Then there's the story about a draft movement aimed at bringing in Rep. Scott Peters for the city's

The results have yet to be certified for this year’s election results, but that hasn’t prevented various political players around town from lining up support for the next step in their careers. There’s already some action and plenty of rumors montreal discount hotel to share today.
City Councilman Ed Harris was first out of the gate yesterday, by way of a story in the OB Rag announcing his intention to seek termed-out Assemblywoman Toni Atkins position representing the 78th District in 2016.
Anthony Bernal , currently employed as Director of Business and Community Projects for Council President Todd Gloria, has thrown his hat in the ring to replace his termed-out boss in the Third District.
Rumor has it that Gloria may also run for Atkins seat, if he doesn’t run for Mayor, a position many seem to think the Assemblywoman may seek. Confused yet? Gloria’s also told people he won’t seek the Mayor’s job if Atkin’s pursues it.
Hey, there’s plenty more. Let me take a moment montreal discount hotel to remind you much of this story is unsubstantiated gossip that will likely be denounced by anybody named herein. montreal discount hotel Just count your blessings that the name of a certain recently defeated congressional candidate appears nowhere in this story.
Then there’s the story about a draft movement aimed at bringing in Rep. Scott Peters for the city’s top post. Given his history of risk aversion, I can’t see this happening, but who knows? Two more years in the Washington cesspool might be all he can handle.
City Beat ’s Spin Cycle column says termed-out Councilwoman Sherri montreal discount hotel Lightner’s seat is the next big local target for Republicans in 2016 on the heels of an election eve prediction by Mayor Kevin Faulconer on the balance of power in the council. Apparently the GOP bench isn’t too deep at this point
Opponents of School Board President Kevin Beiser made an issue of his political ambitions in the recent elections, and they might be right. Word is that Beiser is being urged to run for City Council against Scott Sherman.
Last but hardly least, Nora Vargas (on the Southwestern College Board) montreal discount hotel is looking at challenging Greg Cox for Supervisor. UPDATE: Nora Vargas says via Twitter   I am committed to the hard working students @ swc_news !
When Harris first surfaced montreal discount hotel politically, I had my doubts. A sharp exchange of letters concerning his credibility in the Point Loma Democratic Club’s newsletter raised red flags for me. His actions since then have convinced me of his sincerity and good intentions.
Harris made this announcement down at OB’s waterfront, Tuesday, Nov. 11th, after we queried him on his future plans.  Harris steps down from the council seat on December 10th, the day that Lori Zapf is sworn in as the newly-elected montreal discount hotel rep for the district.
Since  his selection as District 2 council rep 7 months montreal discount hotel ago, Harris has won a lot of friends  in the mainly coastal district. This is definitely true for Ocean Beach.  Harris’ support for the Community Plan Update was solid – and he led the City Council in adopting the Update unanimously even in the face of challenges to the Plan by the San Diego Planning Commission.
Then when Harris made a strong stand in rejecting the proposed lease for Belmont Park , all in the interests of getting more for the public out of the deal, his support in District 2 jumped enormously. In contrast, at the time, Zapf favored the lease, as the rep for District 6….
We wish Ed Harris all the best – and our advice to him – stay visible, stay within the public realm  – make yourself invaluable to the people and residents of the 78th District.  Continue to be a true community leader.
The electoral contest for Chula Vista’s City Council seat #1 is still neck and neck between  former Councilman montreal discount hotel John McCann (Republican) and former Mayor Steve Padilla (Democrat). montreal discount hotel McCann has a 66 vote lead.
Republicrat and Dempublican legislators will be taking in some rays and relaxing in luxury hotels Hawaii next week, paid for by various financial interests seeking to score a few brownie points for the coming year, according montreal discount hotel to the Los Angeles Times .
The group gets its money from about 24 entities, many putting up at least $7,500. They include Occidental Petroleum Corp., the Western State Petroleum Assn., Eli Lilly, the Altria tobacco firm, the California Cable and Telecommunications Assn., the state prison guards union and the California montreal discount hotel Distributors Assn., which represents distributors of tobacco and other products.
