What's really got to have Gaspar backers excited is that Roberts pulled only 39% of the vote, while the two Republicans pulled a combined 61%. With most Abed supporters likely to vote Gaspar in November, Gaspar is now the clear favorite to win the seat.Similarly, Logan Jenkins in the U-T:
[...] the highly disciplined Gaspar is the odds-on favorite to beat incumbent Dave Roberts in the general election.Indeed. Gaspar was on the cusp of seizing one of the most prized and powerful public offices in the county. And then this happened:
Again, that’s not preference talking. It’s the implacable math.
Get out your own calculator.
Roberts won a pathetic 39 percent of Tuesday’s vote. 39 percent.
Not since incumbent Supervisor Paul Eckert, a deeply wounded candidate, finished third in the 1986 primary has a sitting supervisor performed so poorly in a primary.
For her part, Gaspar earned 34 percent while skirmishing with another well-funded Republican mayor, Escondido’s GOP-backed Sam Abed.
“I think it will be tough for Dave to capture Sam’s voters,” Gaspar told me, doing her best not to smirk at the self-evidence of the statement.
If you give Abed’s rock-ribbed conservative votes to the center-right Gaspar, which you logically must, she trounced Democrat Roberts by more than 20 points.
Despite Donald Trump's stunning national upset tonight based on strength in blue-collar rust belt states, the vulgar Trump was then and remains now politically toxic in moderate, well-educated North San Diego County. Gaspar's huge unforced error revived Robert's near-dead campaign.
Compounding the error of Gaspar's spontaneous Trump endorsement were a couple of more deliberate bad ideas. First, Paul Gaspar's decision to pretend to be a medical doctor in campaign ads, presumably on bad advice from a consultant (Paul Gaspar's campaign filings show payments to the same consultant that council candidate Phil Graham used, to ruinous effect). Second, Kristin Gaspar's decision to trump up a charge of Brown Act violations against council members Blakespear and Shaffer, a charge that neither the public, nor the city attorney, nor even Gaspar's colleague Mark Muir bought. Tonight, Paul Gaspar has lost the mayor's race in a landslide, and Kristin Gaspar is down by two points with 72% of the vote in. How quickly fortunes change.
UPDATE: Or not! Gaspar surges in late counting of absentee and provisional ballots.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
ReplyDeleteNow what do Encinitians do with Horvath?? Worst choice for council since Crazy Haired Cameron.... Lord help us.
10 point spread on Measure T- Huge win especially considering all that developer money going into facebook adds to deceive the public.
ReplyDelete"Local control" - Sfpppp.
Tomorrow, City Hall staff has some explaining to do to City Council on why they were pushing the stack and pack sooo hard for developers well beyond the needed and logical plan.
Is the City Manager going to finally hire some Directors who care about the citizens of Encinitas's quality of life over the developer profits?
We shall see. Considering the candidates good election results. I guess our bays don't need saving. Ha Graham - go that your developer paid program to some other City for your political wantabe resume.
Catherine, Tony, and Tasha better appoint a good 4th Council member to put a choke hold on Muir, and squeeze the developer interests out of him.
So long to Gaspars and Mikey shouldn't carry any credit at City Hall after this trouncing!!!! Assream is a tool and should stay in Oceanside. That is what Gaspars get for listening to that tool.
At least the city chambers will have someone staring at the ceiling for 4 more years - he can be assigned the position of ceiling leak detector - if he is smart enough or awake.
DeleteOnly two years for Muir.
DeleteBruce, Mikey says he loves you!
DeleteGaspars were a disaster - good riddance. Kristin was a gamble for Supervisor - she had Peter Principled out at the city level. Even hiding and avoiding debates didn't help - she shot her mouth off enough to wound herself. $650,000 wasted on Barbie - her political career is finished! And Paul Gaspar is just a pathetic joke - arrogant loudmouth.
ReplyDeleteBut this is over-shadowed by der Fuerher Trump's win. America just stepped on a banana peel at the top of a very steep stairwell. Enjoy the ride - to the bottom!
Start digging those bomb shelters - WWIII is now gelling in the firmament! America has lost its mind.
DeleteKristin would need remaining uncounted votes to break 2:1 in her favor. Put a fork in her.
ReplyDeleteThe end of Barbie! Just not ready for prime time - and never will be. Poor senile Logan Jenkins - his sweetheart is done, in spite of his endorsement.
DeleteThose beady eyes are spinning!
DeleteIt's official, 100% reporting, both Gaspars failed. Kristin lost 49.1 to 50.9. Paul was buried in a 2:1 landslide.
ReplyDeletePaul's run may have actually lost votes for his wife - dumb and arrogant decision for him to get involved, when he had absolutely no chance at even getting close.
DeleteIn the wake of the The Donald getting the keys to the castle, the fact that the Great Gaspar Reign of Incompetence has finally come to an end is actually a pretty decent consolation prize. Now we don't have to worry about her mom showing up to tell the other "mean Councilmembers" that it's her turn on the Mayoral carousel. Nor do we have to watch her learn how to play politician on the job any longer. The male version suffered a namesake and honesty issue. Ding Dong, the witch is out, now we can just keep both eyes on Muir.
ReplyDeleteHey .... don't try getting in front of Muir and a donut.
DeleteWas his campaign headquarters In N' Out?
