Republicans Win Big In San Diego Mayor Race

Sure, California elections for local offices are officially non-partisan, but the dirty little secret is that everyone knows who is with what party and they do funnel money to these races.
San Diego had to have a special election for mayor yesterday as a direct result of former Democrat mayor Filthy Bob Filner and his gross sexual harassment charges. And it had to go two rounds because in last years election, no one got 50% + one to avoid the runoff that was yesterday.
The Democrat-backed candidate was a city councilman, David Alvarez. Mr. Alvarez was heavily backed by the usual "progressive" suspects. That would be labor unions, race-huckster groups, community organizers, and the like.
The Republican-backed candidate was also a city councilman, Kevin Faulconer. Mr. Faulconer was backed by business interests, former mayor Jerry Saunders (a Republican and very popular still), the local newspaper, U-T San Diego (U-T is for the longhand name, Union-Tribune), and even a former Democrat city attorney, Mike Aguirre.
Mr. Alvarez ran the Team Obama type of campaign. With a boatload of union money, targeting specific pro-Democrat group voters and starting early to try to define Mr. Faulconer.
But Mr. Faulconer ran a campaign kinda sorta Warren G. Harding style and an underlying theme of a return to normalcy in city politics. Now I don't mean the corruption that San Diego politics can be known for. I mean that the mayor is going to do his best to run things efficiently and put some conservative ideas in place.
And while many figured that based on voter registration, which heavily favors Democrats, and an urge of some voters to elect the first Hispanic mayor in San Diego history, Kevin Faulconer, Republican, prevailed and in a pretty substantial manner winning the mayor's office by a 55% to 45% over Democrat David Alvarez.
So, a moderate Republican, Mr. Faulconer, pulled off a big win and a shot in the arm for the moribund California Republican party and how did he do it?
First, his strategy was to go to places Republicans normally avoid like the plague. His strategy was to expand the Republican base, which is about a voter registration of 27%. It means that he has to reach out to independent and yes, Democrat voters. And no doubt some Democrats were not thrilled about Filthy Filner and is dalliances. He needed to get at least another 25% of potential voters.
Mr. Faulconer did not, as some will report, downplay being a Republican as much as talking about issues that the voters cared about.
On the other hand, Mr. Alvarez tried to make it a base election, thus again based on voter registration should have given him a win. The Democrat voter registration in the city of San Diego is about 40% and independents are actually ahead of Republicans. So, Mr. Alvarez has his base and figures he could get enough independents and win pretty easily. Again, it was exactly from the Team Obama play book in 2012.
But given the climate as why there was an election in the first place and the general drift of San Diego government, the voters decided to get things back on track and went with Faulconer.
Is this a turning of fortune for Republicans in California?
Possibly.
The reality is that there is no major, serious candidate for governor of California on the GOP side. The two announced candidates are state assemblyman and Tea Party favorite Tim Donnelly and Neel Kashkari who's claim to fame is that he implemented and oversaw the infamous TARP program.
Mr. Donnelly can be characterized as a loose cannon while Mr. Kashkari will have a lot of baggage in dealing with the whole TARP program. No doubt in my mind that Mr. Kashkari will get the official state GOP backing in the non-partisan open primary this coming June. And current Gov. Jerry Brown, with about $15,000,000 in the bank has still not announced his plans regarding running for reelection or not. It is very possible that Gov. Brown will not run which would throw the race all around in turmoil. \
But I look at either candidate as probably losers in November due to lack of name recognition in the case of Mr. Kashkari and controversy surrounding Mr. Donnelly and his connection to the border-security Minutemen group.
That will hurt many down-ticket races for the seven other constitutional offices and possibly other races that could get enough Republicans elected in the state assembly and senate to end the Democrat super-majority. It can also affect congressional races.
That is the down side.
The upside is that a Republican can win when focusing on issues that matter. It is very important in California not to let the very leftywhore-dominated media define the Republicans, especially on social issues. I'm not saying Republicans should not speak on them, but do so intelligently.
Most important is that Republicans must be on offense to win any election. Each Republican candidate must define the Democrat opponent before it is done to them. Don't count on much of the leftywhore state media. But hammer enough to make them take notice.
And this is also important. Do not leave any area to the Dems. Seriously. There is no Karl Rove model in California. Yes, I would stay away from San Francisco and Oakland and the coastal Bay Area. But look to the suburbs for potential growth. Places like Contra Costa county. And while we can't currently win Los Angeles county, there are a lot of Republican strongholds. Take advantage of those areas and seek to expand to more areas. It is what the Democrats do.
Kevin Faulconer had a big win for Republicans in the San Diego mayor's race. Can that be translated to the state level?

