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City Council Considers Balboa Park Locales for Winter Shelter
California state law provides another "loophole" in combination with other San Diego charter language. A Superior Court judge may find that local lawlessness and an inability to enforce process may require a mobilization of part of the militia here. With the City already implementing cutbacks in public safety and with more cutbacks proposed if Proposition D does not pass, there is an increasing probability that there will be lawlessness and an inability to enforce process. Once a call for militia mobilization is made, the Governator may call for volunteers to serve in the mobilized unorganized militia and seize Balboa Park as city property (as a political subdivision of the State of California) for transfer to that part of the militia not available for federal service under reasons of military necessity pursuant to the State Military Reserve Act. While all this is going on (or even if it's not), city charter language directs the strong mayor in an emergency to take command of the police department and (under FEMA comprehensive emergency management by objectives and the National Response Framework) take such necessary steps in response to emergencies including the temporary housing of homeless (either chronic or from immediate disaster evacuation) in Balboa Park or wherever the the brevet chief of police may deem necessary for public safety. No City Council action is necessary in this combined scenario as the absence of a quorum should never prevent the necessary immediate response under current amended charter provisions by the brevet chief of police in an emergency, and the assumption of a quorum present is not required under state continuity of government provisions. In fact, those provisions call for a neighboring county to install a new board of supervisors here if a board quorum cannot be located in San Diego County, and where the reason is the same, the rule should be the same as to restoring order in housing the homeless in Balboa Park with or without City Council approval, whether a council quorum can be found or not. History judges our leaders (and ourselves in a democracy) as to how widows, orphans and the poor are treated. Those of us who believe in God of Abraham know where this thought comes from. The confidence of the people in our local government would be enhanced by knowing we had civic leaders thinking of the people's welfare and taking initiative to accomplish objectives in the public interest. If our civic leaders do or if they do not, then that's up to the voters to decide in less than two weeks, isn't it?— October 21, 2010 11:45 p.m.
CPUC Grants San Diego City and County Party Status in SDG&E/IOU WEBA Proceeding
The original MOTION OF CITY OF SAN DIEGO AND THE COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO FOR PARTY STATUS IN THIS [WEBA] PROCEEDING: http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/efile/MOTION/123540.pdf Know your representatives. For Office of County Counsel: William A. Johnson, Jr. For Office of the City Attorney: Daniel F. Bamberg and Bruce S. Bailey— October 21, 2010 10:43 p.m.
Public Records Suggest Southwestern College Used Public Funds Frivolously
The fact that students were not invited may be a factor in a continuing denial of Western Association of Schools and Colleges accreditation for Southwestern College. As a former student representative on City College accreditation committees along with faculty and administrators in the last millennium, we had to demonstrate to WASC a commitment to shared governance that did include students in at least some aspect of future campus construction plans. As far as I can tell, San Diego City College is still accredited by WASC and has not had it suspended at any time since I was a student body president there decades ago. Has anyone ever contemplated running Southwestern College as a charter school?— October 21, 2010 10:34 p.m.
Busy day on the Freeways ends with a sad note on my Library's door
Unfortunately, the City of San Diego executive leadership has already indicated what it will do, and in comparison to locating a new stadium site then getting a Sacramento budget deal clause to fund it... Let's be honest about this. How many private millions are being pledged by the wealthiest San Diego residents for the new main library downtown, and how many of those multi-millionaires have added at least kind comments in support of your local library branch since you posted your thoughts above?— October 21, 2010 10:17 p.m.
Update San Diego 10/21/2010
RE "Why don't you talk about how great Meg is, rather than the faults of the other guy? I think it's what people want to hear": I'd like an explanation of how Meg Whitman managed to hire 15,000 people to run a website that generates no original content while selling things it doesn't produce and that never seems to have anyone available to answer the darn phone. Perhaps 14,980 of them are part-time housekeepers? I don't know, and until I do as a former-Republican independent and ex-Mensan, the candidate with prior state government executive experience has the edge. I've had enough leadership experience on California legislative bodies to know that a billionaire rookie with only a superficial knowledge of California law is NOT who's going to lead us into a prosperous future, only getting us in more gridlocked budgetary trouble for the effort. In that respect, the termed-out Governator would make a better candidate.— October 21, 2010 9:16 p.m.
Mayor a No-Show at Second Community Forum
RE "Kessler does not have clean hands, in his time with the city or before, no matter how much everyone wants him to prevail to bring down Sanders and Dumanis. All Sanders has to do is testify that Kessler was fired because of Kessler's numerous lies and conflicts in using HUD $ and in MAD formation, but that would also bring down Bill Anderson. Who knows?": If Sanders already testified this way in deposition before the recent MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT hearing in KESSLER V. CITY OF SAN DIEGO, then that testimony did undercut City's legal argument that Kessler was let go for budgetary reasons (see Court rationale for not giving credibility to that City Attorney argument in most recent tentative order denying Defendant CITY OF SAN DIEGO's MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT). If Sanders didn't do that in deposition but testifies that way at trial later, then he opens himself up for impeachment from testimony inconsistent with that already given in deposition under oath. Testimony from an impeached witness can be ignored, in part or entirely, by the judge of fact in a Superior Court civil case in California. Generally, it would be a classic courtroom example of "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire"... According to published comments made earlier by others, that would be a rather large amount of flaming polyester and a holstered smoking gun. There's a really good reason why the City Council has never required smoke detectors installed at City Hall, but this ain't it.— October 21, 2010 5:57 p.m.
Sanders's "Frighten 'Em" Prop. D Scam
Instead of real commercials, have fun watching this spoof of a Ron Burgundy sequel trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ci4T_p559E Like I said, the news market here can be COMPETITIVE!— October 21, 2010 2:56 p.m.
No Photos!
RE "All I can say is that you are better off asking first. The 'in public view' standard is not absolute. (Schools, etc)": And strip clubs. No pictures of local politicians at the strip club. Nope. Not allowed. Warranted cell phone calls being taped about campaign contributions, sure, but no pix! ... especially anywhere near anything referred to as a glory hole. Political kryptonite, for sure!— October 21, 2010 2:35 p.m.
Jerry Sanders as a Time "Intelligent Cities" Leader
Also see: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/politics/City-Bud…— October 21, 2010 2:23 p.m.
A solar flare will destroy Earth in 24 hours. How do you spend the time?
Why not gas up an old space shuttle, make like an atom and split?— October 21, 2010 1:10 p.m.