Guest Column by Gary Felien, former Oceanside City Council Member As you may have heard, my good friend and former Council colleague Jerry Kern is running for the 76th Assembly District. We served together for four years and built a strong record of fiscally conservative policies. We ended deficit spending and passed four balanced budgets in a row with no …
Is Jerry’s Kern’s Assembly Run Serious?
Oceanside Councilman Jerry Kern announced his candidacy for the 76th Assembly District last week. The UT-San Diego reported that Kern will probably earn the endorsement of the incumbent Assemblyman, Rocky Chavez. Chavez is vacating the seat to challenge California Attorney General Kamala Harris for the open US Senate seat in 2016. Kern signaled that he will work to solve the …
Kern announces for Assembly
Guest Column by Oceanside Councilman Jerry Kern I am honored to have been asked to run as a candidate in 76th Assembly District, which includes the communities of Carlsbad, Oceanside, Vista and Encinitas. As a 40-year resident of North County and third term council member in the district’s largest city, I am thoroughly familiar with all of the communities within the …
Oceanside plays Texas to California’s San Diego – Locate here!
January 14, 2014 Open Letter to City of San Diego Business Owners Dear City of San Diego Business Owner, San Diego is working hard to establish its reputation as an anti-business, anti-taxpayer city. Nothing demonstrates this better than the Linkage Fee, also known as the Jobs Tax; a fee that actually attacks your business and the jobs you create. If …
The Meltdown of Oceanside Mayor Jim Wood
Now that the Tri City Healthcare District Board has cleaned up its act, all eyes have turned to the Oceanside City Council to provide the political entertainment for North County. After the spectacle of last Wednesday’s city council meeting, lets just say Oceanside does not disappoint. Oceanside Mayor Jim Wood had a meltdown at the dais – all recorded on …
Mobile Home Rent Control doesn’t work
A follow up to Greg Larkin’s post yesterday about today’s Oceanside City Council meeting… Mobile Home Rent Control doesn’t work by Steve Gramm It didn’t work in Cuba, or behind the Iron Curtain, but some politicians in San Diego County still think the government should be setting prices for one form of housing—mobile home parks. It will come as no …
Free Market Ideals call for Amending the Rent Control Ordinance in Oceanside
The Oceanside City Council faces a final vote tomorrow (Wednesday) on a measure proposed by Councilman Jerry Kern that would return free markets to city mobile home parks, thus simply allowing park owners to adjust rents to the market rate only when leasing to a new tenant. Don’t let Councilmember Esther Sanchez and her regulatory, nanny-state minded cronies tell you …
Advice to Oceanside Mayor Jim Wood: Be more like Dick Cheney
Oceanside Mayor Jim Wood may have suffered a minor stroke just over two weeks ago, while on a trip to Washington D.C. to meet with federal officials. I wish him well. I sincerely hope he returns to good health soon, and is able to fully execute his duties as mayor. I also hope he drops his ghoulish political opportunism. I …
Escondido Looking at Charter Status
North County – Escondido, the only city in North County not to become a charter city is finally looking at the change. Considering the major projects that the city is looking at developing in the near future, including a Triple A ballpark for the Padres minor league team and a Marriott hotel on city land, the savings from eliminating prevailing …
If We Hurry, There’s Still Time to Screw Over The Voters
Thanks to some vigilent citizen watchdogs spreading the word, we learned that Oceanside Mayor Jim Wood called a special meeting of the Oceanside City Council today at 4 p.m. The meeting just barely met the minimum public notice required. Ask yourself dear Rostra reader why the council would be in such a big hurry to have an unscheduled meeting on …
Taxpayers Association Issues Ballot Recommendations
One of the most important functions of groups like the San Diego County Taxpayers Association (SDCTA) is educating the rest of us. Providing voters with ballot recommendations that satisfy its criteria for accountable, cost-effective and efficient government has got to top the list. SDCTA has just completed its review of the June 2010 Primary Election state and local ballot measures …
Early Oceanside Recall Results!
NO 11144 63.17% YES 6498 36.83% The question is “shall Jerome Kern be Recalled?” And the early results show an answer of “NO”. These results are mostly absentee results, but it would be staggering for the margin of nearly 2 – 1 to be overcome with precinct results. Oceanside Mayor Jim Wood put himself very publicly out in front of …
NCTimes: Money in Oceanside
From the North County Times… OCEANSIDE: Big money flowing in on both sides of recall campaign Kern gets major donations from businesses; unions pour more cash into fighting him Big bucks are flowing almost daily to underwrite campaigns for and against the recall of Oceanside City Councilman Jerry Kern with less than a week to go before the Dec. 8 …
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 …
Too Quiet on the O’Side Front
None of our in-the-know bloggers are going to take even a short, one paragraph stab at how the Rocky Chavez vacancy in Oceanside will impact the city? How about what it means — if anything — to the union led recall effort of Councilman Jerry Kern? Can Kern and his supporters successfully turn this into a call for stability, just …
Oppose the Oceanside Recall Fundraiser
October 15, 2009 6:00-7:30 Requested Contribution: $100 per person Any Contribution Amount Welcomed Personal & Corporate/Business Contributions Are Allowed No Maximum Contribution Limit RSVP Online at SDLincolnClub.org Oasis Bar and Grill at the Woodfin Hotel San Diego 10044 Pacific Mesa Blvd, San Diego CA 92121 Questions? Email RSVP@sdlincolnclub.org For more information: Contact: Alicia Garcia Phone: 619-531-1971 Email: rsvp@sdlincolnclub.org
Now here is a cause worth supporting!
From the folks over at the San Diego Lincoln Club: Oppose the Oceanside Recall… http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs088/1101430190455/archive/1102736842744.html
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