FILTHY FILNER IS OUTTA HERE!

It was bound to happen and I think myself I predicted this outcome here that the Democrat San Diego mayor, Filthy Bob Filner, will resign after working out a deal to settle the sexual harassment claim filed by the former communications director.
As Ace notes here, in the end it maybe nothing more than being all about the Benjamin's. Money, cash, etc., etc.
And also courtesy of Ace, this pathetic protest in support of Mayor Filthy Filner could have also sped things up. Folks, you have to at least show a modicum of reality and believing in the dude you claim to support. Just sayin' . . .
And another quite under reported aspect of this tawdry tale is that Mayor Filthy Filner may have also been involved in some nice corruption.
Of course those few, the proud, supporters of Mayor Filthy Filner would probably suggest that hey, all pols do that corruption stuff, right? You know, you have to grease the wheels to get anything done.
What can one say about this that has not already been said?
Well, I suppose that the voters of San Diego deserve what they get for voting for this douchebrain in the first place.
I don't think that the majority of those that voted for Filthy Filner voted to have this happen. I believe that the majority of those who did vote for Filthy Filner regret that vote.
The sad fact is that a lot, and I mean a lot of people enabled Filthy Filner to have and continue being in politics when clearly he is a truly sexist pig.
Oh, but on the so-called gal issues, he voted the right way. So I guess we can put up with what, a little grope here, a wet sloppy kiss there, and hey, doesn't every male boss ask his hot female employees to come to work with no undies?
Filthy Filner is no political rookie as he has been a member of the San Diego city council, starting in 1987, a member of congress since 1992 and was elected mayor last year. That is 26 years of public service, over a quarter a century. A helluva long time to not notice until now that Filthy Filner was, well filthy.
How could no one deal with this a lot sooner?
Oops! My bad!
Why yes as a matter of fact some did.
And what happened?
Do ya hear crickets chirping?
Of course you do for in the end, even though local offices in California are officially non-partisan, a Democrat had not been mayor of California's second largest city since 1992. And that way more important than whether or not the candidate that was agreed upon was a serial perv and God only know what else.
In this article at Townhall.com, basically Escondido City Council member Olga Diaz, San Diego County Democratic Central Committee member Martha Sullivan and Former California State Assemblywoman Lori Saldaña brought their stories and or concerns to the now former San Diego county Democrat chair, Jess Dufee. And Mr. Durfee said hey, I'll talk to Bob about it. And ol' Filthy Filner assured Mr. Durfee that nothing would come up in the campaign for mayor. And according to Mr. Durfee, Filthy Filner said the following:

"In all my years in Congress, I've never had a sexual harassment complaint against me."

If that did not send up the red flags, nothing would and the local Democrat party lust for power trumped the mine field that was long in the making.
Because in the end it is all about the power.
And it is not just a Democrat problem to be sure.
We Republicans had to deal with the toilet toe-tapper, former Sen. Larry Craig (R-Id.) and his announcement that he would resign from the senate only to end up serving his full term and not running for reelection. FTR, I wrote that he should have resigned and stand by that.
And in South Carolina there is the former governor, Mark Sanford, who dropped from sight, claimed that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail and in fact was shtuping his Argentine mistress, now his fiancee.
Drunk with power, Mr. Sanford ended up winning back his old congressional seat in a special election this year to replace now Sen. Tim Scott. Unfortunately, in the primary Mr. Sanford won the majority of Republican votes and the voters in the very Republican first congressional district had a bad choice, held their nose and voted for Mr. Sanford.
But Filthy Filner is choice because like all Democrats, as I noted he was right on gal issues. Never mind he gladly voted the right way that he was treating women like nothing more than conquests. He was acting like a juiced-up bad frat boy when he should have known better. And it was more important to support Filthy Filner for mayor of San Diego in the end because it was not about personality. And that is what Lori Saldana said in endorsing Bob Filner for mayor.
Mrs. Saldana was concerned enough to bring serious allegations about Filthy Filner to no less than the local chair of the Democrat party. But in the end, it was more important to elect a Democrat no matter how horrible he is.
Therein lies a serious problem today in politics.
But I do have some advice for those seeking office.
We live in an electronic age. Nothing but nothing his ones' own business. If you run for office, you better be able to not have this kind of stuff come up. Or you should definitely come clean about any possible problems. In reality, the Dear Leader, President Obama did in Dreams From My Father by admitting illegal drug use. Took that issue off the table. There was so many others but that is another post. Don't hope nothing comes out as Filthy Filner did. In the end it will catch up with you.
And that is what is great about Filthy Filner. In the end truth has prevailed and now, maybe he can really deal with his woman problem in retirement.

