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City Employees To Hold Anti-Aguirre Rally at Democratic Meeting
Response to post #33: Most interesting thing about this scenario is the macabre dance that too many democrats do with republicans because of their joint fear of Aguirre who has the political disease of integrity. To explain that, it has been my observation for far too many years that a paramount reason the U-T republican establishment has been so outrageously successful at robbing San Diego taxpayers is that brain-dead democrats make it too easy for them. This applies at the national and state levels also. Their meeting with the committee must have looked like the zombie scene from “Night of the Living Dead” where staggering employees met with The Potato Heads. After all, it is the County Democratic Central Committee that elected our “Three Stooges” Congresswoman Davis and Senators Feinstein and Boxer to represent us in Washington, only to have them demonstrate the consequences of their representation at San Diego’s new the quadrennial Firestorms which provide them with photo-ops, most certainly a phyrric decline and fall scenario reminiscent of that of the Roman Empire.— January 10, 2008 1:06 p.m.
City Employees To Hold Anti-Aguirre Rally at Democratic Meeting
Response to post #31: Don, nothing confirms that Aguirre and you are correct more than a rally against Aguirre at a Democratic Committee meeting by deadwood employees who spend all their time sucking up to the corrupt U-T establishment instead of serving the people of San Diego. The thing that confirms your integrity even more are the constant anti-Aguirre rants by U-T Editorial Board, plus attacks by the U-T establishment’s Voice of San Diego subsidiary against the both of you. And then the priceless announcement of the week is: “Pension system officials have cut off the entire retirement package of a former San Diego union president who received a perk that the Internal Revenue Service determined was improper” validates your investigative reporting as expected.— January 10, 2008 3:29 a.m.
Wall Street Journal Blasts San Diego in Municipal Bond Editorial
Response to: In an editorial Dec. 31, the Wall Street Journal excoriated "shady accounting in the public sector," and cited San Diego as an example. ---- "The City issued false and misleading financial statements in no fewer than five separate bond offerings in 2002 and 2003. The City didn't tell investors that its unfunded pension liabilities were about to balloon to $2 billion by 2009, or about that little matter of another billion for retiree health care...The residents of San Diego know all too well how costly such frauds can be for taxpayers and citizens who rely on City services." Don, nothing says Aguirre is right better than this WSJ editorial. Even “Big Business”/WSJ has to admit that the U-T Establishment and their corrupt “strong” Mayors plus deadwood city accounting, real estate and other office managers who suck up to the Mayors are the root cause of our problems today. The tragedy that all the anti-Aguirre/U-T establishment sycophants ignore is that San Diego citizens, police and fire personnel are increasingly risking our lives everyday because of U-T Establishment City Hall. Too many San Diegans have died and lost property because of the few corrupt Mayors and city managers who are obsequiously subservient to the U-T Establishment instead of being the elected and appointed servants of the people of San Diego that they should have been. That’s why Aguirre has more than enough to do just roto-rooting the U-T sewer that floods the Mayor’s office.— January 10, 2008 3 a.m.
29 Newspeople, Some of Paper's Best, Take U-T Buyout
Response to post #79 P.S.: Don, there is something definitely going more wrong than you appear to indicate, too many tipping points are in sight, such as: Unemployment reached a formidable 5% last week that further accelerates the decline in the all hallowed consumer spending. Consumer Spending, see Unemployment, Inflation, Lending, Wall Street, etc. Inflation is unacceptable regardless of the always suspect Washington stats that really don’t represent seemingly out of control pain we feel from of gas, food and housing prices. Lending, the insanity of commercial lending standards has been proven beyond all question, including the excessive number of foreclosed houses for sale, credit card bankruptcies, and unpaid bills like AT&T announced yesterday. Housing sucks, see Lending. Credit, it is most interesting that banks don’t trust other banks so the interest rates they charge each other are stubbornly high despite Fed rate cuts, so financial firms like Countrywide are increasingly threatened with no end in sight except bankruptcy. Wall Street, see everything else.— January 9, 2008 1:24 p.m.
