There are those who feel that I have demonized Candidate Kevin Faulconer. That is simply not true. What I have done is simply represent the majority of our community that believes any Republican who wants our vote needs to repudiate his or her party with respect to LGBT issues, as well as the party leaders…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article for this magazine entitled “That was then. This is now.” (Issue 138, Jan. 16) I asserted that the national political trend is to address large issues like income inequality, global warming and justice for workers in mayoral elections. I opined that San Diego would take a…
In the history of San Diego’s mayoral campaigns, there has hardly ever been a time when a candidate has held a GLBT news conference to talk about their civil rights record and their support for GLBT equality … with many of their GLBT supporters. Kevin Faulconer did just that last week underneath the rainbow flag…
I have had enough of people being able to say ridiculous things about the LGBT community and get away with it. Most recently it was the star of the Bachelor who called us perverts. He also said that there should never be a gay Bachelor. Really, gay men and women can get married in 18…
WASHINGTON, D.C.— A new poll released Tuesday by The Latino Victory Project and Latino Decisions shows San Diego mayoral candidate David Alvarez with a commanding lead over opponent, Kevin Faulconer, among eligible Latino voters. The poll, which was commissioned Jan. 17, shows Alvarez with a 65-point lead with Latino voters over Faulconer. Seventy five percent of Latinos…
Everyone agrees that the last campaign for mayor got really nasty and negative. Politics as a whole, sadly, has become that way. Many of us gay Democrats, including myself, join the bandwagon and I regret some of my writings. During this on-going mayoral campaign, I tried not to get nasty and negative but, once again,…
If recent polling is to be believed, the last six weeks have seen two seismic shifts in the San Diego electorate. According to SurveyUSA/U-T SanDiego/KGTV polls, the city lurched 15 points to the right between 12/6/13 and 1/10/14, giving Kevin Faulconer a 16 point lead. Public Policy Polling (PPIC) data released this week says the…
As the special runoff election for mayor draws near, San Diego LGBT Weekly posed five questions on behalf of this city’s LGBT community to the two remaining candidates, District 2 City Councilmember Kevin Faulconer and David Alvarez, Councilmember for San Diego’s District 8. Unfortunately, despite several attempts to fulfill the vision for this article and…
Monday morning, MSNBC News informed its national audience that in the upcoming mayoral race in San Diego, Kevin Faulconer had a “commanding lead over David Alvarez”. The Survey USA poll: Faulconer 53 percent; Alvarez 37 percent. While the election is about four weeks away, the last poll had them both tied. So, what is the…
Feb. 11, San Diego has the opportunity to join world class cities like New York City in electing a truly progressive and inclusive mayor. However, some LGBT “leaders” want to go backwards to business as usual politics. Last year Robert Reich released Inequality for All, a documentary about income inequality destroying the American dream. Newly…
