Comments on: San Diego mayor offers suggestions for future of state GOP https://calwatchdog.com/2017/08/16/san-diego-mayor-offers-suggestions-future-state-gop/ Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:58:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: TTTTT Edward Steele DD https://calwatchdog.com/2017/08/16/san-diego-mayor-offers-suggestions-future-state-gop/#comment-139128 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:58:04 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=94800#comment-139128 Greenhut! LMAO— gave us Rackakass and loves Trump! LMAO— Greeny you’re a pol genius !

what a dope.

]]> By: Queeg https://calwatchdog.com/2017/08/16/san-diego-mayor-offers-suggestions-future-state-gop/#comment-138808 Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:27:27 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=94800#comment-138808 Comrades

This is guy who raised bed taxes in Tourist toilet San Diego about 3-4 percent to fix the alarmingly miserable roads in this run down ugly morass and dated Brady Bunch overpriced hotels.

]]> By: Sean https://calwatchdog.com/2017/08/16/san-diego-mayor-offers-suggestions-future-state-gop/#comment-138801 Thu, 17 Aug 2017 02:00:38 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=94800#comment-138801 I grew up on California but currently live in Maryland. When I left the golden state, the balance of power was not as solid one party as it is now but in Maryland, it’s been solidly Democratic for decades. The previous governor, Martin O’Malley, passed a number of tax and fee increases including, a millionaires tax, an increase in fuel taxes, big increases in tolls, a surcharge on electric bills to pay for offshore wind (that hasn’t been built yet) and even a tax on non-permeable surfaces dubbed the rain tax to manage storm water run-off. Does any of this sound familiar? His Lt. Governor ran to become his replacement (Democrats outnumber Republicans by 2:1) but he got defeated by a Republican county executive.
The recent California fuel taxes coupled with cap and trade legislation will likely hit the poor and middle class particularly hard. I suspect the direct fuel and energy costs alone will likely add $500 per household to the annual cost of living in golden state. Indirect costs will make the burden even heavier. With 40% of California residents in poverty or near poverty according to an editorial by Dan Walter last Sunday in the Sac Bee, Browns legacy legislation will be a heavy burden to bear by the next Democratic gubernatorial candidate.

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