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Tax and media intrigue envelope massive Mission Valley hotel deal
Enough news to make one's head spin -- the big-money boys wheel and deal Mission Valley property and media enterprises and football franchises and work to destroy gadfly environmental lawyers via their SDSU handmaidens at KPBS and inewsource. It makes the ordinary concerned citizen/voter feel very small, uninformed and insignificant in the scheme of things San Diego. Glad and grateful to have the Reader for unfiltered honest reporting.— March 3, 2015 9:36 p.m.
It has been considered a poor week for killing
Keep that wonderful photograph on file because wild yellow mustard is rapidly disappearing as we terrace, pave and develop every last inch of our beautiful brown hills.The trip north on I-5 used to be gorgeous in the springtime.— March 2, 2015 9:17 p.m.
Nathan Fletcher files for divorce
Thank you. Militarily speaking, I stand corrected and have learned something: I thought reservist was a synonym for National Guard. I don't know about Sweetwater's misfortunes, but surely there can't be two such phonies among us. I call it chutzpah, but Italians call it "having a bronze face"-- a perfect description of what Fletcher's relentless political ambition requires..— March 2, 2015 5:04 p.m.
Nathan Fletcher files for divorce
About the only thing missing here is a description of handsome Nathan Fletcher's stunning chameleon-like personal qualities in service to personal advancement. I guess neither he nor his very Republican wife could rationalize their marital arrangement anymore. Fletcher strategically bailed from his good job in the office of Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham just three months before the GOP stalwart was scandalously convicted and jailed for selling votes for bribes. Later, as a candidate in the local mayor's race and on a rare occasion when Fletcher was asked about Cunningham by fawning Jacobs-financed local news outlets, he disavowed his former boss, claiming that he "hardly knew" him. In two terms as a Republican state assemblyman from a conservative district in the post 9/11 era, Fletcher frequently traded on his military service as a Marine in the National Guard and often emphasized in speeches the nation's need for ever-increasing "security" at the borders and at home. Later on, he headed an ACLU-sponsored effort to secure justice for detained undocumented border-crossers. In the mayoral campaign, Fletcher repeatedly used the willing parents of a murdered teenager from Poway to endorse him in television ads. But Fletcher was denied the endorsement of the County Republican Party in the Primary, so he reflected over a weekend and then became a registered Independent. Nathan and Mindy announced the shift in a video made from their home. But the new Party affiliation failed to secure him a run-off spot and the mayoral contest went to Carl deMaio and Bob Filner. Within five months of the election of Democratic Mayor Bob Filner, Fletcher re-affiliated himself once again -- this time as a Democrat -- with the warm welcome of County Democratic chair Francine Busby, the attention of Dem money bundler Christine Forester and new jobs at both Qualcomm and UCSD, presumably engineered by Fletcher patron and billionaire Democrat Irwin Jacobs who founded the company and is philanthropist to the university.— March 2, 2015 2:36 p.m.
Media spin and legal drama merge in Briggs battle
As apples and oranges are both fruit, so targets Filner and Briggs both made a lot of trouble for the hotel moguls who want to keep their extra tourism tax dollars without a vote of the people and to create more Convention Center. "Grabby hands" could well describe the attitude of the rogues' gallery depicted in the story.— March 1, 2015 10:08 p.m.
Media spin and legal drama merge in Briggs battle
BSP, I read newspapers for information, not to embroider or add to the reporter's work. Obviously you are upset and disappointed about a recent interaction between Cory Briggs and the Downtown Partnership over business improvement districts. That's not the complicated subject that Potter is exploring here and I think it's important to keep our focus. I am sure you also want to learn details of the unfolding "case" being launched against Cory Briggs' by San Diego State "news" agencies Inewsource and KPBS in collaboration with our Dickensian City Attorney Jan Goldsmith. Goldsmith is actually acting on behalf of Tourism Management District hotel moguls whose Convention Center-building plans were thwarted by a successful Briggs lawsuit.— February 27, 2015 1:53 p.m.
Media spin and legal drama merge in Briggs battle
Laplayaheritage, a voice of reason and font of solid facts, is always appreciated.— February 27, 2015 1:27 p.m.
Media spin and legal drama merge in Briggs battle
I am skeptical about motives of anyone who diverts attention from this story -- the first to describe what really seems to be unfolding -- and who offers instead a diatribe that trashes the only guy in town with brains, a law degree and the guts to challenge a rapacious self-serving Establishment .— February 26, 2015 9:15 p.m.
Media spin and legal drama merge in Briggs battle
Wow, BlueSouthPark is pushing an anti-Briggs message here right along with San Diego State's "news" agencies KPBS and Inewsource, vengeful hotel barons and water-carrying GOP establishment servant City Attorney Jan Goldsmith. I haven't seen a lineup like this since, well, that time we had a firebrand Democratic mayor. To return to the real subject, thanks to Matt Potter for bringing us truthful facts, not innuendo and allegations supported by declamations from "experts."— February 26, 2015 7:15 p.m.
Vanity press
Aren't lessons in real estate development what everyone thinks of when they think of their dear old dad?— February 25, 2015 10:26 p.m.