San Diego Primary, June 5, 2012

[SDHornet]

San Diego Primary

Well since it’s election day here in sunny SD, I figured I keep everyone informed. We have 2 “anti-union” measures on the city ballot:

• 1) Was to prohibit project labor agreements on any project the City of SD issues. It also required the mayor to post all contract awards and contract language online to provide for transparency. The mayor will also not be allowed to sole-source contracts over $25k without just cause.
  
  2) Eliminates city employees pensions for all new employees (hired after Jan 2013 I think) and making employees have a 401-k type of retirement plan. Our city budget has been handcuffed due to the underfunding of the pension system by previous regimes and the fluctuating market has made it tough for the city to estimate what the annual payment into the pension system needs to be.

I voted yes (according to the Dem’s that would be the “anti-union” position) on both. It’s really a no brainer if you have any fucking common sense about how to get a budget in order and how to save some tax payer money.

Jon you’ll love this one, we also have an openly gay mayor running for office. Aside from the whole homo thing, he has been pimping pension reform and fiscal responsibility from a city standpoint since he has been in the city council. His vision/efforts are largely responsible for the pension amendment on the ballot today. Seeing as I have to be responsible to balance my budget and make sure I can pay all my bills, it is nice to hear someone hold the government to the same standard. The choice for mayor was a no-brainer for me.

I am disappointed that a lot of the county supervisor seats and my city council seat ran un-opposed. But other than that there are a lot of things at stake today. I’ll post the results tomorrow.

[SDHornet]

Both of our local “anti-union” propositions passed easily. The ban on project labor agreements passed with 58% of the vote. This will be challenged in court by the State of CA. The proposition changing newly hired city employee pensions to 401-k style retirement funds easily won with 66% of the vote.

Fiscal conservative Carl DeMaio won the mayoral race and will face of against former US House Rep Bob Filner in November. Filner is a worthless partisan hack who is only running for mayor because he was gerrymandered out of his House seat. He is a career politician who offers no solutions to the city’s problems. This should be a close race and one I expect to get pretty dirty.

[CAA Flagship]

Which Mayoral candidate is most likely to cut off bandl's Mexican employee supply line?

[SDHornet]

Which Mayoral candidate is most likely to cut off bandl's Mexican employee supply line?

No that's a Federal issue, and no mayoral candidate is going to throw away his chance of winning by pissing off a large chunk of the voting population.