campaign targeting those lawmakers who voted against the DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education of Alien Minors) during last year’s lame duck Congressional session. La Raza (the race in Spanish) launched an online and print ad campaign named “We Will Not Forget.” The campaign will serve …
National Honor for San Diego’s John Wainio …. “Tax Man” mailer in North County race Rated ‘Top 3 in USA’ by “Campaigns & Elections” Magazine.
San Diego political consultant John Wainio got good news this week from Campaigns & Elections magazine (the Bible of the Election Biz). His “Tax Man” mailer is one of 3 National finalists for “Best Mail Piece” of 2010 in two categories. The flyer kids candidate Steve Gronke for votes to raise fees in Vista, comparing him to the subject of George Harrison’s famous song. Aiding …
Update on 2012 San Diego Mayor’s Race
Looks like DA Bonnie Dumanis and Congressman Bob Filner are both exploring entering the San Diego Mayor’s race. How does this play? With the DA in there are at least two “establishment” candidates in the race, Dumanis and Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher. Presumably Fletcher will be able to access Republican donor monies from his term in Sacramento and his and his …
Time to Think Outside the Library Box
San Diego Tax Fighters ****Press Release **** Authored by Richard Rider, Chairman Phone: 858-530-3027 1-18-2011 Time to Think Outside the Library Box San Diego – As this week’s dreary reports from Sacramento confirm, our state and local governments are by necessity cutting library funding. But do such cuts necessitate commensurate cuts in library service? The answer is “no.” We need …
UPDATED — New Calif. Gun Law Struck Down
UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times published a blog post about the gun law being invalidated. It was date-stamped 7:31 p.m. Tuesday night, hours after gun-interested bloggers had the story. Still, it’s the first MSM account of the law being overturned I’ve seen. The post mostly repeats what other bloggers have said. But there’s one nugget of new information: “Sen. Kevin …
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