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AM Briefing from Bowlersdesk.com for June 18, 2013

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The 36-year-old man accused of kidnapping at 14-year-old boy and taking him to Florida will face federal prosecution in San Diego. Authorities believe that Tony McLeod got the young teen to meet him through an internet video game. Authorities also say McLeod sent the boy pornographic text messages, he’s accused of meeting the boy and flying with him from Los Angeles to Tampa Bay Florida.

Lots of political news today

First at 9:00 AM the San Diego County Board of Supervisors is going to talk about supporting federal legislation to close a loophole in child sex trafficking laws and to speed up prosecution of the accused. The bill is called The Child Protection Act of 2013 will remove a requirement that suspects know the victims are minors.

At 10:00 this morning San Diego’s City Council is meeting about infrastructure needs, capping political party contributions, and art work to recognize Mission Bay as the birthplace of the triathlon.

More open houses for residents along the proposed trolley extension to La Jolla will be at Caltrans offices on Taylor Street this afternoon at 4:00.

And at 5:00 tonight the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education is meeting about its two point five billion dollar budget for 2013/14 school year. The School Districts are now facing a 100 million dollar shortfall for 14/15 year and a 54 for the year after that.

Sir Richard Branson is speaking at the National Apartment Association Education Conference and Exposition this morning at 9:00 AM. The conference’s five-day run begins today at the San Diego Convention Center.

The proposed program for the Balboa Park centennial celebration will be announced this afternoon at 3:00. Mayor Bob Filner and the events producers will talk to the press about the 2015 party plans.

And finally this morning at 8:00 AM the City of El Cajon is participating in an attempt to stage to world’s largest swim lesson. Last year more than 24,000 people worldwide participated. If you want to join in go to the Fletcher Hills Pool at 2345 Center Place in El Cajon.

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AM Briefing from Bowlersdesk.com for June 17, 2013

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Our morning commute is still being affected by a brush fire from Sunday evening. This fire is 100 percent contained however according to C-H-P the number 3 lane on the East Bound 52 will remain blocked for the morning commute. According to San Diego Fire Dispatch the fire burned 110 acres in the Mission Trails Regional Park. The cause is still under investigation.

A bunch of readiness and status conferences that I’m not going into now however … In Vista’s courthouse at 1:30 this afternoon the arraignment for Arturo Salazar he is accused of murdering the mother of his two children and stuffing her body under a bed in his garage.

Also at 1:30 this afternoon in San Diego’s courthouse Andrew Marcinowski is being arraigned. He is accused of leading police on a car chase and crashing into two other cars during the pursuit.

The San Diego City Council is meeting and the big thing on the agenda is Verizon asking for approval to put up a dozen cell towers in Encanto.

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AM Briefing from Bowlersdesk.com for June 12, 2013

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A bank robbery erupts into gunfire and one suspect is still on the loose. Late afternoon Tuesday two suspects … one man and one woman … tried to rob a Wells Fargo bank in the San Diego suburb of University City when a bank guard confronted them. Reportedly the man was shot but able to run away hopping into a waiting car.

According to a KSWB FOX5 report by Kristy Wolski a witness snapped a cell phone picture of the injured robber as he ran to the get-a-way car. The driver and injured suspect were able to flee and evade police; however the injured suspect was dropped off at Sharp Memorial Hospital some time later. The woman was arrested on scene and taken to the hospital, the extent of her injuries is not known at this time. So to sum up … the two robbers are under arrest and in the hospital, one with a gunshot wound to his chest, and the get-a-way driver is still on the loose.

Lost going on for San Diego’s Politicos today.

First the San Diego City Council is meeting today and talking about a couple of hot topics. In the morning they are talking about the Tourism Marketing District … remember when the mayor was refusing to release funds to pay the TMD. Then in the afternoon they are listing to presentations about the planning for the Balboa Park centennial celebration.

San Diego’s County Board of Supervisors is continuing its budget meetings this morning at 9:00. In-home health care advocates are slated to speak. The county does pay for some in-home health care and it’s often on the chopping block.

