Comments on: Smear of gay Republican: What will Dems say? Zip

By: stevefromsacto

stevefromsacto — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:19:23 +0000

Guess you don’t even read other stories on this blog, Chris. Richard Rider feebly attempted to “out” me some time ago. Steve Maviglio is a good guy, so don’t try to pin anything on him.

1. Glad you are not a gay-basher. I have a lot more in common with libertarians than I do with so-called “social conservatives”. I just wish that libertarians would speak out as strongly against them as you do against Democrats. The idea that government should be used to force the religious beliefs of some people onto the rest of us ought to be condemned by libertarians in the strongest possible terms. If government intrusion in the economy is wrong, it’s just as wrong in people’s bedrooms.

2. The fact is that Mayor Filner had nothing to do with the specific “clandestine” campaign you wrote about, which was first exposed by the UT. That’s what we were discussing, not other alleged examples of gay bashing.

3. Also happy to know you share my views on transparency in campaign finance. But what did you say specifically to condemn last year’s secret Arizona SuperPAC? If you condemned that PAC publicly, I apologize.

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:59:34 +0000

One of the ugliest chapters in San Diego’s political history-and that’s saying ALOT in Enron -by-the- sea!
DeMaio got under their skin like no one since Mike Aguirre; he was perceived as a genuine threat to their sleazy bankrupt status quo, and out came the long knives. So now the public employee unions own the town lock, stock and barrel with Filner, they will get everything they want and more–and ironically it will be their undoing in a more profound sense than any of the reforms that DeMaio might have instituted. I believe that Filner, in his zeal to force feed more benefits to the MEA veal calves, will end up dissolving the entire benefit edifice at the molecular level. In other words, DeMaio, in the very long term, would have been best for the public employee union members, like their own private swiss banker….

By: Chris Reed

Chris Reed — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:03:32 +0000

Hey, Steve (Maviglio, probably) from Sacto:

I am a libertarian, not a social conservative. You will find zero history of gay bashing in my 22 years as a California journalist.

And I have also written for years calling for complete transparency on campaign financing.

And as for the alleged fact that Filner wasn’t part of the attempts to undercut DeMaio by reminding voters he was gay, that’s not true at all. Filner and his surrogates brought up indirectly and directly over and over and over again from June to November

By: Brown delta trout

Brown delta trout — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:12:04 +0000

The only fair way to deal with the hypocrisy is to reinstate punitive punishment for adultery. That would even the field. Win-Win for all sides.

By: stevefromsacto

stevefromsacto — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:58:55 +0000

Yes, the smear campaign was wrong. There should be no place for this kind of thing in politics. However, Reed leaves out a couple of important points.

1. Would he be complaining so loudly if DeMaio had been a gay moderate or liberal? Don’t think so.

2. The people behind the campaign were supporting another Republican, Nathan Fletcher. Mayor Filner had nothing to do with it. Trying to blame it on the Democrats is absurd.

3. Reed has his panties in a bunch about this “clandestine campaign.” However, when a secret Arizona SuperPAC dropped more than $11 million on California last year to defeat Prop. 30 and pass Prop. 32, he never said a word.
I guess some clandestine campaigns are better than others.