According to a Channel 6 report, a firewall issue caused the San Diego County Registrar of Voters website to crash shortly after the first batch of election results were posted Tuesday night, June 5th. The County is conducting an investigation into the source of the attack. IT services provider Hewlett Packard determined that there were […]
Peed Takes the Lead
SDROV updates election results to include some absentee ballots. Plus: Saldaña vs. Peters update.
Updated results (and reported first by “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC, no less) on the Garland Peed vs. birther king Gary Kreep: The San Diego County Registrar of Voters has released new figures showing that Garland Peed, the longtime San Diego prosecutor, has taken a slim lead in his quest to become a Superior Court judge: [Read more…]
Close Encounter with Lorie Zapf
The San Diego City Council District 6 representative demonstrates a disturbing lack of knowledge on important issues.
Last night at Golden Hall, San Diego’s election central, I had the opportunity to participate in a live-blog along with the writers from CityBeat and contributors from SD Rostra, the OB Rag/SDFP, along with several other politically active contributors from around the San Diego. It was a great time, with perspectives from all over the political spectrum (but most of us were pretty squarely on the liberal side). [Read more…]
Birther Extraordinaire Gary Kreep Poised to Become Judge
Birther King–and lawyer for Birther Queen Orly Taitz–Gary Kreep is about to become a San Diego Superior Court judge. The latest tally put out there by the San Diego County Registrar of Voters has Kreep leading Garland Peed by a mere 56 votes in the race for the seat in Office 34. If you’re not […]
California’s Primary Election Grand Experiment
After 2010 redistricting measure voted into law, California finally gets to take its new process for a test drive.
It’s Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 today. It’s the day of the 2012 primary elections. Welcome to the dawn of a new era in California electoral politics! If you’re any kind of political junkie, and you’re a Californian, then this is a pretty exciting day. It’s a historic day. It’s the day when we finally get to peel the lid off the Petri dish and see if our experiment worked, and if so, how well. [Read more…]
Why Wisconsin matters to San Diego
The Wisconsin recall election could have implications in local San Diego races
Anyone who has followed national politics over the last year will be eagerly awaiting the results of the efforts in Wisconsin to recall Republican Governor Scott Walker. It is considered to be the most important pre-November general election result in the country because it represents two distinct philosophies and the direction this country could go when all the votes are tallied on November 6th. [Read more…]
Money in politics: A necessary evil…for now
San Diego Democrats shouldn’t be prevented from playing by the same rules as Republicans.
Last week a memo was sent out by MoveOn.org on behalf of Lori Saldaña’s campaign excoriating Scott Peters for loaning his campaign $1.2 million out of his own personal funds. In the memo, MoveOn claims that “Peters realized that his only chance was to try to buy the race.” [Read more…]
Scott Peters shows his mettle in 52nd Congressional District race
After careful consideration of the facts, the choice for this writer has become clear.
There has been an awful lot of handwringing and consternation regarding who should have the Democrats’ support in the 52nd District Congressional race. There are three major candidates for the newly redrawn, Central San Diego district: Democrats Scott Peters and Lori Saldaña, and incumbent Republican Brian Bilbray, formerly of the 50th Congressional District based in Coastal North San Diego County. [Read more…]
Minority Rule and the Hijacking of Government in the California Legislature
The two-thirds requirement to pass legislation is grinding the state’s government–and the economy–to a halt.
Last month Los Angeles Times columnist George Skelton dished out some harsh criticism for California Governor Jerry Brown for his challenge to the state Legislature to “man up” and pass his proposed spending cuts. In addition to his push for a ballot initiative in November to temporarily raise state sales taxes and income taxes on those Californians earning more than $250,000 per year, the governor said it will also be necessary to slash spending due to the larger than expected projected budget shortfall for the coming fiscal year. At the time, the expected shortfall was just north of $9 billion. [Read more…]
Still Searching for Fletcher’s “Move to the Middle”
San Diego Mayoral candidate says his defection from the Republican Party means he’s changed, but there’s no real evidence to demonstrate he has.
I received an email from the Nathan Fletcher for Mayor Campaign last week. It’s the usual stuff: “This week Nathan Fletcher was attacked from the far-right for working with Democrats, and from the far-left for working with Republicans. The truth is they’re both right. Nathan will work with anyone to solve problems.” [Read more…]
Bonnie Dumanis: “You know me, San Diego”
San Diego’s longtime District Attorney goes full politician, facing her first contested election in a decade.
San Diego’s District Attorney is a bit of a trailblazer. In a way, Bonnie Dumanis is sort of a rags-to-riches story, going from secretarial work to attorney to judge, and in 2002 she was chosen by the electorate to become the top law enforcement official in all of San Diego County, beating Paul Pfingst to become the DA. And oh-by-the-way: She’s the first openly gay person to be elected District Attorney in the nation. [Read more…]
Is Scott Peters the Democrats’ Best Hope for Claiming California’s 52nd District?
As Scott Peters and Lori Saldaña joust over who is more likely to defeat Brian Bilbray in November, the key will be who can carry the “Decline to State” vote. Can Peters’ appeal to moderates and fundraising advantage overcome Saldaña’s grass roots machine?
It should be fairly common knowledge by now that Scott Peters is not exactly a flaming liberal. Don’t expect him to embark on a crusade to ban all domestic oil production, nationalize all banks in response to the financial meltdown, and demand that single-payer healthcare be instituted immediately (although he probably wouldn’t mind seeing a shift toward a single-payer system). And that’s perfectly okay. He’s a pragmatist; a realist who recognizes the climate around him for what it is and finds a way to work within it while continuing to chip away to change things toward what in his view is the better. [Read more…]