City Employees To Hold Anti-Aguirre Rally at Democratic Meeting
Response to: “Aguirre ----- has tried to get City employees' excessive benefits reduced because the City is in dire financial straits. The Municipal Employees Union has opposed him at every step, including in court. ---- Aguirre and Councilmember Donna Frye, both Democrats, have put the City's interest first. Aguirre has incurred the enmity of Big Business, Big Labor and Big Media.” Don, that pretty well summarizes the Faustian bargain (made or done for present gain without regard for future cost or consequences) the City employees have made with the U-T establishment to condemn Aguirre. All want Aguirre out for the reasons you have stated in many of your columns, and that makes the Draconian consequences of excessive deaths and property destruction plus placing lives of heroic fire and police personnel at unconscionable risk a criminal act except that they are granted impunity by corrupt San Diego politicians and judges themselves. Corruption has reigned supreme in San Diego for far too long and the consequences we are experiencing today are beyond outrageous. Corrupt establishment politicians like Sanders, Dumanis and Hedgecock plus corrupt judges like Murphy and Greer have sold out San Diego citizens for far too long. So today the U-T establishment controllers still pillage the public treasury with impunity while also controlling Sign On San Diego, KPBS, Voice of San Diego and Envision San Diego with their financial and political domination. Together they are the most threatening cabal against the safety of the citizens of San Diego in our history. The Reader is the only media that champions all San Diego citizens from the corrupt who are all too easy to identify because they condemn Aguirre.— January 9, 2008 12:51 p.m.
29 Newspeople, Some of Paper's Best, Take U-T Buyout
Response to post #79: It’s truly sad that we live in an age where: HMO executives exercise the power of life and death over their subscribers so they can increase their personal wealth by $Billions, Oil company executives reap $Billions in personal wealth at the expense of the American economy and escalating numbers of starving Americans tossed into the dumper by executive and congressional branches of American government, University of California still makes hydrogen-holocaust bombs to increase the personal wealth of University executives while continuously failing to dedicate adequate resources to producing non-fossil fuel burning energy sources to save humanity, while San Diego politicians and their special interest owners increase their own personal wealth at the expense of hellaciously excessive firestorm and neighborhood violence deaths and destruction, risking the lives of our fire and police who are doing everything they can to protect San Diegans while the U-T establishment enriches itself with taxpayer money that should have been spent on public safety resources.— January 9, 2008 3:14 a.m.
U-T Axes 14 in Pressroom Without Buyouts
Response to post #8: Maybe Copley will sell the newspaper to the San Diego Reader, some group that includes the Peninsula Beacon, Zell's L.A. Times, or even let employees takeover with a leveraged deal. As you seem to say, who knows how things play out these days, and the L.A. Times/Chicago Tribune/TV stations/Chicago Cubs deal isn't exactly a game that is over yet.— January 9, 2008 2:56 a.m.
29 Newspeople, Some of Paper's Best, Take U-T Buyout
Response to post #77: It appears that the stock market began a new era today. Did you foresee this reality check correction? I think you mentioned globalization in the past, is this the new era where America is no longer the world power we had been in the 20th century? How far down will American markets go to bring ourselves in line with the realities of the new globalization era?— January 8, 2008 2 p.m.
U-T Axes 14 in Pressroom Without Buyouts
It appears that the U-T is phasing out the newspaper and have redirected major resources to SignOnSanDiego.com and SignOnRadio, while KPBS, EnvisionSanDiego.org and VoiceofSanDiego.org are hanging onto their establishment controlled coattails for dear life.— January 8, 2008 12:27 p.m.
29 Newspeople, Some of Paper's Best, Take U-T Buyout
Response to post #75: Yup, we're screwed. Is that like a Faustian bargain?— January 8, 2008 11:15 a.m.