REGARDING: “Don’t add parking meters—-find more capable leaders” LETTERS (09.14)
Letter writer Steven Quinn nails it. Local voters are brainwashed by insider candidates and their fake propaganda. Three Democrats are running for San Diego City Council and are begging for money. This is disgusting and immoral. The money contributed to them is...
REGARDING: “Everything you’ll need to know about new trash fee” FRONT PAGE (July 07)
Many low-income citizens will pay a heavy price because many citizens were asleep at the wheel. This exorbitant fee was avoidable except the voters unlike politicians have little tenacity and willpower to fight the good fight. There are midterm city elections next...
Dan wishes to sincerely thank all his supporters worldwide for their kindness.
Dan wishes to sincerely thank all his supporters worldwide for their kindness.
San Diego’s Big Lie
San Diego’s Big Lie: The Belief that Residents will Take the Bus and Walk for TransportationIt’s the story of San Diego resident’s hypocrisy and their cowering behind shame that fuels the fire of a maddening contradiction. How is it possible for the well-educated...
REGARDING: “The Trump administration is a moral slum” OPINION B3 (12.03)
Since before the time of Charlemagne, societies with the greatest intellect, institutions and even some clergy were completely devoid of morality. Reinhold Niebuhr had so eloquently explained the stratification of morality in his classic, "Moral man and immoral...
REGARDING: “Officials at odds in boat strike fallout” A1 FRONT PAGE (12.02)
Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King lived under the pretext that moral courage is rarer than courage on the ballfield so evident during the horrific and brutal massacre at Mai Lai, Vietnam in 1968. Jimmy Carter for all his micromanagement and miscues in office...
REGARDING: “Growing hostility to the homeless a shame” OPINION (09 24)
The truth remains that very few are hostile to the homeless. But many are frustrated by the homeless. When a society allows for the mentally ill, the drug addicts, the derelicts, and those who simply want to live on our public streets for the past forty years, one...
Impact of a $20,000 Spending Cap in San Diego City Council Elections
What would happen if all candidates were limited to spendingtwenty thousand dollars in a San Diego City Council electionThe primary election for San Diego City Council will be here in about six months.Like horses at the trough, candidates are pulling hairs over...
Dan stands vehemently opposed to offshore drilling
Dan stands vehemently opposed to offshore drilling in California. Will you stand with Dan? Will you vote for Dan to protect our precious coast?. It's the right thing to do and Dan will get it done. No offshore oil drilling!!!
REGARDING: “S.D. rethinks how to gauge park equity” LOCAL B1 (11.29)
The critical component to park equity and services is to attend to the needs of an aging population. Seniors need more than bingo and bridge. They need motivation to get off medication and out of their cars. This can be achieved by example. Our leaders must walk and...
Dan 72
For 72 years, I have presented the citizens of San Diego coherent, erudite, compelling, visionary, and beneficial public policy in all my political campaigns.Nobody read a word. My deeds were subjugated to the vile corruption and dirty money thrown at voters like an...
REGARDING: Letters “State will regret retreat on hard-won redistricting reform” (11. 07)
Mr.William Gammon makes excellent points in voting against Proposition 50. An eye for an eye truly makes us all blind. The nature of man seeks retribution. The individual will always cut the shortest tangent. Fundamentally, we are ignorant of what predicates our...
REGARDING: “Neighbors mourn boy hit by car walking to school” LOCAL B1 (10.23)
The article does not explain how this tragedy happened and exactly where it happened. Notwithstanding this point, it is stated that over 400 people attended a memorial for the little boy. How many, if any of those in sorrow follow basic traffic laws? It's like the...
Whats in a name
SMIECHOWSKIName microaggressions can present as names being mispronounced, misspelled, misunderstood, misgendered, or mocked. A common occurrence is for some people choosing to use a more “English-friendly” variation of a migrant’s name instead of the person’s birth...
REGARDING: “San Marcos to impose limits on e-bikes” B1 (10 31)
Why does it always take so long for society and government to catch up with human folly. The City of San Diego also ought to further regulate these cheap toys for little boys. Taxpayers are liable for millions in city payouts to reckless e-bike riders. Voter's ought...
REGARDING: “Council approves parking permit program” A1 FRONT PAGE (11.19
Beware the camel's nose. I will make one guarantee to the citizens of this once great city. In a few years, these obscene parking fees will increase just as your trash fees, water bills, and sales tax will increase. The almost nonexistent voters have been brainwashed...
REGARDING: “S.D. Council vows not to cut arts” B1 LOCAL (11.12)
I understand that there will be no cuts to the arts in this year's budget. Councilmembers have said, and I paraphrase, "Arts spending exposes low-income residents to life changing experiences." Then these same councilmembers vote to charge those same low-income...
REGARDING: “Clairemont growth plan clears hurdle” A1 FRONT PAGE (11.22)
This plan is all predicated on the foundation of local residents taking public transit, walking, and cycling. As I have screamed until blue in the face while a member of the Clairemont Community Planning Group and Clairemont Town Council, it ain't going to happen...