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Channel 10 Airs Mayor's Deposition in Crime Case Tonight
Pretty weak investigative reporting by channel 10. I was hoping they would impress me for once. They did not ask any real questions. They seemed to apathetically accept the city's response that the case was "baseless" rather than hitting on the fact that the FBI recommended prosecution for fraud, bribery etc. They really let the mayor off the hook w/ those clips. Does anyone else have access to the testimony beside news 10? The news media here is just beyond incompetent. That was supposed to be "investigative reporting"? Good lord the City constantly throws softballs out there for the media to dive into and they never do. Not a single television media source reported on the recent story about the registrar of voters intentionally misleading people into thinking they were ineligible to vote. Only CityBeat and the OB Rag covered it.— November 10, 2010 11:39 p.m.
Channel 10 Airs Mayor's Deposition in Crime Case Tonight
This of course is not even to mention Bonnie's utterly incompetent job prosecuting murders. I was watching a Primetime story on NBC several months ago. It was a murder mystery here in SD and the story ended w/ Dumanis flubbing all the evidence and the murderer going free. She seems to do this alot. I really feel sorry for those people. I really hope Mike Aguirre swoops in as a private citizen and goes after some of this corruption. I cannot believe we live in a world where Toni Atkins is not only NOT in jail for her role in the pension scam not to mention the millions she gave away to her developer girlfirned jennifer LeSar for "redevelopment" projects, but she was actually elected to State Assembly along w/ Ben Hueso. God help us!— November 10, 2010 10:13 p.m.
Channel 10 Airs Mayor's Deposition in Crime Case Tonight
so what would or should happen if say it was just Dumanis that was corrupt and not the feds? Should the FBI step in and conduct the investigation rather than leaving it up to Bonnie? I keep hoping the FBI will swoop in and haul everyone off to jail especially Sanders. They obviously have more than enough to arrest him along w/ all the other crooks at the City. Even just the TAC mtg minutes I sent you show that the mayor has a committee composed of lobbyists that regularly advises him on issues that financially benefit them, yet there seems to be no one that will enforce the law. Is the FBI not doing their job? or do they have to wait for Bonnie to prosecute before they can step in?— November 10, 2010 10:06 p.m.
Channel 10 Airs Mayor's Deposition in Crime Case Tonight
Don, what do you do when you have a District Attorney that is corrupt? I keep seeing all this major major evidence of corruption, then the FBI lays it on Dumanis' desk and it disappears. She is plenty busy prosecuting people w/ medical marijuana licenses, but wont spend 1 second prosecuting white collar crime. And as I look around the internet, this appears to be a theme, DAs that wont prosecute white collar crime. seems like a great strategy to me, make sure the DA you put in office to prosecute corruption is the most corrupt of all. Obviously the mayor knows this which explains his arrogance. He is thinking "ha ha you guys will never catch me, Ive got all my ducks lined up. Even if you do find evidence, my pal Bonnie will never prosecute'"— November 10, 2010 8:23 p.m.
Who Runs Our Elections and How Safe Actually are They?
sorry I am wrong about what I said about Aguirre getting less than 1/2 that in 2008. It was only about 50,000 less votes which is still pretty substantial so who knows on that one but I think it would have been enough votes to dump to change the results. Im totally confused in this matrix. All I know is something really deosnt seem right and if we need a smoking gun forget the numbers the fact that EVERY supervisor has been re-elected at least 4 times for a total of 16 years is evidence enough. And its great that we passed a prop limiting their terms but guess what they are all ready to retire now anyway and Seiler is still in charge of who wins the next round. The people need to be addressing the problem that the Supervisor elections are rigged not that the same people keep winning.— November 3, 2010 10:54 p.m.
Who Runs Our Elections and How Safe Actually are They?
OK so luckily someone else copied the results. MAYORAL RACE 2008 Total: 214,572 so in 2004 you had more than twices as many people vote for mayor.... Total there was 457,506 Boy they do not make this EASY at all!!! I am trying to find past results in numbers not percentages for Supervisor and I cant find anything. This is as close as I can get so far.... http://www.sdcta.org/Uploads/Documents/Prop%20B%2… is this right that Ron Roberts has been Supervisor since 1994? Greg Cox since 1996 Jacobs since 1992, Horn since 1994 and Slater Price since 1992. This is really blowing me away and Im sure other people already knew this but oh my God if there was ever an argument for why these elections are rigged its right there. You mean the voters love these guys so much they have ALL been re-elected 4 or 5 times!!!! for 4 year terms.....16 years is the least amount of time 1 of these guys has served? 20 years for some. How in the world is no one crying foul or fraud?— November 3, 2010 10:41 p.m.
Who Runs Our Elections and How Safe Actually are They?
