Let Booster Decide Everything?

By Ian Trowbridge, Mission Hills

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Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 | The comment by Malin Burnham that the public can't be trusted to express an informed vote on whether the city should build a new Civic Center. Sarah Palin's idiotic political and social pronouncements pale in comparison with Papa Malin's proclamation that he believes in the concept of "in loco parentis" for the majority of adult San Diego voters.

This man is a disaster for San Diego with the influence he wields with the old guard still running this city who, in turn, control the mayor and a least one council member.

Maybe we shouldn't vote at all for mayor or city council members and let Malin pick them himself as he already tries to do. After all, we can't be trusted.

1 Comments so far on this story...

Malin Burnham would prefer to not allow the public to vote on City Hall redevelopment or the new central library, because he knows that the public would vote no on both—as voters should. The idea that the public funds available for these projects can only be used for these projects is false. They are looking at redevelopment funds controlled by CCDC. True, these funds can only be used for redevelopment. But, tax increment is also used to pay back debt. Rather than building these mega-projects now, Centre City redevelopment should use these funds to pay back loans to the City and take some of the pressure off of the general fund, as it faces a $200 million deficit. This can reduce the severity in cuts made to neighborhood services, like branch libraries.

Posted by Brian T. Peterson, DVM | reply to this comment
October 30, 2009 2:12 pm

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