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Save San Diego Neighborhoods, one of the main city-wide organizations opposed to short term vacation rentals, have released a report stating they are receiving reports from throughout the city that Airbnb’s paid signature gatherers are tricking voters into signing their petition with outright lies.
The group advises San Diegans, “Don’t let them get away with it!”
Here is most of their statement:
The City of San Diego wants armed private security guards at the branch libraries in Ocean Beach and Point Loma, as well as the Robb Field Skate Park – and at a whole list of other locations around town.
San Diego is now officially seeking proposals from security firms, according to 10News, “that would authorize armed or enhanced safety personnel outside more than 50 places, including community parks, skate parks, and library branches. The guards could either carry guns or non-lethal weapons, such as mace or hand restraints, depending on the arrangement.”
This is based on a post originally published July 5, 2014.
July 4, 2014 was the night the Marshmallow Wars in Ocean Beach ended. The wars had lasted 3 decades – since it began in 1985 with competing parties of neighbors at the beach at a couple of bonfires to then years later full pitched battles involving hundreds if not thousands of participants joined the virtual free-for-all. (Go here for the beginnings.)
Then its last few seasons – the wars cycloned off the sand and onto the streets, vehicles, local businesses and landmarks of the neighborhood. Many became disgusted at the gooey results clearly messing with harmony of the village the day after.
The first calls to end or at least restrict this particular brand of totally-local OB shenanigans began surfacing in 2009. That July, the OB Rag asked “Should Ocean Beach End Its Marshmallow Wars?” The Rag had run a poll among its readers and found:
By the Staffs of the OB Rag and San Diego Free Press
Today – August 16 – in over three hundred editorials in newspapers and media platforms large and small across the country, the American press is standing up and renouncing president Trump’s declarations that the media is “the enemy of the people.”
The San Diego Free Press and the OB Rag join these denunciations, in the call to confront Trump first put out by The Boston Globe, which began its call with:
A central pillar of President Trump’s politics is a sustained assault on the free press. Journalists are not classified as fellow Americans, but rather “the enemy of the people.” This relentless assault on the free press has dangerous consequences. We asked editorial boards from around the country – liberal and conservative, large and small – to join us today to address this fundamental threat in their own words.
The Globe published a chart based on an Ipsos poll conducted August 3-6, 2018, that showed a total of 29% agreed with the phrase, “the news media is the enemy of the people”. 21% didn’t know, while just under half (48%) disagreed. Yet among Republicans, it’s a sentiment endorsed by 48-51% of them.
Trump just last month, The Globe pointed out, told a crowd in Kansas,
“Just stick with us, don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. Just remember, what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”
The following is based partially on a post originally published May 15, 2015
By Frank Gormlie
Downtown Ocean Beach during these times on any summer day or night is extraordinarily packed with people, as locals and visitors mingle on the beach, on the Greens, and in the numerous noisy restaurants and pubs that line the commercial streets.
OB’s reputation as being San Diego’s “laid-back” beach community precedes it as tourists flock to our liberal seaside village of tolerance, peace and hipness all in search of being part of it – even for just a moment – in their search for happiness.
Little do they know there actually is a rough and sordid underbelly to OB’s traditions and history.
It’s OB’s history of rowdies, radicals and ruffians.
This rough underbelly includes the stories of the different brands of rowdiness, radicals and ruffians within Ocean Beach over the years -all of whom give rise to the view that OB is indeed a colorful and diverse community with quite an interesting, not-oft spoken history, with some of it downright nasty and ugly – while other parts are enlightening.
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