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.
Frank, I need for you to look at your latest posting of the OB Rag. I could not get into it today, 815-2026 because something called “InBox” blocked me. I am writing now on the 7-29-2026 posting. You need to look into why InBox is blocking my access to the OB Rag.
Ron May
try refreshing your monitor, your computer. You are not being blocked at our end.
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.
D2StaysBkue Do you think it was better to vote for Todd Gloria because he was a Democrat? He & his like thinking followers have absolutely taken this city to its knees! I never thought that could happen & so quickly! I believe it’s by design. They want to control where & how you live. Then tax you heavily. They are ruining our beaches and creating new laws to get around CEQA, but waste money on “trash can lifters” (70k+pension) because THATS GREEN ! I’m sure not voting for that!!! Richard Bailey has my vote & apparently many others want him too.
Sadie, don’t forget that there were 2 Democrats running for mayor back then; a lot of us voted for Barbara Bry. It actually was a very divisive campaign among democratic supporters; I and the Rag were trashed by former friends for supporting her — they supported Gloria. No apologies have been received since his continued mismanagement of the city.
I voted for Barbara Bry too and very disappointed when she didn’t get elected. SD would not be in the financial shape it’s in today, if she had been elected.
I voted for Barbara Bry also! She would have been a great mayor. But, this is about D2.
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?
AI Overview San Diego City Council candidate Richard Bailey was born and raised locally in the Clairemont and University City neighborhoods.
Also funny talk and claims about “testosterone driven opinions” by a trump supporter.
Gormlie, you have no idea who I voted for. Another opinion, written as fact.
Gee, it must have been something you said, then.
Lisa, we had Bailey at one of our lunch meet ups. We also met with Mandy Havlik and Nicole Crosby. We came with prepared questions. Bailey showed us who he was with his well rehearsed answers. You do realize he was a Republican and switched to an Independent? Gee, I wonder why.
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.
I laughed out loud in appreciation when I read The Rag’s scoop on “Independent” Richard Bailey’s unbroken Trump-voting streak.
Well done, Frank. I hope that will do the trick in November.
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.
EXCEPT, he does have a business within the boundaries of the City of SD. Per the UT: Originally from La Mesa, Bailey now lives in Point Loma and owns local boat rental and bike rental businesses.
both businesses that benefit from airbnb renters….
Mel…… And from people that eat food.
That’s EXACTLY right.
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.
Remaining anonymous on the internet is a choice associated with privacy. Privacy is something we may all lose if Richard Bailey gets into office and expands the already bloated police department, the only owners of flock cameras in OB. It is without question that the most bloated component of the budget is SDPD and adding 300 more officers will further worsen the deficit and reduce funding to social programs and infrastructure. You may want man even more militarized police force that will continue to shut down the whole of San Diego to capture one guy in the riverbed but the rest of us dont.
SDPD is certainly not “bloated” by any stretch of anyone’s imagination. If you look on Google, you’ll see; San Diego has a population of 1.41 M, 1822 Sworn officers, & 372,42 Sq. Miles. Dallas TX has a similar population of 1.33M, 3,391 Sworn officers, & 340 Sq. Miles. FYI: Sworn officers are also not in Patrol. They are Detectives., Chief, Asst. Chief, Lts., Captains, none of those are patrolling the streets, so deduct about 400 from that 1,822 sworn officers from the total, so 1,422, to work 3 different shifts, 7 days a week, 24 hrs. a day over 372,420 Sq. Miles
Also, per Google: SDPD Total Sworn, including those who work in the offices; 1990= 1,850. 1,995= 1,970, 2000= 1,900 Sworn, 2015= 1,853 Sworn, 2020=1,820, 2022=1,800-1,900, 200 vacancies & mass exodus, 2024= 1,885, 2026=1,822. With the increased population for anyone to think SDPD is bloated, is wrong. Compared to many large cities, SDPD has way fewer cops on the street that other cities of like population. What’s funny is Washington DC, has population of 698,733. SQ. miles 68.35, and 3,300-3,500 sworn cops. I’m surprised they have any crime. Something to think about when people talk about SDPD being bloated. Good indicator they don’t have a clue what they’re talking about.
