Tag: Kevin Faulconer

The Story: Last week election officials in California announced that the advocates of the recall of Governor Gavin Newsom do have enough signatures on their...

But also this week, he finally achieved something that had alluded him: He got a majority on the City Council to support the effort to raise hotel-room taxes. We kid the mayor. Democratic leaders in San Diego County do not like what their former party chair is doing. According to Lisa Halverstadt he brought up several concerns about the process going forward if not the vision As one observer noted to us about Ward: It is quite a week when you help end Irwin Jacobs’ almost decade-long effort to remake the infrastructure of the park and pick a fight with labor. And the first Democratic Club went for Gloria: Democrats for Equality. They’re not the only two candidates: Cory Briggs seems intent on this lane: “We don’t need to ruin San Diego by turning it into San Francisco in order to meet our local housing needs. The agency has pushed its recent committee meetings so they’ll all coincide with Friday’s board meeting. Hayes is now working for Hueso, it’s true. The Democrats take their rules seriously: Throughout the evening, I watched as various conversations dragged with every request for clarification and point of order. The board voted to charter the clubs via email.

It wasn’t that long ago we were, uh, not having the best time with SANDAG. A tunnel instead: “If you want to build transit, build it where people live and work. That’s why I don’t think SANDAG is ready to go for a sales tax measure any time soon simply because we need to do the work first.” Cool with being fired: “You know, I might get into trouble, but I’ll tell you this, the worst thing is not being fired. That’s OK.” ??? Interlude ??? Ken Stone at Times of San Diego did a piece about how Andrew Keatts got the story of four men accusing Kevin Beiser of sexual misconduct and assault and a bizarre claim talk show host Carl DeMaio made about it. ??? End Interlude ??? Republicans in San Diego are having the opposite of a moment. He worked in politics until 2001 and then joined the Marines at age 27. About the deal between the city and SDSU in Mission Valley: “There is some concern that this is an adversarial process but SDSU West still has to uphold its side of the bargain and make sure it pays fair value for the land.” Batten’s consultant … will be Tom Shepard. Leventhal’s consultant … Will be Stephen Puetz, who was chief of staff for Faulconer and … worked for SoccerCity and Measure E. Yes, I am hinting there’s a kind of SDSU West vs. SoccerCity subtext here but I have no more evidence for it than that so I decided to recklessly just float it out there because this is my column and I can do whatever I want, especially when Andy is doing work on an apparently more important story than this, the most prestigious and important political newsletter sent out of downtown San Diego every Saturday. And the group decided to endorse Republican Steve Vaus for the county supervisor seat, District 2, currently held by Dianne Jacob. But the club has not picked a candidate in the San Diego City Council District 5 race.

And by the way, when you design a 30- or 40-year measure, you should build into it that we’re going to adjust as we go.” After overstating how much it expected to raise in revenue and understating the cost of everything it was set to build, SANDAG in late 2016 copped to the program’s financial shortcomings. But until now, officials have remained relentlessly optimistic the money would come and SANDAG would build everything voters expected. Ikhrata is not only ready to grapple with the alternative but he said doing so should be part of the agency’s conversation as it sketches out a new vision for a regional transit system. That would require a two-thirds vote of the board. It’s my job with my team to put information in front of them, and they’re going to have to decide, but yeah, I think everything should be on the table.” SANDAG assignments: Late Friday, Mayor Kevin Faulconer announced who would be representing the city on boards and commissions around the county and state. “The three of us represent the most underserved communities within the city of San Diego,” she said. During her campaign, Moreno took an unapologetic YIMBY stance on housing. Kersey will chair the Infrastructure Committee, which is being renamed the Committee on Active Transportation and Infrastructure. Court of Appeal: No thanks, Jan Goldsmith: The city of San Diego voted in October to appeal the stunning California State Supreme Court Proposition B ruling all the way to the Supreme Court. You look good though.” “Thanks, thanks.” Republicans are fine, actually: Tony Krvaric, the newly re-elected chairman of the Republican Party of San Diego County, tweeted some statistics he found.

Here are the races we’re checking first when we see the updated vote counts: San Diego Community College District: Sean Elo just went ahead of San Diego City Councilman David Alvarez in the latest vote count. Tuesday’s election results revived those predictions. A challenger knocked off a San Diego City Council incumbent for the first time in 27 years, winning in a landslide and giving Democrats a super-majority. Steve Erie, a retired UC San Diego political science professor, said he first heard predictions that San Diego’s changing demographics would result in Democratic electoral wins during the beginning of the Clinton administration. And at the city in 2016, and the county this year, voters approved measures forcing all elections to be decided in November, giving Democrats another lift. Republican Councilman Chris Cate won re-election by 13 points over Tommy Hough in District 6, where Democrats hold an 8- point registration advantage. “And it’s going to change how we do politics in San Diego.” The organized labor groups most active in city politics – the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council, the San Diego Building and Construction Trades, and the Working Families Council – all endorsed Cole. But the very first thing I thought about their plan was: “Well, they must have SDSU on board if they were even coming to us. City Council newcomers Jen Campbell, Monica Montgomery and Vivian Moreno could have a different take on a Convention Center expansion – or a special election – than sitting Council members. Often, an elected leader remains relevant well up until the point that their successor is elected.