SAN DIEGO – Mayoral candidates and San Diego City Councilmembers David Alvarez and Kevin Faulconer today announced six debates they will participate in leading up to the Feb. 11 special runoff election. The top two finishers in the Nov. 19 primary election announced soon after they would work together to agree upon a half dozen debates. Each debate…
Midterms don’t have the cachet of presidential years, but 2014 looks to be an important election year, particularly for San Diego and the LGBT community. Mayor of San Diego. Both candidates have history on their side. Special elections typically bring out a more conservative electorate, which would help Councilmember Kevin Faulconer. Councilmember David Alvarez benefits…
The special mayoral election between Kevin Faulconer and David Alvarez was set Tuesday for Feb. 11, 2014 by the San Diego City Council in a 9-0 vote in the last Council meeting of the year. City Clerk Liz Maland was required to read the certified Nov. 19 primary election results to the Council which noted…
Chris Kehoe’s election as our city’s first openly gay official was one of the most important moments in the history of our LGBT community. Since then LGBT San Diegans have been elected judges, district attorney, state assemblymembers and county supervisors, etc. To many of us, Kevin Beiser’s election to the school board was the second…
In response to ‘Kevin Faulconer is ready to be mayor’ Dear Editor, Nicole Murray Ramirez has apparently ended her “bromance” with Republican-Independent-Democrat Nathan Fletcher, and has now taken up residence with Republican Kevin Faulconer. Ramirez endorses Faulconer (San Diego LGBT Weekly issue 135, Dec. 5) for three explicitly stated reasons: 1. Faulconer is a clone…
Dear Candidate Faulconer: You were recently spotted eating with an LGBT leader at a restaurant in Hillcrest. According to the people sitting at the booth next to you, you were being counseled on how to get the LGBT vote. The fact that you were asking for counsel around the LGBT vote illustrates that your record…
David Alvarez When it comes to GLBT issues and equality, our community has two solid candidates, supporters and friends in Kevin Faulconer and David Alvarez. While I do appreciate both of these candidates reaching out to me after the primary, I have not totally made up my mind, but will endorse a candidate in my…
So the battle is engaged. Two city councilmen will face off in the upcoming mayoral runoff election; Kevin Faulconer versus David Alvarez. Both of the parties got what they wanted, the Democratic Party wanted David Alvarez and the Republican Party wanted to run against Alvarez in February. Wasn’t it obvious? Francine Busby and the Democratic…
Some suggest that Alvarez beat Fletcher with Election Day voters, and there is a hint of truth to that. Fletcher was ahead of Alvarez when the first returns came in. But it doesn’t appear that Fletcher was swamped by a tidal wave of Election Day voting. In fact, it appears that the final numbers fell…
The mayoral primary is coming up and as I have stated before when the dust settles it will be Kevin Faulconer vs. Nathan Fletcher battling it out for the general election. I was not impressed with David Alvarez’s campaign as it seemed mostly aimed at Latino voters, though millions were spent on it. I think…
