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Frye Thwarts Preposterous Proposed Ballot Language
By Don Bauder | Posted April 1, 2010, 9:42 p.m.
Can you imagine the cost of a new council district being zero? This is exactly what Mayor Jerry Sanders's office tried to get away with until Councilmember Donna Frye sued Monday. The mayor's and city attorney's office agreed to a settlement changing the language that the mayor had proposed going on June 8 ballot. The final settlement will be ratified tomorrow (April 2) in Superior Court. On June 8, voters go to the polls on making the so-called "strong mayor" form of government permanent. A second measure will be on adding a ninth council district. If this passes, it will take six votes (2/3rds) to veto a mayoral decision.
Get this: the mayor's office wanted the ballot to state that the fiscal impact of adding a ninth council district would be $0 to $1,072,000. "This is outrageous," says Frye. Her suit said that the fiscal impact statement "is prejudicially false and misleading in that it communicates to voters that adding a ninth council district could cost the city no money." Obviously, the mayor tried to sneak the language in there to sway the voters falsely. The statement was "not true, not impartial, and misled the public with inaccurate information about the true costs," says Frye. Now, the mayor and city attorney have agreed that one-time expenses for setting up a council office are $80,000 to $100,000. The annual costs for operating a council office are $939,500 to $971,500. Election costs range from $14,000 to $29,000, "and special elections could be much higher," she says.
Frye has issued a memo requesting that the municipal code be amended to have the independent budget analyst, who reports to council, prepare any fiscal impact analysis for any ballot measure, instead of the mayor.
In the past, fiscal impact analyses have been egregiously disingenuous. The ballpark was to have no fiscal impact, voters were told. It costs the City around $20 million a year. Sums up Frye, "There is no free lunch or free council office or free stadium."
Obviously, the mayor tried to sneak the language in there to sway the voters falsely.
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Business as usual for good old KFC Sanders.
This is the guy who said he was going to fix the budget while not raising taxes.....unless you call "fee increases" not raising taxes he is pretty much a big fat liar.
Oh, and our budget deficit is $180 million and getting worse every single day Sanders sits in office.
And has anyone seen a picture of Sanders recently???? He must hit the scales at over 300#-easily. He is so fat he must have his suits custom made-no way you could put his large and round body into an off the rack suit. I wonder if he has ever heard the two words 1) diet or 2) exercise????? Me thinks not.
He is at risk for a heart attack/disease from his obesity.
By SurfPuppy619 10:33 p.m., Apr 1, 2010 > Report it
Response to post #1: Even as thoroughly dishonest as the Sanders crew is, it is astonishing to me that they tried to get away with this one. Best, Don Bauder
By dbauder 10:36 p.m., Apr 1, 2010 > Report it
And has anyone seen a picture of Sanders recently???? He must hit the scales at over 300#-easily. He is so fat he must have his suits custom made-no way you could put his large and round body into an off the rack suit. I wonder if he has ever heard the two words 1) diet or 2) exercise????? Me thinks not.
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God served upon the Mayor a writ of habeas corpulence as punishment for his depredations against taxpayers.
By Burwell 11:40 p.m., Apr 1, 2010 > Report it
Response to post #3: Or a write of habeas crapulous. Best, Don Bauder
By dbauder 7:27 a.m., Apr 2, 2010 > Report it
Let's see...we can't tell Polack jokes anymore...we can't bash immigrants, we can't bash faggots...let's bash the overweight. It's their own fault anyway.
By russl 11:34 a.m., Apr 2, 2010 > Report it
Response to post #5:It's fashionable to fret about youth obesity and, as you seem to say, fat jokes are in once again. But this is how old I am: I can remember the words of a song that went, "I don't want her, you can have her, she's too fat for me...." And then there was one about the guy who was "huggin' and a-chalkin'" as he found his way around his corpulent girlfriend. Fats Waller was a jazz pianist of some note. Eddie (Two-Ton) Baker was a pianist in the Chicago area in the '30s and '40s. (I think I have his name right.) Baker's favorite song was "I Like Stinky Cheese." Best, Don Bauder
By dbauder 11:58 a.m., Apr 2, 2010 > Report it
It's an open question as to whether a man who can't control his weight has the self-discipline required to run a major city.
By Burwell 12:42 p.m., Apr 2, 2010 > Report it
And whether weight problems are a matter of self-discipline. (Don, you're referring to "The Too-Fat Polka." I know it well.)
By russl 12:57 p.m., Apr 2, 2010 > Report it
"It's an open question as to whether a man who can't control his weight has the self-discipline required to run a major city. "
True, but replace "a man" with "Jerry Sanders" and the question is no longer open.
By paul 3:33 p.m., Apr 2, 2010 > Report it
I remember the "Too Fat Polka" being played on KDKA Radio when I was a kid in Pittsburgh. Ahh the old days.
