Tuesday, May 15, 2012
May 21 is deadline in San Diego County for registering to vote in the upcoming election.
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Tuesday, May 15
San Diego County residents wanting to vote in the June 5 primary must register by May 21. If you’re not sure if you are registered, you can check your status online. This year’s ballot will feature open primaries, in which the top two vote-getters in state or federal races advance to the November election—no matter what party they represent. Citizens can register on the County of San Diego Registrar of Voters website or at one of the following locations: For more information, visit the Registrar of Voters website.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Deadline for applying for an absentee ballot is 5 p.m. May 29, according to registrar’s office.
Residents who have registered as absentee voters will soon receive ballots for the June 5 primary election. According to the San Diego County Registrar of Voters, an estimated 724,000 vote-by-mail ballots are being distributed in the county. Deadline for applying for a mail ballot—also called an absentee ballot—is 5 p.m. May 29. At the state level, local voters will choose a new lawmaker for the 79th Assembly District. Mary England, La Mesa Chamber of Commerce president and Lemon Grove councilwoman, is one of the candidates. Also running for the 79th are Mount Miguel High School alum Matt Mendoza (R), Chula Vista city councilman Rudy Ramirez (D), SDSU professor Dr. Shirley Weber (D), Workforce Program Director Sid Voorakkara (D), and …
Monday, May 7, 2012
U-T San Diego makes a big push for Carl DeMaio as San Diego mayor. Does it help or hurt?
As a policy, Patch does not endorse candidates in elections. But we back any effort to explore all sides of a race or ballot initiative. We have a standing invitation to all incumbents and office-seekers to blog on Patch—giving them direct, unfiltered access to their communities. But it’s traditional for newspapers to endorse candidates for local, state and national office. Locally, U-T San Diego on Sunday used a wrap-around of the front page to display its editorial backing of Carl DeMaio for San Diego mayor. In light of media fracturing—with many sources of news and opinion available—do newspaper endorsements still carry any weight? Do people take cues from the local metro daily or the free weeklies? Or are these efforts now meaningless?
Monday, April 23, 2012
Ex-Fox News star backs Skyline Church senior pastor on taking election stands on Oct. 7.
Glenn Beck on Sunday urged America’s clergy to speak out politically from the pulpit even if it means breaking the law and losing their jobs. “Preachers, stand up! … The church is the key to keeping this ship … going the right way, using the stars and the heavens to navigate by,” Beck said at the second of two appearances at Skyline Church that was webcast via its website. “If you don’t stand up, we lose.” Morever, he said: "We won’t have a nation if the pulpit doesn’t start preaching the truth.” For his part, Beck said he lives with 13 to 15 “operative death threats” but would not be silenced. “There’s a lot of things I fear,” he told a 4 p.m. audience of about 1,000 in Rancho San Diego, including state Sen. Joel Anderson. “My greatest …
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
California has long suffered irrelevance in the primary process. Can this be changed? How?
Now that Rick Santorum has dropped out of the GOP race, Mitt Romney is all but crowned as the party’s nominee. Back in January, the president of the California Republican Assembly spoke of the state’s stepchild status, telling the Sacramento Bee: “Sadly, we are irrelevant [in presidential politics]. Come June, there will be a nominee. We will not have been at the table.” Celeste Greig, the CRA leader, echoed the longtime gripe that California rarely has a hand in deciding presidential nominees—except for acting as their campaign ATM. The 2012 primary was moved to June as a result of Assembly Bill 80, which was sold as a cost savings. In earlier years, California presidential primaries were June 2 (1992), March 26 (1996), March 7 (2000), …
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Republican’s Easter vacation in La Jolla sparked renewed debate over his show of affluence.
Mitt Romney and family played in the surf near their La Jolla home over the Easter weekend, prompting renewed scrutiny of his wealthy lifestyle. On Monday, the Obama administration signaled that Romney's 13.9 percent tax bracket in 2010 would become a 2012 issue. The president’s campaign also is making an issue of Romney's Swiss bank account. Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois has been quoted as saying:“When is the last time a presidential candidate for the United States had a Swiss bank account? I think the answer is never.” Does Romney's wealth help or hurt him as a presidential candidate?
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Republican assemblyman stuns local politics with decision to become an independent.
Sometime after 6 a.m. Wednesday, Nathan Fletcher tweeted at @Fletcher2012: “Today, @NathanFletcher is announcing his decision to leave the GOP to re-register as an independent. Video message: http://ow.ly/9VLoI” For more on Fletcher from his news conference. His 6-minute YouTube video (attached) gave several reasons, but many in San Diego—and across the state—may beg to differ. Was this an attention-grabbing ploy in the closely fought San Diego mayoral race? Or is Assemblyman Fletcher looking ahead to November, when some observers think Republicans could suffer a landslide defeat in the presidential election? Tell us in the comments.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Registered as GOP, the Lemon Grove councilwoman and La Mesa chamber CEO trails in fundraising.
Updated at 5:20 p.m. March 27, 2012 When Mary England, the Lemon Grove councilwoman and La Mesa Chamber of Commerce CEO, submitted paperwork to the state as a candidate for state Assembly, she checked “nonpartisan.” England apparently made a mistake—although it won’t affect how she’s listed on the June ballot. She was recruited for the race by Republican state Sen. Joel Anderson and Assemblyman Brian Jones, she told Patch in January. According to an online database of candidate declarations, England is one of eight candidates in the newly redrawn 79th Assembly District. But a ballot posted by the county shows England as being Republican—and one of six hopefuls. (See attached PDF.) Another Secretary of State reference lists England as …
Monday, March 26, 2012
Republican presidential candidate and local homeowner Mitt Romney spoke in San Diego Monday on the effects of the national health care law, "Obamacare," championed by President Barack Obama.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made his first campaign stop in San Diego Monday morning to speak out against "Obamacare," vowing that if elected he will "put a hold on all of the Obamacare regulations." Romney, who owns a home in La Jolla, spoke at San Diego-based NuVasive, a medical device company, on the negative effects of the national health care law. His visit coincides with the start of the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on what is officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. “One of the things I will do upon coming into office, if I am lucky enough to be the next president, is put a hold on all the Obamacare regulations, review them, and those that kill jobs—I will get rid of,” …
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Tea Party advocate and Marine Sgt. Gary Stein says he is being involuntarily discharged from the military after posting anti-Obama content on a public Facebook page.
Sgt. Gary Stein told the Associated Press Wednesday that he is being discharged for his Facebook remarks against President Barack Obama. The Marine earlier created Armed Forces Tea Party, a Facebook group on which he stated he would not carry out an order from the president. Earlier this year a soldier found himself in trouble after endorsing Ron Paul, while in uniform at a rally. What do you think? Vote in the poll and tell us in the comments.
David B Secor
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