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Tentatively, judge sides with Filner in TMD dispute
Is there a link to the ruling?— March 25, 2013 4:45 a.m.
TMD puts 2014 funding requests on indefinite hold
If you spend $20 MILLION for advertising, and it brings in $20 MILLION, you are at a zero sum game. A lot of money goes out there that DOESN'T result in advertising. It keeps both organizations in business - the contractor and the contractee. When the funds seem limitless, all parties just glaze over and find a way to spend it.— March 13, 2013 6:13 p.m.
TMD puts 2014 funding requests on indefinite hold
Is there any evidence that these TV ads work? Do people really go "Hey, I never heard of San Diego! Let's go there!" Or is it just another way for friends to fund friends, who somehow do them favors in some way? No way of knowing. That's why it works so well.— March 9, 2013 5:03 p.m.
Tourism Marketing District Board has nearly $2 million stashed away in reserve account
Why do they get to keep the money after the contract has expired? Why don't they have to give it back to the City? Because their board voted to keep it doesn't seem to be reason enough.— March 7, 2013 4:23 p.m.
In Filner case, tangled tale of four GOP leaning judges
Why did Mayor Filner have to represent himself? Did the City Attorney refuse? In that case, is Mayor Filner entitled to a Public Defender? This is really beyond imagination. Didn't I just read that these hotel people who are suing didn't even bother to vote for the TMD at the time. This is San Diego. What next?— March 5, 2013 9:01 p.m.
Majority of Tourism Marketing District board didn't even vote to renew the Tourism Marketing District
Interesting - these hoteliers themselves must not have realized their vote was not by secret ballot. We are brought up to believe in the right to a secret ballot. Even the very astute didn't seem to realize that right evaporated in their TMD vote.— March 1, 2013 8:03 p.m.
San Diego Tourism Authority plans to spend more than 44 percent of hotel tax on staff salaries so far this year
Has anybody looked at what this recent vote (where 10% of the eligible voters got the win)? Ballots used to be on file at the City Clerk's office for these Assessment Districts. You can go in, see who voted YES an who voted NO. They're all on file there. No Registrar of Voters required. No secret ballot. You can also see what the ballot actually says. Interesting in itself. I haven't been in a while; maybe something has changed. The city may have figured out that too much information was available.— February 27, 2013 6:35 p.m.
Mayor Filner, City Council and City Attorney Goldsmith to discuss Tourism Marketing District during closed session meeting
A reminder that the City LOST the lawsuit regarding the Golden Hill Assessment District, and lost at Appeal Court. The voting mechanisms for these districts are astounding to anyone who took Civics classes. The weighted vote means that it wouldn't have mattered how the other potential 1,000 voters voted. The existing vote would have prevailed. You don't have to be an American Citizen, and you don't have to live in San Diego to vote. A Corporation can vote. What we think of as a "vote" and how an assessment district works - two different things entirely.— February 25, 2013 7:17 a.m.
Declining to take public questions, tax-backed tourism board votes to sue Filner
The Mission Bay hotels have essentially private beaches. How easy is it for the public to get access to them? At the Catamaran, you can park somewhere else and walk on over. I don't quite see dragging beach chairs, kids, beach balls and sand toys through the Catamaran lobby. What is the status of public access to these hotel beaches?— February 23, 2013 5:45 a.m.
Tourism Marketing District has some economic incentive...for city councilmembers
All of these "Districts" and "Assessments" are forms of taking money from some people and giving it to other people. When it is a tax, there are laws that govern every aspect. When it is not a tax, ask yourself what "promoting events and tourism in San Diego" really is. It is paying friends of friends to sit in offices and have meetings, occasionally going on trips to see how people in other cities sit in offices and have meetings. It is nice work if you can get it. Nice also that hotel executives have all this money to donate to politicians. Seems to work for them, too.— February 22, 2013 6:28 a.m.