By TheGunny 7:30 p.m., Apr 2, 2010 > Report it
Response to post #7: Wasn't Boss Tweed a corpulent fellow? Or was it that the political cartoons (by Nast and others) portrayed him that way? Best, Don Bauder
By dbauder 10:31 p.m., Apr 2, 2010 > Report it
Response to post #8: Yes, the song is probably a polka. Best, Don Bauder
By dbauder 10:33 p.m., Apr 2, 2010 > Report it
Response to post #9: Despite the corruption and incompetence, the mayor and other officials such as the DA seem to have the public fooled. The mainstream media are partly to blame for that. Best, Don Bauder
By dbauder 10:35 p.m., Apr 2, 2010 > Report it
Response to post #10: Ah, KDKA. The pioneer. Was that the time that old man Rooney ran the underground gambling in Pittsburgh, as well as owning the Steelers? Best, Don Bauder
By dbauder 10:37 p.m., Apr 2, 2010 > Report it
Following up on the fat theme, who replaces him if he dies of morbid obesity?
Sanders not only doesn't care about his own health, but he has increasingly been threatening the health of everyone in San Diego by setting new demonic standards for San Diego GOP corrupticians with his hellacious cutbacks in fire protection to make things worse than he did with his 2007 Sanders Firestorms.
And as you reported, his latest achievement is providing San Diegans with about the most polluted water in the U.S., in addition to what the new April National Geographic page 114 documents is among the costliest in the U.S.
And how is he going to continue without inSainz to release his Goebbelsian press statements, lying all the time so all the brain-dead republicans will continue to believe everything he says?
With all this continuous bad publicity out in the open, I never cease to be amazed by how stupid republicans are for voting for the SOB (about as polite a characterization as I can give him).
By Anon92107 12:03 p.m., Apr 3, 2010 > Report it
And how is he going to continue without inSainz to release his Goebbelsian press statements, lying all the time so all the brain-dead republicans will continue to believe everything he says?
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Gerry Braun will be able to grind out braunschweiger for Sanders to feed the public.
By Burwell 12:50 p.m., Apr 3, 2010 > Report it
Response to post #15: Sanders is a puppet of the downtown establishment. That is made up of almost entirely Republicans. So Republicans are hardly stupid voting for him. Best, Don Bauder
By dbauder 1:14 p.m., Apr 3, 2010 > Report it
Response to post #16: Gerry Braun and two other ex-UT Sanders flacks are already grinding out s*itake mushrooms and turducken on behalf of the mayor. Best, Don Bauder
By dbauder 1:17 p.m., Apr 3, 2010 > Report it
Response to post #17:
"braunschweiger" is probably as polite a term as you can call GOP propaganda, actually the republicans eat up the same thing we feed mushrooms but I don't know the german word for that.
Whatever the word, the germans ingested a lot of it when they elected Adolph in the 1930s and then followed him straight to hell. And the republicans are doing the same thing today.
The hideous irony is that today the republicans have exactly the same mentality as the germans because, as our rising UC GOP Tea Party racist culture is proving daily, they are swallowing exactly the same bilge.
Sanders is destroying San Diego health and safety, and the GOP is destroying democracy with the likes of Limbaugh and Palin leading them straight to hell, nothing has changed since the 30s even at UC which now has the metastasizing cancer of GOP racism.
The fact is that not enough Americans ever learn from the lessons of history proves that the GOP has achieved its #1 goal to destroy American education enough to produce republicans stupid enough to keep electing republicans because they don't have to think.
By Anon92107 1:18 p.m., Apr 3, 2010 > Report it
Response to post #19: I don't think the Republicans have a monopoly on racism. Remember the Solid South? Even intelligent Southern Democrats like Sen. J. William Fulbright had to claim they were segregationists to keep getting elected. Best, Don Bauder
By dbauder 1:23 p.m., Apr 3, 2010 > Report it
Response to post #20:
Nothing has changed in the south, except that today the formerly democratic KKK south is republican KKK south because of Johnson's civil rights legislation.
By Anon92107 1:32 p.m., Apr 3, 2010 > Report it
Response to post #21: Good point. Johnson said on signing the civil rights bill that it was probably handing the entire South to the Republicans for at least a generation. Best, Don Bauder
By dbauder 2:55 p.m., Apr 3, 2010 > Report it
Thank God for Frye, she is San Diego's last hope in America's New Third World City.
Since you moved to Colorado, I wonder if you gave up hope.
Is Colorado doing better than California?
We appreciate all the clean water you send us, but unfortunately "Goering" Sanders keeps polluting it before it gets to our homes while "Limbaugh" Braun keeps "grinding out s*itake mushrooms and turducken" to feed the idiot GOP voters who still believe their lies of mass destruction.
By Anon92107 12:26 p.m., Apr 4, 2010 > Report it
Response to pot #23: Trouble is, Frye is termed out. She is not running for supervisor and has told me that she won't run for mayor. I'm sure she will remain active, but there won't be anyone to fight organized corruption. Best, Don Bauder
By dbauder 2:56 p.m., Apr 4, 2010 > Report it