This is the first of a series of November election “fun facts”.
District 2 candidate and independent Richard Bailey voted for presidential candidate Donald Trump three times when he – Bailey – was a Republican. 2016. 2020. 2024.
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Well, that certainly clarifies things.
Are fun facts, facts, Frank? How would you know that Richard voted for DJT three times? Did he show you his ballot?
Even still, what you are saying is you support the opposing candidate, Nicole Crosby, who is being supported by the MEA (the big fat cat union that brought us Measure L which allows for auto-raises). Nicole also is supported by the local Dem Party.
Keep in mind, the local party had a choice in 2020 to vote for Barbara Bry or Todd Gloria, and they chose the wrong candidate. The local party is currently supporting Henry Foster over Martha Abraham, who is also Democrat. But this is another poor choice.
Nicole works for ‘Todd’s legal department’ which has had a poor record of winning cases and has a few hundred dollars in reserves each year to issue their settlement payouts.
So, how do you suppose Nicole is going to handle the budget next year? Will she agree to forfeit any salary increases during her term? Will she cut her staff by 20% and instruct her colleagues to do the same or do you prefer shorter hours at libraries, 13 bathrooms to remain closed at Mission Bay and no funding of the arts.
What you are saying Frank is you’ll allow our city to implode under the weight of a bloated city staff and salaries over voting for someone who isn’t beholden on the elephant in the room, the MEA or the Todd Gloria. Now that’s something Donald Trump would do out of spite because he is demented.
To me these are not fun facts, but they are facts that you cannot deny.
Vote Martha Abraham, Mark Powell, and yes, Richard Bailey. We need a life raft of new candidates from of all parties and backgrounds with fresh ideas to coalesce with Raul Campillo, not the other zombies who work at city hall now. Then we will create a council majority of proven community advocates to push back on the nonsense policies that are being rubber stamped every day. If you took the time to talk with Richard, you would realize that he is not another DJT but may be bold enough with the other newly formed council to move the city back from the brink. This may require declaring bankruptcy so that an administrator will do the heavy cutting of the fat currently at our city hall.
This is a time to correct any blind spots and vote with a clear vision in mind no matter the letter after one’s name.
I don’t know how Bailey’s voting history was discovered. So I will just treat this as a hypothetical. If someone voted for DJT three times, that is disqualifying for me. I can’t support Nicole. I guess I’m skipping voting in the District 2 election this year.
That’s how I handled the last mayoral election. I simply skipped that part.
Craig, a non vote is a vote for Bailey.
If my district person voted for Trump just once, let alone 3 times that would be enough for me not to vote for that person. How ever bad their opponent is wouldn’t change that.
Lisa, I may agree with you on one of those candidates you endorse.
We know he voted for him because he’s been a multiple time elected Republican who was on the GOP central committee and – whenever given the opportunity to say who he voted for – he’s declined or (as he said in the comment sections here) he said that he didn’t vote for Kamala. If he didn’t vote for Trump three times he can write a piece here or wherever and shock the world with that new information or hell you could ask him Lisa to confirm or deny. I would say his silence on this tells us the answer we already knew. I’m sick of being treated like idiots by him and his supporters. He’s a Republican, what are we even talking about.
Thanks for this Frank! In the end none of this will matter since he’s going to lose by 12+ anyway.
Amen, Lisa!!
Agree with Lisa 100%! Some people are so hung up on trashing the opposing candidate that they can’t think clearly!!!! Frank your comments have been made several times before. How about, instead of trashing the candidate you don’t want, you list factual information about your preferred candidate? Your comments aren’t reporting news, but they are super liberal, testosterone driven opinions.
Funny comment given that Bailey has done nothing but talk trash about San Diego. Why did he even move here if he hates it so much?
In a meeting with Bailey last year, a very reputable source told me Bailey had admitted to them that he had voted for Trump three times and would do it again.
Chris, Klein is correct . How does the Staff of the Rag know how anyone voted? Now that Candidate Bailey has had a come to Jesus moment and joined the good guys; the question is how will he vote now! Jen Campbell probably voted for Biden or Harris but did she do any good for Ocean Beach or D2?
Richard Bailey switched his affiliation to Independent right when he filed to run because he is a smart Republican who is trying to win an election. There is no “come to Jesus moment” here. This is a carpetbagger hiding his political affiliation to win an election in an area he has no ties to.
Bailey can settle this very quickly, Lisa M., by publicly denouncing Mango Mussolini for just *one* of the following:
Raping E. Jean Carroll
Pardoning nearly 1,600 offenders in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection including those who tried to kill police
Threatening to invade NATO allies
Deploying ICE agents to occupy American cities
Weaponizing the DoJ against his political enemies.
