Whitburn: Tap Reserves to Fund Fire Protection
For weeks, supervisor candidate Stephen Whitburn has called the county’s funding for fire protection inadequate without saying where it should get more money or what it should buy. This morning,...
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Fact Check: $100 Million to Curry Political Favor?
Statement: “For 16 years, (Ron) Roberts has taken advantage of the taxpayer funded slush fund to curry political favors and in that time he’s given away more than $100 million of our money,” Stephen...
View ArticleThe Great Fire Department Debate
Don’t worry if you can’t decide whether the county has a fire department. The county supervisors, who created a county fire agency and oversee its budget, continue to debate the answer, too. While...
View ArticleHow a Supervisor’s Race Has Divided the Gay Community
Less than five weeks before Election Day, City Councilman Todd Gloria still doesn’t know who to pick for county supervisor or whether he’ll even endorse a candidate. Ron Roberts, the incumbent,...
View ArticleWhitburn: End the Slush, Keep the Fund
Since 1998, the county supervisors have distributed more than $100 million of taxpayer money to nonprofits and public projects through a controversial fund now called the Neighborhood Reinvestment...
View ArticleRoberts Doubles Whitburn on Fundraising
Ron Roberts more than doubled the campaign fundraising efforts of Stephen Whitburn over the last three months, according to campaign disclosure reports filed Tuesday. Whitburn, a community health...
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Fact Check: The County, a Rainmaker
Statement: “We’re the only (California) county to receive this funding and it was the largest grant in the United States,” Supervisor Ron Roberts, running for reelection this fall, said during a...
View ArticleWhitburn Promises Pay Cut If Elected
If elected to represent the region’s urban core as county supervisor, Stephen Whitburn has promised to donate part of his salary to workforce development programs based on the local unemployment rate....
View ArticleThe Big, Unspoken Issue in the Supervisor Race
Ron Roberts’ vote loomed large. The fate of a massive 2,700-unit housing development proposed north of Escondido, Merriam Mountains, sat in his hands. His fellow county supervisors had deadlocked 2-2...
View ArticleFormer Rivals, Now Allies
City Councilman Todd Gloria has endorsed his former opponent, Stephen Whitburn, to unseat Gloria’s longtime political ally, Supervisor Ron Roberts, in the Nov. 2 election. Whitburn announced the...
View ArticleRoberts Powers Past Whitburn in Fundraising
Ron Roberts has continued to raise far more campaign cash than his opponent, Stephen Whitburn, according to disclosure reports filed today. Roberts, the incumbent county supervisor, raised nearly...
View ArticleRoberts Returns SDG&E Executive’s Donation
Nine Sempra Energy executives made individual contributions totaling $1,200 to Supervisor Ron Roberts’ reelection campaign on the same day in September. One later decided his donation wasn’t...
View ArticleWhitburn: I’m a Democrat. Roberts Isn’t
In an election that’s expected to be tough for Democratic candidates across the country, Stephen Whitburn has hammered home his party affiliation with San Diego voters. Campaign signs typically...
View ArticleThe Supervisors Race with Few Promises
On the campaign trail for county supervisor, Ron Roberts and Stephen Whitburn have more often debated what’s been done in the past and downplayed what they’d do in the future. As the incumbent, Roberts...
View ArticleMore Questions for Roberts, Whitburn
Ron Roberts and Stephen Whitburn have steered away from promises in their campaigns for county supervisor. We asked them to make some. Here’s the final part of their answers, talking about traffic...
View ArticleWeighing Cash, Math in the Supervisors Race
The election for county supervisor between Ron Roberts and Stephen Whitburn pits a longtime Republican incumbent against a Democratic face new to county politics. From the outset, the campaigns have...
View ArticleRoberts Exceeds Goal in Early Returns
Initial returns show Ron Roberts is exactly where he wants to be in his campaign for a fifth term as county supervisor. Preliminary absentee ballot results put the Republican incumbent leading Stephen...
View ArticleWhitburn: I Expected It Would Be Closer
“I’m hanging in there.” That was Stephen Whitburn, speaking with me a few minutes ago about the preliminary voting results released earlier. Whitburn wasn’t optimistic when I asked about the...
View ArticleFor Whitburn, the Math Didn’t Pan Out
On paper, unseating Ron Roberts from the all-Republican county Board of Supervisors looked like the Democrats’ best chance at breaking the GOP hold on the board. The five sitting supervisors have...
View ArticleWhitburn Responds to Defeat
Stephen Whitburn’s bid for county supervisor came to an end Tuesday night with voters roundly reelecting the 16-year incumbent Ron Roberts. Whitburn didn’t respond to calls late Tuesday about the...
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