SD Tax Fighters Makes SD City Race Endorsements
Posted by: Mighty Thor | 05/06/2008 11:45 AM
San Diego Tax Fighters Endorses Three San Diego City Council Candidates
Decides Not to Endorse in Mayor's Race
San Diego Tax Fighters strongly endorses three candidates running for city council. Carl DeMaio, Phil Thalheimer and April Boling all impressed the SD TF board sufficiently to earn our grassroots organization's nod of approval.
Richard Rider, Chairman of SD TF, said that he was "pleased to endorse these three candidates, as each has demonstrated a commitment to end the fiscal irresponsibility of our city without raising taxes. In addition, each endorsed candidate demonstrates a detailed understanding of the city's operations. Their opponents demonstrate neither.
"In particular, George George and Marti Emerald are the city public employee labor unions' hand picked candidates, which should tell the electorate all they need to know about their future performance if elected. Both candidates clearly have indicated that that they think that San Diego citizens and businesses are grossly under-taxed, and fully support the ridiculous high pay and outlandish pensions for city employees."
The race for Mayor was a more difficult choice. Each of the two main candidates - Mayor Jerry Sanders and challenger Steve Francis - bring some positive and negative aspects to the office. The board could not find a meaningful reason to endorse one over the other.
Board member John Murphy leaned towards endorsing Francis, based on his more solid taxpayer positions in the 2005 race. Murphy said he felt that "Francis today is simply disguising his underlying fiscal conservative leanings. He'll probably do somewhat better if elected."
But member Craig Baumann leaned a bit towards Sanders, given Sanders 'admittedly tepid efforts to competitively bid out some minor city services. "Sanders needs more time to carry out his agenda," said Baumann. He continued, "In addition, the labor unions hate Sanders, which is a pretty good indication of who to vote for. But then again, Sanders pushed through city bonds without a citizen vote, and raised our taxes through increased water and sewer fees."
Given that the board could not agree that there was clear-cut advantage to electing one mayoral candidate over the other, SD TF has chosen to take a "no endorsement" position in that race.
Decides Not to Endorse in Mayor's Race
San Diego Tax Fighters strongly endorses three candidates running for city council. Carl DeMaio, Phil Thalheimer and April Boling all impressed the SD TF board sufficiently to earn our grassroots organization's nod of approval.
Richard Rider, Chairman of SD TF, said that he was "pleased to endorse these three candidates, as each has demonstrated a commitment to end the fiscal irresponsibility of our city without raising taxes. In addition, each endorsed candidate demonstrates a detailed understanding of the city's operations. Their opponents demonstrate neither.
"In particular, George George and Marti Emerald are the city public employee labor unions' hand picked candidates, which should tell the electorate all they need to know about their future performance if elected. Both candidates clearly have indicated that that they think that San Diego citizens and businesses are grossly under-taxed, and fully support the ridiculous high pay and outlandish pensions for city employees."
The race for Mayor was a more difficult choice. Each of the two main candidates - Mayor Jerry Sanders and challenger Steve Francis - bring some positive and negative aspects to the office. The board could not find a meaningful reason to endorse one over the other.
Board member John Murphy leaned towards endorsing Francis, based on his more solid taxpayer positions in the 2005 race. Murphy said he felt that "Francis today is simply disguising his underlying fiscal conservative leanings. He'll probably do somewhat better if elected."
But member Craig Baumann leaned a bit towards Sanders, given Sanders 'admittedly tepid efforts to competitively bid out some minor city services. "Sanders needs more time to carry out his agenda," said Baumann. He continued, "In addition, the labor unions hate Sanders, which is a pretty good indication of who to vote for. But then again, Sanders pushed through city bonds without a citizen vote, and raised our taxes through increased water and sewer fees."
Given that the board could not agree that there was clear-cut advantage to electing one mayoral candidate over the other, SD TF has chosen to take a "no endorsement" position in that race.
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The Taxfighter's are morons. We need government to invest in infrastructure because private enterprise cannot, but for them to do so requires TAXES! Without proper infrastructure investment our economy will become like Mexico's and we will all suffer. Thank goodness kooks like the "taxfighters" are on the margins of soociety!
"Honestly Said" (what a pompous pseudonym!) raises a silly straw man argument which is not on the table. The question isn't whether or not we need government-paid infrastructure, and whether we need taxes. The issue is -- do we ALREADY pay enough taxes to provide the services and infrastructure we need and expect from government?
The average Californian works four months out of the year JUST for government. In 2008, our California Tax Freedom Day was 30 April.
Californians pay MORE than enough to provide needed government services. "Honestly Said" thinks not.
Indeed, whatever we pay is NEVER enough for such "thinkers" -- even though California already has the fourth worst Tax Freedom Day in the nation (up from 28th in 1994).
Thank you, "Honestly Said" -- for so clearly presenting the thinking of the "Mo' Money" School of Government Economics.