Las Vegas developer linked to late mobster puts yet more campaign cash into San Diego GOP
The Molasky Group of Companies, controlled by Irwin Molasky, a one-time partner with late Las Vegas mobster Moe Dalitz in the storied La Costa resort and Mafia hangout, has made yet another round of sizable campaign contributions to San Diego …
San Diego Superior Court judges blasted by state auditor for waiving domestic violence payments
The California State Auditor has issued a blast at the San Diego Superior Court, saying that judges here have been waiving legally required payments due from those convicted of crimes of domestic violence. According to the state auditor's report, issued …
Sanders requests bids for Irwin Jacobs Balboa Park project under legal challenge
Qualcomm billionaire Irwin Jacobs, who has been making national news with his $2 million contribution to the re-election cause of President Barack Obama while simultaneously backing GOP city councilman Carl DeMaio's bid to become San Diego's mayor, has another reason …
Liberal billionaire George Soros joins cell phone magnate and DeMaio backer in giving big to pro-Obama super PAC
On the heels of news that Qualcomm billionaire and La Jolla Democrat Irwin Jacobs has endorsed GOP city councilman Carl DeMaio for mayor comes word that fellow billionaire George Soros has joined Jacobs in backing the pro-Obama "Priorities USA Action" …
Qualcomm billionaire Democrat Irwin Jacobs will endorse GOP's DeMaio for Mayor
In yet another unusual twist to what probably is the city's strangest election season in history, the mayoral campaign of Republican Carl DeMaio has announced that he will be getting the endorsement of La Jolla Democratic billionaire and Qualcomm founder …
Government Funded San Diego State University Foundation Gives Big to Jerry Brown's Tax Hike Campaign
The San Diego State University Research Foundation, the board of which is dominated by highly paid university officials, has given $6,125 to a campaign fund boosting Proposition 30, Governor Jerry Brown's measure to raise California taxes. The powerful tax-exempt non-profit …
Worker payroll deductions fuel Qualcomm's corporate PAC
While the battle rages on over the merits of California's Proposition 32, the so-called paycheck protection measure backed by La Jolla financier R.G. "Buzz" Woolley and other wealthy locals, one of the county's biggest and most powerful corporations is using …
La Jolla’s "independent" super PAC is down to its last multi-millionaire donor
The political action committee formed by La Jolla mega-millionaire Ted Waitt to back the independent San Diego mayoral candidacy of ex-Republican Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher and a few other self-described independent hopefuls, appears to be down to its last donor: Waitt …
Filner-backed Iranian paramilitary group to lose U.S. terrorist label, sources say
The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, a paramilitary group of Iranian exiles based in Iraq, is about to be removed from the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist organizations, according to Washington sources. The Associated Press says in a dispatch this morning that Secretary …
Wealthy GOP insider and border baron backs Democrat Scott Peters against Brian Bilbray
Malin Burnham, one of San Diego's most ubiquitous Republican insiders, city hall wheeler-dealers, and border barons, has joined the congressional campaign bandwagon of Democrat Scott Peters, the ex-San Diego city councilman battling GOP incumbent Brian Bilbray in the new 52nd …
Nathan Fletcher returns to congressional battleground, endorses Peters against Bilbray
In a round trip of sorts, ex-Republican Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, who left the GOP and became a self-proclaimed independent during this spring's San Diego mayoral campaign, has re-entered the realm of congressional politics. Fletcher, a one-time Republican state operative who …
With Prop 30 tax hike battle looming, SDSU wants PR person to plant upbeat stories
While Governor Jerry Brown battles to convince California voters to raise their taxes by approving Proposition 30, state higher education officials keep coming up with new ways to spend the money. That appears to the take-home message of an online …
Lobbyist for San Diego newspaper publisher to appear in U-T sponsored debate against labor chief
Downtown super-lobbyist and lawyer Paul Robinson - whose clients include the Grand del Mar, the ritzy resort owned by U-T San Diego publisher Doug Manchester - is set to debate Lorena Gonzalez, Secretary-Treasurer and CEO for the San Diego and …
San Diego extends red light camera search, new locations to be considered
The city of San Diego has extended for another four days its search for firms to install and run its so-called red light camera system, telling would-be vendors, "It should be anticipated that some of the existing photo enforced locations …
North County GOP Rep. Darrell Issa falls to third among Congress's richest members as liabilities jump
Roll Call is out with its annual analysis of congressional wealth and at the top of the heap is Texas Republican Michael McCaul, with a minimum net worth of more than $300 million, a new high for him, according to …
Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography is going on sabbatical; stand-in to make $223,200
Tony Haymet, the world-traveling head of the University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, is heading out again, this time on a nine-month sabbatical running from October 1, 2012, through June 30, 2013. Haymet will be temporarily …
UC Regents approve controversial $250,000 UCSD diversity job, hire University of Wisconsin law professor
University of California Regents have approved creation of a vice-chancellorship for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at UCSD, naming Linda S. Greene to the post at an annual base salary of $250,000, according to closed session documents released after today's meeting …
Is Alan Bersin irreplaceable? Obama still hasn’t found anyone to be Customs commissioner
Seems like President Barack Obama just can't find anyone to replace San Diego's Alan Bersin as commissioner of Customs and Border Protection. So reports the Washington Post, which revealed in a blog item yesterday that Bersin's acting successor, David Aguilar, …
High-profile Coronado plastic surgeon draws yet another complaint from California Medical Board
A Coronado plastic surgeon has accused state medical regulators of unfairly targeting his high-profile practice after the Medical Board of California filed another in a series of accusations against him. "They are after me," Dr. Jeffry Schafer said in a …
San Diego supermarket workers union makes big radio buy to counter Prop 32, backed by local Republicans
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 135 PAC, based in San Diego, has just spent $25,000 on a radio advertising campaign to begin tomorrow and end November 6, according to a filing posted online today by the California …