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Tentative Ruling: Judge Won't Throw Out Kessler Suit
milk bone treat comin' atcha!!! =========== Yummy!— October 15, 2010 2:18 p.m.
A Family (Genovese) Affair?
Are all of us voters paying any attention before we agree that we'll pay the increased sales tax to cover legal costs stemming from what appears to have been a mayoral conniption fit at City Hall? ================================= Come on, you don't really think Sanders (or any other gov employee) would ever be held accountable for their civil and possibly criminal wrongs do you?????— October 15, 2010 2:18 p.m.
San Diego’s pension fund expects to earn 7.75 percent a year
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Somebody owes me another apology. ======================== LOL...yes, that apology will come when the GED cops and firewhiners start getting paid a market wage for their GED educations! Or better yet maybe we will get lucky and they will all go apply for jobs in Fresno (except Fresno is not hiring, no one is). I hear Fresno is a beautiful place, people even flock to it as a resort destination.....has beautiful beachs, parks and is the happiest place on earth!— October 15, 2010 12:24 p.m.
Tentative Ruling: Judge Won't Throw Out Kessler Suit
There is evidence that the Mayor's office became concerned it would be dragged into the investigation. (PNOL, Exhibit 5, page 69:17-70:15; and Exhibit 8, page 19-22.) Additionally, Plaintiff has presented evidence that the Mayor was a support of Marco LiMandri, and that Marco LiMandri was a financial supporter of the Mayor. (PNOL, Exhibit 8, pages 35:18-37:14.) Finally, there is evidence that Defendant's employees told Plaintiff to stop cooperating with the SDPD and FBI. (PNOL, Exhibit 8, pages 15:17-32:6.) ========================== Oh my, KFC Sanders is going down for the 10 count. IF (a big if) there was ever ANY doubt Sanders is a slimeball, this removes it.— October 15, 2010 8:54 a.m.
Tentative Ruling: Judge Won't Throw Out Kessler Suit
Once upon a time there was a DA in San Diego who was not corrupt, or so says Don Bauder. (Don may be right.) But that DA made a pair of outrageously wrongheaded prosecutions of "sex offenses" that never were. It was time for Miller to go. Many of us, and I include myself, voted for "Not Miller" and got Pfingst. Then we watched him make a a series of foolish and wrongheaded prosecutions, the worst of which was the case against the kids in the Crowe stabbing case. ================ The Dale Akiki, Jim Wade and especially the Crowe case are some of the worst abuses of prosecutorial misconduct I have ever witneesed. I am 100% convinced Miller continued his attack on Akiki at the request of a prominant couple, Jack and Mary Goodall-Jack at the time was CEO of Foodmaker, parent companey of Jack in the Box. It was really disgusting to see that case get to trial. The Crowe case makes my stomach turn everytime I see reference to it. Attacking children with interrogation methods like the ones those cops used should have been grounds for terminating the cops. This is the problem with the justice system today-there is absolutely no accoutnability in it. Just as Nifong was disbarred in the Duke lacrosse case, these DA's should have also been disbarred IMO. And that includes the DDA who prosecuted Dale Akiki, Mary Avery-same with Michael Crowe.— October 15, 2010 8:46 a.m.
Tentative Ruling: Judge Won't Throw Out Kessler Suit
There's a lot of legal risk for the City if Sanders is deposed, particularly if he shows up for the deposition at the tail end of a three day bender, or after a liquid lunch. =================== Is this true?????......does Fatty Sanders hit the bottle?? I am really shocked at that-and that is not being sarcastic.— October 15, 2010 8:35 a.m.
Tentative Ruling: Judge Won't Throw Out Kessler Suit
Why are these preliminary rulings issued one day and the final ruling a day or more later? ================ You need to do tenatative rulings in order to allow the parties a chance to rebutt or refute the law the judge is ruling on. They are very helpful. Not all counties/courts have in CA "tenatative rulings" where you get a chance to see the courts view before the ruling becoems final- and it is a nightmare in those courts because the judge will ask if you want to argue any points, and you can't b/c you have no idea what the court is going to say or rule on. Then the judge will READ his ruling from the bench (and you wont have a copy of it) and you cannot argue it. So it is important to have the ruling released the day/week before and allow the parties a full and fair chance to argue the law. Having said that, it is extremely rare to have a tentative ruling reversed or even modified-but it does happen occassionally.— October 15, 2010 8:32 a.m.
San Diego’s pension fund expects to earn 7.75 percent a year
Does the general public rely on construction workers to provide safety for their family on a 24/7 basis? Obviously not. It is not fair to compare apples to hamburgers. ============== The public does not rely on the police for safety either, but it is your job and YOU'RE the one that brought up the safety issue, not me. I'm not saying that there isn't room for pension reform in San Diego, I'm only stating that blaming the safety officers for the decisions of the city council is just wrong. =========== The pension system is the problem, and public safety is by FAR the biggest problem with the pension system, so yes, I will blame cops and firewhiners, for asking for and getting retroactive pensions they did not work for nor earn, at the expense of the poor, the needy and the elderly. The city employees do not have the benefit of Social Security or any of the other publicly available "entitlements", instead the city leaders decided to make marginally viable wage and pension promises during a strong financial market and when that market turned South (no pun intented) they began thowing stones at their own glass house. =============== The City can OPT BACK IN to SS ANYTIME they want to (after they opted out), but the MOST you can get in SS is $30K, but not until age 67. You clowns are collecting 6 figures at age 50, so put a cork in the BS that you cannot collect SS. Biggest joke I ever heard. The police, fire and lifeguards serve the public and risk their own life and limb in daily support of the citizens of San Diego and compensation for such should not be compared to that of construction workers or any other blue or white collar job. =========== Risk tyheir life daily..Hahahahahaha.....construction workers risk their life daily, and that risk is 10 times bigger. Public Safety is an employment and risk class in and of itself. Compare San Diego fire, police and lifeguards to other major US city departments in the same capacity and you will see that San Diego is below average. ============= Boo...Hoo...Hoo...hey, I have an idea, if you don't like your pay or benefits, take that big bad GED out into the real world and get the best deal you can with it-how does that sound? Point your animosity and blame at the proper parties: not the day to to day workers who serve the public! ========== I am-and it is ALL of you, ripping off the poor and middle class. Fresno police make more than San Diego police. My point is this: public safety officers who work the day to day in San Diego are not the cause (nor should they be blamed) for the pension debaucle. ================= Then move to Fresno. Cops and FF's are the BIGGEST part of the cities budget problem and I am laying blame where it belongs, with them.— October 14, 2010 7:43 p.m.
San Diego’s pension fund expects to earn 7.75 percent a year
Please show me an example of an uneducated 20 year old in the city of San Diego that makes $200K before OT in civil service ========== I did not say "makes $200K", I said "comps $200K". That is what he makes when including the benefits-like those 3%@50 multi million dollar pensions, DROP, SPSP, 13th Check and so forth. SDPD has in the past, does today, and will in the future, hire police recruits to start academy training at age 20.5. They get full salary and comp in academy training. But you're right, the 20 y/o won't be comping the $200K out of the blocks, not until he has reached his top "step" increase, which I think is at the 3 year mark. So the comp is between $125K and $200K the first 3 years. My bad :)— October 14, 2010 7:33 p.m.