Falcone Picks Up Backing from 4 Public Safety Groups

» Doug Crawford on 03.10.09 @ 07:26 AM

Iya’s tenure on the City Council has been marked A+ on all fronts. She always listens, thinks, discusses, listens again, and acts. She has worked hard, and has proven that she is the best qualified candidate for Mayor from the City Council.
P.S. Why is it people who have negative things to say are like snipers. They don’t mind shooting at someone but they don’t want their name associated with the bullet?

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» Long Time Resident on 03.10.09 @ 09:59 AM

Harris Sherline and other writers have repeatedly mentioned that the hidden part of the public sector budget iceberg is not the up-front salaries, but the long-term pensions,perks and bennies. That’s a big challenge for all public agencies around here, as they try to make budgets for current services, with the employee retirement albatrossdragging them down.

Reporer Fernandez could have been clearer that one of the ways Mrs. Falcone won the support of ( pretty well paid) public safety unions is that she’s been a tireless champion not only of more cops on the streets and firefighters in their engines, but also of more post-employment benefits. Her generosity with the community’s limited money has been part of the problem, not the solution.

Despite all this - and the safety union members will be a powerful political asset to
her - the City’s streets are less safe from crime, the City’s foothills less safe from fire, than they were before Mrs. Falcone took office. Ms. Fernandez should have asked Falcone and her safety union supporters, why?

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» Helene still has a chance on 03.10.09 @ 05:54 PM

Helene has a chance of beating Iya only if she votes NO on putting an alternative building height measure on the ballot, which is an end run around the wishes of the 11,500 voters who signed the Citezens height initiative.

If Helen votes YES to put a council alternative height measure on the ballot that action by her of going directly against the wishes of the 11,500 voters, is as good as her putting nails in the coffin as far as her chances of every being elected as mayor.

Iya is smart enough to know better than to go so directly against the wishes of the 11,500 voter, and has indicated that she will vote No to put an council competing measure on the ballot to compete with the wishes of the 11,500 voters.

lets see just how smart Helene is.

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» Smart Growth is sometimes Slow Growth. on 03.17.09 @ 08:21 AM

Veronica Meadows project. Enough said (or maybe you don’t remember how Iya voted on that enviromental nightmare).

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» Coercive support? on 03.19.09 @ 01:35 PM

Chief Sanchez must have threatened the SBPD to support Falcone to protect his job. He is the only cop that would support the way things have been going around here in terms of public safety lately.

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