
Sunday San Diego: Why Let the Voters Decide?, Batra on Busby, and more
While I bask in the Florida sunshine, a small break from vacation, if that makes sense, to note a couple of items from last week…
Who needs a public vote, especially when we all know it will surely end in failure?… The quote resulting in the most buzz, shock and awe — as well as a few guffaws —during the week was undoubtedly that of longtime community leader Malin Burnham, an icon of the downtown San Diego business establishment. On Thursday he argued against a public vote for a new (and controversial) $432 million city hall:
There’s less than one percent of the citizens in the United States of America that understand the complexity in how to put these kinds of projects together, so why would we want to ask the other 99 percent? Oh my…talk about tossing a dirty diaper into the playpen.
Richard Rider was also part of the SD Downtown Partnership forum where the instantly classic comments were made.… Read More