Some Followups

Published: Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:19 PM PDT

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Few links to ponder:

Interesting that CityBeat couldn't get behind Mike Aguirre for city attorney in the paper's endorsement issue.

Interesting theory:

We’ve come to conclude that city attorney is just not the right position for Aguirre. He’s long desired public office, and he finally got himself elected to one, but we believe he’s better suited to a seat on the City Council. He’ll argue against this, strenuously, but what he really wants to do is make public policy, and we think he’d be a damn-good policy maker.

The La Prensa San Diego newspaper's endorsement of Steve Francis for mayor (which I talk about here) is for some reason no longer available on the paper's website. Never fear, the Francis campaign has it as a pdf on its site here.

I'll be on Editor's Roundtable Friday to talk about the mayor's race and today's big news. What do you think about Standard and Poor's giving the city back its credit card?

Oh no! The institution of my marriage suddenly feels threatened and I can't figure out why.

I hope you've been following the Supporters Debates. Some are better than others. Next week, supporters of the city attorney candidates will have the forum. I haven't booked anyone yet for the incumbent. I was going to call around but I figured I could post it. If someone wants to nominate themselves or someone else to blog in support of Mike Aguirre, shoot me a note. On Sunday at 6 p.m., I'll be part of the panel asking questions of the city attorney candidates live on NBC 7/39.

Still waiting for Bob Kittle and the U-T editorial page to express as much disgust about the bad words the mayor, the mayor's staff, and the CCDC president used as they did in an editorial about the words the city attorney's deputy used. I probably shouldn't hold my breath.

-- SCOTT LEWIS

8 Comments so far on this story...

I would ask City Beat to name one policy position of Mike Aguirre's that they think is a good one. Even one. As for La Prensa, who can blame them for being embarrassed? Not me. As for Kittle, if you bothered to revisit the circumstances surrounding each of these incidents, there is no question you'd concede that McGrath's offense was far worse than the others. But in all instances, we're talking about trifles.

Posted by Algernon Sidney | reply to this comment
May 15, 2008 8:29 pm

Mike Aguirre's best policy decision is that the law has to be followed. Following the law is not a policy decision.

Posted by La Playa Heritage | reply to this comment
May 16, 2008 7:47 am

Mike Aguirre's best policy decisions are those related to his fight for open government. He has worked to shine a light on bad decisions like the pension deal, and the shameful secrecy of hiding the true impact of those decisions from the public. Without him it would have been business as usual in Enron by the Sea.

Posted by Maura Larkins | reply to this comment
May 16, 2008 10:14 am

1. Algernon Sidney wrote on May 15, 2008 8:29 PM: "I would ask City Beat to name one policy position of Mike Aguirre's that they think is a good one. Even one............. ..I'll name just one "Algernon", SUNROAD! Boom! BTW, great name, are you a waiter???

Posted by Billy Bob Henry | reply to this comment
May 16, 2008 3:16 pm

Sunroad? Let's wait and see how the $40 million lawsuit against the City turns out before you decide Aguirre's policy is a good one. And, Aguirre is not a policy maker as City Attorney. Let him run for Mayor or City Council is he wants to be a policy maker.

Posted by Ann | reply to this comment
May 16, 2008 3:49 pm

Ann. Based on what part of the Municipal Code, Law, or court ruling do you base your assertion that our elected City Attorney does not work for us, the taxpaying Citizens of San Diego? Do you think that instead the elected City Attorney is below the Mayor and City Council? Does the Mayor and the City Council have some kind of special powers that the elected City Attorney does not? As a public official elected directly by the Citizens of San Diego, our City Attorney work directly for us, the public... The public gets to decide if they want a City Attorney that works for them, or one that works for the Strong Mayor, the City Council, City Unions and Developers. FYI, Mayor Sanders and the City Council also work directly for us, the taxpaying public.

Posted by La Playa Heritage | reply to this comment
May 16, 2008 7:39 pm

S&P didn't give us back our credit card...in fact, it gave us the second lowest possible rating...an indictment of our city, not an endorsement. Frankly, we're still on the brink, paying until 2037 for billionaire's ballparks,and borrowing more just to patch up the sewers. The pension fiasco is still unresolved, and we're heading for a nastly economic downturn. We didn't build up a reserve in the good years, so how will we pay for the essentials? We can start by walking away from the illegally issued ballpark bonds.

Posted by Fred Williams | reply to this comment
May 18, 2008 7:15 am

Winning the prize for stunning irrelevance -- aka "interesting theory" by Scott Lewis -- that wannabe journal for-the-tattooed called City Beat apparently suggests that City Attorney Mike Aguirre would be better suited to City Council! Spare us echoing such ridiculous opinion. Just because CB is mad at Mike for some reason and SLOP is in Scott Peters' corner doesn't mean we have to read nonsense.

Posted by Fed Up | reply to this comment
May 18, 2008 9:57 am

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