Just one. Pro tip: Number 1’s the easiest.
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Shocking the guy that wants 300 more cops voted for trump three times…
Bailey thinks most people in San Diego can be tricked into thinking he’s just like Zohran Mamdani by using the same colors and typeface for his signs, he doesn’t think people care enough to do their own homework. That’s what he thinks of the people of our district, he think we’re all idiots who believe he’s no longer a republican.
George Costanza? Really? Another troll like D2. Bailey tricking people, lol. Cue up the GOPher MAGAits boogeyman card. Heaven help this town if one person on the council wasn’t a D. The sky might implode.
Thank you for pointing that out. I had never seen a Mamdani sign but just looked it up and that just further shows what a scumbag he is. He’s stealing from the socialist -what irony.
Maybe the Rag can do his next story on that “coincidence”
Wow! You are clairvoyant? You know how he thinks? That’s a handy skill for providing factual information. ?
What has voting by party done for San Diegans? Let me count the ways…… San Diego needs internally qualified representation candidates, not external gloss candidates. Every candidate is going to have a really hard job to clean up what toddler and the clowncil has created. The external gloss, has caused a whole lot of wasted money on pet projects and very little that includes ALL people. To run a city is not like the Miss America or Mr. Atlas contests. The city needs brains, common sense, economic savvy, budget experience.
This publication is stretching a little too hard. Who the hell would vote for another Todd Gloria like Nicole Crosby? Yall obviously not looking around San Diego right now. Your articles need to be more focused around helping neighborhoods fight the current adminstration. Writing publisher opinion pieces isnt impressing pissed off San Diegans right now. Richard Bailey is currently showing us he is willing to fight back against shady corrupt back door deals and providing real solutions to fix the current mess. Donald Trump isnt creating this mess in San Diego the Turd is and Richard will make major positive changes.
Bailey’s buddy Leo Hamel admitted in court to PPP loan and Bailey provided a letter of support for him AFTER this confession. He’s clearly not willing to flight back against corruptness when his friends are those committing fraud.
I don’t know what or when Leo Hamil did something illegal, and I guess no one else knows someone who did something illegal.
BUT, Richard Bailey was in Coronado politics for several years, and left Coronado with NO huge deficit like Gloria. He’s going to leave, and I am pretty sure, the public is going to be shocked at what all he has done that has not made the news yet. And people voted for him twice. Why would anyone vote for his puppet, who by direction will be doing the same thing! SD needs, not a want, but NEEDs, to have new qualified people as council reps and mayor. Richard Bailey is running and is qualified with his economic education, experience, and that is what SD government NEEDs. Someone who has the common sense intelligence to sort out what gloria has left for them to figure out. Because Bailey has already managed a City, even though it’s a small City, I’m sure he knows the ins and outs of Government programs, how to put people in as Directors/Managers who know what they’re doing FOR the people, and more of doing TO the people. SD does not need more push over management. As the strong mayor form of governing SD has been destroyed financially, as well as permanently by hap hazard, cheap looking continuous construction who gloria and his puppets have convinced SD there needs to be more and more apts. when there are hundreds if not thousands of empty buildings now. If Bailey was a Repub, at some point years ago, so what, people voted for party the last and before the last election and look what you got and what they’ve done to SD. I do not and will not vote party, gender, race, age, hair color, attire or any other reasons that don’t matter to having the ability of not. It’s not a high school popularity contest, it’s about running a big city, and Bailey is over qualified compared to the alternative. You can’t keep voting for the same and expect something way different. I’d bet gloria and his puppets wouldn’t be able to straighten out SD finances, and it will take time for anyone to close up the danger zones. Richard Bailey has more education and experience than gloria’s 100+ staff, or they wouldn’t let him do some of the dumb decisions he does.
Pat, you keep comparing Bailey to Gloria. Do you know something we don’t? Is Bailey running against Gloria in 2028? That’s been a rumor for a while now. If that is true, why would anyone vote for him this year?
It wasn’t years ago that Bailey changed his party, it was earlier this year. So, in 2024, Bailey was still a Republican — and he voted for Trump, again.
