You must be doing something right, especially if the Courage Campaign is attacking you… San Diego GOP Chairman Tony Krvaric pens a detailed letter to the Union-Trib, in defense of Congressman Darrell Issa. Some excerpts:
“The (Courage Campaign) missive attacked Issa for having the audacity to reach out to job creators about impediments to job creation. Mind you, this is the exact same thing the Obama administration is doing. If you go to oversight.house.gov, you will see that all of the responses are available in a downloadable and searchable PDF. Of course, when the administration solicited the opinions of the Business Roundtable, held a CEO summit, hired a new chief of staff to build better relationships with private industry and ordered a governmentwide review of regulatory barriers to job creation, the Courage Campaign was noticeably mute…
“It is very clear that the Courage Campaign is nothing more than a left-wing activist group intent on furthering the smear campaign targeting Issa. It’s insulting that these groups have the audacity to distort and demonize someone who has been part of the very fabric of our community for decades.
“Congressman Issa has promised San Diegans an oversight agenda that will be vigorous and vigilant. That will target waste, fraud and abuse in government. That will work to hold the administration accountable and to the highest standard of transparency. In case the Courage Campaign missed it, that’s exactly what the American people have asked Issa to do.”
Read all of Krvaric’s letter, which ran Saturday in the UT.
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Garrick makes move for Senate… It was one of those well-known but yet-to-be confirmed certainties that Assemblyman Martin Garrick would seek a term-limited Mark Wyland 38th District Senate seat in 2014. We conjectured a couple of weeks ago that a run for Senate may be Garrick’s motivation in staying clear of making an endorsement in his own 74th Assembly District. Jim Sills at SD Rostra — as he proves again he has the unique ability to do — breaks the Garrick announcement that he is indeed looking at a run, opening the proverbial “exploratory” committee:
Of Hit Pieces, Civil Discourse and Beer Summits… Ryan Purdy, a new blogger at SD Rostra, writes, “The call to ‘civil discourse’ was never anything more than a call to censorship of the right,” in response to concerns over his use of the metaphorical term “hit men.” An excerpt:
“So the common phrase ‘hit piece’ is acceptable, but then the word ‘hitman’ is not? That, right there, is the point. Political Correctness is a labyrinth with no exit. The folks who brought you the idea of a ‘living, breathing constitution’ are naturally the best at re-routing the rules so you can’t escape their PC maze. You can avoid using the phrase ‘job killing’ one week (sadly that is a real example) or ‘hitman’ the next. However, if you don’t agree with them, everything you say will be insensitive, out of bounds or in poor taste. It’s about controlling the conversation—to the point of making it a monologue from the left. Rahm Emmanuel said, ‘You never let a serious crisis go waste.’ In order to suffocate the First Amendment, folks on the left have been trolling for phrases like ‘hitman’ and ‘job killing’ after the Tuscon murders. Apparently you never let a serious tragedy go to waste either.”
Read all of Purdy’s piece here.
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Sagging Profits vs. Tittilating Headlines… Don Bauder of the San Diego Reader delivers on the current state of newspapers:
“Admittedly, the adventures of the comely Lady Catarina Pietra Toumei are more captivating than the plunging profits of McClatchy Company. But the ad sales drop of the newspaper company does interest us old fogies who concentrate on (1) money and (2) the media. Bottom line: it’s clear that investors, and perhaps the daily newspaper industry itself, are convinced that advertisers will continue to migrate to digital media, and even though dailies are stepping up their own efforts to make money online, it’s a losing battle. Ink and paper will continue in sick bay.
“Daily newspapers are slashing costs, but that won’t be enough. There are rumors that the San Diego Union-Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, and smaller papers owned by MediaNews Group could consolidate under common ownership. Hedge funds that have scooped up debt of overleveraged Southern California papers “are intent on driving consolidation,” says columnist James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times. The individual newspapers would retain their identities and news staffs but would combine efforts in advertising sales, distribution, printing, and human resources, says Rainey.”
Bauder’s entire column is well worth the read.
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Have a superb week!
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