The 10 Most Tweeted San Diego Rostra Posts in 2011

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  Politics & Media Mashup: your weekend news aggregator leads off with “The 10 Most Tweeted San Diego Rostra Posts in 2011” and includes stories and editorials from across the country about the death of redevelopment in California. Also included: pieces on local, state and national politics as well as social media. You can hear Tony Manolatos talk politics and media …

Chris Reed Interviews Barry Jantz On Redistricting

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Chris Reed’s Top Story show on KOGO AM 600 (Get yer podcast here)  is a dependable staple of my drive home. And yesterday, the show by the self-proclaimed “cranky libertarian” produced a bonus:  SD Rostra’s own Barry Jantz. Redistricting was the topic, especially its effects in San Diego County. Jantz made a number of points: – The new San Diego …

Exposed: Empower San Diego’s Talking Points – One Person, One Vote? Whatever!

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-“Oh, but wait! There’s more!” A core principle in Redistricting is “One Person, One Vote” which even embattled Executive Director Midori Wong has been repeating over and over again in various media outlets. Apparently that principle is not shared over at Empower San Diego as they are willing to sacrifice it at the altar of forcing their progressive, political agenda …

Exposed: Empower San Diego’s Last Ditch Political Play – And Interesting Friends

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It’s no secret that various interest groups have been actively lobbying the San Diego Redistricting Commission over the past few months. One of the most active groups has been Empower San Diego which even managed to get one of their own, Commissioner Theresa Quiroz on the actual commission and who has been carrying their water ever since. The commission has …

Todd Gloria Loves District 3 – As Long as It’s Convenient

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Guest Commentary by Dave McCulloch Just the other day, Todd Gloria – City Councilmember for District 3 – tweeted his “heart is in D3 and [he] intends to serve it, in whatever configuration, for another four years.”  While this sounds noble, I question his motives. Today, Gloria lives in Cherokee Point, a small area of City Heights that was recently …

La Jolla’s Out, Rancho Santa Fe’s In

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With the mayor’s race sucking up all the oxygen, it’s hard to imagine there’s any other political news anywhere in San Diego County, but there is. Tomorrow, San Diego County’s Redistricting Advisory Committee will present three proposals to redraw the supervisors’ seats. All the maps propose lifting La Jolla out of Supervisor Pam Slater-Price’s district and moving it to Supervisor …

SAN DIEGO REPUBLICANS TO CALL ON COMMISSIONER MARQUEZ TO RESIGN

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, MAY 19th CONTACT: TONY KRVARIC (858) 699-3000 SAN DIEGO — In light of the recent revelations about commissioner Marquez’ residency – on top of his already documented partisan leanings – Chairman Tony Krvaric will call on Mr. Marquez to resign at the commission hearing this afternoon. “After learning about Mr. Marquez taking a job in Los …

You want to decide on the council districts, but you live where?

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One is reminded of the local political phrase from a couple of decades ago, “The Los Angelization of San Diego,” used to oppose land use proposals that would apparently lead us all to hell in a handbasket. The news is rippling through the polisphere that one of the City of San Diego Redistricting Commissioners, of the clearly partisan variety, has …

Redistricting Proposal — A Power Grab by Democrats and Labor in the City of San Diego

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Let’s put aside for the moment the well-debated controversies over the partisan backgrounds of some of those holding the reins of the City of San Diego Redistricting Commission. After all, it still comes down to the maps the Commission is to consider, whether pulled out of their hats, drawn by a consultant, proposed by the community, or some combination thereof. …

SD County Taxpayers Association: City Redistricting group should reconsider controversial computer contract

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The S.D. County Taxpayers Association  is the latest civic group to weigh-in on the troubled SD Redistricting Commission, raising concerns today about a disputed contract for vital computer services. The organization’s statement says in part, “Lani Lutar, President & CEO, said SDCTA is concerned that such a decision would further compromise the perception the Commission is politically biased.  ‘Whether or …

“Impartial” Redistricting Staffer Blocks Important Question on Partisanship of Commissioners

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According to the San Diego Charter, members of the Independent Redistricting Commission have to demonstrate that they can operate in a nonpartisan fashion in drawing the lines. So of course you’d think that the judges who selected the commissioners would ask about previous partisan affiliation. Nope. Not at all. Not one question in the public written forms or the oral …

SDNR: The best thing Wong can do is resign

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The real redistricting scandal by David King at San Diego News Room Republished with permission Link to the original content at SDNR Many have asked the simple question: “What is wrong with our government today?”  Although the list is long, for years I have been of the mind that manipulation of our legislative districts is the prime culprit—the reason “safe” …

FlashReport: Controversy Swirls Around Partisan Staffer of San Diego Redistricting Commission, Assemblywoman’s Daughter

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From today’s FlashReport by Jon Fleischman (linked here)… What is Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada (D-Davis) doing in Otay Mesa on a Wednesday night? Touring the border? Offering Northern California’s help on water issues? Nope, she was here to support her embattled daughter Midori Wong, the Executive Director to the San Diego Redistricting Commission. For the FlashReport readers around the state not …

Dual Profiles for Redistricting Chief Midori Wong

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KUSI’s story about the liberal partisans on the “independent” Redistricting Commission has reverberated throughout San Diego. KUSI sat down with Redistricting Commission Chief of Staff Midori Wong. The Redistricting Commission website’s profile of Wong does not mention her being a 2010 fellow of the liberal New Leaders Council. It also omitted her campaigning for Democrat Assemblymember Mariko Yamada, her mother, …

KUSI-TV investigates possible political Bias in Redrawing of SD City Council Districts — A New map would apply for a Decade.

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“It’s  Deja Vu all over again”  baseball’s  Yogi Berra once said, and tonight KUSI-TV news hints that could be happening with redrawing of San Diego City Council districts. You can see KUSI’s lengthy story here.  Political bias in the process was supposed to have ended in 1992 when voters approved an “independent” commission to do the job, but KUSI asks whether …

KUSI Drops Bombsell on Redistricting

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I hope someone else saw KUSI’s segment tonight on labor’s infiltration of the City of San Diego’s redistricting commission because I missed the first few minutes. What I did see was KUSI rip the “non-partisan” redistricting commission apart. It appears that a good number of the board members have significant ties to labor and that the commission’s lead staffer is …