Frank, Richard Bailey has been a Mayor, has more common sense than gloria, and is much better qualified to see when gloria is pulling the wool over the constituents eyes. He has done a much better job than gloria. No, I don’t know what any of Bailey’s plans are. BUT as a Councilman I’m sure he will use his voice and knowledge to keep Bailey or Rivera on track and San Diegans should be glad for any new council rep that is not afraid of gloria and not afraid to speak up. There’s also rumors about sean elo-rivera running for gloria’s seat. I don’t know what his plans are either. BUT gloria, needs the competition and knowledge of another Mayor telling him when to “hold ’em” and “when to fold ’em”. I think Bailey is the guy to do that. It used to be with past Mayor’s the SD community Planning Committees had a voice to the Council office on who was building what, and where. Their Councilrep would take it to the City Council public meeting, the public could speak, and usually the Councilrep would support the public’s opinion. Today the Planning Committee’s have NO voice, their Councilrep is afraid to speak on their behalf. That’s happened since gloria took office. I think Bailey is strong enough, and vocal enough to re-establish the constituents/residents part in the process. Hopefully the other Districts can elect a strong person too.
Here you go Pats: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2022/10/28/san-diego-jeweler-leo-hamel-sentenced-to-house-arrest-in-illegal-gun-buying-scheme/
Bailey supported a convicted “gun trafficker”, DUI with kids driver and PPP loan scammer. He didn’t just know him, he wrote to the judge as a character witness. In case you don’t have access:
“Hamel testified during trial last month that he had crashed his vehicle in May 2018, then drove away from the scene bleeding and injured, while having a blood-alcohol level more than two times the legal limit to drive. He also had two of his children and 11 guns in his vehicle at the time. He later pleaded guilty to two counts of DUI and two counts of felony child endangerment, but those felonies were reduced to misdemeanors after he underwent court-ordered education and counseling, he testified.
Hamel also testified last month that during the COVID-19 pandemic, he gave his shares of Leo Hamel Fine Jewelers and Jewelry Buyers to his three business partners because his felony conviction in the gun case would have prohibited the jewelry store from receiving a government loan from the Paycheck Protection Program. He testified that his partners obtained a $1 million loan for the business, which was later forgiven. Hamel received a salary of $1 million in each of 2020 and 2021.
“One day, I will control my company again,” Hamel testified.
Other trial testimony and court records shed light on Hamel’s political sway in the local Republican party that Garmo once hoped to harness. Hamel testified that he gave shooting range memberships to an unnamed “legislator” and one or two of the legislator’s sons.
And letters of support in his sentencing memorandum included those authored by Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey; former San Diego Councilmember Carl DeMaio; former Maine state senator and U.S. Senate candidate Eric Brakey; the executive director of a firearm advocacy group; a former East County Republican party caucus chair; a retired San Diego Superior Court judge; a retired San Diego assistant police chief; and a retired supervising deputy state attorney general.”
pats, Please step down from glorifying Richard’s performance as mayor in Coronado and comparing that to Gloria.
First, the city of Coronado’s population is 10% the size when compared to District 2. Second, the mayor of Coronado is a part-time job, maybe about 10-12 hours per week. Third, with lots and lots of wealthy people, ups-scale hotels and shops, you can’t compare the issues faced by the leaders of Coronado to what faces the city of San Diego, Fourth, the city of Coronado has a full-time city manager doing many of the functions you would normally see done by a mayor.
EXACTLY! I am very surprised so many people are getting Trumps business mixed up with assuming and stating what Richard Bailey is THINKING is a very long stretch. Lot’s of palm and tarot card readers??
How smart is it to continue to vote for one of the puppets, of the so called worse mayor in SD history, who has caused the most damage to the history, beauty, residents, finances of SD is really foolish.
Thank you!
Wait, does the OB Rag dislike Bailey? He seems to be for “common sense” and has the same takes on local politics that I keep seeing pushed here.
Jeff, did you just start reading the Rag? You haven’t seen any of our other posts on Bailey. Or how about Donald Trump? have you seen any of our posts on him, per chance?
Although I would like to see Midway Rising get completed, it’s not enough for me to vote for Dick Bailey. I live in District 2.
593270 of your fellow San Diegans voted for Trump. If that means you can’t possibly support them for any public office, I feel sorry for you that you are limited your choices just based on that vote.
I will not vote for someone who A) won’t admit he voted for him and B) doesn’t express regret for voting for him.
The Iran war should have sealed that deal for anyone wanting to represent a military district in a military town.
Ok. Let’s step back and look for “none of the above.” Since K-Faulk, none of the establishment candidates have served this city. I include the majority of the City Council. We as an electorate need to set our priorities, establish qualifications and search out citizens willing and able to do the job. It’s a challenging job and needs someone more interested in positive change rather than self-aggrandizement. A few years ago we had a city Councilmember from the private sector. Although I disagreed with many of his beliefs, his motivation was pragmatic. He quit after one term out of frustration with “the system.” Here’s the beginnings of my short list of qualities: private sector experience in senior leadership roles. A record of public service although not necessarily elected office. Politically agnostic. Long time San Diegan who’s seen our best and worst. Not reliant (this may be a pipe dream) on support from special interests.