Steve Francis has a Plan
Steve Francis (a candidate for mayor) sent us: www.stevesplan.com
I’m running for mayor, and would like to give all San Diegans an opportunity to read my plan to turn San Diego City Hall around without raising taxes.
This City Council has been a disgrace to our City - they should apologize for the mess they have gotten us in.
They are cutting neighborhood programs instead of cutting their own budget. If the City Council cut their budget by 20 percent, it would pay for 21 6 to 6 after school programs - so far they have cut 37.
Unlike the other major candidates, who have spent years at City Hall, I’m an outsider. I’ll stand up to the unions who control this City Council and roll back their illegal and extravagant pensions.
I’ll also cut the City Hall bureaucracy by 10 percent, increase efficiency and stop the structural deficit of the City Council over spending year after year.
Check out my detailed plan at www.stevesplan.com
Thanks Steve!
Note: Voice of San Diego is interviewing many of the candidates. Check it out.
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James Mata said on Saturday, July 16, 2005, 9:32
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Jeremy said on Sunday, July 17, 2005, 12:24
“Unlike the other major candidates, who have spent years at City Hall, I’m an outsider. I’ll stand up to the unions who control this City Council and roll back their illegal and extravagant pensions.”
-So Steve, which unions are you referring to sir? The union that represents the people who educate San Diego youth? The union of people who protect us against crime and fire?
Please specify! i want to know which greedy union this is?
The extreme anti-union rhetoric has a tendency to show up in more “conservative campaigns.” Its a blame someone else campaign. Francis is right about one thing: “This City Council has been a disgrace to our City - they should apologize for the mess they have gotten us in”
One candidate who is on the council has been voting AGAINST everything the council has done thats screwed up San Diego’s position. Being an outsider is refreshing Steve, but we already know that someone who knows and lives in San Diego is already fighting against the corrupt “business”-friendly policies of the current council. Frye offers real solutions without placing the blame on unspecified unions of people who probably are not the problem.
Steve Francis said on Saturday, July 23, 2005, 22:50
Jeremy-
The unions - public employee unions - have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to elect the members of this City Council. Go down to the City Clerk’s office and look at the campaign finance reports.
In return, they got everything they asked for from the City Council members. They got so much, that we can’t afford it, and neither can they. Public employee union members get pensions that are as much as 2-3 times what the average private pension, on top of higher pay for the same type of work done in the private sector. Our city is going broke.
If the City enters bankruptcy proceedings, the union benefits will be at the mercy of a bankruptcy judge who has neither their interests nor the interests of San Diegans at heart.
That is why I say I will stand up to the unions. We can negotiate an end to this fiscal nightmare where the union members get reasonable benefits, and taxpayers don’t get fleeced.
Rick said on Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 11:21
Jeremy, they’re all pretty greedy, to be perfectly honest - are you implying that because they teach our young or put out our fires, then they are not capable of greed?? Should we just keep giving them all more and more and more??? Unions are the problem jeremy - they take and take without regard to the spending capacity of the city and the taxpayers.
Jesse Thomas said on Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 10:37
The unions are indeed a problem, but only part of it.
But unions go to the government for protection and growth because the government enables them to do this. If it was not for the size of government, there would be no unions or lobbyists hanging out with politicians asking for favors in return for support.
Allow the free market to provide for goods and services, and watch quality improve and prices drop. Government services are never a better alternative to what the free market can provide. Not ever.