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  • May 10th, 2012 (All day)

    DeMaio Reveals Over $130 Million in Wasteful Spending at City Hall

    You may have heard of the $10,000 toilet seat that the federal government bought, but have you heard about the 359% mark up on an air filter paid by the City of San Diego?

    The air filter mark-up is one example of dozens of categories of wasteful spending outlined today in a report...

  • May 9th, 2012 (All day)

    DeMaio Unveils Plan to End DROP “Double Dipping” in Pension System

    DROP Program Costs Taxpayers Between $149 Million & $182 million

    San Diego – Carl DeMaio, one of the primary authors of the Prop B Comprehensive Pension Reform (CPR) Initiative, today unveiled another sweeping pension reform proposal to end the notorious DROP Program in the city’s...

  • April 30th, 2012 (All day)

    Filner Pension Plan: Skip Reform, Protect the Government Employee Unions

    San Diego – San Diego Mayoral Candidate Carl DeMaio issued the following statement in response to the release of Congressman Bob Filner’s proposal to borrow more money to keep unsustainable city employee pensions in place without reform.

    Paying One Credit Card With Another

  • April 26th, 2012 (All day)

    California Small Business Action Committee Endorses Carl DeMaio For Mayor

    Mayoral Candidate Carl DeMaio was honored to receive the endorsement from the California Small Business Action Committee, a state group dedicated to supporting small businesses in the state of California.

  • April 25th, 2012 (All day)

    More Politics As Usual From Nathan Fletcher

    Today State Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher’s masterful gamesmanship continued as he attempted to use his millionaire campaign backers to make the case for his independence. Ironically, the wealthy downtown insiders featured at the press conference are the same people who have contributed tens of...

  • April 24th, 2012 (All day)

    DeMaio Launches First TV Ad: “Uniting for Reform”

    Carl DeMaio has launched his TV campaign with an initial purchase of over 3,400 Gross Rating Points, the largest placement in this mayoral campaign to date. His first commercial – “Uniting for Reform” – began airing Tuesday.

    “I expect the downtown insiders and government union bosses to...

  • April 18th, 2012 (All day)

    DeMaio Proposes 100-Day “Managing for Results Plan” to Restructure City Government & End Automatic Salary Hikes

    San Diego Mayoral Candidate Carl DeMaio today unveiled his 10-point “Managing for Results Plan” detailing reforms DeMaio will accomplish in the first 100 days to restructure city government into a leaner, performance-based organization.

    “If we want to improve results for taxpayers, we...

  • April 16th, 2012 (All day)

    Reality Check: Responding to Our Opponent's Misleading Attacks

    The following is a compilation of responses to the “questions” used in the negative attack ads that Assemblyman Fletcher and his Government Employee Union backers have levied against Carl DeMaio:

    Question: “Did you meet with lobbyists behind closed doors?”

  • April 5th, 2012 (All day)

    SDDT: DeMaio challenges Filner to pension reform debate

    San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio at a Thursday press conference challenged his mayoral opponent, Congressman Bob Filner, to a Lincoln-Douglas-style debate on pension reform.

    Reached for comment, Filner’s campaign declined to respond to DeMaio’s challenge.

    “I’m challenging (...

  • April 2nd, 2012 (All day)

    UT San Diego: DeMaio Overcame Adversity in Childhood

    The San Diego Union Tribune ran the following profile on Carl DeMaio's challenging childhood, and story of how Carl overcame adversity to become a successful businessman and now frontrunner for Mayor of San Diego. Here is the full text of the story:

    UT-SAN DIEGO April 1, 2012
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