Then at 9:30 the Civic San Diego Board of Directors is talking about a new project that could provide over 200 affordable housing units.

At 4:00 PM San Diego Association of Governments (or SANDAG) is meeting about extending the trolley to La Jolla.

Then at 5:30 PM SANDAG is meeting in San Marcos about extending rail service from San Marcos to Oceanside.

And at 8:00 PM the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority is celebrating the restarting of nonstop flights from Miami to San Diego.

This morning at 10:00 Republican State Senator Joel Anderson is talking to the press about legislation he’s supporting that would fund some school safety programs.

And at 10:30 AM an Army doctor is announcing a new lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America for sexual abuse.

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AM Briefing from Bowlersdesk.com for June 11, 2013

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There is a lot going on in court today

First in San Diego’s Courthouse at 8:30 36-year-old Geronimo Polina and 33-year-old Eduardo Macias will be sentenced for attempting to carry out a Mexican Mafia “hit” in prison. While in Donovan State Prison the pair conspired to kill a inmate

Also at 8:30 in San Diego 22-year-old Whitney Holman is being arraigned. She is accused of trying to drown her 9-month-old baby in the bathtub.

This afternoon at 1:30 in El Cajon’s courthouse, Casy Tschida she’s the woman accused of murdering a woman while the victim walked home from a Lemon Grove Bar.

In Chula Vista at 1:30 Erica Braswell will be sentenced for drunk driving, leading police on a chase, all with her two kids in car.

Then at 1:30 this afternoon in Vista’s courthouse the sentencing for Perry Allen. Allen pleaded guilty to burglarizing nine rooms at the up-scale La Costa resort.

Local politicos have a lot on their plates today too

First San Diego’s City Council is meeting at 10:00 am and expected to override a Mayoral veto. The Mayor vetoed a waiver given to a Kearny Mesa apartment complex developer. This will be the third time one of Mayor Filner’s vetoes is overridden by the council.

This morning at 9:00 AM the San Diego County Board of Supervisors is continuing its budget meetings.

This afternoon at 1:00 the Port of San Diego Board of Commissioners is talking about expanding the National City Marine Terminal, a new R-V park in National City, dredging the bay, and their budget for next year.

Both El Cajon and Chula Vista’s City Council are examining their respectively proposed budgets this afternoon

And at 10:00 AM San Diego Gas and Electric is talking to the press about this summer’s power supply.

And finally beginning today is 17-days of amphibious training for the Navy Third Fleet and 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. The multi-national training includes participants from Canada, Japan and New Zealand. In a press release the Navy says “The exercise will test staffs in the planning and execution of amphibious operations in a series of live training events.”

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AM Briefing from Bowlersdesk.com for June 10, 2013

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This afternoon at 1:30 two men accused of selling meth at a Mission Bay Sports Center, that hosts youth camps, will be arraigned in San Diego’s downtown courthouse. 32-year-old Spencer Nicholas Edmonds and 41-year-old Vincent Manuel Garcia are accused of dealing meth along with seven other people. There bail is set at $500,000

Also at 1:30 half of a pair accused of stealing computer equipment from an elementary school will be arraigned in El Cajon’s courthouse today.

Regional politicos will be busy today.

First at 9:00 AM the San Diego County Board of Supervisors is listening to the public about their proposed 4 point 97 billion dollar budget. The new budget increases spending by two and half percent.

And this afternoon at 2:00 the San Diego City Council votes on its 2 point 75 billion dollar spending plan. The new plan includes revisions from the Mayor and a five-year labor agreement.

Then this evening at 5:30 the San Diego Association of Governments, or SANDAG, is talking about construction for the Mid-City Bus Route and trolley expansion to La Jolla.

This morning at 10:45 Democratic Congressman Scott Peters is announcing he’s going to donate eight percent of his monthly income to the non-profit Senior Community Centers. Every month $1,300 will go to the non-profit that helps feed San Diego’s senior citizens. That means he make $195,000 a year

This afternoon starting at 1:00 thousands of San Diego Unified School District high school students are graduating.

