San Diego County of Registrar and other county registrars are still counting votes for the 2022 General Election, and many of the local races remain tight with a 70 to 750 votes difference. The next expected update from the SDC registrar is November 13, 2022, 5:00 p.m., and full results are expected by December 8, 2022. Updated on November 20, 2022: The San Diego County of Registrar has finished tallying votes, are currently working to cure ~11,000 votes and are…
For the past year, Escondido communities have advocated for their communities of interests (COI) in the state and county redistricting process to redraw voting districts. Largely, they advocated for being with other North County cities and tribal lands along the interstate 78, 76 and/or 5 corridors. The San Diego County Independent Redistricting Commission (SDC IRC) COI Public Hearing in Escondido on September 2, 2021 encapsulated many of the feedback submitted both to SDC IRC and California Citizens Redistricting Commission. Now…
Last Updated on 09/06/2021 to add replays of previous public hearings & links to additional public hearings. Every 10 years, the Census surveys every household in the United States, counts each member and updates the nation’s population data. Using the new population data, which is set to be released on August 12th for 2020 Census Data, federal, state and local voting districts are redrawn. But often districts are drawn to benefit one party instead of being representative of the population….
[A PDF version of this post is available here.] We’re approaching the anniversary of the George Floyd uprising, but miscarriages of justice remain: police officers continue to overpolice Black and other communities of color and murder the community members that they are paid and entrusted to protect while too often escaping accountability. We outlined some actions to demand police reforms last year, but here are some updated ones: Call for the establishment and funding of community based & non-law enforcement…
Introduction On March 3, 2021, Councilmembers Inscoe (District 2), Garcia (District 3) and Morasco (District 4) voted 3-2 to: Allow candidates to carryover surplus campaign funds to a new campaign account (for example, carryover remaining City Council 2020 campaign funds to a City Council 2024 campaign account); Exclude Political Party Committees from being subjected to the City’s campaign laws From the SDUT: New Escondido council erases campaign finance reforms enacted by predecessors. Previously on October 21, 2020, the former City…
Replay of the Candidate Forum is available NSDC NAACP on YouTube. NSDC NAACP Presents Meet the Candidate Forum (Escondido) Date: Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Zoom Register Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z5AWLbdETi-LqhSXfrkKBQ Facebook Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2793797020848354 Host: Vice President Rob Jenkins Moderator: 3rd Vice President Natasha Howell Candidates: City Council District 2 Rick Paul Tina Inscoe Vanessa Valenzuela City Council District 3 Don Greene Dara Czerwonka Susan Reveles City Council District 4 April Pugh Andres Yanez
As we mourn George Floyd and grieve the latest losses of black lives in our nation and communities due police brutality and anti-blackness, we can continue to demand actions. Contact Assemblymember Waldron and State Senator Jones and ask them to support AB 2054 which “will establish the Community Response Initiative to Strengthen Emergency Systems (C.R.I.S.E.S.) Act pilot grant program, to fundamentally improve emergency responses for vulnerable populations in California, by strengthening, expanding and promoting community-based responses to emergency situations”. See…
As we face calls to reopen San Diego on May 1st, including from our elected Board of Supervisor Kristin Gaspar and Mayor Paul McNamara, and opposition to California’s Stay-at-Home Order, here are some San Diego County COVID-19 related numbers to keep in mind: In 7 days from April 26 to May 2, 2020 and even with our early & strict state and local public health orders, we had reported: – 884 new positive cases (which account for ~22.5% of total…
FYI, a website dedicated to opposing the privatizing of Escondido Public Library has launched at https://www.escondidolibrarywatchdog.org/. From the website’s Welcome page: Welcome to the Escondido Public Library Watchdog. Why a Watchdog? We believe that an important public good, like a library, should not be handed over to a private entity firm. We hold that public libraries should be operated by and for the public. In the almost two years our Library has been operated by a corporate interest significant problems…
Now that the election is over and new leaders are installed, Escondido Indivisible, along with many other organizations and individuals in Escondido, will be working to restore our public library to public control as part of the Save Our Escondido Library Coalition. Please review the letters and action alerts. We will post as many of the reference materials here as we can. 8Jan2019 Letter on the problems with the LS&S contract and recommendations moving forward with the library. 7Jan2019 Letter…