We are asking for San Diegans – and ONLY SAN DIEGANS – to help out by signing our new Change.org petition.
The petition asks that the San Diego City Council support a resolution to amend the constitution and reverse Citizens United. After all, corporations are not people and money is not free speech! [Read more…]
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 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 […]
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…]
Author’s note: This is the first post of my new weekly SDFP column City Heights Up Close & Personal. It is the distillation of my experiences and observations of the confounding, sometimes dazzling and always changing urban landscape that I call home.
“We are children of our landscape; it dictates behaviour and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.” Lawrence Durrell, Justine
“We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto.” Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz
For the past twenty five years My Beloved and I have lived in a postage stamp size home that we own in City Heights. Our street is in constant motion with pedestrians and cars moving between the wide thoroughfares of University Avenue and El Cajon Boulevard. Two of the most common sounds are the trash trucks in the alley and moms calling out apúrate (hurry up!) to their kids lingering on the sidewalk. There is very little that is unified or uniform about the physical landscape or the people who live here. That is what I love about City Heights. That is what I also hate about City Heights. [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
