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Aguirre wants secure water supply, lower electric rates, infrastructure upgrade
Certainly some members of city government see themselves as heroes, and imagine the public will see it that way also. But an outsider has plenty to run against. City Hall is in a complete shambles, Todd Gloria obviously has delusions of grandeur, he and Goldsmith will be at each other's throats very soon. Kevin Faulconer no doubt will start strutting around also. I believe the public will see this all as sordid spectacle, and it won't end anytime soon. These clowns are beatable, but the winning candidate must have a name now or make one quickly.— September 3, 2013 1:24 a.m.
Aguirre wants secure water supply, lower electric rates, infrastructure upgrade
I urge anyone fighting for our streets and neighborhoods to chase cameras and speak to the issues. Winning from the left will require organizing and running a media circus, making news. It helps to have a newsworthy name to start with, but if there's enough support to make a big scene, the cameras will come, and with that free publicity and a potent message reformers can win. To remove Filner, City Hall dirtied themselves. This is a good election for outsiders, insiders who threw the filth have the stench all over them, but to win one needs a name that will stick out in a crowded ballot. An outsider needs to make a name quickly to win.— September 2, 2013 4:41 p.m.
Paradise Valley, by John Mayer
Setting aside whether we like the sound, John Mayer's voice problems demonstrates what every worthwhile voice teacher will tell you, that singing softly wrecks your voice.— September 2, 2013 2:43 p.m.
Todd Gloria wields the ax, firing most of Filner staff
The Balboa Park Atrocity will divide the citizenry from the Downtown Puppet Masters if energetic and articulate leaders can make the issue central. Balboa Park belongs to everyone, and there is nothing like theft and vandalism to motivate everyone to fight. Local issues of developer crime, like the Upas Jack in the Box, should be used to make media events that can refer back to the Balboa Park poster child. Whoever wants to be Mayor should threaten a Jack in the Box boycott over their law breaking, combined with an occupy type sit in. If he has a brain. Jack will realize that their billions of dollars spent promoting a phony hipness could be unmasked by a few weeks of sunlight on their shenanigans. The Foodmaker parent company will fold I suspect, because *they must sell to the people they're offending.* Creating and managing this type of media circus is the real job of our next Mayor. I would urge them to talk before they strike, because a handshake between Jack and his neighbors would be a win for everyone, might even make a good commercial, for both Jack and our next Mayor.— September 2, 2013 1:32 p.m.
Aguirre wants secure water supply, lower electric rates, infrastructure upgrade
The Convention Center expansion perhaps isn't the best issue to defeat the downtown crowd. If the money was falling from the sky it would be worth looking at the plans. The Balboa Park plans are a better bridge to fight on. People love the Park just as it is, and just describing the proposed atrocity is enough to motivate people to stop it. Add in the paid parking proposal, which I would call a tax, and I think you could win with that issue.— August 31, 2013 7:18 p.m.
Aguirre wants secure water supply, lower electric rates, infrastructure upgrade
Noted. I should let the man indict himself, and I owe an apology to the true Nazis, who even roasting in hell don't deserve to be compared to such lazy prose.— August 31, 2013 2:35 p.m.
Aguirre wants secure water supply, lower electric rates, infrastructure upgrade
I accuse MeReader. In the previous post that was removed, he launched an anti semitic tirade against Filner's alleged sexual predations, then tacked on a boilerplate rant about Jewish movie producers. The last part was exactly old time Nazi propaganda, the first approximately. He quacks like a Nazi, I don't say this lightly. To the extent that the news media manipulate this town by hatred and anger, and that is part of the mix, they play by the totalitarian playbook, just as McCarthy did, as Roosevelt did during the war. Sometimes my own prose gets overheated, for that I apologise. But stories of Jewish movie producers molesting starlets is exactly Nazi propaganda. I'll call it whenever I see it without apology.— August 31, 2013 1:15 p.m.
Aguirre wants secure water supply, lower electric rates, infrastructure upgrade
MeReader is an actual race baiting Nazi sort, as revealed by earlier posts. He denies the lynching charge one post after his anti semitic smear. Useless as argument, his posts can be studied as mental pathology. We must never, never forget that 1900s Germany was perhaps the most advanced country in the world, that those like MeReader came to dominate with the assistance of "more intelligent" persons actually disgusted by them. One cackling ghoul cheering the action doesn't mean our town is headed for complete depravity, but it does remind that the so called elites in this town won their victory by satisfying humanity's most evil instincts. Jan Goldsmith has got one Nazi's support. that should motivate us all.— August 31, 2013 12:10 p.m.
Aguirre wants secure water supply, lower electric rates, infrastructure upgrade
I don't blame him for hesitating, but I don't think anyone should expect Donna Frye to run. Whether you believe she showed poor judgement or saved the City, she thrust herself into the center of a sordid scandal, then hid from questions. I hope we haven't seen the last of her politically, but a mayoral run now would be a terrible mistake. She will forever be linked to the current scamdal, and would be dogged by the questions she's ducking. There are others who should consider running, the left lacks a well known candidate, and the city is moving left. DeMaio and Fletcher are proven losers, so deeply flawed that Mike Aguirre has a chance even after the thorough smear he endured.— August 31, 2013 1:28 a.m.
Todd Gloria wields the ax, firing most of Filner staff
Reports are that Michael Aguirre is running. He's got real assets, name recognition, and he's won city wide before. Should he win, he would make the oligarchs long for Filner.— August 30, 2013 8:58 p.m.