It takes a big man to admit mistake... and yes per the question posed in your cartoon, I think you are a talking head, policy wonk or whatever else you want to call it.

Posted by Basic Civics | reply to this comment
June 9, 2008 6:14 am

That's ok. We citizens made a much bigger mistake reelecting Mayor Wimpy.

Posted by Larry | reply to this comment
June 9, 2008 11:13 am

No matter how you report it, that second Primary in June was a GOP beauty contest: hence,low general turnout facilitating the passage of both Mayor Sanders into a second term and his Proposition C which allows him to control appointment of the Auditor via a byzantine multi-layered process.

Posted by Fed Up | reply to this comment
June 9, 2008 1:03 pm

You're forgiven. Even though we had a choice between Mr. Empty Suit and F.U. Steve, it seems that something like 10 percent of SD went to the polls and did the best they could with what they had. The rest had sense enough to avoid this vacuous pantomime of democracy and tend the garden...

Posted by Fred | reply to this comment
June 9, 2008 1:15 pm

Zzzz...

Posted by Christopher Hall | reply to this comment
June 9, 2008 9:34 pm

With the additional votes counted, that moves the voting total for Mayor Sanders from 18.4% (If I remember correctly) up to a whopping 19.2%. I don't know the proper fix, but San Diego will continue to be in the grasp of well-connected special interests as long as they can get their candidates and ballot propositions pushed through in minor elections where a 19% vote will guarantee victory. When was the last time an incumbent mayor lost an election in San Diego? Hedgecock was elected while indicted, and Murphy was elected even though things were so out of control he would resign four months into his term. I believe the last sitting mayor to lose was Curran. He was running for his third term, but was also under indictment, and that was 37 years ago!

Posted by SD_Apathy | reply to this comment
June 10, 2008 8:37 am

Larry, Fed Up, Fred and Christopher-I agree with ALL of you (must be a first here!). "Mayor Wimpy" and "F.U. Steve" are pretty good ways to describe the characters.

Posted by Billy Bob Henry | reply to this comment
June 10, 2008 3:02 pm

I am curious as to why no one is questioning the results of this election, especially since San Diego hired 2 Ohio officials still under a heavy cloud of suspicion for rigging the 2004 pres election to run this whole thing. link "Seiler's hiring was the second decision by the county in the last month or so to raise questions from election watchdogs. In April, county officials announced that they were giving the job of assistant registrar of voters to former Cuyahoga County Ohio elections chief Michael Vu, who served in that position for three and a half years. In January, a court convicted two elections workers in that county of illegally rigging the 2004 presidential election recount so they could avoid a more complete review of votes. Vu defended the workers, saying they had followed long-standing procedures and done nothing wrong."

Posted by Voter watchdog | reply to this comment
June 11, 2008 11:27 am

The change from precinct tabulation by Ms Seiler to centralized count is highly suspect. "All the paper ballots will have to be brought to the Registrar's office to be counted this year, instead of being counted at the polling places. That's because the Registrar hasn't been able to purchase enough tally machines for every precinct."

Posted by voter watchdog | reply to this comment
June 11, 2008 11:28 am

According: Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 3:46 pm Opinion: Scoop Blogwatch CALIFORNIA: where to look for election integrity problems Feb 5 As explained below, California's voting system is vulnerable to hacking... Some of the places to look for problems in CA are: 1) counties that use central (rather than precinct-based) tabulation (identified below); 2) counties that have voter registrars with bad attitudes (anti-voter, anti-transparency--s identified below); 3) Republican counties (sadly, election integrity is partisan in CA)" "A lawsuit by San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, against SoS Bowen, to prevent these improved auditing rules--an example of the "bad attitude" of some CA county registrars"

Posted by voter watchdog | reply to this comment
June 11, 2008 11:33 am

Scott Lewis could have had a truly enlightening story, but like so much of the press feels obliged to suppress the facts. It's my understanding that San Diego has never had a Mayor who was elected by more than 37% of the "Registered" voters and as for councilmembers, some only between 8% and 10%. If you used "elgible" voters in San Diego, the figures are even less. But the way the media reports the results allows politicians to claim they have a mandate to implement some of the dumbest ideas ever. Yeah right, a mandate with 8% of the registered voters but a whopping 52% of those who voted.

Posted by Fred S. | reply to this comment
June 13, 2008 9:52 am

As one of the only two time candidates commenting here, let it be known regularly our "electing majority" has been a voting minority of the constituents. I've always told my candidate friends you just need to get the absentees, and swing voters and you can easily win a San Diego election. Many of our "Elected Leaders" are appointed members - ie ex-councilman Dick SMurfy -apptd SD council & Judge, many others too, mostly business people who've gotten a chance to put in time on a "committee", ie Boling etc, Boling is the money woman(treasurer) for almost every campaign going! DiMiao is a carpetbagger from Washington, and the other "locals" have been screwing us out of money (city contracts/pensions, etc) for years! You can't change w/o real voting!! And don't believe the "Blood-in-the-water" statements about budget cuts. REDEVELOPMENT HAS MONEY!-we just get debt!!! 858-571-6058:dbeeman

Posted by FreedomPlease | reply to this comment
June 18, 2008 9:50 am

Percentage of Eligible votes in San Diego who even bother to register? Percentage of those registered voters - who vote? Percentage of registered voters who voted for the candidate who ‘won’ the elections? Moreover, our elected officials walk around as if they are proud of the fact that so few of the people that they are ‘tasked’ (it is their job after all) with representing – even bother to vote any longer, much less vote for them. If I were an elected official in San Diego (city/county) I think I would be so embarrassed I would resign; not only because of the way I do my job (and let things slide by under the radar - so it seems) but also because of the apparently very few people who think I am doing my job well in the first place.

Posted by Gregory | reply to this comment
July 25, 2008 9:03 am

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