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Fletcher Hills Volume XIX – Number 4
Mangia! Chef Franco serves up Italian hospitality that is molto buono.
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FORMER PADRES VP RELEASES FANTASTIC BOOK
LABOR UNIONS LAUNCH APPLE APP “ASK CARL THIS” Talented Tots Benchley-Weinberger students blast off to the past with a tribute to the good ol’ days.
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Home away from home SDSU mentor program promotes international collegiate relations.
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The San Diego Imperial Counties Labor Council has unveiled a free app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch called ‘Ask Carl This” that takes shots at the conservative City Councilman for what it says is his refusal to face tough questions. The DeMaio camp says it expected nothing less. “We have known all along that the government labor unions were going to do everything in their power to stop Carl DeMaio from becoming mayor because they oppose his fiscal reform package,” the councilman’s campaign director, Ryan Clumpner, said in a statement. “San Diegans have been burned for years by outrageous taxpayer giveaways at City Hall. They will see these attacks for what they are: desperate attempts to stop the fiscal reforms we need.” Among the questions posed on the app are: “Carl, why did your company take $2.7 million in government contracts?,” “Carl, why did you spend 45 times more on mailings than the entire City Council?,” and “Carl, why did you take $100,000 from developers?”
The photograph, former Padres’ vice president of marketing Andy Strasberg says, was taken during “the darkest day in my career.” The Budweiser and Toyota advertisements splashed across the centerfield scoreboard dominate the image. But a closer look at the photograph reveals sitcom star Rosanne Barr on the video screen singing – some would say butchering – the national anthem on July 25, 1990, at what was then called San Diego Stadium. It was an infamous performance, a performance vilified across the country, a performance thenPresident George H.W. Bush called “disgraceful.” It was a performance captured in Strasberg’s new book,
See DEMAIO page 7
See PADRES page 18
Organized labor is taking its fight against mayoral hopeful Carl DeMaio to Apple. By David Ogul
A DAY LABORER’S EXPERIENCE
“You’re lucky if you can make $200 a week.” By David Ogul
Spring Fest Celebrate the season with carnival fun, yummy eats, cheap beer and rock ‘n’ roll.
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By David Ogul
CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE ACCUSES COUNCILMAN CARL DEMAIO OF INTIMIDATION
Carlos Robles is like a lot of other men in San Diego County. The divorced father of two has a reliable pickup, often takes his two young sons to elementary school and says he is up to date on his child support payments. What separates Robles from most is that he’s finding employment these days by patiently waiting with a few dozen other day laborers on the sidewalk off the parking lot at Home Depot on Fairmount Avenue in Grantville. “I’m just looking for a job, just trying to make ends meet,” the 38-year-old El Cajon resident said. The Mission Times Courier recently took a stroll down to Home Depot to see if any of the folks there looking for work wanted to talk about their experiences. On this morning, Robles was the only one willing to do so. Here is some of the conversation with a man who said he was laid off just recently from a steady construction job:
An underdog candidate seeking to represent San Diego’s redrawn 7th city council district has caused a political stir by saying mayoral hopeful Carl DeMaio tried to pressure him into dropping out of the race in a bid to benefit fellow Republican Scott Sherman. DeMaio’s campaign manager, Ryan Clumpner, issued a statement denying Rik Hauptfeld’s allegation, which was first reported on the San Diego Rostra website. “He met with Rik once, and was very clear that he was not asking him to drop out of the race,” Clumpner said. In an interview later with KNSD San Diego, Clumpner went further: “The councilman declined to endorse him, and
See LABORER page 23
See HAUPTFELD page 7
By David Ogul