Frye for Supervisor Re-launch?

10 March 2010

Word spread like wildfire that Stephen Whitburn would be hosting a press conference on his birthday tomorrow at Twiggs in University Heights at 5:30pm. Everyone remembers Whitburn for his strong come from behind campaign in 2008 against Todd Gloria. He has been popping up more and more as he has rebuilt his image for a political [...]

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Everitt Campaign Kick-off This Weekend

05 March 2010

Young Dem Jason Everitt is kicking off his campaign for the Escondido City Council this weekend. Jason is joining a line of high quality young dems running for office during the 2010 cycle. First it was both Patrick Finucane and David Alvarez for their respective City of SD City Council seats and now Jason has [...]

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Peraza Walk Piece

04 March 2010

With election season in full swing and candidates doing door to door canvassing every weekend, I am getting nosy and want to know what campaign literature campaigns are putting out. I was able to get my hands on the walk piece for Humberto Peraza, the leading Dem in the CV City Council race. He has [...]

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Frye Drops Out of the Running

03 March 2010

Today was a very sad day to be a Democrat. City Beat broke the news that Donna Frye had decided not to run for the Board of Supervisor’s seat currently occupied by the very old Ron Roberts. Frye wrote this to her supporters: Dear Friends, After thoughtful consideration over many months, I have decided not to run for [...]

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Danon Continues to Build Support

03 March 2010

Everyone knows I am not a big fan of Pam Slater-Price. If anyone needs to know why she doesn’t deserve re-election, just reading this article from the SDUT about her recent grants to the SD Opera and Old Globe theater. She donated a total of 250,000 dollars to these organizations last week. My tax dollars [...]

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CA Young Dems Race Heating Up

03 March 2010

The San Diego Young Democrats have become increasingly influential in local politics the past few years. As a result, more and more local young dems are aiming for positions on the statewide level and national level for YDA/CDA. Last year, Allan Acevedo was elected the Regional Director for the South Region for California Young Democrats. Jonathan [...]

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Hueso = Champion of the Unemployed

24 February 2010

SDUT has a good read out on Hueso’s recent proposal for an ordinance that would force city contractors working on projects that cost more than $25,000 or use more than $500,000 in redevelopment funding to be required to allocate at least 70% of the work hours to county residents or military veterans. 10% of the [...]

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Catton Drops Out of 76th AD Race

23 February 2010

For those who love to read SDRostra, you may remember a blog post about Democrat Brittany Catton throwing her hat into the ring to run against Toni Atkins in June for the Democratic nod in the 2010 November 76th AD general election. Toni has been a very strong candidate. She has the credentials and motivation to [...]

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Emblem Gets Smart

20 February 2010

Tracy Emblem has come a long way since her crappy campaign launch. Who can forget that first website that looked like a website from the 1990’s. But she is looking better and better by the week. Francine Busby, the leading Dem for the primary to take on Brian Bilbray this fall, has been around but she [...]

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Re-Elect Roberts FB group has 249 members.

19 February 2010

When I first wrote about the fast growing Frye for Board of Supervisors FB group, I checked the Re-elect Roberts group and it only had 52 members. I am guessing they took notice that they were a very small measly FB group and started recruiting former staffers and party insiders to grow quickly. Now the group [...]

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