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Faulconer wins mayor's race (San Diego Mayor)
San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | 2/11/2014 | Craig Gustafson

Posted on 02/11/2014 11:57:19 PM PST by South40

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To: MeganC

Filner was the first Dem mayor in San Diego in over 20 years. Given the taxpayers continue to pay for that colossal mistake, I would like to believe they learned from it and do not make that mistake again for at least the next 20.


41 posted on 02/12/2014 4:23:27 PM PST by South40 (Liberalism is a Disease)
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To: NFHale; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; campaignPete R-CT; p. henry; BillyBoy

Excellent.

San Diego votes GOP for Mayor more often than not.

Unfortunately that gay Republican that ran last time is running for Congress. The idea of an “openly gay” Republican Congressman leaves me uneasy.


42 posted on 02/12/2014 5:28:24 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Impy

There’s only one thing worse than an openly gay member of Congress; a closeted member of Congress susceptible to blackmail.


43 posted on 02/12/2014 7:24:37 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: South40

As a San Diego City resident I have strongly supported Faulconer as well as Demaio before him. It’s interesting that 3 weeks ago polls showed Faulconer 16 pts ahead of Alvarez.

The SD Union-Tribune strongly endorsed Faulconer as did former Republican Mayor Sanders...then the union money came pouring in!

80% of Alvarez’s money was union contributions! There were even rallies for him in Tijuana! Constant negative TV ads and within the last week the media proclaimed that Alvarez was within 1 pt of Faulconer (46/45 as I recall) and that Alvarez had the big Momentum.

I thought here we go again - It was not until the election results started rolling in Tuesday night that I began to relax as it became obvious that the point spread was not close at all.

Perhaps people finally are waking up to corrosive and corrupting effect of the Union-Democrat Politician complex. Well, at least while the memories of the effects of union money putting filthy Filner in office are fresh in their minds.


44 posted on 02/12/2014 9:43:39 PM PST by NilesJo
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To: MeganC

Try some reading comprehension....


45 posted on 02/12/2014 9:51:13 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: NilesJo
Thanks for the play by play, but I live in East County, I have seen all the same news, ads and read the same stories. I thought it interesting that yesterday on the UT's website I counted 9 Alvarez ads on their homepage. 9! And the negative TV ads were intolerable.

I think it interesting that the most recent polls called it as a virtual dead heat when it turned out to be anything but.

At any rate, the union puppet lost and he lost big. I do believe San Diegans had their fill of liberal democRATs in Filner. He was the first dem mayor San Diego had seen in 20 years. hopefully, that experiment won't be repeated any time soon. :-)

46 posted on 02/12/2014 10:10:24 PM PST by South40 (Liberalism is a Disease)
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To: johnthebaptistmoore

I read somewhere (I believe it was the San Diego Union Tribune but it could have been an online source) that Faulconer is pro-abortion and pro-SSM. If true, then he probably is a RINO by FR standards.


47 posted on 02/12/2014 10:38:49 PM PST by SoCal SoCon (Conservatism =/= Corporatism.)
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To: ripley

I read somewhere (I believe it was the San Diego Union Tribune but it could have been an online source) that Faulconer is pro-abortion and pro-SSM. If true, then that could explain why liberals have accepted his election so easily.


48 posted on 02/12/2014 10:41:15 PM PST by SoCal SoCon (Conservatism =/= Corporatism.)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

Not to my knowledge. I think Faulconer’s main campaign theme was that he was not Bob Filner nor had he ever supported Bob Filner, as Alvarez did in the early days of the sexual harassment scandal.


49 posted on 02/12/2014 10:43:26 PM PST by SoCal SoCon (Conservatism =/= Corporatism.)
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To: Liz

Glad you mentioned Jose Angel Gutierrez. Was looking through some communist literature and Sponsors Lists of various fronts and who popped out to my attention? Angel of course.

In the 1970’s he was a supporter of a Trotskyite front, the Political Rights Defense Fund, created by the Socialist Workers Party. Identified by them as “La Raza Unida Party.

This was the front that won an important court decision which literally barred the FBI from conducting surveillance on the SWP despite the fact (which the dumbassed judge deliberately ignored), that the SWP was illegally a member/affiliate of Trotsky’s “Fourth International”.

I’m sure he will show up in numerous other communist fronts and causes as I look through congressional hearings and other printed material.

Look him up on Google, www.keywiki.org, www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org, and www.Wikipedia. I’m sure you will find more enlightening materials about him.


50 posted on 02/13/2014 12:47:53 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: South40

A guy was whining about this earlier today in Starbucks NYC. They should be afraid. And they are.


51 posted on 02/13/2014 1:26:26 AM PST by firebrand
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To: Impy

Don’t forget the execrable Tisei in Massachusetts.


52 posted on 02/13/2014 5:41:40 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: SoCal SoCon

This is good news. It proves that Republicans can win, even in places inundated with the Third-world flood, without Hispandering as the GOPe is always claiming is essential.


53 posted on 02/13/2014 7:30:54 AM PST by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: Liz
America-hating Raza Studies teach (1) violence, (2) undermining US ntl security, and, (3) the need for Mexico to "re-take seven states in the Southwest to make the SW a Chicano nation. "

Sounds like it came right out of Obama's life textbook.

54 posted on 02/13/2014 9:31:49 AM PST by RetiredArmy (God's judgment on America is here for us to see. If America does not wake up, it is going to suffer)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Thanks for the links.


55 posted on 02/13/2014 12:58:06 PM PST by Liz
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To: MeganC

Required reading for amnesty worshippers?


56 posted on 02/13/2014 12:59:51 PM PST by Liz
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

True. OTOH conservatives (or at least Republicans) cannot always count on the previous Democratic mayor being embroiled in such a sensational scandal as Filthner was.


57 posted on 02/13/2014 1:11:04 PM PST by SoCal SoCon (Conservatism =/= Corporatism.)
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To: South40

Aircraft carriers all over and one you can play with. the Midway.


58 posted on 02/13/2014 4:30:42 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: fwdude

You are correct. San Antonio is heavily into the aberration. I don’t know which other cities but probably many. Texans in many cases are closeted socialists waiting to elect Wendy Davis.


59 posted on 02/14/2014 6:29:12 AM PST by Theodore R. (Alas: TX Republicans to endorse Cornball and George P! Stay tuned March 4)
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To: Impy

Mayors in all of Texas, S.F. and Los Angeles are non-partisan elections. What about San Diego, is it an openly partisan election? Or is it just at Faulconer calls himslef “Republican”. I don’t know if they have party registration in CA any more, but they once did.


60 posted on 02/14/2014 6:34:03 AM PST by Theodore R. (Alas: TX Republicans to endorse Cornball and George P! Stay tuned March 4)
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