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Post by Tired in CV on Feb 15, 2014 6:13:43 GMT -5
I did buy Manchester's fishwrap this morning to see the daily gloat over the mayor's race, and there was a puff piece by a lady who went to college with Faulconer expressing just how awesome Kevin is. He's a master of diversity in case you didn't know, and now a possible President contender. No, really. I'm sure we will be reading about how he can walk on water in the next few years. I did notice that in the various rallies that Faulconer did have more people of color at his rallies than did Alvarez. I will grant that Alvarez had more Hispanics but blacks were almost non-existent, Asians few if any. Faulconer had good support across all races. You might have a point about Obama's support not being good for him. Congressmen have been distancing themselves with Obama for the coming elections. Unfortunately, their voting records have them tied to him in the worst way. Some Democrats and Independents also have soured on Obama and his deciples (democrats) as well. Then throw in that the disgraced Bob Filner was a democrat, the city reverted back to their Republican mayors that have generally been good for the city. It's the city council where the problems come from and we will see what the people say about the election of Faulconer's replacement.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 15, 2014 14:25:22 GMT -5
I was a little snarky about the claim of Faulconer's commitment to diversity, since diversity is a bad word to SOME righties, but I think there is some truth in what you are saying.
And the combination of Obama and Filner has set the Dems back a decade in San Diego IMO. This Green party member is laughing out loud...
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Post by jdredd on Jun 11, 2014 10:53:00 GMT -5
I've recently heard that food trucks are to be banned from San Diego under the new Manchester Faulconer regime. Which once again exposes the two-faced nature of the GOP: it gives lip service to "free market" while actually being toadies to wealthy downtown landlords trying to restrict competition to their restaurant renters.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 19, 2014 13:39:34 GMT -5
www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/aug/18/san-diego-veto-minimum-wage-hike-referendum/"DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO — The San Diego City Council voted Monday to override Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s veto of gradual increases in the local minimum wage to $11.50 an hour by 2017, starting the clock on a referendum campaign that business leaders have said they’ll pursue. If opponents can collect the 34,000 valid signatures required for a referendum by Sept. 17, the wage increases will be held in abeyance pending an election in June 2016. If the signature drive falls short, the wage hikes will go into effect in January with an increase for local minimum wage workers from $9 an hour to $9.75." So the usual suspects can hold up San Diego's minimum wage increase until 2016. Nice. But for all the pragmatic and ideological arguments that they have come up with to hold down wages, they can't disguise their true interest: Getting labor for as close to free as is possible.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 9, 2015 16:49:33 GMT -5
So today's UT has an article about four proposals for a giant ferris wheel on the bay near the USS Midway (also one tower/roller coaster proposal). I say, go for it. I think it's appropriate for a town run by clowns to look like a carnival. But I'm still shocked that a city that did have some dignity once, London, put up that ferris wheel eyesore on it's riverfront.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 18, 2015 14:46:47 GMT -5
www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-chargers-mayor-discord-20150217-story.html"On Monday, the Chargers’ special counsel Mark Fabiani reminded a committee recently appointed by the mayor that the team has spent 14 frustrating years and $15 million developing stadium proposals that flopped amid a lack of political support from City Hall. He suggested that the Chargers ownership suspects that the mayor’s committee will propose a “half-baked” plan that is sure to lose at the polls or courts but will allow Faulconer and others to claim that they tried to save the team and thus avoid political damage. “Simply put, we have no intention of allowing the Chargers franchise to be manipulated for political cover,” Fabiani told the committee, “and we will call out any elected official who tries to do so.” Uh-oh, trouble right here in Manchesterland. It's two Big Republican Donors at each other's throat (Good thing you can count on Republicons to turn on each other when they are in power. Must be part of their "every man for himself" philosophy), Manchester vs Spanos, with Fabiani and Faulconer as their proxies, and Downtown real estate interests vs Mission Valley real estate interests. While I have sympathy for Charger fans who would cry if the Chargers left, as a long time Comic-con attendee I would cry if Comic-Con had to leave because the disruptive split-convention center stadium plan was approved. Alas, this is not the only city dealing with NFL bullies. At least LA has had the huevos to tell the NFL where to stick it for a while now.
