San Diego mayoral candidate says CA Constitution is "wacko"

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Myke Shelby was being interviewed on the Stacy Taylor show (AAR) and said the Mt Soledad cross should be transfered to the Federal Government so it would be protected by the US Constitution instead of the "...wacko California Constitution".

Yeah we need a mayor who thinks the state's constitution is "wacko". Sheesh! :banghead:

On edit: Shelby actually spells his name "Myke". Feel free to form your own opinion. :eyes:

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1. He can take that crap to another state....

still way too many conservatives in my beloved California!

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2. 'Lemme' guess, another Freeper candidate?

I don't live in San Diego and not current on the issues there--so I am just guessing based on this statement...

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3. There really is only one decent progressive candidate in this race!

Donna!



http://www.cafepress.com/reelectdonna

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4. What are the progressive demographics like in San Diego?

I've noticed how out of control the San Diego housing market is. I used to talk to a woman on another board that lived somewhere in San Diego county and was pissed as her B***/C**** sign was constantly being stolen and defaced (which cracked me up). She was always complaining about the liberals there, which prompted me to ask her why she moved to CA knowing it was a liberal state...she never responded.

Anyway, all of that was just to ask are there more Freepers in your area or Liberals? Or is it about even...?

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5. I heard that the registrations for Democrats have grown...

from the woman that gave me registered voter list for precinct walking this time around. The date theses lists were made were right around the November election timeframe. I know I WASN'T on it because I just registered as a Democrat when Dean took over the DNC after being an independent for a long time.

I think there are a few factors working here in San Diego's favor for Dems. First the Dotcom bust I think sent many folks from the Bay Area down here (including myself) and probably many of them were progressives like me that couldn't afford the skyrocketing rents without commensurate salary increases and in some folks cases without jobs then too. I read someplace that the two locations that people leaving the Bay Area went to most were Sacramento / Grass Valley area and second was San Diego. So we probably don't show up on the census much yet either, since I was counted in the Bay Area census last.

Still could be a lot more progressive around here than it is. I'm still a bit frustrated with the politics of many around me, but I've also found many like minded people too. It was pretty cool watching Fahrenheit 9/11 when it premiered in Carmel Mountain theaters (near Rancho Bernardo retirement community) instead of the larger Edward's Cinema where it wasn't playing opening night in Mira Mesa. I'd never thought I'd seen so many progressives in one place who were cheering, etc. during it then in that town.

Though we're a long ways from being Santa Cruz here, I still have hopes that one day one of the coastal communities will collect some of the refugees from Santa Cruz there and develop a similar culture (perhaps Encinitas). Still don't have the remote backwoods areas like the Santa Cruz mountains around here where a lot of the rebels used hang up in the bay area... Perhaps the deserts, but not many humans live there all of the time.

I feel a lot more obsessions with things like gambling around here than up in the Bay Area with many folks around me. A lot of trips to Vegas or the local casinos or poker nights.

I do know a few people that are rather radical that might have the types to go after W signs here. We also had ELF incident of terrorism here that burned down a housing development near the 805 in La Jolla too. I wouldn't call that progressive really, but we do have our share of radical elements.

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6. Wow! This IS encouraging! Thank you for the detailed view

of your area!

I would also love to see another area of progressive-ness develop outside of the Bay Area.

I enjoy visiting San Diego from time to time, and it's cool to think that there will be some like minded people there when we do. :)
I was very excited to see the people that bussed in to Orange County (Irvine) to protest the Governor, several months back.

Where I live (south bay) we are surrounded by the beach cities, which vary. I read in a local paper that Hermosa Beach almost predominately voted Democratically in the last election (pro Kerry). Sadly the other beach cities didn't fare as well--it can get discouraging, but there are still a great many Kerry stickers on cars, which always makes me feel a little better. lol.

I like to get an idea of what other areas in California are like, in the event a move is necessary. Always good to know where other like minded folks are, kwim?

So nice talking w/you! Thanks so much for sharing w/me!
Bliss:hi:

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7. Don't get your hopes up too high!

I don't want to make it sound like it's a bed of blue roses just yet (though I would have liked to have sold blue roses at the Rose Bowl last year when Texas "invaded" it instead of Cal). Still a lot of red staters here. I'm still trying to decide if I want to buy a house here for the long term or not. A big barometer for me, amongst a few other events will be how well Donna Frye does in her race for mayor at the end of this month. If she can win (especially on the first ballot), that will be a sign to me that San Diego is taking the right steps towards being the kind of community I want to settle down with here. If not, I'll have to ressess a bit. I'm hoping a lot of those moderates in the middle are reassessing things too after their kids here are being sent a lot to this never ending war, the corruption that's going on in City Hall as well as with congress critters like Duke Cunningham, etc. and will have an epiphany to change to the right direction ('er make that "left" direction) on things.

You wouldn't have an email address that has "blissful" as a username part of it would you? If you do, I might know you! :) PM me if this might be so!

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8. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that--here's to hope though!

You never know--if some of the forecasters are right, some of those Freepers quite possibly could lose their asses in a housing bubble.

There was a weird article in a money magazine article I saw a month or so ago. People in San Diego were going into debt buying homes because they saw it as a good investment. Despite the fact, that no one could really afford to buy the home (job pay hasn't gone up, etc.). So if the bubble does burst, they may not be around much longer--or if they are they would certainly be much quieter...

Just something to consider...

Oh and no, my e-mail addy doesn't have blissful in it. Sorry. :(

But nice talking with you just the same! :bounce: