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Close Encounter with Lorie Zapf

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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

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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 […]

The Starting Line – The Big Money Wins The Big Races, Filner is the Exception

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June 6, 2012—It was a long night for poll watchers in San Diego. Or at least it seemed long, as the County Registrar of Voters’ computer system {wags were saying its was a pair Commodore 64’s using Compuserv} crashed right after the first batch of results were posted and didn’t come back on line until 11 pm.

In the end, there were few surprises in local races. It’s DeMaio v.Filner come November and both local Propositions passed by large margins. The one local upset was SDUSD School Board President John Evans coming in second to Mark Powell by a mere 46 votes.

Turnout throughout California was abysmal, with a mere one in four registered voters bothering to cast their ballots. It’s a new record low for the State. In minority neighborhoods turnout was even lower, often in the teens.   [Read more…]

Election Night Live Blog

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Join us tonight – Primary Night – here at 8:00 pm when the San Diego Free Press and OB Rag join other local online media doing a live blog of the Primary’s mysterious being unfolded over the course of the evening. We will be joining San Diego CityBeat and San Diego Rostra in this joint online media project. Andy Cohen will be downtown blogging at Election Central, and both Doug Porter and Frank Gormlie will be live blogging from home, and Annie Lane will be somewhere in between.   [Read more…]

California’s Primary Election Grand Experiment

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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…]

A Personal Election Recommendation: Robert O. Amador for Judge

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We are all tired of the campaigns; I was a year ago and tomorrow is just the primary. I truly believe most of us who vote, have made up our minds for whom or what we will cast our sacred votes long ago. The editorial board asked me to write sumthin’ about the elections. But I just really could not fire myself up about it…anymore. Politicians have their world, and I have mine. I have not been excitedly for or against someone or something for quite some time (not counting the prayers and candles I lit between 2000 and 2008 to make the Cheney administration go away). I believe Tom Hayden was the last politician I really cared about…and he turned out to be a disappointment as well.

The election of a judge has always been an interesting subject to me. I found over the years, most judges have been appointed to the bench based upon a quid pro quo with the current governor, or as a result of quasi-nobility ascendency (I believe the public might gasp at the number of sitting judges whose fathers and grandfathers were sitting judges…notice I did not say mothers and grandmothers).   [Read more…]

Scenes from small-town Wisconsin on eve of recall

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Editor’s note: Our contributor Dixon Guizot happens to be visiting Wisconsin as the push to recall Governor Scott Walker reaches its conclusion.

In this article, Dixon shares photos snapped on the eve of the election in Stevens Point, a small town smack-dab in the middle of the state.   [Read more…]

Why Wisconsin matters to San Diego

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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…]

The Starting Line: Look at the Big Picture, Follow the Money for California and Wisconsin Election Predictions

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June 5, 2012- Today’s primaries in California and Wisconsin will be watched by pundits around the country. While predicting the actual results may seem like a crapshoot, my bet is that you’ll get the most correct predictions by keeping your eye on the big picture and following the money.

The long view of today’s voting is that this is yet another battle in an epic struggle between increasingly polarized views on government. A study released yesterday by the Pew Research Center and fronted by the Washington Post this morning, confirms that the most significant divisions in the United States are no longer based on race, class or sex but on political identity.   [Read more…]

“I used to work on the original San Diego Free Press”

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By John Lawrence / Will Blog for Food / Originally published July 6, 2007

I used to work for the San Diego Free Press. It flourished for about two years from about 1968 to 1970. I guess there was a recent version [before our current SDFP] but it has nothing in common with the 1968-70 version except the name. It was an “underground” newspaper meaning that it was devoted to radical politics, alternative lifestyles, the counterculture in general. But mainly it was a political newspaper. I used to sell papers at the San Diego Zoo among other spots, one of the few people who actually went out and sold them on the street. Most of the staff just liked to put out the paper, do the art work, write the articles etc. I also wrote for the paper, took photos and was a reporter.   [Read more…]

Balboa Park Conservancy To Lobby for Jacobs’ Plan – Two Board Members Resign in Protest

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Balboa Park Conservancy Board of Director members Judy Swink and Vicki Granowitz recently issued a joint press release in which they announced their resignations from the board. Both of their resignations were precipitated by the board’s June 1 majority endorsement of politically powerful San Diego philanthropist Irwin Jacobs’ controversial Plaza de Panama plan. According to the press release, prior to June 1 the Balboa Park Conservancy had maintained a neutral role with no direct involvement in the creation or implementation of this plan. It now not only supports the plan, it will actively lobby for it.   [Read more…]

Welcome to the San Diego Free Press !

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We want to welcome our readers – today is our first “official” day for the publication of the San Diego Free Press.

Beginning Monday, June 4th, the OB Rag – an online publication for Ocean Beach – is birthing a new online publication for all of San Diego. It’s the San Diego Free Press – and is named after San Diego’s very first alternative newspaper – which was published from 1968 to 1969.

The San Diego Free Press will bring to the rest of San Diego what the OB Rag has been bringing to the community of Ocean Beach these last four and half years – an online source of news, issues, and progressive views by citizen journalists, plus providing of a platform for the discussion of issues relevant to the village of OB.

The San Diego Free Press – in the planning stages for over a year and half – will be a source for neighborhood news from all the ignored and forgotten communities of our area, and it will provide a source and platform for progressive views for and by San Diegans.   [Read more…]

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