Yesterday the Board of Directors of the North County Transit District (I am a member of that 9 member Board) voted unanimously to outsource the bus drivers and mechanics to a private concern. The buses and routes will be the same, and most of the employees will likely be the same but they will work for a private company instead of …
Politics and Giving Do Mix
In more than one on-line source today I noted various individuals and entities soliciting contributions for Toys for Tots and other similar organizations. Among them, Councilman Carl DeMaio, the San Diego Deputy Sheriffs’ Association, and a couple of area chambers of commerce. There are undoubtedly many others as well, but that’s just those I noted today in passing. It reminded …
Reason #452 Obama should be impeached
Ok, its official. The Obama Administration is either the most corrupt or most incompetent administration I have ever seen. Below is a link listing 440 congressional districts that do NOT exist and for which Obama has claimed jobs were created! These phantom districts are responsible for over 28,000 alleged jobs at a cost of $224,525.22 per job, so even if they were …
Is it the Chamber of government, or the Chamber of Commerce?
A very good column was printed in today’s North County Times. It leads one to questions such as: what is a Chamber of Commerce for? What is their rightful role in our society?, and, how do we judge them and what do we do about them if we find they’ve “lost their way”? By SUNANA BATRA — For the North …
Congressman Bilbray, KUSI Interview on Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants
Congressman Brian Bilbray’s KUSI interview on a new House bill regarding amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Socialism Run Amok
Somehow I knew this day was coming. The slippery slope toward socialism started many decades ago, but now the pace is blatant, out-in-the-open and rapidly going into a downward spiral. The dems are running amok and our laws are openly violated and there is no political will to enforce them. A lone voice cries, “What about the Constitution?” and the …
REWARD OFFERED IN OCEANSIDE RECALL
I’ve now heard half a dozen times that various union public safety employees in the Oceanside Recall are walking door to door in fake, pseudo uniforms, while campaigning to Recall Jerry Kern. They are prohibited from wearing their real uniforms while conducting political activity. I asked one of my lawyer friends about this, and he got back to me Tuesday …
“Fuzzy Logic” : as public employee unions submit Term Limit petitions for San Diego County Supervisors
Public employee union leaders turned in petitions this morning asking a Two-term limit for San Diego County Supervisors. They say 120,000 voter names are included. Oddly, however, it appears this petition will have little effect on the CURRENT County Board, even if it qualifies and passes in the June 2010 election ! That’s because, like the statewide term limits law …
Poway: Game On!
As I post this, Councilmember Betty Rexford recall proponents led by Steve Vaus are announcing at the Poway City Council meeting that they have collected about 2,200 of the 5,657 petition signatures required to qualify for the ballot. This is with only 30 days elapsed of the 120 days allowed in which to collect signatures. These are raw numbers, but recall …
HJTA: Harkey, Anderson #1 Taxpayer Advocates in Sacramento for 2009
The results are in from the 2009 Legislative Report Card issued by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA), one of California’s oldest and most respected taxpayer advocacy organizations, and San Diego Assemblymembers Diane Harkey and Joel Anderson were the *only* elected state representatives out of all 120 legislative members in Sacto to receive perfect “A” scores! The Report Card, which is based …
Juan Vargas WILL battle Mary Salas in 40th state senate Democratic primary… and Yes, There Will be Blood
…….In a battle of current and former 79th Assemby members, Juan Vargas (San Diego) will duel Assemblywoman Mary Salas (Chula Vista) for the 40th state senate nomination. Incumbent senator Denise Ducheny is term-limited, so Salas and Vargas will compete in the June 2010 Democratic primary. There had been a few rumors of such a contest, but today Alan Hoffenblum’s authoritative …
Emerald Alienates Another Community Group – Grantville Action Group
Last week, San Diego News Network carried this article, which I missed. Brian Peterson, the author and President of the Grantville Action Group, was a pretty big Emerald supporter during the election if my friends in D7 speak the truth… http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-11-10/blog/a-more-perfect-union/emeralds-budget-meeting-offers-no-choices-for-citizens EMERALD’S BUDGET MEETING OFFERS NO CHOICES FOR CITIZENS Last week’s meeting of the Grantville Action Group was billed as …
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Who Outed ACORN in East County?
When the nice Santee couple attended their first East County Democratic Club (ECDC) meeting at Coco’s Restaurant on October 15 to hear David Lagstein of the local San Diego area ACORN office, they never guessed that several days later they would be accused by club official Raymond Lutz of secretly recording the meeting and releasing the information to Andrew Breitbard’s BigGovernment.com. After the …
Deport legal residents while illegal residents spend time in our jails
Once again, our justice system amazes me. In regards to the “runaway” balloon parents in Colorado ( UT, Saturday, Nov 14, “Parents involved in balloon hoax…”), our justice system was willing to deport the mother back to Japan (She is a legal resident of our country), however, our prisons have thousands and thousands of CONVICTED felons that are here Illegally, …
Busby Fundraising While Driving?
Too fun to pass up, especially considering such a big deal was made out of Maria Shriver doing the same. Have I done it myself? Yep, and I regret it. I also haven’t been on the case of law enforcement in recent months. That’s once-again congressional candidate Francine Busby multi-tasking today. If anyone wants to claim it’s not her, feel free. …
Sheriff Watch: Early Polling Shows Duffy Leading
From my post at the FlashReport… See the press release below and don’t even begin to tell me that aging name ID from the green-and-white-car days doesn’t mean anything. That said, it’s still significantly early. Name ID can be softened just as significantly with financial resources and momentum. Appointed Sheriff Bill Gore and former Assemblyman Jay La Suer have plenty of …
Baldwin on Amato Monday Nite – KCBQ AM-1170 www.kcbq.com
Friends: I will be hosting the Rick Amato show this coming Monday night from 9-11 PM. The call-in number is 888-344-1170. With Roger now national, Rick’s show is one of the few locally-based conservative talk shows left here in San Diego. I will be talking about a number of issues: * How dissenters to Obama’s health care initiative — if it …
Newspapers in Freefall, Earmarks, Real Unemployment Rate, & Who’s Running the Show?
I’m thrilled to be part of San Diego Rostra and am convinced this is the medium by which the vast majority of Americans will receive their news, if not already, then in the very near future. The old line media are dinosaurs, especially newspapers. And it’s not just because the news cycles of newspapers are 24 hours as opposed to …
Oceanside Recall
Signs, signs, damn my eyes the hideous signs! Both the pro and anti recall organizations have coated Oceanside in similar signs. Most of them are in the public right of ways, but the number in yards looks to be growing. For much of the race thus far the union goons dominated the streets. I’m hearing that some of them are …
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