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Post by jdredd on May 8, 2015 0:05:03 GMT -5
www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/07/tribune-publishing-agrees-to-purchase-ut-san-diego-newspaper-for-85-million/"SAN DIEGO – The publisher of the Los Angeles Times is buying U-T San Diego for $85 million, strengthening its presence in Southern California and putting the top newspapers in the state's two largest cities under common ownership. Tribune Publishing Co., owner of the Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and other publications, said Thursday that the 145-year-old U-T would remain a separate newspaper." "Douglas Manchester, a prominent San Diego developer who bought the U-T in 2011 for about $110 million, will keep the U-T's headquarters in the city's Mission Valley area. The newspaper will stay under a short-term lease while Manchester pursues a plan to build 200 apartments there. Beutner will be publisher of both papers and chief executive of Tribune Publishing's California News Group, which will oversee operations in both markets. The U-T said Jeff Light, its president and editor, would remain at the San Diego paper. Manchester, who insists that employees and others call him "Papa Doug," used his foray into newspaper publishing to trumpet conservative political views. One of his first moves was to give the U-T a new slogan, "The World's Greatest Country & America's Finest City." "It has been important to me to speak out positively on a local, national and international level, particularly in denouncing Christian genocide and other oppression throughout the world," Manchester said in the U-T." This is took me by surprise. I guess "Papa Doug" gave up on his crusade to make San Diego his private conservative playground, and instead is going back into the much more lucrative real estate development. I would be stoked if the local fishwrap was no longer a mouthpiece for rightie propaganda (like it has been for many decades, first under the Copleys and then Manchester), except that I think there is still a chance uber-media-Fuhrer Rupert Murdoch might buy both the LA Times and the U-T. Still, at least this thread can be retired.
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Post by Turk on May 8, 2015 9:03:06 GMT -5
Sometimes your commentary really makes me ckle.
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Post by jdredd on May 8, 2015 12:34:46 GMT -5
If I can get someone to ckle about the dismal subject of politics, I've done what I'm here to accomplish!
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Post by jdredd on May 8, 2015 13:11:11 GMT -5
This does put another interesting twist into the stadium debacle. What positions will the new LA Times/UT take on the NFL playing one city against another? What difference will it make to them if the Chargers move out of SD? Could be amusing.
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Post by jdredd on May 27, 2015 14:35:05 GMT -5
I must give credit where credit is due: My hat goes off to "Papa" Manchester. I think he dropped a boatload of money trying to keep the U-T local. And I think he did a good job covering military affairs. Alas, the printing is now moving to LA, and 178 local workers have been laid off, although the Union members have the opportunity to transfer to LA while non-Union types would have to re-apply for employment. (But Unions suck, don't they?) The silver lining is perhaps the UT won't be so far to the right, not that I consider the LA Times in any way on the left.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 1, 2016 23:14:30 GMT -5
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/dec/27/port-convention-expansion-hotel-comic-con/"Less than a year ago, many city officials considered this land — sans hotel — vital to expansion of the convention center, which in turn was judged essential to keeping Comic-Con and other major shows from bolting for larger venues in other cities. That’s why the public agency that runs the convention center had paid the company $4 million since 2008 for the option to spend $13.8 million more to take over the leasehold. But the initial payments were made before Cory Briggs, a public interest lawyer, convinced a court last year that San Diego’s hotel tax hike was illegal, wiping out funding for the expansion. By May, the convention center defaulted on its lease option." What's amusing about this is not the dirty real estate dealings by the bayside (that's just business as usual), but that dirtbag Cory Briggs, his crazy bitch ally Donna Frye, and his bankroller John Moores are trying to sell their "Citizen's Initiative" as a way to "keep Comic-con in San Diego" when it will do just the opposite. And hapless dufus Mayor Faulconer keeps silent about the scam, but whatever. LA can get both the Chargers and Comic-con. Hey, we will still have those imprisoned Orcas at Sea World! Yippee!
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Post by jdredd on Jan 12, 2016 23:15:00 GMT -5
Yippee skippee!!! San Diego gets another year of bullying by the NFL thugs and the Spanos crime family!!! And if John Moores and bayfront real estate interests get the "Citizens Initiative" passed, we could end up losing our world class Comic-con in favor of a 3rd rate NFL team! Whoppee!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2016 23:23:13 GMT -5
Yippee skippee!!! San Diego gets another year of bullying by the NFL thugs and the Spanos crime family!!! And if John Moores and bayfront real estate interests get the "Citizens Initiative" passed, we could end up losing our world class Comic-con in favor of a 3rd rate NFL team! Whoppee!!! Yippee skippee!!! Who cares If SD don't have a NFL Team, That the Tax Payer won't have to foot the bill for new Stadium.. Like you Said JD evil billionaires wanted! Like I said Let the Team owner and NFL foot the bill for new stadium and cut over priced players pay, Not the Tax Payers!
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Post by jdredd on Feb 14, 2016 16:19:44 GMT -5
So the Spanos crime family has hired city hall insider Fred Maas and have given him $10 million bucks to bulldoze the opposition to a new stadium partly financed by taxpayers. Unlike Inglewood. (What ever happened to Carson? Oh yeah, they were just a pawn in an evil game) So the chances are greater we will foot much of the bill for a mega-shrine to Pro Football downtown, and the billionaires will laugh all the way to the bank.
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