San Diego Politics

William McRae suggested some MoveOn.org political events on February 22nd. Possibly of interest to the politicos in the audience. And anyone concerned that I'm posting these to the detriment of less lefty events, well, you didn't submit your right-wing event, did you? So you have zero right to complain ...

Prosecutors Seek 10 Years for Cunningham - Yahoo! News Prosecutors on Friday asked that former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham be sentenced to the maximum of 10 years in prison for his "stunning betrayal of the public trust" by accepting bribes. "Cunningham used his status as a war hero to get into ...

Last year oso wrote about this bid. And we're getting a lot of searches for that article today, so someone must be talking about it. A little googling pulls up the official site for the bid: http://www.tjsd.org/ -- Wikpedia (take with grain of salt) has this ...

And he sure does feel some serious righteous indignation about it! Read the whole story starting here and continuing here, here, and here. Here's the Washington Post story. Looks like this is a story that Digg dismissed. This story did not impress me all that much either, ...

Originally posted at altjira'a blog. Ever since confronting the Union Tribune's foreboding headline today, I'd like to point out that whether the San Diego Chargers are going to leave our town is an issue that ought to get the juices flowing in all concerned locals, and that SD ...

This is an interesting kind of "reblog" from lefty news outlet IndyMedia: BlogWire IndyMedia San Diego. And here are the guidelines for inclusion: Another new feature of San Diego Indymedia is our blogwire, in the right column where the newswire goes. This is still in development, so it ...

Maren Dougherty writes: I work for a local nonprofit called Survivors of Torture, International. We have an event approaching called the Celebration of Hope and Healing on Feb. 26th. Our site is http://www.notorture.org, and it has all the details.

America's Finest City? Not any more. Faced with all that ill repute, the city has quietly dethroned itself and dropped the self-proclaimed title "America's Finest City" from its official Web site. The San Diego Union-Tribune recently asked readers to coin a new slogan, saying "America's Finest" had ...

Via Indepundit, via The Moderate Voice: Lawmaker keeps wife on payroll Filner is sole client of spouse's unregistered consulting business [official site]. U.S. Rep. Bob Filner has paid at least $505,000 in campaign funds to his wife for political consulting services since 1995. For the past five ...

You may have heard about local Republican Congressman resigned in disgrace recently: Rep. Cunningham Pleads Guilty to Bribery, Resigns The veteran lawmaker admits receiving $2.4 million from military contractors and evading more than $1 million in taxes. A tearful, trembling Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Rancho Santa Fe) resigned Monday after ...

Save Trestles! More here and here. For decades the surf break with the odd name south of here has been legend, one that wave riders say is a creation of natural interactions between land and ocean that make it one of the best — if not the best ...

Mack Reed of the estimable LA Voice sent me this the other day, and I'm just now getting up to speed: I stumbled across this in today's L.A. Times and thought of you. ... the Navy's opening up a section of the waterfront to development. I transcribed a bit of this tiny display ad from the Times: "The Navy has issued an RFP for the lease of approximately 14 acres known as the "Navy Broadway Complex" located on North Harbor Drive facing the downtown San Diego waterfront. Through special legislation, the Navy intends to offer this premiere, downtown land for long-term lease to a qualified developer or development team (yadda yadda yadda) Proposals will be due Jan. 4, 2006. It then claims the solicitation (the specific RFP, I'm guessing) is available here as Solicitation # N6247306RP06X01: http://esol.navfac.navy.mil/ Thanks Mack! I and San Diego appreciate it big time! I found it at http://esol.navfac.navy.mil/CookieCode/SolCookiePub.cfm?Sol_Num=N62473-06-RP-06X01: Full solicitation after the jump:

The 13 most corrupt members of Congress. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (San Diego): Cunningham, who has announced that he will not run for reelection, faces questions over his dealings with a defense contractor who allegedly overpaid him when he purchased Cunningham's house. Rep. Maxine Waters (Los Angeles): The report cites a ...

Private citizen and San Diego businessman David Perez makes a difference when he charters a plane to take 82 evacuees to San Diego Sunday afternoon. Via voice of san diego. What ever happend to to the concept of "the buck stops here"? Very compelling commentary about government denial. ...

Is everyone getting ready to do some electing tomorrow? In case you've been in a cave that doesn't have WiFi access, tomorrow is election day. We get to choose who will bear the city's cross and whether or not the city will bear a cross. ...

Minutemen Threaten to Shoot Protesters (and their mothers) on the indymedia site, is a press press release with links to a grainy, dark video of protesters offering to play music for the Minutemen, who are a kind of vigilante Border Patrol. One Minuteman, carrying a gun, and saying ...

An anonymous person sent us: Bochy for Mayor Bruce Bochy has apparently thrown his hat into the July 26th mayoral elections! Here's ESPN's bio of Bruce Bochy: Has spent the last 23 seasons with the San Diego Padres' organization in some fashion. Finished his nine-year playing career with the team before ...

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 ...