Dallas also has a higher crime rate than San Diego, so what’s your point again?
https://crimebycity.com/compare/dallas-tx-vs-san-diego-ca
Mel, I think you could find something to pick apart and argue about in a mortuary! My Gosh!!! Just an FYI for your hysteria. SD would have higher crime rates if the people reported all crimes, but they get fed up waiting for someone in Dispatch to answer their call (they’re short staffed like crazy and have brought in cops to help out). Then they get fed up waiting for a cop to show up to take a report, and sometimes on certain reports it may not even happen the same day of the crime. SDPD has hundreds of “dropped calls”, because people hang up or aren’t home when the cop shows up. Then there is the dumbing down of laws and Muni Codes done by the liberal State of CA, Judges, and City of SD. It used to be if a crime was committed such as Petty Theft, it had to be more than $100.00, before it was a prosecutable crime. Now it has to be more than $900.00. So how are the laws in TX? Are they as liberal as CA or do they prosecute everything. There’s many laws in CA and SD the cops don’t show up to take reports anymore. Is TX as liberal?
San Diego spends $715 million a year, roughly 35% of its budget on policing. It is estimated that 60% of 911 calls involve the homeless population. So on top of what SD puts into dealing with homelessness in it’s budget, another $430 million is spend just on policing the homeless population of SD. If you think more policing is going to make life better for the most amount of people in San Diego, please leave take your useless numbers and leave because it’s pretty clear that SD could reduce the homelessness at the expense of paying cops but I’m guessing the SDPD doesn’t want that to happen. So yes, our very low crime city has a bloated police budget which will continue to grow because the machine must be fed.
Cosmo, how do feel about “Lid Lifters”?
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. ?
It is factual information that Bailey has copied the style and color of the campaign signs of Zohran Mamdani, the now democratic socialist mayor of New York City. Bailey has absolutely nothing in common with Zohran, we are all free to make our own judgements on why he would do that. The most obvious assumption is that he is hoping that people who know about Zohran make the association and think he is also a democratic socialist like Zohran and vote for him without doing any further investigation into his policies because simply being like Zohran would win their vote.
Please feel free to share your opinion on why Bailey, the candidate furtherest in policy from Zohran Mamdani, has chosen to copy the style of his signage.
Maybe he doesn’t know every politicians campaign signs style. Who would think to check out type styles, across the nation and their party. Wow!
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.”
All this from you for Bailey writing a letter to the court. Comical. May as well tar and feather him.
I totally agree with you.
Mel, I didn’t know all this. But I do believe sometimes people don’t know all the things other people have done in their lives. I didn’t read where Bailey was legally charged with any of Hamil’s activities. Do super busy business men and women always read everything about everyone in all media? I doubt it. Having worked for business men that are super busy, was I ever asked to write a letter for him and he signed it without reading it. Yep, most of the time. Do people who don’t know the personal lives of someone they only have a business contact knowledge of, sign letters of support for the person they have done business with? All the time. Has anyone ever done business with a jeweler and the only thing they know about them was how they were treated in the sale transaction of jewelry. I have gone to the same jeweler to sell coins off and on, and I’m treated very nice in his store, he recognizes me and calls me by first name when I enter. If he said he needed a letter of support, would I write one for him or any other business person. Yes, and I don’t know anything about his personal life. In fact, I’m getting ready to write a note to Home Depot about the excellent business transaction I had with a lady working in one of their departments. Do I know anything about her personal life? Nope. I have worked in public service, and the compliments are few and far between, but complaints are plentiful. So, I compliment/support those that deserve it, as well as those that don’t. Whatever Hamil or anyone else has done in their personal lives, but not to me, will not change my heartfelt opinion on do I think Richard Bailey will be an excellent councilman who probably gained more street smarts than he had prior to this Hamil experience. I’m sure he did. If I lived in D2, I would vote for him in spite of the lengthy issues you’ve posted, all about what Hamil did.
