It’s no surprise that the police unions endorsed Comrade Bob Filner for mayor of San Diego. But what deserves more publicity is that a major reason the unions themselves declare they are adamantly opposed to Carl DeMaio is that DeMaio led the charge against their city sales tax increase (which turned out to not be needed after all).
NOTE TO UNION BOSSES: The sales tax measure lost by a whopping 62%. San Diegans REJECT your “raise taxes” solution. The lies by proponents are now apparent to all.
http://www.ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/San_Diego_Sales_Tax_and_Financial_Reform_Package,_Proposition_D_(November_2010)
Obviously your endorsement of Comrade Bob indicates your confidence that Filner can be counted on to SUPPORT and indeed INITIATE such tax increases.
Thanks for the “heads up,” labor union bosses. Who says union endorsements aren’t useful to voters?
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Where is the outrage by Taxpayer Watchdogs for Mayor Sanders, Carl DeMaio, and the City Council approval of up to a 5 percent increase in our City of San Diego Hotel Taxes without the required 2/3 public vote? Does anyone care that Carl DeMaio is trying to create a legal loophole and challenge to Proposition 26, that if found valid could dramatically increase taxes State-wide.
Carl DeMaio and the Hotel and Visitor Industry have already approved a 5 percent increase in our hotel taxes.
http://tinyurl.com/20041102
The opposition to defeat Proposition J on the the November 2, 2004 ballot to increase our TOT from the extremely low 10.5 percent to 13 percent was paid for by Carl DeMaio, Doug Manchester, and John Lynch.
Back in 2004 Carl DeMaio and the Hoteliers stopped Proposition J, and instead created the temporary 5 year private Tourism Marketing District (TMD) that increased Hotel Taxes by 2 percent from 10.5 to 12.5. Now the same hoteliers have approved another 1- to 3-percent for a maximum 15.5 percent Hotel Tax Rate, with only a maximum of $25 million going toward an expansion of the Convention Center, and the rest going to the private CONVIS and hoteliers.
The 5 percent private Hotel tax increase will create more than $80 million in new Revenue, with only a maximum of $25 million going to construction, and the remaining $55 million going to CONVIS and the private hoteliers.
And if the current design for the Convention Center expansion is not built, than the full annual $80 million will go to the private Hoteliers to build Manchester and Lynch’s NFL Stadium on the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal (TAMT).
http://www.tinyurl.com/20120619
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If perchance you missed my July “outing” of Comrade Bob’s long love affair with outright socialism and communism, go to this inflammatory SDRostra post:
http://sdrostra.com/?p=29566
“THE BOB FILNER BIOGRAPHY THE LEFT WANTS TO HIDE”
Sunday, July 1, 2012
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What is sad is that the Unions only look at the short term solution. Long term we’re getting more and more in debt with no chance of digging us out unless with more bonds, which puts us further in the hole. And the misinformed public believes that bonds are the savior. I feel sorry for our kids and grandkids.
Speaking of Socialism, if Maienschein gets elected to AD77 he’ll be bringing back his brand of socialism…overcharging residential customers to the benefit of industrial customers, but now he’d be able to do it beyond the wastewater system. No way, Comrade Maienschein!
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Poway, perhaps we should feel equally sorry for the geezers who stay. Our families are being split up, as more and more of our offspring spring off to other states for better opportunities and — ya know — JOBS.