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Mayor a No-Show at Second Community Forum
the catch 22 to the town hall questions is that the mayor chooses the questions and has people write them down on paper so he can omit the parts he doesnt want ask like Pat Flannerys question about Kessler. The Town Hall is a joke....such a joke the mayor doesnt even take it seriously enough to show up. And the Voice of San Diego, should be renamed the "gagged and silenced non-voice of San Diego". they consistently will not post my comments....the same ones I have written here.— October 20, 2010 6:07 p.m.
Mayor a No-Show at Second Community Forum
http://www.blogofsandiego.com/Finances.htm#10/19/… check out Pat Flannerys coverage of the 1st "Town Hall". You 2 guys are the only ones really investigatng this whole scam so thank you. Pats coverage is brilliant. The mayor is pushing this as the "mushroom cloud" argument that got us into Iraq. If we dont vote to increase our sales tax to 9.25% then we will die. its appalling and his disrespect for the 1 brave citizen that is standing up to him is contemptible. He tells the man to leave several times. The man is pointing out the obvious inconsistencies and hypocrisy of the mayors argument. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbgjIl7Tc6o They are asking us for 100 mill in new revenue and at the same time they are going to forgive the private developers 280 million in loans from the redevelopment agencies and they just gave away 500 million probably closer to 1 billion to San diegos richest man and George Bush' largest campaign contributor Alex Spanos. And Sanders assertion that we cant touch pensions is not necessarily true. We could use bankruptcy to renegotiate the pensions. Although the state courts would probably protect the pensions if the case was appealed to the federal Courts the pensioneers risk losing everything and would likely settle rather than risk everything.— October 20, 2010 3:46 p.m.
Mayor a No-Show at Second Community Forum
I mean investigating the Kessler and the HUD situation...— October 20, 2010 2:02 p.m.
Mayor a No-Show at Second Community Forum
Sorry for the misspellings above and "are" should obviously be "our". Anyway, yes the mayor has surrounded himself w/ people that will cover for him especially Dumanis who is corrupt and will never investigate any of the real crime here in SD. My uncle was a DA in SD for years and he said Dumanis is corrupt. Do you know if the FBI is still looking into this?— October 20, 2010 2 p.m.
Mayor a No-Show at Second Community Forum
I think he's a no show because this election much like the last one that got him elected are rigged. Sanders does everything half a&&ed cause he knows it rigged in his favor. In the 2008 election he didnt even stick around Golden Hall long enough to hear he won. He just left mid way saying "Im going home to have some beers". Just look at who the Board of Sups hired to run things, Deborah Seiler who was the Diebold sales rep that sold us are voting machines (and scanners by the way....every vote goes thru a Diebold optical scanner, scanner cards can be manipulated to count votes as negative). People in Sacramento were so outraged that she was hired up there to run elections they booted her out. of course SD gladly hired her. Then we got Micheal Vu who they snatched straight from Ohio 2004 elections where people under him were convicted of voter fraud and went to jail. Im telling you this is a big story that the media down here is ignoring. The North County Times however did several stories when they were hired announcing that our elections would now be rigged.— October 20, 2010 1:56 p.m.
Last -Minute Legislature Deal Boosts Chances of Massive Chargers Subsidy
At any rate something needs to be done because as we know redevelopment Agencies are popping up everywhere and abusing their powers like the grantville project.... the direction this is going....basically all of our tax dollars will be going to private developers. they will take the money and build garbage everywhere that no one wants or needs. then no one will buy it and the federal govt will step in and buy the glut (which is already happening) so we will be forced to pay twice for this stuff that we never wanted and they will take all the profits. Check out this article in the LA Times detailing how we are being embezzled all over the place by these shill agencies. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/10/cal…— October 10, 2010 12:08 a.m.
Last -Minute Legislature Deal Boosts Chances of Massive Chargers Subsidy
I wonder if we could take CCDC and other redevelopment agencies to court for the quality or lack of quality they are building. In studying for my architecture exams I learned that there is actually Supreme Court precedent that requires any public projects to have a high degree of aesthetic quality thus lending some objectivity to aesthetics which developers insist are purely subjective. The Supreme Court said aesthetics are objective to a degree thus schools and other public buildings you see are always a higher quality than the tract homes. So I would think a case could be made that they cant use public money to build such low quality depressing stuff.— October 10, 2010 midnight
Last -Minute Legislature Deal Boosts Chances of Massive Chargers Subsidy
katherine I wanted to ask you....I saw that goldsmith said since CCDC is a seperate corporation they dont fall under the rules of the City Charter. Is this really legal for CCDC to reap all the tax dollars for their private projects like the stadium and yet avoid any laws outlined in the Charter? Obviously CCDC is created as sort of a shill organization to be a buffer so the developers can operate by their own rules and not deal w/ the real rules thus they get to avoid the 45 year review process and other scrutiny. Im just wondering if CCDC was legal in the 1st place since the Charter is our Constitution. seems CCDC is sort of "unconstitutional". I wonder if Aguirre is on this?— October 9, 2010 11:48 p.m.
Last -Minute Legislature Deal Boosts Chances of Massive Chargers Subsidy
wow this is the best discussion I have seen on this topic. The Voice has consistently been too scared to really dig into these issues. But you guys are awesome. Im so glad to see Katherine rhodes and others are all over this. CCDC really needs to be ammended. One of my biggest concerns is that there doesnt appear to be any quality standards and "redevelopment" is intended to mean "redevelopment" not just "development". They seem to have taken this theoretically good idea and exploited it taking all the profits and giving us none of the benefits. we should see all the old delapidated buildings like the california theater being rehabbed and turned into public uses. instead we are seeing them give developers land for free and the developers demolish these valuable resources, replacing them w/ corporate architecture straight out of irvine. we desperatley need transparency and we need more control over what they can demolish and what they can build because right now they are taking money intended to fix blight and using it to build blight.— October 9, 2010 11:44 p.m.
San Diego to House Homeless at World Trade Center
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/opinion/slop/artic… OK now this makes sense CCDC just got approval from the state to take as many billions to develop SD as they need. Im all for helping these people but at a cost of over 100,000 per person we are getting totally ripped off and they will pocket 90% of this money.— October 8, 2010 9:04 p.m.