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Dynamically duplicitous dirty old Navy
If I were purchasing Louis Vuitton leather goods in bulk with taxpayer dollars, I wouldn't let anybody search my car either. (What a great story. Do we know if lying retired USN rear admirals sleep well at night when they urge no votes on barrio community plans?)— May 12, 2014 2:13 p.m.
Crooked ex-admiral fighting Barrio Logan plan
Only in San Diego. A double-dipping ex-Admiral who was fired from the school district for improper lobbying, speaks out against the Barrio Logan Community Plan which was designed by its mainly Latino residents to protect their children from nearby industrial pollution. And the cabal Betancourt is fronting for pays big-time to use television and radio airways to misrepresent the facts, misleading the public and hoping to win the day with an expensive ballot referendum. Will the citizens of San Diego know enough to VOTE YES on Props B and C on their June 3 ballots to SAVE THE BARRIO LOGAN COMMUNITY PLAN? Communities across this city -- even poor ones -- have a right to draw up rules to protect quality of life for residents. The junta of Betancourt, NASSCO and Sanders repeatedly have lied that Barrio Logan's community plan is a "jobs killer." When these lies were revealed in a lawsuit to prevent this single community's plan from going to a vote of the entire city, the matter disgracefully was permitted to go forward by Judge Randa Trapp, who once headed the local NAACP. As I said, only in San Diego.— May 8, 2014 5:08 p.m.
Rotten with Sempra/SDG&E money
Responding to Maryb918 -- MITZ LEE is the only local, informed and experienced community candidate in the race for City Council District 6. She has lived in Mira Mesa for years and served on the Board of Education representing that community. She worked on the decennial redistricting that created this new City Council seat. Mitz Lee is a political Independent. Her opponents are both carpetbaggers and puppets fronting for deep-pocket special interests like the Lincoln Club and the San Diego County Democratic Party.Haven't we had enough of that?— May 7, 2014 4:25 p.m.
Rotten with Sempra/SDG&E money
When you "partner" with SEMPRA, you are no friend of the people, unless you mean the SEMPRA stockholders. No surprise SEMPRA would want to bankroll conservative Councilwoman Lorie Zapf, compliant Mayor Kevin Faulconer and Faulconer's former staffer new District 6 carpetbagger candidate Chris Cate, along with right-winger Carl DeMaio. SEMPRA consorts with pseudo-journals like Manchester's U-T and schnorrer Voice of San Diego and funds political action committees for the Chamber of Commerce. What else is new? Those terrible wildfires were ignited in the back-country of San Diego County by downed above-ground livewires of SEMPRA subsidiary SDG&E, which later tried to bill customers for costs of the disaster. Just like SEMPRA's current gambit with closed-down San Onofre nuclear generating station: sock it to ratepayers for the costly and dangerous mistakes of the parent company. Always better to support the San Diego GOP establishment to secure power and influence.— May 6, 2014 4:06 p.m.
Eau de chicken manure scents council campaigns
Chris Cate is a callow GOP carpetbagger and rubber stamp of real estate and development interests, just like his former boss Kevin Faulconer. If voters of new City Council District 6 want genuine representation of their interests, they will vote for MITZ LEE, a former School Board trustee from the community, a longtime resident of the area who understands its problems and prospects and is a political independent.— May 5, 2014 3:24 p.m.
U.S. Marine reported shackled in Tijuana prison
Please, nobody accidentally crosses into Mexico armed to the teeth with five weapons and, if they do, they're probably lucky to be shackled to a prison cot.— May 2, 2014 1:21 p.m.
Clinton records shed light on Filner, Bersin
I get your drift, but to call Bob Filner "the best of these, politically" isn't exactly accurate. "Politically" Filner has been destroyed, flattened, kaput -- while the others keep on keeping on, making money, getting jobs and enjoying good press. Each is awful in his/her own way.— May 2, 2014 12:48 p.m.
Clinton records shed light on Filner, Bersin
From beginning to end, a rogues' gallery of loser Democrats: Big Dawg intern-magnet, bank and communications de-regulator and NAFTA designer Bill Clinton; the insurance industry's new best friend Congressman Juan Vargas; disgraced former Mayor Bob Filner; perennial political appointment-wannabe, Latino immigration enforcer and border czar Alan Bersin; crude Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel who has closed countless African-Americans' public schools in the windy city; Padres Park millionaire bribester John Moores and his compliant mark ex-councilmember Valerie Stallings; and retired state legislator Christine Kehoe who proposed ending California's moratorium on nuclear energy just before the Fukushima, Japan, disaster.— May 1, 2014 3:14 p.m.
Opera members advise: fire the Campbells
I don't think that continuing to produce first-rate grand opera in a burg like this in a barn like the Civic Auditorium -- even in the face of financial warning signs -- is an actionable offense. Ego, temper, sticking with the comfy upper class....those are NOT reasons the Opera as we knew it is/has folded. The Board was weak and did not do its job. Artistic director Ian Campbell did what he was supposed to do until the last curtain. But now we have a new Board, and changeling Nathan Fletcher is on it, so surely something wonderful will happen. Maybe Fletcher's Qualcomm bosses will ante-up and save the day. I'd be fine with that.— April 30, 2014 9:12 p.m.
Opera members advise: fire the Campbells
Maybe the answer is professional calling and stubborn artistry.— April 30, 2014 8:59 p.m.