All You Need to Know About District 4
We spent the last few weeks in San Diego’s southeastern neighborhoods ahead of the District 4 City Council special election on March 26. If you missed anything, here’s an easy way to catch up. Our...
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A Council Candidate’s Ouster: Fact Check
Statement: “Dwayne Crenshaw was fired from the Coalition of Neighborhood Councils after mismanaging money that was intended for the community. He got a lot of money from CNC … and then spent it on...
View ArticleMorning Report: Campaign Claim Fails a Fact Check
A new campaign mailer tries to malign Dwayne Crenshaw, one of two candidates running to fill an empty seat on the City Council. The facts in the mailer are true. The implications? Not so much. Yes,...
View ArticleMorning Report: The Mayor’s Special Dispensation Gambit
Ideally, lawmakers don’t craft laws to affect a single person, although they sometimes try. (Remember Terri Schiavo?) But what about a special dispensation to a specific person? In this case, Mayor...
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Cole’s Whack Crack Attack
In an increasingly nasty City Council campaign, District 4 candidate Myrtle Cole has sent a mailer falsely accusing her opponent Dwayne Crenshaw of being mixed up in a drug deal more than 20 years...
View ArticleMorning Report: The Latest D4 Drama: a Crack Attack
The District 4 City Council race has been high on drama and low on any substantive discussion of the issues. There’s a reason for that: The two candidates, Myrtle Cole and Dwayne Crenshaw, largely...
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Doubling Down in District 4: Fact Check TV
District 4 voters will choose between two Democrats with similar views in Tuesday’s election but outside groups have tried to emphasize the candidates’ differences. The San Diego-Imperial Counties...
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Cole Claims District 4 Victory
Midway through Myrtle Cole’s speech at a union hall Tuesday night, a supporter stood up behind her holding up signs with photos of Cole and San Diego Mayor Bob Filner. Victory, the signs read. When...
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The District 4 Election Hangover
This morning a supporter of Dwayne Crenshaw, who lost the District 4 City Council election Tuesday night, said he was done. The past 30 days in #D4 is leaving me feeling sick. There’s got to be a...
View ArticleMorning Report: So Much for that Open Gov Department
The departures of two top staffers have doomed — at least temporarily — Mayor Bob Filner’s vision for an open government department. The department was central to Filner’s promises of openness and...
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The Most Notorious Fact Checks of 2013
Forget those best-of-2013 lists. Let’s take a look at the lowest of the low: our most notorious fact checks of 2013. We’ve covered lots of ground this year. We’ve checked dozens of statements about...
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