Why Do Firefighters Receive an8.5% Bonus for Meeting Basic Standards Required for Hiring? $5.4 Million in “Specialty Pays” For Basic Qualifications Call Into Question Recent Threats of “Fire Cuts” View KUSI video SAN DIEGO – City Councilmember Carl DeMaio today revealed a questionable and costly practice of paying City firefighters an 8.5% bonus each year for simply meeting the requirements …
Proposition D Sales Tax trailing 48% to 29% in Channel 10 and Survey USA poll
A survey of 577 “likely voters” in the City of San Diego shows Proposition D now trailing by a margin of 48% certain to vote NO, to just 29% certain YES. The results were published by KGTV Channel 10 and the Survey USA polling firm on October 8th. The City schools tax measure (Prop, J) was also in trouble in …
Why Do Firefighters Receive an 8.5% Bonus for Meeting Basic Standards Required for Hiring?
$5.4 Million in “Specialty Pays” For Basic Qualifications Call Into Question Recent Threats of “Fire Cuts” City Councilmember Carl DeMaio today revealed a questionable and costly practice of paying City firefighters an 8.5% bonus each year for simply meeting the requirements of basic employment with the City’s fire department. The current labor contract with the City’s fire union states: “effective …
Howard Wayne** to Taxpayers: A Contest
**Disclaimer: Nothing in this picture is photoshopped, it is completely original content. I just saw KUSI’s San Diego People from this Sunday and pretty much figured I could summarize what Howard was saying to the taxpayers in one picture, but now we will all have the chance to! I have created a small blank ‘thought bubble’ for everyone to fill …
Fairness Demands Yes Vote on County’s Prop A
Originally posted on La Mesa Patch. By Bill Baber Fairness is a core American value–it is part of the DNA of the USA. We highly value each person as important—and we complain strongly when someone else is taking advantage of us. “That’s not fair!” is a common cry from the schoolyard to the state capital. Each of learned a simple …
The Prop D Sham: Questionable Bonuses Being Paid in City Fire Department
More reasons not to trust a word that is said by the Prop D proponents… In a strong rebuttal to claims by city leaders that there is no waste left to cut in city budgets, Councilmember DeMaio will release details on over $5 million in dubious bonuses being paid out this year alone inside the Fire Department. $5 million would …
Wayne says he will return contribution
Dave Maass of San Diego CityBeat contacted SD Rostra to note that in response to his inquiry resulting from Jim Sills’ post of last night, San Diego city council candidate Howard Wayne said he ordered his treasurer to return the $100 contribution from Amerland’s Jules Arthur. Rostra has verified the information as accurate; Wayne indicated he has directed the return …
Friends of the NRA Dinner – October 23
If anyone would like to get together at $50 per ticket and get a SD Rostra table for this event, please email info@sdrostra.com to let us know… Friends of the NRA Dinner Oct. 23rd at 4:30 p.m. Scottish Rite in Mission Valley Buy tickets here at $50 each: https://www.friendsofnra.org/EventDocs.aspx?eid=6848 Or, for a basic table of 8, just buy 8 individual …
Will Howard Wayne return money from a Donor the Bay Area media say is charged with 2 Counts of Manslaughter ?
On June 22, 2010 the Solano County DA’s office charged businessman Jules Arthur, and 4 associates, in the deaths of 2 senior citizens killed in an accidental Vallejo fire. (source Vallejo Times-Herald, Sept. 4, 2010). The prosecutors say a Vallejo senior citizen project owned by Arthur’s San Diego-based ‘The Amerland Group’ burned down. 2 people lost their lives. The fire’s origin was purely …
Assessor Butler takes credit for public funds donated to charity
County Assessor David Butler, who last March used the public email system to announce his campaign for the seat to employees, is now — three weeks from the election — taking credit for public funds being donated to charity. Butler sent an official county press release this morning, proudly announcing “his” donation of $10,000 to the Polinsky Children’s Center, although …
Tea party rallies to get out the vote
With just three weeks until the all important midterm elections, the Stop Taxing Us Tea Party hosted a get out and vote rally in San Diego. Stop Taxing Us usually allows candidates running for office to speak, but this time they decided to mix it up and give rally attendees something to think about before they pull the lever. More …
Gabriella Hoffman appears on The Rick Amato Show with Guest Host, Bob Siegel
Gabriella Hoffman, conservative activist and SD Rostra/NewsRealBlog contributor, appears on The Rick Amato Show on October 7th, 2010. Click the link to listen to me talk about my family background, my activism, Radical Islam, and loads more! My lovely friend Yoela Palkin drops in a call too. Hope you enjoy it! http://tinyurl.com/2g6zmkt
As big Rally takes place today in Oceanside, UT asks, “Who are San Diego’s Tea Party members?”
From today’s SDUT… Activists gather today in Oceanside to advocate lower taxes, smaller government and other conservative causes A PRE-ELECTION TEA PARTY When: Today, noon to 4 p.m. Where: Oceanside Pier amphitheater, 200 N. The Strand, Oceanside Featuring: Speakers, music, contests Sponsors: Stop Taxing Us and Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition Tea Party activists from Southern California and beyond will …
Mailer hitting Encinitas Mailboxes
OK, So every City and community in the County is involved in the upcoming “mid-term”elections in one way or another. Encinitas’ race is interesting because there are two incumbents being challenged by two outsiders. The incumbents are on opposite sides of the issues, and each of the challengers line up with one incumbent but not the other. What makes the …
Look Again! Who’s Splitting The Vote Now?
What did we keep hearing for the past year and a half as the Tea Party movement grew and showed itself to be far more formidable than Democratic or Republican politicians ever could have imagined? “Gee, ” Republican pundits were saying, “I sure hope the Tea Party remains a grass roots movement. Yeah, sure, go ahead and hold our feet …
End Run, Touchdown!
The quarterback gives the play in the huddle. Just after the snap, the defenders push to the center and the quarterback gets plowed from the side. The reason: the line decided to go with another play. In case you’re wondering, the public is the quarterback in this end run on the tax cap increase for the Centre City Development Corp. …
CCDC Cap Increase Hits General Fund; City Leaders Still Push Prop D
Councilmember Carl DeMaio issued the following memo today where he asks for an explanation of why the city’s downtown redevelopment cap was raised without following the public process and analysis period approved in June by the City Council. In light of the big push by the Mayor and City Council to pass Prop D’s massive General Fund tax hike, DeMaio …
Dead people and inmates are still getting stimulus payments
In a new $787 billion stimulus accountability report a government investigator found that more than 89,000 people received stimulus payments of $250 each. The lucky recipients were people (using the term loosely) whom were either in a graveyard or in prison. According to the Social Security Administration’s inspector general, $18 million stimulus dollars were mailed to at least 72,000 dead …
Jerry works the Chamber
Oh my, watch this video… http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7306357/
Drug addiction in Afghanistan brings shame – especially for women
It’s no secret that Afghanistan is a focal point in the War on Terror and the world’s leader in producing heroin, but there are unintended consequences of these two facts, specifically the increasing number of Afghani women and children who are addicted to drugs. According to a new study from the Afghan government in coordination with the United Nations Office …
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