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Back to homepageIgnore East Coast dolts: San Diego mayor girding for long fight
The East Coast media do such an amazingly superficial job of covering California politics that it’s no surprise they’re missing the boat on the Bob Filner scandal in San Diego. This is the same bunch that thought the 2003 recall
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Having no fixed beliefs could pay off for Nathan Fletcher
Sometimes, when lawmakers change parties, it has an obvious logic. When Texas Congressman Phil Gramm, a free-market economist before entering politics, switched from Democrat to Republican during Ronald Reagan’s first term, it made sense. Gramm had little in common with
Read MoreCalWatchdog contributor talks scandal with John and Ken
CalWatchdog contributing writer Chris Reed was on with John and Ken on KFI 640 AM/Los Angeles on Monday to talk about the lurid sexual harassment scandal involving San Diego Mayor Bob Filner. Here is the link to the segment
Read MoreSexual ‘assault’ or ‘harassment’? Filner could be on last legs
July 13, 2013 By Chris Reed San Diego Mayor Bob Filner’s attempt to fight off the push to force him to quit because of alleged sexual harassment went well Thursday, when former allies trashed him at a press conference without
Read MoreFilner scandal: Mayor uses Hollywood survival strategem
July 12, 2013 By Chris Reed San Diego Mayor Bob Filner responded Thursday to allegations that he sexually harassed several members of his staff with a classic Hollywood strategem: pleading for forgiveness and announcing he was in a rehabilitation program
Read MoreFilner’s implosion accelerates with sex-harassment claims
July 11, 2013 By Chris Reed SAN DIEGO — To the surprise of no one who has dealt with him, first-year Mayor Bob Filner’s days in office could be numbered because of his personal recklessness. After two decades as a
Read MoreFresh evidence that Jerry Brown’s pension fix fixed little
July 10, 2013 By Chris Reed The aura of self-congratulation surrounding the governor’s office is particularly intense when it comes to the pension reform measure that Jerry Brown got through the Legislature in September. But I’m not like some other
Read MoreGovernment incompetence behind Bay Bridge fiasco
July 9, 2013 By Chris Reed The latest revelations about the Bay Bridge’s construction shortcomings point straight to incompetence as the big issue. This is from the Mercury-News: “OAKLAND — When very large, high-strength steel rods on the new Bay
Read MoreEt tu, Dan? Bee columnist omits Obama view of fracking
July 8, 2013 By Chris Reed In writing about how California journalists simply refuse to acknowledge that the Obama administration considers fracking to be safe — a huge endorsement, given that Barack Obama is the greenest president in history —
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