The Tag Project
Next Tuesday is Election Day, and we’ve endeavored to make it easier for you with our handy endorsement cheat sheet. Snip it out (or download it here) and take it into the ballot booth. Make copies for your friends. Pass them around. Share the wisdom of CityBeat.
Now, we feel more strongly about some of these than others. For instance, if you look at our Letters section starting on Page 5, you’ll see that we took some heat for recommending a “yes” vote on Prop. 14. On that one, we’re also cool with a “no” vote. However, if you so much as think about voting for Bill Horn for the District 5 county supervisor seat, we’ll banish you forever from CityBeatsburgh. We’re also really high on Stephen Whitburn and David Alvarez.
Meanwhile, in the days after we endorsed Howard Coleman to replace Judge Deann Salcido at Superior Court, Coleman has been publicly espousing some extreme beliefs to pander to the Tea Party crowd. That is, pro-life, anti-gay, Jesus-freaky things that, by our interpretation, could be in violation of several sections of the California Code of Judicial Ethics. Since Salcido’s also unacceptable, we retract our support for Coleman and do not endorse in this race. Instead, voters should leave that race unmarked in order to show Presiding Judge Kevin Enright that neither Salcido nor Coleman has our confidence and whoever is elected should not be assigned to a trial court. Also, we retract the nice things we said about judicial candidate Craig Candelore, whom we didn’t endorse, being non-ideological.
You’ll notice that we were selective and ignored a lot of stuff on the ballot, mostly state and congressional offices. If you haven’t studied those races, you might play a little game—like, you can try picking names whose first letters combine to spell out naughty words. Have some fun.
Now go vote. Unless you’re not going to follow this guide. In that case, don’t vote. Just kidding. Sort of.
San Diego City Council District 2 Patrick Finucane
San Diego City Council District 4 No endorsement
San Diego City Council District 6 Steve Hadley
San Diego City Council District 8 David Alvarez!
Board of Supervisors District 4 Stephen Whitburn!
Board of Supervisors District 5 Steve Gronke!
County Sheriff Bill Gore
Superior Court Judge Office 14 Lewis Lantz
Superior Court Judge Office 20 Stephen Clark
Superior Court Judge Office 21 Robert Longstreth
Superior Court Judge Office 27 Leave it blank
Superior Court Judge Office 34 Joel Wohlfeil
U.S. Senate, Republican Tom Campbell
State Senate District 36, Republican Anyone but Joel Anderson
State Senate District 40, Democrat Mary Salas
State Attorney General, Democrat Pedro Nava or Kamala Harris
State Attorney General, Republican Steve Cooley
Proposition A No
Proposition B No
Proposition C Yes
Proposition D Yes
Proposition G No!
Proposition J Yes
Proposition K No!
Proposition L Yes
Proposition 13 Yes
Proposition 14 Yes, or no, whatever
Proposition 15 Yes
Proposition 16 No, no, no!
Proposition 17 No
