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06/07/10   Chula Vista's Prop G - an analysis.
    by Pat Flannery                                                              top^

The heated arguments over Chula Vista's Prop G have centered around whether Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) increase or decrease the cost of public works projects. Both labor and developers accuse each other of increasing costs through exclusionary labor practices. But I think there is more to it than that. I think the truth is much deeper. This is not about cost. More ....
 
05/24/10   Would Lorie Zapf bring "strategic fraud" to City Council?
    by Pat Flannery                                                              top^

Lorie Zapf, a candidate for City Council District 6, is attempting to turn a bust into a boon. Last week Dave Maass of CityBeat broke a story busting her for being in default on her family home in Clairemont. Responding to CityBeat Ms. Zapf tried to paint herself as the champion of all families who are attempting to negotiate a modification of their mortgage with their lender. More ....
 
05/06/10   Strong Mayor = Insider Deals.
    by Pat Flannery                                                              top^

I went to a strong-mayor forum (Prop D) last night at the San Diego County Health Complex sponsored by Common Cause and Empower San Diego, with guest speakers Donna Frye and Carl DeMaio. It was well attended, informal, with lots of great comments and questions. Carl and Donna are a great double act and the crowd loved it. More ....
 
05/04/10   The CCDC tax increment "cap" game.
    by Pat Flannery                                                              top^

As my contribution to the public debate called for by City Council on April 27, 2010 when it postponed a decision until June 22, 2010 about whether to extend downtown redevelopment by raising its tax increment "cap", I offer the following suggestion: the City Council should direct CCDC to concentrate on the area east of 10th Street outlined in red in the picture below. More ....
 
04/24/10   Cruise Ship Terminal Financing and Berthing Agreement
    by Pat Flannery                                                              top^
 
This Agreement is a must read for anybody who wishes to understand what is happening on the Embarcadero. It makes the infamous Charger's Ticket Guarantee seem like a sweet deal for the City. With this Agreement the Port Commissioners tried to cede control of the Embarcadero to a Panamanian corporation. They thought that by signing this Agreement the NEVP was dead. But it is not. This Agreement is legally flawed. The Port cannot grant what it does not have. More ....
 
  04/19/10   Library Lease to School District - another giveaway.
      by Pat Flannery                                                              top^
 


Today at City Council, City Attorney Jan Goldsmith paid off a 2008 campaign debt to Ben Hueso. In doing so he indulged in a type of tortured reasoning I hope he never allowed in his courtroom when he was a Superior Court Judge.  More ....
 

  04/15/10   The Mayor's Embarcadero Plan sunk by Cruise Ships.
      by Pat Flannery                                                              top^
 


One of the biggest mistakes Mayor Sanders made was to fall for whatever slick sales talk Steve Cushman used to cajole him into backing this used-car salesman for a third term as Port Commissioner, despite term limits. It has now cost him the North Embarcadero Visionary Plan (NEVP). It lies in ruins because of Cushman's cruise ships. More ....
 

  04/09/10   The Union-Tribune has slandered Marti Emerald
      by Pat Flannery                                                              top^
 


The following sentence appears in today's U-T article regarding yesterday's much talked about ethics hearing involving an alleged Marti Emerald campaign reporting violation: "The delay allowed Emerald to collect contributions to cover a debt that had not been disclosed." More ....
 

  04/07/10   The Union-Tribune is negotiating for the Port District
      by Pat Flannery                                                              top^
 


Read
this Editorial in today's U-T.

In hiring Ron Powell, a veteran Union-Tribune reporter as its spokesperson, the Port hired the ability to get friendly editorials like this to run in the U-T at critical moments like this.

This is critical moment for the Port District's North Embarcadero (Cruise Ship Terminal) plan. It needs to pull off another switcheroo.
More ....

       
  04/05/10   Are the Port District and the Convention Center giving away public money?
      by Pat Flannery                                                              top^
 


At its monthly meeting tomorrow the Port District will be asked to consent to the assignment and assumption of a lease from Fifth Avenue Landing LLC (FAL) to the San Diego Convention Center Corporation (SDCCC). More ....
 

  04/03/10   Coastal Commission's "April Fools" Staff Report.
      by Pat Flannery                                                              top^
 


Yielding to intense pressure from Carnival Cruise Lines, a Panamanian Corporation, and its political allies, the Coastal Commission staff has issued this Report, "Approval with Conditions", in an attempt to provide political cover for the Commission to grant an illegal "conditional" permit for the Port's cruise ship terminal on Broadway Pier. More ....
 

  03/28/10   Is there a McConville-White House connection?
      by Pat Flannery                                                              top^
 


It is very suspicious that Jim McConville, the notorious statewide "straw-buyer" mortgage scamster, has not only escaped jail but has had his enormous debts wiped out by the U.S. Government using bankruptcy, while all the time the FBI has enough evidence to arrest him 10 times over. More ....
 

  03/24/10   How the Mayor's staff lied about the $185 million bond.
      by Pat Flannery                                                              top^
 


Have you ever had a sickening feeling that someone is lying to you but you can't quite put your finger on how they are doing it? That's how some members of the City Council must be feeling regarding the Mayor's contentious $185 million "lease-lease" bond issue - those who are not in on the lie, that is. More ....

 

  03/22/10   The City's $185 million bond issue would be illegal.
      by Pat Flannery                                                              top^
 


The City Council has docketed its final approval of the $185 million "lease-lease" bond issue for this Tuesday as Item 50 on the Consent Agenda. That's right the "Consent" Agenda. I intend to go down and "pull" this Item from the Consent Agenda so that Council Members may reconsider. More ....
 

  03/11/10   Is Municipal bond debt the next Wall Street scam?
      by Pat Flannery                                                              top^
 


Last Tuesday, March 9, 2009, San Diego City staff from the Debt Management Department and from our City Attorney's office acted as salespeople for J. P. Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and other Wall Street moneylenders, arguing before City Council for a bogus financial instrument called a municipal "lease-lease" that would put the worst excesses of the real estate borrowing bubble to shame. More ....

 

  03/09/10   Voting while under the influence - of money.
      by Pat Flannery                                                              top^
 


A recent land use vote at City Council provides a fascinating peek into the moral characters of our six Democratic City Councilmembers. The issue at hand was a proposed street vacation in front of the La Jolla home of Democratic Party mega-contributors, Bill and Lisa Barkett. More ....
 

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