And finally tonight at 6:30 at the Birch Aquarium Charlie Kennel the former Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography is giving a talk about the future of manned space travel. Kennel is now the chairman of the National Academies Space Studies Board.

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AM Briefing from Bowlersdesk.com for June 7, 2013

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Sheriff’s Deputies discover a marijuana grow and two elderly women are under investigation. The two women aged 83 and 61, were living in tents near a burned down house in the East San Diego County community of Lakeside. The house burned down in the Cedar Fire back in 2003. Over 400 marijuana plants were seized, along with hash oil, and lab equipment.

Two notable things in court today…

First in San Diego’s courthouse at 9:00 AM the sentencing for Christine Padilla. She pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter for killing a nanny pushing a baby in a stroller.

And at 1:30 this afternoon the man accused of setting his own car on fire because he was being evicted from an Encinitas hotel will be arraigned in Vista’s courthouse.

At the Fashion Valley Mall’s California Pizza Kitchen the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is protesting at 1:00 this afternoon. The group says that the restaurants cheese supplier mistreats its cattle.

Also at 1:00 San Diego’s City Council is honoring the Central Library. The current building will close Sunday after 58-years. The new library will open in September.

And at noon on campus at University of California at San Diego it’s the 49th Annual Watermelon Drop. The pre-finals tradition began in 1965 when Professor Bob Swanson asked “What would be the terminal velocity of a watermelon dropped from the seventh floor of Urey Hall and how far would it splat?”. Today students will attempt to break the 1974 splat record of 167-feet 4-inches

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AM Briefing from Bowlersdesk.com for May 31, 2013

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A man registering as a “former Sexually Violent Predator” or S-V-P is living in downtown San Diego near Horton Plaza and the Gaslamp Quarter. John Kreischer is classified as an S-V-P because of multiple counts of forcible rape in 1977, assault with intent to commit rape in 1981, two counts of kidnapping and attempted rape from 1988 and failing to register as a Sex Offender in 2009. He is living in the Plaza Hotel at 1037 4th Avenue in downtown San Diego. Kreischer is being watched by a G-P-S monitoring system, is in compliance with his registration requirements, and is not wanted by law enforcement at this time.

This morning at 9:00 Rashon Abernathy, Seandell Jones, and Shaquille Jordan will be sentenced for murdering a college student they lured using a Craig’s List ad. The victim thought he was buying a laptop but he and his girlfriend were robbed then following a brief car chase he was shot and killed. Abernathy is looking at 65 years to life … while Jones and Jordan are facing 50 years to life.

The fight between the San Diego Mayor’s office and the Tourism Marketing District Board of Directors is hot again. Yesterday Mayor Bob Filner refused to release funds to the T-M-D because he says “We will issue their money when they hold up their end of the bargain, for example, approving payments to the Balboa Park Centennial.” Today at 9:00 AM the TMD is holding an open door meeting to talk about the funding dispute … they say that TMD employees will have to be laid off unless the Mayor releases the money. The meeting is at the Catamaran Hotel, Aviary Ballroom, 3999 Mission Blvd.

This morning at 10:45 organizers of the Rock n Roll Marathon and Half-Marathon will talk to the media. Topics will include security, race-day closures, and the new route.

And this afternoon at 3:30 Officials from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography will talk about awarding James Cameron the 2013 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. The famous filmmaker is being honored for donating an unmanned deep sea diver called “Lander” to the institute. Other prize winners are Walter Cronkite and Jane Goodall. So he’s in very good company.

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AM Briefing from Bowlersdesk.com for May 30, 2013

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This morning at 9:00 31-year-old Jesus Arteaga Garcia will be sentenced for stabbing his pregnant and estranged wife who also happened to be a Customs and Border Patrol agent. Garcia fled to Mexico after the murder and was able to assert Mexican nationality meaning that in order for the United Stated to bring him back the death penalty had to be taken off the table as a possible sentence. There is no death penalty in Mexico and if Mexican nationals are wanted for a crime in another country Mexican authorities will not extradite unless the death penalty is removed as a possible sentence.

