Wednesday, February 12, 2014

San Diego has a new Mayor!

Chairman Jim Brulte, The San Diego Republican Party, ◼ The California Young Republican Federation, California College Republicans & Assemblyman Travis Allen in cooperation with the Kevin Faulconer campaign put together one of the largest statewide Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts in history. One race at a time, one seat at a time we will continue to restore balance in government back to California.

◼ San Diego mayoral race results: Kevin Faulconer vs. David Alvarez - ABC 10



Kevin Faulconer led City Council colleague David Alvarez 55.24 percent to 44.76 percent Tuesday evening in the San Diego's mayor's election.

Faulconer has 131,404 votes and Alvarez has 106,492 votes with 85.9 percent of precincts reporting....If Faulconer wins, he would regain control of the city's top seat for the Republicans.

Alvarez picked up last-minute endorsements from fellow Democrats President Barack Obama and Gov. Jerry Brown. He is also supported by organized labor and other Democratic officials.







◼ Obama Turnout Machine Crashes in San Diego—Loses Mayor’s Race by Nine Points - JOhn Fund/National Review Online

Kevin Faulkoner recaptured the mayor’s office in San Diego for Republicans in a special election yesterday. The polls were skin-tight leading into yesterday’s election, and unions poured in millions to keep control in the nation’s eighth-largest city.

But in the end the vaunted Obama election model — flood the zone with negative attack ads and excite the base of the Democratic party — flopped. Faulkoner defeated fellow City Council member David Alvarez by nine points in a city that Barack Obama carried by 63 percent to 37 percent only 15 months ago.

Democrats were stunned at the margin.

Partly the Faulkoner blowout was the result of the lower turnout of a special election called to replace disgraced Democratic Mayor Bob Filner. But partly it came from a renewed ability of Republicans to reach out to independent and moderate voters with the need to practice fiscal restraint and sound management. “It’s been less than a decade since public-employee unions drove San Diego into near-insolvency, and people were reminded of that,” says Jason Roe, a political consultant in San Diego.
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