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Jon Fleischman

Random Thoughts For A Monday

— The battle between Governor Jerry Brown and Molly Munger, the daughter of Birkshire Hathaway titan Charles Munger, allows me to officially proclaim that bipartisanship is not dead. Governor Brown opposes Molly Munger’s massive tax increase. And Molly Munger opposes Governor Brown’s massive tax increase. And I actually oppose both the Governor’s massive tax increase and Munger’s massive tax increase. We’re all on the same team!

— Speaker John Perez and hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer both have something in common — both of them want to pass a massive billion dollar plus tax increase that would only further weaken economic recovery in California. You seriously cannot make this stuff up.

— So it is unclear to my why any Republicans in the California legislature would be voting to give any kind of… Read More

Richard Rider

The Bio of Bob Filner That the Left Doesn’t Want Revealed

With the pivotal San Diego mayoral runoff coming up in November, we San Diegans know we will have to endure the most hate-filled misinformation campaign against a Republican reform candidate (Carl DeMaio) ever seen in a major local race. We got a taste of this in the June primary — big-time. Even though the airwaves carried nonstop anti-DeMaio smear commercials, it was only the opening salvo.

Money will pour in to this race from NATIONAL unions as well as all the usual local suspects. It’s quite possible we’ll see union spending that will exceed SIX MILLION DOLLARS. No way the DeMaio supporters (I’m one) will be able to match that level of spending — but I think we can win. Here’s why.

We’ll detail the sordid background of the labor unions’ standard bearer — Congressman Bob Filner. Even many of my knowledgeable San Diego allies are not fully familiar with the historical degree of affiliation Filner has with socialist and communist organizations and luminaries such as Fidel Castro. His background speaks for itself. And no amount of union spending will be able to counter Filner’s… Read More

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