DeMaio Filing: $541,990 Includes $2000 from Molasky Family
GOP candidate for San Diego mayor and city councilman Carl DeMaio raised a total of $541,990 during the first half of the year, according to his campaign disclosure filing posted online today by the city clerk. Total expenditures were listed …
Maienschein Collects $43,600 For Assembly Bid
Though new district lines aren't officially cast in stone, GOP ex-San Diego city councilman Brian Maienschein has raised $43,600 in the first half of this year for a 77th district Assembly campaign, according to his campaign filing. Many donors, including …
Labor Spends Big Against DeMaio and Sanders 401(k) Measure
On May 25 a political committee called San Diego Works! Sponsored by San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council AFL-CIO, contributed $25,000 to Too Extreme for San Diego -- A Committee to Oppose Carl DeMaio for Mayor 2012, according to a disclosure …
New Port Clerk Pledges Open Public Records Policy
Timothy Deuel, regarded by many as one of the most professional and helpful public records managers in San Diego, has been sworn in as District Clerk for the Port of San Diego by his father, Rodney Deuel, of Phoenix. “It’s …
UCSD's New Vice Chancellorship for "Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion" Draws Critical Blast
A UCSD plan to create a new vice chancellor position in charge of campus "equity, diversity, and inclusion” has drawn sharp criticism from Heather Mac Donald, a contributing editor to City Journal, the magazine published four times a year by …
Navy Reportedly Revokes Silver Star of Imprisoned La Jollan Wade Sanders
Politico, the Boston Globe, and multiple other online sources are reporting today that Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has revoked a Silver Star awarded to retired captain, Vietnam swift boat veteran and La Jollan Wade Sanders, who is currently serving a …
Rupert Murdoch's Fox Group Funds Four San Diego Politicos
Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch may have his hands full with Britain's burgeoning News of the World phone hacking scandal, but Beverly Hills-based Fox Group, a subsidiary of Murdoch-run News America, Inc., has kept busy making a total of $75,750 …
Builders give $10K to Jerry Sanders 401(k) Campaign
The Building Industry Association of San Diego County PAC has made a big contribution to the effort by San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders, councilman Carl DeMaio, and the GOP Lincoln Club, among others, to qualify a ballot measure to replace …
Predator's Linden Blue Slams Medical Marijuana
General Atomics vice chairman and Hudson Institute trustee Linden Blue is out with an op-ed piece in the San Francisco Examiner — cowritten with Peter Bensinger, Drug Enforcement Administration administrator during the Ford, Carter and Reagan years — touting a …
Arizona Daily Star Layoffs Cast Long Shadow Over North County Times
The blogosphere is full of rumors of a soon-to-come avalanche of newspaper layoffs and one actual report of real firings today, all of which may offer clues to the future of newspapers in southern California, including San Diego county. L.A. …
Cable Dump Reveals Vetting of Cambodians for San Diego Military Ops
Wikileaks, continuing to release its trove of purloined U.S. diplomatic cable traffic, has posted an unclassified message dated February 23 of last year to the U.S. State Department from the American embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It discusses the need …
Nathan Fletcher Picks Up Big Money from Big Tobacco, Says Lung Association
GOP Assemblyman and San Diego mayoral candidate Nathan Fletcher has received a total of $25,100 in campaign contributions from the tobacco industry, according to a database of state legislators released today by the Center for Tobacco Policy & Organizing, run …
Ex-Tijuana Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon Tied to 149 Gambling Operations Throughout Mexico
Frontera NorteSur, a news service edited by Kent Paterson and run by New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, is reporting that in Mexico "Las Vegas-style gaming, casinos and other gaming establishments" have "spread like wildfire across the country in …
"Paycheck Protection" Effort Passes a Million; Lincoln Club, Woolley Give $50,000
Californians Against Special Interests--a political committee promoting a so-called Paycheck Protection ballot measure to ban labor unions and corporations from using automatic payroll deductions to collect campaign contributions--has continued to pick up big support from some politically well-connected San Diegans. …
UCSD Proposes To Spend $10.5 Million on Chancellor's Mansion
With UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox on her way out the door, University of California regents are grappling with costly plans to restore the old chancellor's house, providing her successor with the kind of multi-million dollar, well-appointed mansion that Fox, …
Ex-County Lobbyist Staffers Use Congress's Revolving Door
Photo on left: Robert Primus Three ex-employees with the County of San Diego's Washington lobbying firm, Von Scoyoc Associates, have turned up on a "revolving door" list of former federally registered lobbyists now working as congressional aides. The list was …
Jerry Brown's and Martin Garrick's Excellent Behests
So-called behest payments have long been a bit of a bugaboo for Sacramento politicos. According to the website of the state's Fair Political Practices Commission, "behest payments are contributions to charity by individuals and corporations solicited by members of the …
San Diego-Linked Gang Routes Pot to Rhode Island, Paper Says
The Providence Journal reported Sunday that Rhode Island drug traffic is tied to Tijuana and San Diego through a transcontinental pipeline operated by street gangs carefully nurtured by Mexico's most deadly cartels. "South of the border, rival cartels, including La …
Comic-Con Grossed More than $9 Million in FY '09, IRS Filing Says
Streetlight banners are up, the schedule is being dribbled out a day at a time to increase suspense, bouncers and bartenders are poised and at the ready, Gaslamp is bracing for an endless traffic jam. In short, it's time for …
Sempra Is Big Donor on Secret Latino Legislative Caucus Money List
Following a report in the Sacramento Bee last week that the state's Latino Legislative Caucus had stopped disclosing donors to its nonprofit foundation two years ago, the group has released a list of donors responsible for a total of $50,000 …