Also this morning at 9:30 the University of California at San Diego Medical Center is conducting a mass-casualty building collapse drill. UCSD Medical Center officials say that the “mass casualty and mass fatality” drill is meant to simulate catastrophes similar to the recent building collapse in Bangladesh.

Early this afternoon San Diego’s Mayor Bob Filner is hosting a youth summer employment summit with local business leaders. Connect2Careers is the new name for the redesigned “Hire-a-Youth” program. The program has about 400 youths signed up but only 60 companies. The Mayor hopes to change that.

Today Anti-Fracking activists all across the state are delivering petition to their local representatives to ban the controversial oil extraction method in California. In San Diego Democratic State Assemblywoman Toni Atkins will be the recipient in her office at 2445 Fifth Ave at noon.

Tonight at 7:00 activists will rally in support of comprehensive immigration reform on the west side of San Diego County Administration Building 1600 Pacific Highway. Some of the notable attendees are San Diego’s Mayor Bob Filner and Nathan Fletcher Chair San Diegans United for Commonsense Immigration Reform.

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San Diego Political Podcast

Posted on May 25, 2013 | Comments Off

This time we recorded at Polite Provision … this place is very cool … it have a European vibe … I half expect James Joyce of Ernest Hemingway to come stumbling in … they make their own soda and fancy craft cocktails …

I got say I worried they would be very expensive but no … decent prices … 5 – 9 for a cocktail type of prices … I had a fancy soda that they make themselves … 2 bucks … Lots of light … cool tables… I this place is going to last. I hope at lest.

I met up with Dan Gilleon … he’s a San Diego lawyer … mostly he does civil litigation.. that means he sues people for stuff … we talked about the twerking debacle .. I wanted to talk about what kind of liability the San Diego Unified School District is potentially facing if the parents of the suspended students start to sue all at the same time … 32 students now have to say they were suspended for “Sexual Harassment” .. The ACLU got involved … think about how much this is going to cost to defend? Where’s that money come from?

Of course we talked about other stuff too … he had some fun stories …

Polite Provisions 30th and Adams … classy joint and cool people … lots of mustaches, vests, and cocktails

And as always if you have an opinion you want to share on the Political Podcast call me … leave a message … we may play it and respond 619-663-4531

Call leave a message … ask a question … From Polite Provision on the South-West corner of 30th and Adams

The Political Podcast from BowlersDesk.com

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AM Briefing from Bowlersdesk.com for May 24, 2013

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This morning at 10:00 AM notorious Mexican cartel leader Eduardo Arellano Felix is expected to plead guilty in San Diego’s federal court. Eduardo is one of the four brothers that ran the Arellano Felix Organization or A-F-O. The 56-year-old is charged with money laundering, racketeering, drug trafficking, and he is believed to be responsible for at least three murders. Benjamin Arellano-Felix and Francisco Javier Arellano-Felix are in American prisons serving time for racketeering, drug trafficking and money laundering. One of the brothers … Francisco Rafael Arellano-Felix … is back in Mexico after he was imprisoned in the United States for six-years on cocaine charges.

This morning is the fifth annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast. San Diego’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is hosting the event. They will honor Oregon’s former Governor Barbara Roberts and writer Dustin Lance Black.

The Navy is getting 47 new officers today. Members of the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps will get their commissions in a ceremony at the University of San Diego’s Jenny Craig Pavilion at 11 AM.

Two fun things to do tonight…First at 5:00 PM the San Diego Jazz Festival starts its three-day run at the La Costa Resort and Spa.

And finally tonight also at 5:00 the Helen Woodward Animal Center is hosting its Second Annual Puppy Prom. Puppies will compete in a Best Dressed King and Queen competition.

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