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What Prop 6 is repealing in San Diego
Even worse than De Maio himself, noxious Trump partisan and Fresno GOP Congressman Devin Nunes was author of the first email sent to promote Prop 6. But forget about DeMaio and Nunes: they are just exploiting a Democratic political gaffe. Ordinary people have to keep their eye on what's best for themselves, and voting Yes on Prop 6 to repeal the gas tax would both benefit tight family budgets and send a don't-tread-on-me rebuke to our careless legislators.— November 3, 2018 2:14 p.m.
What Prop 6 is repealing in San Diego
Wow, Marty Graham's valiant attempt to report on where the outrageously regressive gas tax money is supposed to go is a tour de force of good intentions and reader confusion. How about a pie-chart? Actually, no segmented circle possibly could cover the infinite variety of community governments, agencies and projects that are alleged to get tranches of this windfall sometime in the indefinite future. California taxpayers were roadkill in lawmakers' decision last year to levy 20 cents per gallon and up to $125 more per annual automobile registration. What is understandable is Graham's description of poor people lined up at a Valero station to fill up with cheap gasoline on the single day of a promotion by organizers of Yes on Prop 6 Repeal the Gas Tax. This arrogant exercise in political muscle by four-term Democratic Governor Jerry Brown and his obsequious Democrat-majority State Legislature shows how dangerous single-party rule can be, even when the party in power pays regular lip service to the needs of working-class families. I hope voters will fight back and send a message to Sacramento. Vote Yes on Prop 6 to repeal the killer gas tax.— November 2, 2018 6:13 p.m.
Little-known San Diego election facts
An amusing set of stories about the 2018 mid-term elections in San Diego. I feel certain that "left" Juan Vargas has secured re-election to his seat in Congress, even though "the right Juan" is funny wordplay. Surely Ammar Campa-Najjar's brilliant economical riposte, "I am not a security risk," to Drunken Hunter's scurrilous falsehoods, ranks with another famous declarative statement from presidential candidate Richard Nixon, who said, "I am not a crook." And Carl De Maio can always be counted on for dramatic over-reaction. I mean, we intend to vote Yes on Prop 6 to get that regressive gas tax rolled back, but recall heroic California Attorney General Xavier Becerra? No way.— November 1, 2018 6:04 p.m.
Duncan Hunter's smoke-filled spending
I'm afraid AlexClarke may be right, but hope springs eternal. All those disgusted Hunter Republicans who can't bear to vote for a Democrat ought to re-think their strategy. Hunter doesn't care about his constituents and he doesn't really care about himself. He's going down big-time. Ammar Campa-Najjar is young, wants to do right by his district, is hard-working and he's polite. His term in office will only last for two years. If voters don't like his performance, they can unload him in 2020. Personally, I would take a chance on the earnest kid.— November 1, 2018 5:41 p.m.
Bad Times at the El Royale is good
I hated this movie and nearly walked out because it was so violent and scary.— October 30, 2018 7:56 p.m.
Love for H-Town
I thought the Reader ran strictly local stories.— October 30, 2018 7:30 p.m.
Scandal for profit
If Don Bauder doesn't fit the bill, maybe failed Congressional candidate Sara Jacobs could qualify for the position— October 20, 2018 11:36 p.m.
Scandal for profit
I have only suffered through a few VOSD podcasts, but they were enough to put me off the form forever. Terrible jokey bro' stuff. But I regularly listen to NPR.— October 20, 2018 11:32 p.m.
Oktoberfilmfest
Three great flicks. Dietrich as cabaret-singer in black-and-white "Blue Angel" with heavy eyelids and cigarettes in hand was great; "Aguirre, the Wrath of God," seems now to have been the model for Governor Jerry Brown's grandiose Central Valley bullet train and twin Sacramento Delta tunnel projects; "Barbara" is the most modern of the three movies, depicting stifling regimentation in East Germany before the Wall came down.— October 20, 2018 11:32 p.m.
Scandal for profit
There is no way Union-Tribune Watchdog reporter Jeff McDonald is going to be turned into a tool to advance some hypothetical political agenda you are imagining that Dr. Patrick is shaping. I will admit that a "topic editor" to supervise Watchdogs is a little strange, but we count on you to keep a close eye on developments there.— October 19, 2018 6:51 p.m.