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The fact that there is such hand-wringing about this subject leaves us.... bemused? perplexed? baffled.....? Your call.

Oh. Good news. Remember that San Diego City resolution for La Raza Day? Passed. Admit it... you were worried there for a while.

It's all probably a big misunderstanding

One has to ask themselves just how “mainstream” a group whose name translated means “the Race” can become. Mayor Jerry Sanders and his merry band of bungling and hapless city council members will vote on a resolution (Item 31) tomorrow proclaiming July 8th as “National Council of La Raza Day” in the city of San Diego.

Why all the shameless pandering? La Raza will be here in town July 12-15 for their annual conference and its been, we suppose, just an assumed fact that cities like San Diego bestow honors upon bigoted agenda-driven outfits such as these.

La Raza's website seems civil enough but there is enough double-talk and code-speak contained therein to make our head-spin. It doesn't take too much time to decipher exactly what these people are all about.

If you’ve got some time, here is San Diego talk-show host Roger Hedgecock with Mayor Sanders from last week and who seems to have his Alfred E. Neuman expression locked firmly into place.



P.S. Both Barack Obama and John McCain are scheduled to address the group. Yeah, good times.

H/T: The James Hartline Report

The term "finest" is not meant to be univerally applied, here.

Apparently, even the clueless can be the beneficiaries of a boot in the ass every once in a while. Amid sweeping proposed budget cuts made by Mayor Jerry Sanders,
the San Diego City Council voted themselves a 24% raise (to $93,485) earlier this week.

They also voted to eliminate an annual $9,600 auto allowance whose legality had been called into question. So they avoided the nasty little legality/ethicalness question by simply rolling up that $9,600 as part of their raise. Problem solved. Nice work, gang. (It was suggested during the council meeting that the auto allowance be added to the base salary plus a 3% raise. Councilman Ben Hueso thought that was pretty good but had an even better idea: How about the base plus the auto allowance and a 10% raise? Rock on, Ben!)

And though the 5-3 vote was veto-proof it may not have been riot-proof as yesterday 2 of the "for" votes (including Hueso) reacting to getting pummeled by emails and talk radio, consulted their inner-political survival instinct and withdrew their support for the raise. Story here.

The more we live and learn, the more we are convinced that the greatest amount and degree of incompetence, ineptitude and corruptness in any level of government, exists at the city/municipal level.