He didn’t know him from his jewelry business. Bailey and Hamel are NRA buddies who LOVE guns.
And he didn’t sign the letter unknowingly. He knew what he was doing. I also bet Hamel is supporting his campaign.
Don’t believe me? Ask Bailey why he supported Hamel and it he will take his money.
Or maybe he wrote a letter of support because he was a campaign donor: https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00786665/?cycle=2022&tab=raising
I’ve now talked to two staffers who worked for Bailey and they both claimed he was a big do nothing.
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.
Richard Bailey still has more experience that someone who doesn’t, and doesn’t have a college degree in economics, and no hands on experience with money matters or small business. The current council reps are easy push overs for whatever toddler wants. I don’t think Bailey will be a push over. Yes, they have a City Mgr., and that’s another thing the SD voters got passed, to take SD out of a City Mgr. system and get a strong mayor system. That has been a huge mistake on the voters decision and now that they see how wrong it can go, if they vote for another unqualified Council Rep, it will be more of the same.
Well said, t hat surely added some perspective, thanks.
pats you wrote: ‘Because Bailey has already managed a City, even though it’s a small City…’ I believe he had a City Manager managing Coronado. Blair King followed by Tina Friend.
My opinion of Bailey is that he has only one strength. His use of social media.
You continue to perpetuate this lie.
Prominent San Diego jeweler Leo Hamel did not commit PPP loan fraud himself, but his business partners obtained a forgivable $1 million Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan while Hamel transferred his shares to them to bypass regulations.
Prominent San Diego jeweler Leo Hamel was sentenced in 2022 to one year of probation, plus 100 days of home confinement, for buying firearms illegally from former San Diego County sheriff’s Captain Marco Garmo.
Get your facts straight. A letter of support to the court from Bailey is not a pardon and happens all the time. Good grief.
You, me, and the rest of the US tax payers, paid Hamel’s salary during Covid. $1 million PPP loan became $1 million salary. He got his company back. We got nothing back.
Bailey could have done nothing, He instead supported his gun living NRA buddy instead.
Bailey reads all these comments. Let him defend his letter.
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.
Pats, you kind of nailed it. This group would vote for Elo-Rivera over Bailey if that was the choice and tell you how the nation was saved by it.
Chris, Yep! Doesn’t matter, as long as there is a “D” next to the name.
Thank you!
Thank you Pats!
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.
Anyone who voted for that piece of shit in the White House once could be forgiven. Three times? After knowing what kind of lowlife the person they are voting for is? I wouldn’t vote for Bailey for dogcatcher because I would hate the idea of my public dollars paying the salary of a man like that.
I gotta say, I’m with you Geoff. My boss is a 3 time POS voter/supporter. I would not stay working here if I wasn’t so close to retirement age (and to be honest, he pays me pretty well for my position). I distance my self from him as much as I reasonably can. I won’t be accepting any dinner invitations for certain. The world has enough despicable people in it, we do NOT need them in power at any level.
As much as we don’t agree on much of anything these days, I can’t argue with that. Voting for Trump even once, let alone three times is all I need to know.
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.
My life is very simple and without hate. I taught my kids and grandkids the only reason we need to judge anyone is 1) Do we like them, and 2) do they treat us nice, respectfully. Simple and applies to all people. That way of living is very peaceful and simple. I don’t have to worry about race, party, gossip, how folks are dressed, who they love, mainly because I really don’t care. I only have two requirements. Plus in order to hate or dislike someone you have to think about them.
Not to quibble Pat, but you do seem to dislike Democrats. Have you ever voted for one?
