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JohnnyVegas

San Diegans for City Hall Reform pushes more authority for mayor

#8. Response to post #5: If Francis is out, that leaves Sanders. With Sanders, you will be guaranteed none of the problems will be solved. Francis is wrong about the PD raise, but the alternative, Sanders, is a ridiculous thought. Best, Don Bauder _______ Man Don, you have me in a tight spot here..... I have already gone on record stating Sanders cannot get re elected. I was going to go with Francis until he wrote the Police Pay letter....now I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.......tight spot indeed. Fumbler, help me out buddy, who you voting for?? (I will vote the opposite...lol).
— February 20, 2008 8:39 p.m.

San Diegans for City Hall Reform pushes more authority for mayor

Oh, and for the record-I was actually thinking Fancis might be the answer to the problems this City has, and he might be able to fix them-UNTIL he wrote a letter to the VoSD where he stated that he wanted to give RAISES to the PD. http://voiceofsandiego.com/articles/2008/02/20/le… A small raise, as we know, creates a HUGE debt on the back end in the pensions. If Francis is going to talk about raises for PD without talking about fixing the pension scam, then a vote for him is 100% out of the question. He's not the answer to our problems without a pension plan.
— February 20, 2008 4:03 p.m.

San Diegans for City Hall Reform pushes more authority for mayor

“This is the most gullible town I have ever known. I can’t believe that voters actually swallow this stuff.” says Erie....... CLASSIC! Hey JF, you can forget about over taxing the citizens, that is not going to happen. BTW, have you seen this?? http://www.nbc11.com/news/15345539/detail.html Vallejo is going BK, and it is a carbon copy of San Diego, right down to the PD and FD pension scams. Read the article, because the exact same thing is currently happening to not only San Diego and Vallejo, but also to the State-which is now a whopping 16 BILLION in the red...far more than the Gray Davis financial disasters. San Diego, and hundreds of other cities and counties, are going to be forced to file BK because of the public pension scams.
— February 20, 2008 3:57 p.m.

San Diego's Police State: Blogger Flannery Booted Out of Dumanis Press Conference

Bonnie Dumbass better be careful about what she is doing and whom she is booting from her press conference, especially if she is using a public place/building to give such press conferences. She is an elected public official, and I am going to assume she was giving this press conference in a public place/building/area. The public has a right to attend any public function that a public official is giving that affects the health, safety and welfare of the public, especally if it is in a public place/building. This could very well be a violation of civil rights, specifically a violation of the 1st Amendments to right to free speech, in as much as Dumbass was intentionally interferring with the press/public in a public place/building and appears to doing so to intenionally intefer with a pubic blogger. It could also be a violation of the 4th Amendments right to be free from unreasonable seizure of the person, since this appears to be a public place and Flannery was in fact "siezed" when he was forcably removed from the public place/building. So, this could be an easy federal lawsuit, filed under 42 USC Section 1983, which would force Dumbass to pay the legal fees of Flannery should he win, which he likely would under these circumstances. Of course the taxpayers would ultimately pay the liability of Dumbass-but that would be fine becaause it would stop Dumbass from violating civil rights. When an attorney does not know the law, especially the DA, then I think it is safe to say that attorney should not have a law license, much less be in charge of filing criminal complaints.
— February 17, 2008 10:40 a.m.

Brandes Looks for Undervalued Stocks; Today, His Big Positions Are Certainly Valued Low in the Market

Speaking of papers. Don, here is a link to an article pontificating about the declining circulation of papers, and goes far beyond the Internet explanation. I must ask though-did the UT have many of these ***miniskirted women*** selling ad space when you worked there?????? Man, I may have been in the wrong line of work. http://roguecolumnist.typepad.com/rogue_columnist… “The biggest problem, of course, had nothing to do with the newsrooms. It was the collapse of an unsustainable business model. Simply put, the model involved sending miniskirted saleswomen out to sell ads at confiscatory rates to lecherous old car dealers and appliance-store owners. Protecting these profits, whether from national, local or classified ads, became the central focus of newspaper bosses. These areas were the most vulnerable to new competitors. But the condition of the industry by the 1990s – risk averse, promising unrealistic margins, losing its best talent, ignoring ideas outside its preconceived notions – left it unable to meet these threats.”
— February 7, 2008 9:30 p.m.