When You've Lost Hooters . . .

In more of the San Diego Mayor Filthy Bob Filner file, it appears that he is no longer welcomed at a rather unusual restaurant, considering their own reputation.
Four of the local Hooters restaurant have pulled the welcome mat out from under Filthy Filner and said that he is not welcomed at their restaurants. Here is what is being posted in front of the four Hooters, just in case Filthy Filner should try to show up:

Like I write, for Hooters to remind Mayor Filthy Filner of this is amusing yet a sign that this sleazebucket has worn his welcome and it is time to go. But it seems like he either is delusional or does not realize the mess that he is in and embarrassing the city that he so wants to govern at all costs.

But just in case you are unfamiliar about Hooters, here is a photo of what the waitresses, yes only waitresses kids, look like at work.

 

Yes, they are attractive and pretty scantily clad. Oh by today's lowering standards, they are practically dressed as nuns. But nonetheless, they have rankled the ire of Feminazi groups pretty much since they came on the scene.

So it is rich that they come out in essentially dissing the reprobate Mayor Filthy Filner.

And in a serious note, understand that Mayor Filthy Filner has no support of his city council. One way to ratchet up bipartisanship! And add another former San Diego mayor to the list calling for Mayor Filthy Filner to resign.

That would be also a former California governor, the last Republican governor of California, Pete Wilson.*

Mr. Wilson is one of the most respected mayors San Diego has ever had. He led probably the last scandal-free administration in the city. Scandal and San Diego go hand in hand. Also a way of bipartisanship!

That Mr. Wilson is giving his thoughts now show that this is a pile on. He could have chimed in a lot earlier, but my though is that he was hoping that he would not have to. But he can't continue to watch the city that he loves continue down this path. And this quote from the linked article is spot on:

 

“It has been all consuming, and I have no idea whether we’ve seen the last of it yet.”

 

And that is why Mayor Filthy Filner must and has to do the right thing.

Resign.

If you lose Hooters after all . . .

 

 

 

*I know , Benedict Arnold Schwarzenegger claimed to be a Republican, but he is not even a RINO!  

 



 



 

YES! Even More Updates On Filthy Filner!

Ooh boy! Our favorite perv Democrat mayor, Filthy Bob Filner of San Diego is a gift that keeps on giving and there are now two new updates for the gift closet.
First, I kid you not, Filthy Filner through his just as cretinous attorney, Harvey Berger, is now claiming that the city IS at fault because it did not give him the city required sexual harassment seminar within six months of his hire.
Uh, wasn't Filthy Filner elected by the people? Does an election make him nothing but an average city employee? Just askin'.
Well, Mr Berger seems to think so. And this is the reason, according to Mr. Berger, why the city should be liable and the taxpayers should pay him for his sage legal counsel.
WHOOPS!
A little wrinkle in the Berger move.
According to Breitbart.com, there were several attempts to have Filthy Filner go through the sexual harassment seminar, but it was his office that cancelled the several attempts to have such a meeting. Maybe they were afraid that he would be able to teach the course himself.
OK, call me a little picky, but really, does a 70-year-old man really need to have such a course? Is there nothing that he learned in his 70 years on God's Green Earth that would at least suggest that he should not behave in such a manner around women?
I guess not.
Oh, and this one, this is so awesome.
It appears that the San Diego city attorney, Jan Goldsmith, a Republican FTR, issued an order that Mayor Filthy Filner should not be meeting with women alone until further notice.
The best part of this?
Filthy Filner tried to say that this was HIS own new policy.
Not only is this dude a perv, but a liar too!
Hence, it is why he is a politician, right?
I like this that Allahpundit wrote in the link:

This cretin would apparently rather cling to power, disgraced to the point where his own chief of staff advocates not letting him meet with women alone, then resign and repent.

Exactly!
Why is this douchbrain even pretending any more that he is mayor of San Diego?
Because even in his weakened state, it is all about the power.
Really, is is time at 70 years old to resign. You got caught and you should have been caught being a perv a lot sooner. But you were not. You need to care about someone other than yourself. After all, you have adult children and they are married and have children of their own. Is it better for them to know that their gramps is a perv or would it not be better to start your own rehabilitation with your family?
I mean, sure this is great for us bloggers, but there are real people and their lives are already in shambles.
It is time to stop giving us our gifts and time for you, Mayor Filthy Bob Filner, to resign as mayor for your own good and the good of San Diego.