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Community leaders from southeastern San Diego have a message for organized labor: Leave Monica Montgomery alone. We don’t see labor except for elections. She’s got outside people doing all her work for her.” “This community, if you look at the data, they support labor when they go to the polls. The project was first promised to the community 27 years ago. San Diego City Council, District 4: Choose OVER or UNDER for Myrtle Cole, 49 percent. Measure D, County Elections: Choose OVER or UNDER for Yes, 57 percent. You won’t find a Measure F on any local ballot this year. There’s no Measure I, either. There are some other quirks this year: There’s a Measure T and a Measure U, but no TT or UU (the list skips to VV). Back in 1977, the city of San Diego put Prop.

Women of the White House hit the campaign trail Some of the top Republican surrogates for the midterms have been female White House staffers. First of all, because they are not Donald Trump. New questions raised over Andrew Gillum’s FBI investigation Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, has long faced scrutiny over an ongoing investigation about ethical lapses while serving as mayor of Tallahassee. Although Gillum has insisted he was not a target, it has still raised major questions about his ethics. Moderate Republican clinging on in south Florida Republican Carlos Curbelo is the model of a moderate Republican who has been able to win in a Democratic-leaning district. Poll of the day The special election for US Senate in Mississippi may be headed for a runoff. A new poll of likely voters in Mississippi has shows the incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith with 38%, Democrat Mike Espy with 29% and hard-right conservative Republican Chris McDaniel with 15%. So can Democrats win? Ad of the day The Republican governor of Illinois, Bruce Rauner, who is down by double digits in his reelection bid, has a new negative ad out hitting his Democratic opponent JB Pritzker for his ties to Democratic party boss Mike Madigan. It features a wedding with an actor depicting Madigan, who is also the state house speaker, tying the knot with billionaire heir Pritzker.

Donald Trump on Saturday said his summit with Kim Jong-un in Singapore would be a “one-time shot”. You know, the way they say you know if you’re going to like somebody in the first five seconds, you ever hear that one? I think very quickly I’ll know whether or not something good is going to happen.” Trump spoke as he prepared to depart for Singapore and the first meeting between a North Korean leader and a sitting US president. The two leaders’ relationship began with a long period of mutual threats and abuse but a surprise and rapid diplomatic thaw has endured despite Trump’s abrupt cancellation of the summit late last month. He added: “This is a leader that’s really an unknown personality, people don’t know much about him. There’s a good chance it won’t work out. “And by the way, we have worked very well with their people, they have many people now in Shanghai, our people have been – in Singapore – our people have been working very, very well with the representatives of North Korea and I think we’re going to come out fine.” Asked about suggestions that even granting a meeting to Kim meant conceding valuable ground, he said: “Only the fake news says that. Donald Trump at G7: 'US is not a piggy bank to be robbed' Read more “I think it would be an asset to have Russia back in,” Trump told reporters on Saturday. “I think it would be good for the world, I think it would be good for Russia, I think it would be good for the United States, I think it would be good for all of the countries in the G7.” Trump blamed Barack Obama for not doing enough to counter Russian aggression in Ukraine, stating: “Obama can say all he wants but he allowed Russia to take Crimea. “I would say the level of relationship is a 10,” he said, claiming “we have a great relationship” with the leaders of countries including Germany, France and Canada.