Yeah Seiler has taken down the page that will show us these results. I tried it from the registrars site and this one. Click on the lower left (this is 2008) "election results" http://www.smartvoter.org/2008/11/04/ca/sd/ http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/voters/results/GENERAL… you get this message.... "Our apologies... The page you were trying to reach cannot be found. It may have been removed, had its address changed, or be temporarily unavailable. Please try one of the following options: •Use the search box in the upper right corner of this page. •Check our lists of County services or County departments. If those don’t help, contact us. Please complete the form below, which will be e-mailed to our Webmaster. Or send your e-mail directly to [email protected]." Same message for other years." I will keep trying to find it another way. At least I got 04. Glad I copied the results.— November 3, 2010 10:01 p.m.
Who Runs Our Elections and How Safe Actually are They?
OK I am browsing some pre-Seiler election results which were quite difficult to find. If you go to the registrars website and click past elections and click 2008, or 2004 (pre seiler) the page says (sorry the page has been moved or removed w/ no clue how to find it) I was able to locate it a different way but check this out.... Look at the totals 457,000+ voted for mayor pre-seiler I cant for the life of me get the other years when I click 2008 presidential results it only gives me a page w/ the write-ins but I know the numbers didnt look like this. This is about how many people voted in the maoyoral race where Frye was elected so that makes sense and is pretty consistent. So why in 2008 after Seiler was it less than 1/2 that? City attorney is pretty interesting as well, about 500,000 voted this year. I can recall the exact figure that got us Goldsmith but again I know it was less than half. I think I actually may have it copied in my records..... http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/voters/Eng/E2004.shtml 2004 CITY OF SAN DIEGO - MAYOR Total Number of Precincts 843 Precincts Reporting 843 100.0 % Vote For 1 Total Votes 457506 DICK MURPHY 157959 34.53% RON ROBERTS 141884 31.01% CITY OF SAN DIEGO CITY ATTORNEY Total Number of Precincts 843 Precincts Reporting 843 100.0 % Vote For 1 Total Votes 411332 MICHAEL J. AGUIRRE 206594 50.23% LESLIE DEVANEY 203301 49.43% CITY OF SAN DIEGO CITY COUNCIL - District No. 1 Total Number of Precincts 150 Precincts Reporting 150 100.0 % Vote For 1 Total Votes 69841 SCOTT PETERS 38087 54.53% PHIL THALHEIMER 31535 45.15%CITY OF SAN DIEGO CITY PROP B - COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO Repeal Gregory Canyon Landfill Total Number of Precincts 2235 Precincts Reporting 2235 100.0 % Vote For 1 Total Votes 1021936 NO 649915 63.60% YES 372021 36.40% PROP D - CITY OF SAN DIEGO PEOPLES ACCESS TO INFO Total Number of Precincts 843 Precincts Reporting 843 100.0 % Vote For 1 Total Votes 409256 YES 337887 82.56% NO 71369 17.44% PROP F - CITY OF SAN DIEGO STRONG MAYOR GOVERNMENT Total Number of Precincts 843 Precincts Reporting 843 100.0 % Vote For 1 Total Votes 407870 YES 209773 51.43% NO 198097 48.57%— November 3, 2010 9:48 p.m.
Who Runs Our Elections and How Safe Actually are They?
thanks Founder!! Yeah someone w/ a stats background would be great. If you look at all the races they are pretty consistent w/in a point or 2 between SD and the State as a whole, but the Sec State thing is downright bizarre....15% points. Because if you think about it that means the rest of the state voted even greater than the 53/38 spread in order for the results to average since SD is a big portion of the average. That means the rest of the state excluding SD would have had a pretty significantly bigger vote for Bowen and lower vote for Damon Dunn.....so that would be Sacramento, Oakland, SF, LA and Orange County and we know Orange County is very Repub and Sacramento is quite Repub as well. I think its a pretty alarming spread considering the other races are pretty close.— November 3, 2010 7:19 p.m.
Who Runs Our Elections and How Safe Actually are They?
One race that is REALLY interesting to me is the Secretary of State. So Bowen has actually done quite a decent job tightening recount rules. Bowen plays a big role in the integrity of our elections (unfortunately not big enough). Seiler recently sued her for tightening these recount rules. Look at the difference between San Diegos results for Secretary of State and the entire State. The difference is actually jaw dropping. It may not seem like much but statistically there should not be this drastic of a difference. Bowen wins by 15% in the State....that is a landslide and loses by 1% here. I just think it is a red flag considering Seiler's "bad attitude" and lawsuit against Bowen. I hope Bowen is paying attention and will look into this. STATE Debra Bowen 3786174 53.1% Damon Dunn 2751863 38.6% TOTAL: 6,538,037 COUNTY Damon Dunn 287462 46.39% Debra Bowen 280258 45.23% TOTAL: 567,720 Deborah Bowen won by a landslide but she lost to Damon Dunn in San Diego. Damon Dunn is an ex-pro football player and a real estate agent in Orange County being pushed by the land developers. Did he really command such a big vote? Most people if they didnt know the candidates would leave something like Secretary of State blank like they did w/ the judges and other offices that they didnt know anything about.— November 3, 2010 5:53 p.m.