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Yeah, it's just a local contest. But it's one more little card out of the entire House of Cards the Democrats have been erecting for the last decade or two.
It was nice while it lasted, Demmies. Now it's starting to come down, as normal Americans get more and more tired of what Democrats are doing to their governments.
Democrat Mayor Bob Filner resigned last year amidst charges that he had sexually harassed and otherwise abused female employees in and around his office as Mayor of San Diego. Last November an election was held to choose a replacement. When no candidate got the required 51% of the vote, a runoff election was held Tuesday, Feb. 11, between the top 2 vote-getters (Kevin Faulconer (R) and David Alvarez (D)).
Faulconer won yesterday's runoff by approx. 55% to 45%.
Most of Alvarez's campaigning concentrated on the fact that Faulconer got approx. 20% of his campaign financial support from big business leaders. Most of Faulconer's didn't name numbers, but concentrated on the fact that 80% of Alvarez's supported came from government-union bosses, and 90% of that was from out of state.
Just changing the political party designation may not mean much, since they are plenty of RINOs out there. What they need is to elect constitutional conservatives.
It was nice while it lasted, Demmies. Now it's starting to come down, as normal Americans get more and more tired of what Democrats are doing to their governments.
Bill DiBlasio was just nominated to be the mayor of the largest city in this country. So your statement is a bit off here.
I hope OP realizes almost all mayors of prominent US cities are Democrats.
What sets Faulkner apart is he is literally the only Republican mayor of any of America's major cities and to get the spot he had to spend months convincing us, the voters of this purple city (neither really red nor blue), that he was a true centrist, that he not only didn't like the social conservatives or the tea baggers, but would actively support socially liberal policies. The OP seems to not even know that but that's how he got generally left of center voters like myself to vote for him.
In short, Faulkner had to claim he wouldn't be a typical Republican and would try to be socially liberal but fiscally conservative and focus on the bread and butter business of delivering the services citizens want as efficiently as possible. If he does that he'll be a success and get reelected but if he gives into the Doug Manchesters of our city and tries to do things like give $1 billion to the owner of the Chargers then we'll toss him out just like we tossed Filner out as well as how we tossed Murphy out. Also it is nice to have a Democratic majority on the city council and a Republican mayor as it prevents the special interests from either group robbing the city blind.
Most polls around here were predicting a close race, or even a tie, until that happened.
Then Faulconer won by 10 points.
Which had more to do with low voter turn out due to it not only being an off year election but also a run off special election so that was a double whammy. Don't read to much into that as any time there are state or Federal elections going on turn out shoots way up while on special elections, in off years, turn out tends to be very low.
Which had more to do with low voter turn out due to it not only being an off year election but also a run off special election so that was a double whammy. Don't read to much into that as any time there are state or Federal elections going on turn out shoots way up while on special elections, in off years, turn out tends to be very low.
Obama's last-minute endorsement of Alvarez, caused a low voter turnout?
San Diego is a pretty moderate city overall, so Im sure Faulkner was a bit more of a moderate. I have no idea though really.. Its a mayor election. Does anyone care outside of San Diego??
Which is why we already have not one but two threads on this topic over at the San Diego subforum. I have no idea why the OP posted this here rather than in the San Diego subforum other than his nutty partisan rant would have been laughed at by the vast majority of the posters there especially since it is so completely off base with reality. Go ahead and check out those threads because the majority on that subforum, like in the town, tend to be very centrist with socially liberal leanings but fiscally conservative desires. They want these social programs run efficiently as possible but not just killed as the far right wants and that's the exact opposite of what the OP claimed so he isn't saying anything remotely intelligent.
Just changing the political party designation may not mean much, since they are plenty of RINOs out there. What they need is to elect constitutional conservatives.
Extremists are DOA here and are completely unelectable. If you do what Faulkner did and figure out a way to stand in the middle with the majority of voters than Republican candidates can win but if you run an extremist they'll lose every time.
San Diego was said to be going left, but this election means the tide may be turning.
It's not. It remains exactly what it has been a moderate centrist city. The county will still continue going blue in national elections but extremists on either side just don't do well here.
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