San Diego replaces slimeball Democrat mayor with Republican (polls, extremist, death)

[Little-Acorn]

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.

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[urbanlife78]

Yep I saw that too, it was an election I didn't even know was going on...but then again, I don't really care who the mayor of most cities in America are.

[jburress]

Unless you live in San Diego...who cares?

[urbanlife78]

Originally Posted by jburress

Unless you live in San Diego...who cares?

That is my thought with most mayoral elections. I do remember the scandal the previous mayor had, but that is San Diego's problem to deal with.

[Ecstatic Magnet]

I hope OP realizes almost all mayors of prominent US cities are Democrats.

[LoveToRow]

Don't forget that King Obama swooped in on Monday to endorse Alvarez. The final kiss of death. LOL!

[Little-Acorn]

Originally Posted by Trace21230

Don't forget that King Obama swooped in on Monday to endorse Alvarez. The final kiss of death. LOL!

Most polls around here were predicting a close race, or even a tie, until that happened.

Then Faulconer won by 10 points.

[Think4Yourself]

I voted for Faulkner more because I thought Alvarez was too closely tied to union special interests. That said, there can be little doubt that Faulkner is too closely tied to the traditional developer dominated Republican good old boy network which has abused the taxpayers of this city for far too many decades. Faulkner claims to be a moderate, socially liberal but fiscally conservative, so there is no doubt the national Republican Party would quickly declare him a RINO for being pro-choice and pro-marriage equality. That said, the main reason I voted for him was to balance out the Democratic controlled city council while the Democratic controlled city council would help check any traditional Republican graft and corruption which we see all to often in this town.

I do hope this heralds a more moderate Republican platform, one which avoids the right wing fever swamps which dominate the religious right and the nutty tea baggers but time will tell.

[Think4Yourself]

Originally Posted by Little-Acorn

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.

You don't seem very bright or well informed to me and it is obvious you haven't followed local politics at all because you're babbling a load of nonsense. Did you even notice how Faulkner basically adopted all of Filner's key policies such as restoring services cut by Sanders and Murphy or how Faulkner adopted Filner's plan for more resources going to neighborhood improvement instead of the usual local Republican policy of slushing them all into subsidizing downtown developers? If Faulkner follows through with that and turns out to be the moderate he claimed then he'll do well but if he starts handing out taxpayer money to the traditional local Republican special interest group, namely politically connected developers, then he'll likely get recalled pretty quickly.

It all depends upon Faulkner remembering he lives in a moderate city and the babbling of the extremist parts of his party will only shipwreck his administration.

[California831]

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??