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Downtown San Diego Partnership to spend $110,000 of PBID funds on Director of Homeless Outreach
Never seen more blatant corruption in my life!!! They're just like lizards...they get their arses cut off one way and they grow a new tail. Amazing how snakes can turn so many shades of gray!!! Pathetic!!!— May 29, 2013 8:05 p.m.
City accused of not releasing public documents, sued for violating public records act
What a completely worthless and pathetic pack of "trusted servants", all of them. A gutless, paid off, and corrupt pack of City Council buffoons that could really give a damn. Down to a smoke and mirrors City attorney who supports his/her corrupt municipal corporation by raising confusion and confounding to an art form. By illegally dodging legal requests for public information to continue hiding thier idiocy and corruption with vague excuses. Now there's a conundrum wrapped in a dichotomy although really it's the only position this gutless pack of morons has left because they're painted into a corner of truth without a paintbrush to hide their deceit and treachery as public servants. Just like it was with Scott Kessler and the laughable and oh so transparent travesty of the Golden Hill MAD When the people and Hal Tyvoll (RIP Hal) called thier ludicrous chicanery and a judge nailed thier illegality to the wall. Btw, where's our Golden Hill MAD money you worthless pack of rat bastards?? Or do we have to take this to the streets??— April 17, 2013 1:21 p.m.
Marco Li Mandri wants to get around Prop 13
Oh geezuz please!!! Now we have a new scum cronie hired by the City for 10K/month to reinvent the MAD into a CBD!!! He must be the new Scott Kessler ...who was ousted for fiscal chicanery. But wait...this cronie is a consultant with brilliant ideas about how to reinvent the failed MAD scam so that must make him more official or more likely...a mechanism for deferral of liability for the City. So I wonder, being a consultant myself, how [he] managed to lump sum a 10K/month contract with the City??? That means that he really doesn't have to worry about performance because the City accepted the 10K/month salary whether [he] produces or not. Then again, given the City's MAD weighted vote scam has already been perpetrated multiple times, [his] utility is really almost completely unaccountable and unnecessary!! The 10K/month is certainly not based on time and materials as it should be. Especially given he's an outside contractor. What a complete joke and travesty this is...again!!!! And a waste of taxpayer's money. .— April 28, 2012 8:02 p.m.
Golden Hill Residents Aren't MAD Anymore
Will saints amazingly be praised!!! Finally a shining light of justice amidst blatant San Diego municipal corruption. After the absolute travesty of the City overweighting open space votes based on land area; the ousted Scott Kessler and his band of crooks; a despondent, worthless, and unsympathetic City Council; Hueso in his pin-striped suit, Atkins, Gloria and rest of that Rat Pack; City puppeteerrs playing smoke and mirrors with taxpayer monies; and paying 60K/year to some GHMAD manager to sit around and lick stamps, the City's plan of concocting the GH MAD against the citizenry is now on the run and hopefully kaput!! Talk about fleecing the citizens!! More like City redcoats devising a legal money laundering scheme against the colonists under the guise of purported legitimate taxation. Sorry crooks but the U.S. Constitution is alive and well thanks to an independent state appeals judge. "No taxation without representation" and "Don't tread on me" are still apparently alive and well. And to Hal Tyvoll, may you rest in peace and thank you for your tireless crusade and legal tenacity/expertise amidst failing health. We miss you and we hope you are smiling!!— September 26, 2011 9:14 a.m.
Spread the Wealth
Nice article Dorian. Once again, thanks for calling out the unilateral corruption that continues to exist within the City and it's CDC puppet org. Guess the CDC is not only bypassing bylaws in Golden Hill but now both state codes and the recent legal ruling that went against them regarding the special MAD ripoff. It's amazing to me that they can simply do what they want and totally ignore the will of the people. But hey, I guess they're just mimicing the larger federal governmental macrocosm that is no longer "by the people or for the people" but is rampantly growing at the expense of the people and is basically ignoring and has lost sight of the entire democratic process and U.S. Constitution. Following the feds and in light of their basic bankrupt and overspent state, I guess the City's ultimate goal now is to make us all tax slaves to fund out of control and lopsided employee pensions as well as feel-good low income segment (guess who??) subsidization. I recall the slogans "Don't Tread on Me" and "No Taxation without Representation". I'm sure those slogans will be remembered when the next revolution begins. I wonder what Alexander Hamilton and John Adams would say. Spreading the wealth is right. Or is it redistributing the wealth. They effectively removed public oversight and support from MAD spending and economics with eradification of the powerless MAD oversight committee. Of course in reality, the oversight committee never did have a legal say so the public never really was represented although that was touted in the beginning of this fiasco as one of the very cornerstones of the MAD process. What a joke!!!! Continuing thier debauchery against the recent legal ruling is most audacious and disturbing and speaks to the City's desperation and obvious need to funnel general services moneythat we already pay for through our taxes down to the lower income parts of District 8 down by the border. Never figured out how that one worked?? Shades (Shady actually) of Hueso!! Or is the City now in the business of playing Robin Hood. Maybe they should start running around in green tights with feathers in thier caps and change Golden Hill to Sherwood Forest.— May 2, 2010 11:19 a.m.
Bypassing Bylaws in Golden Hill
Golden Hill Supporter?? Huh??? How bout Golden Hill CDC Plant!! Geezuz. Obstructionists??? More like patriots who are, or soon to be were I guess, guarding against special interest city criminals using our money for basically whatever they want. Why wouldn't they as we really have no say and never have. And please, do you honestly think that given how the MAD was enacted in the first place that we could expect an honest election of new committee members. Not!!! Absolute power corrupts absolutely and it certainly has and continues in this case. Government is supposed to work for the people. Instead it has and is evermore turning into a rampantly growing, self perpetuating, ten headed-monster fed by an ever increasing demand for taxpayer dollars to support its uncontrolled growth. Where will it end?? I'll bet the CDC's insatiable demand for MAD money will equate to a guaranteed annual 5% raise of our MAD taxes from here on out. And nobody will there be to stop them!!! And ever increasing and duplicative taxes is significant for people who own a home on a fixed income and must utilize health programs that Obama wants to now eradicate. Eradicate...so he can cater to the whims of the parasitic, expanding illegal Mexican horde whose 18-year per anchor baby welfare-supported stipend has and is both far outstripping and has destroyed most funding mechanisms in California on multiple levels. All for the sake of a vote. Maybe if the San Diego public would vote out the ridiculous pensions that virtually worthless city workers amass and vote in for themselves (huh???), the city would have more money (way more money actually) and wouldn't need MAD's at all. So really the MAD's are really nothing more than fiscal chicanery to compensate for corruption and self-promotion at the highest levels of city government. And that's part of the global U.S. governmental mentality and corrupt macrocosm that you're supporting with this MAD microcosm. Is that really where you want to be?? If so, I feel sorry you because you've been blinded to the much larger truth. Anyway, I applaud all of the outgoing MAD advisory committee members who dedicated thier time and effort against corrupt and virtually powerless odds to conserve our very valuable tax dollars. Thank you all. Job well done.— September 18, 2009 7:30 p.m.