Yes, JFK and if I had the same choice today, I’d vote for him again I’m sure unless he turned radical. I’ve voted for Dem Council Reps in SD too, just can’t remember who or what party they were/are. I don’t vote by Party, I vote for who I think is the most qualified. And that’s why I don’t remember if I voted Repub or Dem.
Don’t feel sorry for me, I have a pretty good sense of morality. I will not compromise on that as so many people have thinking of only their own self-interest.
Thanks for that. 593270 outFOXed.
593270 San Diegans who are utter pieces of crap humans.
Great attitude.
Joe R — Let’s say you’re in Germany and it’s 1931 (or whenever) just before the Nazi rise to power. If you had the chance, what would you say to those millions who voted for Hitler?
I’m kind of depressed there are that many under-educated people in San Diego.
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.
CHAZ! Excellent!!!! I totally agree.
Still hyping Bailey.
What a bunch of slugs.
There were seven candidates, I believe, running in D2. Any of the other five could have done the job. Why, and how did we come to these two choices? Because the most glorified well-heeled connected candidates win. I was a foot soldier for Bob Filner and witnessed how ruthless and relentless organized labor can get their candidate elected. These hard hats in pickup trucks take no hostages. They have cash through the gills. THEY WILL NOT LOSE! Dick Baily is cooked unless a scandal envelopes the status quo candidate “Little Nicole.” Havlik never had a snowballs chance in hell. That’s how it works folks! Live with it!
For those bickering about straight voting for/against a political party, how about voting on Bailey’s values? Bailey seems better on the land use issues than Crosby, the one anointed by the party machine to foster the radical density promoted by the current horrid class of council members. BUT. Bailey has admitted to providing candidate training to help members of the right-wing Awaken church and its even further right-wing political arm, RMNNT get elected.
According to multiple press reports, sermons by Awaken pastor Jurgen Matthesius are infused with references to spiritual warfare, election fraud, vaccine conspiracy theories, and culture war battles over LGBTQ+ rights and gender identity. The church website is clear about marriage being only allowed between a man and a woman. Matthesius claims that Pride flags represent “a disdain for God” and his wife has posted that the center of the words “Pride Month” spells “d-e-m-o-n.”
So why would Bailey help train and get such people elected if he doesn’t share their values? If he doesn’t share their values. I’d like to hear him say so. And if he does share their values the time to stop his ascent is now.
Ok values. He’s a Trump fanboy. Next?
This is not about Trump per se. This is about trying to get right wing bigots elected to local office. Now do you see?
Oh, come on!! Bailey had a meeting on their property, he didn’t join the church. Why not promote your candidate without bashing others? Or just vote for the person you think will do the best job. Better yet, throw your hat in the ring & see what we learn.
I’m not criticizing Bailey for “meeting on church property.” He helps people get elected whose values I oppose. Why would he do that if he doesn’t share their values? I’m not “bashing” anyone; I’m reporting the facts. Perhaps we could return to a more civil dialogue?
He didn’t have a meeting on their property. Bailey said he was invited to train conservative, evangelical Christians on how to run for public office. This is a fact Bailey verified even if he stated he never belonged to the Awaken Church. As a politician and former mayor, Bailey is smart enough to know who he is dealing with. Awaken is not a small community church. It’s a highly vocal organization that posts its doctrine all over social media. Bailey knew who they were and more importantly, he knew what they stand for.
Exactly.
Per the Voice of San Diego “(Joey Safchik at NBC San Diego) pressed him on attending the Republican Election Night party despite having left the party. He insisted it was nonpartisan. He acknowledged he voted for Trump in 2024 but again questioned why that should matter.”).
You can see the whole interview here – https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/could-richard-bailey-be-the-first-non-democrat-to-sit-on-the-san-diego-city-council-in-years/4060945/
I am putting in a request for an apology from every Bailey supporter who argued that he wasn’t who he has very obviously been the whole time: a Trump Republican. Please feel free to apologize whenever you have the time! Also, Frank this video might make a great piece so D2 voters know exactly who this guy is (and always has been).