From Politico…
An off-season mayor’s race in America’s eighth-largest city has become an unexpected magnet for national political groups, as labor unions and Democrats scramble to keep San Diego government in liberal hands and Republicans seek to capture their first big-city mayoral election win in half a decade.
The Tuesday special election in San Diego, triggered by the resignation of Democratic Mayor Bob Filner, caps a tumultuous stretch in the seaside defense-contracting-and-tourism hub that was once a stronghold of California Republicanism. Rocked in the past few years by a public-pensions meltdown that drove one mayor from office and again last year by Filner’s lurid sexual harassment scandal, San Diego politics is now buffeted by a different kind of force: overwhelming outside spending.
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From the article…
“Faulconer, a second-term council member, was initially viewed as a solid favorite. He’s a self-described moderate and environmentalist with an even-keeled personality that seemed like a good fit for San Diego after the tumult of Filner’s brief administration. He has made a point of distancing himself from the national Republican Party; asked if he could imagine himself delivering the national GOP radio address as the party’s most prominent mayor, Faulconer laughed: “Unlikely.”
Wow…with “Republicans” like Faulconer, who needs Democrats? The article goes on to say one of his biggest backers in the politically amorphous Lincoln Club (the “ying” to the New Majority “yang” that has made concerted and fundamental statements and taken action that is antithetical the actual platform of the GOP).
Another “winner” brought to you by the SDGOP.
I do not see Faulconer winning.
Sad but true…when he pulled that stunt to sign the petition to negate Prop 8 as a councilman, that told me enough about his political “fortitude.” If he can negate the tens of thousands of constituents in SD by ignoring the will of the majority of the people with feel good-politically correct pap, what is to say what his next “negate” may be? Amnesty? Gun Control? Higher Taxes to fund the next “right and necessary” projects? Common Core?
If they had only ran a Republican….