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by David Helvarg / Blue Notes / November 3, 2010

The November 2 election gave control of the House of Representatives to the Republican Party and expanded their base in the Senate. It will also likely expand the partisan rancor of our dysfunctional political system that was mocked by the quarter million folks who turned out for Comedy Central’s Rally to Restore Sanity the weekend before the election.

But there’s nothing funny about the declining state of our public seas from over-exploitation and pollution.

Welcome to week two of what looks to be, should it survive through the end of the season, the longest-running TV show set in Ocean Beach. I don’t think it’s going to overtake Almost Famous as the most prominent showcase of our town on film, but it’s still garnering some attention. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing, and whether we the townspeople as a whole benefit or suffer as a result is certainly debatable, but for right now I’m focusing this article series on the show itself, for those that would rather just catch Cliff’s Notes on the storyline.

Editor: Here is a repost from November 2010.

Tonight, as election returns were flowing into San Diego Election Central at Golden Hall, an ugly scene erupted when Popaditch supporters harassed Bob Filner, the Democratic Congressman. Filner had just won re-election against Popaditch in the 51st Congressional District.

Chanting aggressively and calling Filner names, a band of Popaditch supporters corralled Filner and a couple of staffers, in effect pushing the Congressmen and his party close to a wall at Golden Hall. The crowd of Popaditch supporters were chanting their candidate’s name, not in an excited, friendly manner, but in an aggressive, confrontational way.

12:09 am PDT – Let’s end with something positive: Sharon Angle’s concession speech where she admits 80% of the money…

On November 1, the Monday after the “Rally to Restore Sanity” in Washington DC, I was still hanging around in the nation’s capital, digesting Jon Stewart’s closing remarks. I ended a call with a friend after talking about what had happened that weekend, and the woman seated at the table next to mine leaned over to chat.

Ocean Beach is home to a number of tall, sightly and wonderful Torrey Pines trees.  You may think of the…

Here below is the Agenda for Wednesday night’s OB Planning Board – November 3rd, 2010. The one action item on their agenda is a Neighborhood Development Permit to remodel an existing residence at 4681 Orchard Avenue. The residence is an addition on a site with two existing dwelling units. The meeting begins at 6pm at the OB Rec Center, 4726 Santa Monica.

OB Rag Live-Blogging Today

by Frank Gormlie

Today the OB Rag will have a “live blog” on the elections. We will be covering local races as well as prominent national ones, trends, results, victories, defeats – most of the day. And at 5:00 pm, we will be receiving results form the East Coast and will report anything of significance here on this website.
Plus Doug Porter of the OB Rag will be joining San Diego CityBeat panel tonight as well. Here is his pre-blogging report ….

Have you checked out San Diego Councilman Carl DeMaio’s roving billboard in which he (misleadingly) compares the pension of a four star general to a “shushing” city librarian?

It seems that the good citizens of San Diego are being screwed by some public employee welfare queen (the head of the Library Department) who worked in some touchy-feely service (our Library department) that could easily be outsourced to the private sector which on one hand says library workers are losers and then hires them back to run their lean mean operations.

The Day of the Dead, November 2, is a national holiday in Mexico and is promoted widely as an effort…

About 50 friends, supporters, advertisers, and staff partied down to celebrate the 3rd birthday of the OB Rag website and the 40th anniversary of the original OB Rag – the underground newspaper begun in the fall of 1970 – on Saturday night, the 30th of October.

San Diego City Council Races

By Doug Porter

Election day is upon us, except for those of us who voted by mail. There remain a few races that we haven’t covered, and the most relevant of them are the campaigns for seats on the San Diego City Council.
Lorie Zapt (R) vs Howard Wayne (D) — Vote Wayne

The race for Donna Frye’s termed out seat is the interesting of the two, pitting Republican businesswoman Lorie Zapf against former Democratic assemblyman and California deputy attorney general Howard Wayne. When all the financial reports are filed, it’s probable that more than $1 million will have been spent by both sides in this highly contested race.