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The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 3-1 to support the Trump administration’s lawsuit against California over laws that the state passed last year to limit its role in immigration enforcement. The county will file an amicus brief at the first available opportunity, likely on appeal, said Kristin Gaspar, supervisor for District 3 and chairwoman of the board. “We’re talking about people who are crossing the border illegally, coming into this county and committing a crime and them being let loose probably to commit another crime,” said Dianne Jacobs, supervisor for District 2. “That creates a public safety issue...

The city of San Diego's Ethics Commission has levied the largest fine in its history against San Diego County Supervisor Ron Roberts for misidentifying contributors to his mayoral bid last year. The Roberts campaign incorrectly identified at least 30 contributors as homemakers or retired when in fact they were employed. Roughly 900 of Roberts' 3,740 contributors were identified in that fashion, and the campaign is trying to confirm how many actually had occupations. The commission's executive director called the campaign's efforts to inform voters of the sources of the funds as "woefully inadequate" – a characterization the Roberts campaign did...

NBCSandiego.com Roberts Makes Decision About Running For Mayor Murphy Will Leave Office On July 15 POSTED: 11:40 am PDT May 4, 2005 UPDATED: 11:57 am PDT May 4, 2005 SAN DIEGO -- County Supervisor Ron Roberts announced Wednesday morning that he would not seek the San Diego mayor's office. Roberts, who has unsuccessfully run for city mayor four times, made the announcement at 11 a.m. at the County Administration Building in San Diego. Instead, Roberts said he would focus on his re-election to the County Board of Supervisors... Roberts said that he was not ready to endorse any candidate for...

SAN DIEGO -- The state Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to consider whether the city of San Diego violated its charter by allowing a write-in candidate to run for mayor, ending one of several lawsuits challenging the November election. The lawsuit, filed by an attorney who supported third-place finisher Ron Roberts, had sought to nullify the election and force a runoff between Roberts and Mayor Dick Murphy, who won the election and began a second term Dec. 8. Thomas McKinney, a lawyer who works in the office of Roberts supporter John Howard, argued that San Diego should have rejected Councilwoman...

More people voted in the San Diego mayor's race for write-in candidate Donna Frye than for Mayor Dick Murphy, according to a review yesterday of disputed ballots, but it would take court action for her to be declared the winner. At the end of a full day of ballot examination, county elections workers ... had reviewed 4,854 ballots cast for Frye that were not included in the official results of the Nov. 2 election. Those numbers alone, likely to rise as the ballot review continues today, would put Frye 2,746 votes above Murphy's official total. The ballots were disqualified because...

The hearing is just about the start. John Howard's case will be heard by the 4th Circuit to determine if there should be a new election, if Donna Frye's write-in candidacy was invalid and other related issues.

SAN DIEGO -- A city councilwoman said Wednesday she would not be deterred by the messy legal battle surrounding her write-in bid for San Diego mayor, suggesting that a long fight may lie ahead. Donna Frye said that she is weighing "about 30" legal strategies and may be willing to pay for a recount. "Patience is power," she told reporters. "In a democratic society, things take time and things sometimes become uncomfortable for people. It's nice to have the easy solution, the happy ending, for everything to go quickly and easily, but it doesn't always work out that way." Frye...

SAN DIEGO -- A lawyer seeking a new mayoral election for San Diego told a federal judge Tuesday that the city violated its own charter by allowing a write-in candidate to run for mayor and a new vote should be held between the top two finishers in the primary. Blair Krueger argued that the city clerk never should have permitted voters on Nov. 2 to write Councilwoman Donna Frye's name on a blank line below the two men who finished first and second in the March primary -- incumbent Dick Murphy and San Diego County Supervisor Ron Roberts. "There's a...