Comments on: History suggests Fletcher in trouble in San Diego mayoral special election https://calwatchdog.com/2013/09/25/draft-history-suggests-gop-advantage-in-san-diego-mayoral-special-election/ Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:44:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Richard Rider https://calwatchdog.com/2013/09/25/draft-history-suggests-gop-advantage-in-san-diego-mayoral-special-election/#comment-38625 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:44:49 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=50371#comment-38625 Still to come are the labor union endorsements — and their big-time spending campaigns. It’s hard to imagine the unions going against the Democrat Party-endorsed candidate, but flip-flop Fletcher has sold his soul to the unions (see his AMAZING questionnaire below), so the (labor boss) jury is still out.

Indeed, the unions just might split in this matter — though they would, of course, unify in a runoff against Faulconer.

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Here’s my write-up on the Fletcher questionnaire, and the link to the actual survey response:

You’ve simply GOT to read how “independent” San Diego mayoral candidate (and former Republican) Nathan Fletcher has COMPLETELY sold out to the labor unions — apparently in a desperate effort to win labor’s multi-million dollar funding that might well go to true-blue Progressive David Alvarez.

Fletcher did not sell out on just one or three issues — he now supports the most radical union positions — EVERY SINGLE ISSUE. Among other things, he opposes any sort of managed competition or outsourcing — something he supposedly supported a couple years ago.

Apparently his labor union mayoral candidate questionnaire was leaked. It is posted online, along with SD County GOP Chair Tony Krvaric’s devastating comments. If you are from the San Diego region, you simply MUST read this.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4070928/Fletcher-LaborCouncilQuestionnaire-WithMemo-092013.pdf

]]> By: Too Early to Tell https://calwatchdog.com/2013/09/25/draft-history-suggests-gop-advantage-in-san-diego-mayoral-special-election/#comment-38615 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:00:29 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=50371#comment-38615 “Faulconer has far fewer hard edges than DeMaio” – this might actually be a negative, as “low-key” doesn’t really motivate committed volunteer campaign activists. Faulconer needs an outstanding GOTV operation, but where will his campaign get the volunteers?

In addition, “poster-child hetero family men” don’t seem to excite the electorate – they can’t identify with it and are sometimes repelled by the image. Exhibit A: Mitt Romney.

Fletcher is a celebrity, and it’s hard to beat celebrities. He needs to be taken seriously. Alvarez needs to be taken seriously too, although one shouldn’t make the assumption that Latinos will knee-jerk vote for a candidate because he has a Latino name.

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