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Mayor’s flip-flop leaves his political guru out of the money
While an interesting idea, doubt Spanos attends games any longer due to his age and advanced Alzheimer's. When he did attend games in San Diego, it was always fun to watch his CHP Motorcade escort him in and out of Qualcomm Stadium's parking lot. If you didn't know it you'd think it was a presidential motorcade leaving the lot while all other traffic was stopped for him.— October 5, 2016 11:14 a.m.
Chargers, mayor, U-T collude on con job
If Irwin Jacobs was really interested in helping San Diego and not just leaving his mark on Balboa Park, he'd fund an educational campaign against Prop C. With a small investment he could counter the ridiculous propaganda from the Spanos sycophants and save foolish San Diegans from themselves. And that's leaving out saving us from the misery of a historically mediocre football team with an owner whose only interest is profits. C'mon Mr. Jacobs, whatada you say?— October 4, 2016 3:09 p.m.
Chargers, mayor, U-T collude on con job
Ahhh....but you were never there behind the curtain.— October 3, 2016 8:58 p.m.
Chargers, mayor, U-T collude on con job
While I have no love for Ms. Golding and the debacle of the 96' RNC; it's over-the-top looting of the taxpayer's treasury, so she would look good on a national stage, the fact of the matter is, the city was run by a City Manager cabal not a strong Mayor back then. (Strong is not an adjective to use with Golding at all) But between Bruce Herring and Jack McGrory, both sports sycophants in the Manager's office. They acted in an obsequious manner toward the Chargers instead of the taxpayers. Those are the indivduals involved in the root causes of today's mess.— October 3, 2016 4:25 p.m.
Secret meetings banned for public utilities regulator
And who gets to investigate or enforce violation these new law(s)? The bought politician working in the AG's office. We have plenty of laws that go unenforced, or worse, circumvented by the corrupt political class. Stunts like the Govenor signing another unenforceable law are done to merely to appease the sheepple. Meanwhile, rates go up and up under the guise that it's going to be above board from now on.— September 29, 2016 5:39 p.m.
Paul Gaspar is not a medical doctor
Ahhh...guidelines. Sadly they are just a recommendation, a suggestion, an example to be followed. Unfortunately they, guidelines, are not enforceable. So he's got plenty of wiggle room just like every other politician we all know. He learns fast!— September 29, 2016 5:29 p.m.
San Diego's $2.27 billion pension hole
If nothin else, gotta love the use vocabulary. Always learning a new word.✌️— September 18, 2016 8:55 p.m.
San Diego's $2.27 billion pension hole
Don, Sander did not "line" his own pockets by retaining pension benefits for sworn police officers. He, Sanders, had already been retired from his PD job for several years. His police pension amount was already set. The reason for retaining police pensions had to do with P.OS.T. (Peace Officer Standards and Training). Once you earn a POST certificate you can move laterally to any agency statewide without having to attend their police academy. Fire services don't have such a training/certificate program. This means you must attend that agencies fire training academy even if you are a multi-year fire veteran. If Sanders had dropped pensions for police officers, San Diego taxpayers would have been paying to train new police officers only to watch then leave for agencies with pension benefits once they earned their POST certificate. And, those agencies would have loved it, they get a fully trained officer at no cost of training or salary. A savings in the neighborhood of $150K per hire. San Diego would have been left with a perpetual rookie apprentice force with fewer and fewer journeymen officers.— September 18, 2016 4:52 p.m.
San Diego's $2.27 billion pension hole
I agree we don't need a Charger stadium paid with tax dollars from whatever source when the NFL rakes in billions of dollars every year. I also agree the city should do a better job of allocating dollars for infrastructure. The scary thing IS mismanagement and sadly San Diego has a long and well documented history of doing it. An audit just released of San Diego's Housing commission shows tens of millions of dollars UNCOLLECTED from so-called partners. https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/17-0… Those dollars are needed to pay for low income housing. The commission blames two city departments for not communicating and sharing information. But this is just another example of PLAIN and SIMPLE mismanagement by the executive in charge, our Mayor. What do you think is going to happen if a TWO BILLION dollar Convadium project is approved by a naive electorate. Folks think before you vote. San Diego needs billions for water, wastewater, streets, and other infrastructure that been crumbling for years. Let the owner of the Chargers, now worth more than two billion dollars, pay for his own stadium.— September 17, 2016 5:09 p.m.
"The Chargers are cheap and manipulative"
No, of course not. No sport, not even the Olympics which has become more commercial than many other sports is worth a couple of billions that ***needs*** to be spent on San Diego's infrastructure. Let's see if the voters, well at least 50% plus one are smart enough to not be bamboozled by a slick sales campaign and a supportive press.— August 25, 2016 8:23 a.m.