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Out-of-town money pushing the room tax hike
Nearly half of political proceeds come from outside San Diego
Manchester GrandHyatt. Host Hotels, proprietor of the Manchester Grand Hyatt, and IA Lodging (Andaz San Diego) came up with a total of $93,175.
With its main newspaper in the hands of a Los Angeles billionaire and its TV stations mostly acquired by national mega-corporations — the latest KFMB, the venerable local broadcaster taken over by Virginia-based Tegna last year for $325 million — a growing segment of San Diego politics is being paid for from out of town, with locals none the wiser.
The list of non-San Diego players scattering their financial largess to local politicos stretches from short-stay operator Airbnb to private prison purveyor GEO Group, both of which are assisting the effort by San Diego Chamber of Commerce honcho Jerry Sanders and his protégé Kevin Faulconer, San Diego's mayor, to get a convention center expansion room tax hike on November's ballot.
The flow of outside money and consequent foreign control is revealed in the list of donors to Yes! for a better San Diego, a Sanders-led political committee bankrolling the putatitve ballot measure.
From the beginning of this year to date, $626,000, or 52 percent of the $1.2 million donated by corporations and a few individuals to the tax hike petition drive has come from entities that are domiciled in San Diego, per campaign disclosure filings. The rest of the cash was dispatched from Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maryland, and places in between, raising questions as to how much the operations benefit the local economy.
Host Hotels, listed as proprietor of the Manchester Grand Hyatt, and IA Lodging (Andaz San Diego), both with Oklahoma City addresses, came up with a total of $93,175, placing the Sooner State first among outside donors with 7.8 percent of the grand total.
Marriott International and CCMH, dba San Diego Marina Marriott, both of Louisville, Tennessee, were third at 6.5 percent, with $77,800. Hilton Shared Services and Sunstone Park Leasee (San Diego Bayfront Hilton), with Memphis, Tennessee addresses, came in fourth at 5.32 percent, with $63,750.
Among San Diego donors, Sempra Energy, battling efforts to break up its San Diego power distribution monopoly, placed first with $125,000, almost 20 percent of the total collected so far this year.
Bartell Hotels, which leases the real estate occupied by its hostelries from the Port of San Diego, was second at $64,650, a little over 10 percent of the San Diego total. Bosa Development US Corporation, the downtown condominium developer that originated in Canada,placed third at 8 percent, with $50,000.
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Out-of-town money pushing the room tax hike
Nearly half of political proceeds come from outside San Diego
Out-of-town money pushing the room tax hike
Nearly half of political proceeds come from outside San Diego
Manchester GrandHyatt. Host Hotels, proprietor of the Manchester Grand Hyatt, and IA Lodging (Andaz San Diego) came up with a total of $93,175.
With its main newspaper in the hands of a Los Angeles billionaire and its TV stations mostly acquired by national mega-corporations — the latest KFMB, the venerable local broadcaster taken over by Virginia-based Tegna last year for $325 million — a growing segment of San Diego politics is being paid for from out of town, with locals none the wiser.
The list of non-San Diego players scattering their financial largess to local politicos stretches from short-stay operator Airbnb to private prison purveyor GEO Group, both of which are assisting the effort by San Diego Chamber of Commerce honcho Jerry Sanders and his protégé Kevin Faulconer, San Diego's mayor, to get a convention center expansion room tax hike on November's ballot.
The flow of outside money and consequent foreign control is revealed in the list of donors to Yes! for a better San Diego, a Sanders-led political committee bankrolling the putatitve ballot measure.
From the beginning of this year to date, $626,000, or 52 percent of the $1.2 million donated by corporations and a few individuals to the tax hike petition drive has come from entities that are domiciled in San Diego, per campaign disclosure filings. The rest of the cash was dispatched from Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maryland, and places in between, raising questions as to how much the operations benefit the local economy.
Host Hotels, listed as proprietor of the Manchester Grand Hyatt, and IA Lodging (Andaz San Diego), both with Oklahoma City addresses, came up with a total of $93,175, placing the Sooner State first among outside donors with 7.8 percent of the grand total.
Marriott International and CCMH, dba San Diego Marina Marriott, both of Louisville, Tennessee, were third at 6.5 percent, with $77,800. Hilton Shared Services and Sunstone Park Leasee (San Diego Bayfront Hilton), with Memphis, Tennessee addresses, came in fourth at 5.32 percent, with $63,750.
Among San Diego donors, Sempra Energy, battling efforts to break up its San Diego power distribution monopoly, placed first with $125,000, almost 20 percent of the total collected so far this year.
Bartell Hotels, which leases the real estate occupied by its hostelries from the Port of San Diego, was second at $64,650, a little over 10 percent of the San Diego total. Bosa Development US Corporation, the downtown condominium developer that originated in Canada,placed third at 8 percent, with $50,000.
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