Escondido remains in the third Supervisorial District,  represented by Supervisor Pam Slater-Price, under new maps approved by the Board of Supervisors September 6. Sept. 9 UPDATE: Slater-Price announces she will not seek re-election next year. Read coverage in The San Diego Union-Tribune. Read coverage in North County Times.  Sept. 6 UPDATE: Supervisors have approved a new map, [...]

North County Times provides a snapshot of the background maneuvering for 2012 Escondido City Council elections in its August 25 editions. David Garrick talks to all of the predictable candidates and provides a rundown of who’s in and who’s out. On the Democratic side, Carmen Miranda says she will run; Jason Everitt says he will [...]

Escondido City Council member Olga Diaz, also a member of EDC, made the first public announcement of  her candidacy for re-election at the August 13 EDC meeting. In written comments before the announcement, Diaz said she is running “because I fill a critical role on the Escondido City Council – I represent the residents of [...]

Efforts in Escondido to weaken unions are related to a national strategy to take away the rights of working people and Democrats, according to an official of the local labor council who spoke to the Club’s June 11 meeting. Lorena Gonzalez, CEO and secretary-treasurer of the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO, called [...]

June 11 UPDATE: Political observers have a first chance to comment on what they believe the proposed new districts will mean in a series of newspaper stories. The general consensus is that Democrats gain, overall. Some say Republicans will lose three to five seats in Congress, and Democrats could increase their majority in the state [...]

Escondido voters want more of the same, apparently. They elevated Council member Sam Abed to Mayor and returned current Council member Marie Waldron and former Council member Ed Gallo to the Council for four-year terms. Abed’s election leaves his former Council seat vacant. Olga Diaz has two years remaining in her term. Abed received 38.05 [...]

The San Diego Union-Tribune has a hard-hitting editorial on the Escondido election results, saying that the city “took a sharp right turn” in voting Nov. 2 and “appears bent on burnishing its image as the Arizona of San Diego.” A sample of commentary on Escondido’s election results, pulled from local media, after the jump…

EDC President Paul ‘Mac’ McNamara has unseated the chair of the Palomar College Board of Trustees, Michele Nelson. McNamara received 67,766 votes or 39 percent; incumbent Mark Evilsizer received 60,527 or 35 percent, and Nelson received 45,690 or 26 percent in competition for two open seats. Read coverage in North County Times.