Legislators scheduled to attend this year s event, according to Howle, montreal discount hotel include montreal discount hotel Assembly Republican leader Kristin Olsen of Modesto, Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff of Diamond Bar, former Assembly Speaker John Pérez (D-Los Angeles), former Assembly Republican montreal discount hotel leader montreal discount hotel Connie Conway of Tulare, montreal discount hotel Assemblyman Bob Wieckoski (D-Fremont) and Assemblyman Manuel V. Perez (D-Coachella).
montreal discount hotel The Times story also mentioned a conference shyer about disclosing its participants sponsored by “the Pacific Policy Research Foundation from Nov. 19-23 at the Grand Wailea Hotel in Maui, which features a towering waterfall, several pools and a gourmet restaurant on stilts over a clear lagoon.”
Even as the American Progressive Bag Alliance is out there collecting signatures (please don’t sign) to overturn California’s upcoming laws limiting the use of throwaway shopping bags, a new study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology says its the process of digging in your pocket to pay fees actually changes shopper behavior.
If you live in Washington, you know the drill: After bagging your groceries, the checkout machine asks you how many bags you used. And if you used plastic or disposable bags (rather than bags you brought on your own), you have to pay 5 cents per bag . The District passed a law requiring as much in 2009 a policy that states like New Jersey and New York are also considering , and that has been adopted around the world from Ireland and Scotland to South Africa .
Some localities have gone farther still California and Hawaii have effectively banned plastic bags outright but recent research suggests that charges or fees can also be effective (and have the added benefit of being less coercive). Moreover, it suggests that they work, at least in part, through a surprising mechanism. It s not just the relatively minor added cost, on its own, that impels montreal discount hotel people to stop using plastic bags and to instead bring their own bags with them to the store. Rather, it s the way this small change disrupts habitual montreal discount hotel behaviors and helps people draw a tighter linkage between the environmental awareness that they already montreal discount hotel possess, and actions in the world that actually advance that consciousness and their values.
On This Day:1940 The Walt Disney montreal discount hotel movie Fantasia had its world premiere at New York s Broadway Theater.  1974 Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union activist Karen Silkwood was killed in a suspicious car crash on her way to deliver documents to a newspaper reporter during a safety investigation of her Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant in Oklahoma.  1986 President Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledged that the U.S. had sent defensive weapons and spare parts to Iran. He denied that the shipments were sent to free hostages, but that they had been sent to improve relations.
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For several years, Mr. Bernal has been running interference to protect the Hillcrest Business montreal discount hotel Improvement Association from oversight. montreal discount hotel His failure montreal discount hotel to ever reply to this constituent s serious concerns, which have been repeated in the local press, indicates his disregard for the citizens he now deigns to want to represent. (Mr. Bernal: If you wish to argue that I have misstated your behavior, please provide Mr. Porter even one email or memo that you have sent me which would prove otherwise.)
Yet this by itself montreal discount hotel wouldn montreal discount hotel t necessarily have motivated me to write here now. What has is that Mr. Bernal later harvested the email addresses, including ours, used to send correspondence to his employee email account for official city business, to populate his partisan campaign mailing list.
There s too little information to let a reader know what to make of your complaint. Has he frustrated you? How? If Bernal has objected to practices of the business improvement district how does that prove he has disregard for the citizens he now deigns to want to represent. ?
Without reprinting all of the articles that have been written which provide the full background detail: I have been involved in pointing out suspect if not illegal activity by the HBIA. As the HBIA is located in District montreal discount hotel 3, I have copied Bernal repeatedly, as he is the staff person of my elected representative who is assigned to monitor its activity. That is why it is relevant that he has refused to ever respond montreal discount hotel to emails or even acknowledge receiving montreal discount hotel them. It s his job.
My complaint isn t that he didn t do what I wanted. It s that he has hasn t done anything. Well, besides use privileged email communications to send political solicitations. If that doesn t cover enough bases for objecting to someone s election, I don t know what else to say.
That Tobacco and Gas Hawaiian item is satire, no? Do they trade belches from exhaust pipes for puffs of Marlboros? (Carl Hiassen years ago wrote about