DeleteYup, I will take a moment to crow, as I had Madame Gaspar losing this one all the way. Primaries are not general elections, different voters come out, and different results are seen.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good day in Encinitas. Prop T lost as well.
-MGJ
Eckes just scratched Gaspars off the Christmas party list - the shills have lost their utility. Now the CFO can return to her first love - high heels and make-up.
DeleteIs Hillary on suicide watch? Losing to an orange haired baboon!!- cyanide would have been preferable!
ReplyDeleteHave to wonder whom the new council will name to fill Blakespear's council seat for the remaining two years of that term.
ReplyDeleteWill they appoint the judge, as the fourth place vote-getter?
Maybe Shaffer will vie for that position.
DeleteI hope not..
DeleteThey should appoint Kristin Gaspar.
DeleteNot two more years of her arrogance!
ReplyDeleteLet's not speak ill of the departed.
ReplyDeleteThe candidates you supported who won won't fix much in your life. The candidates who beat your pick are not the source of much of your problems.
Now we can spend a little less time on strangers, and a little more with friends, family, neighbors.
Well said Kristin Gaspar. Glad to see you're still trying to tell people what to do.
DeleteThe GASpars deserve their loss. They ran a dirty campaign and it came back to bite them in the polls.
ReplyDeleteTheir consultants, which have a track record of losers, just got richer.
Goodbye GASpars. Now go do your job and raise your children.
We've had dual language immersion in our schools for years. It's 100% optional for the native English speaking families. Part of the day is taught in English, and part in Spanish. The percentage of time spent in each language shifts toward English each year. After a few years in the program, all classes revert to 100% English. We now know that kids learn language better from other kids, because kids don't speak the same way as adults. The program is more successful at migrating Spanish speakers to English than throwing them in the deep end of the pool, and their academic outcomes are far better. They are less likely to disengage, fail, and/or drop out of school. The native English speakers' grades suffer somewhat in the first two years, as they pickup Spanish. After that, the native English speakers catch up and surpass the grades of their single-language peers. Especially in math. For some reason there is neural development in multi-lingual people that helps with math.
DeleteI know you don't care about the facts, but there they are anyway.
Leslie Schneider lost to Patricia Sinay by only 120 votes talk about a nail-biter.
ReplyDeleteYes, I was sad to see that. Maybe next time, Schneider can win a seat. The Board of Trustees at EUSD sure needs someone who won't go along in lock-step with the Superintendent, who should be replaced.
DeletePlease, God, don't let Council appoint Barth to take Blakespear's Council seat, for two years. Despite Teresa Barth's bitter recriminations, the Brown Act violations weren't "trumped up." The initial endorsement, of Trump by Kristin Gaspar, later rescinded, after more allegations of inappropriate behavior toward women came out against Trump, was a mistake. The Mayor's agendizing, at a public Council meeting, a formal complaint by a former Traffic Commissioner of past and a very recent Brown Act violations, was what the letter to Council demanded. A public hearing process is also the proper procedure according to the Brown Act, itself.
ReplyDeleteAs of now, with some mail in ballots still uncounted, KG is 1.8% behind. She made a decent showing in an area that is primarily democrat. In this County, Hillary Clinton received 56.05% of the vote. Kristin Gaspar's "budding political career" is not dead, unless she wants it to be.
Whoever wrote the headline for this post is guilty of hyperbole. We've had enough of that to last several lifetimes. The better headline here would be that No on T prevailed by 56.03%, at the most recent count.
Trump winning the election was not a surprise.
ReplyDeleteThe media wants the citizenry to believe that, so that citizens don't look at the role the media played the past 18 months in spreading lies and misinformation.
Millions of American citizens, of all races, colors, genders, sexual orientations and creeds waited in line to hear Mr. Trump speak the past 18 months. His message of enforcing current immigration laws, writing trade deals to protect American families and ending the corrupt rigged system was well received.
While candidate Trump was speaking before tens of thousands candidate Clinton needed to rely on paid union operatives to make it appear her support was larger than it truly was. In the end Clinton relied on out of touch selfish celebrity millionaires like Jay Z, Beyoncé, Springsteen and other arrogant elitists to draw her crowds.
Trump campaigned with Angel Moms- moms who lost children to the violent crimes of illegal immigrants. Trump campaigned with "twinks for Trump" - gay people seeking a country that would protect them from Islamic Jihadi's who throw homosexuals off of buildings. While Hillary campaigned with Al Sharpton, Trump met with small town church leaders in the black community to discuss real solutions.
Candidate Trump winning was not a surprise.
The now exposed crooked media and polling companies lied to American citizens nightly for 24 months. CBS, the NY Times, WSJ, ABC, CNN, Frank Luntz, Quinipiac all had the same data that showed incredible support for candidate Trump, but they found ways to manipulate information, manufacture a false story line and lie to mislead voters. They have been exposed and we as a people must hold them accountable. Fox, CNN, CBS, ABC are liars and a threat to liberty. They are not journalists, they are propagandists. The Ceasar Flickerman of the modern age.
After lying for 24 months the crooked talking heads are trying to restore credibility claiming the win was a 'surprise'. It isn't.
We know that :
CNN conspired with the Clinton campaign and committed fraud on millions of Americans by having a CNN "debate" that was rigged when CNN gave Clinton the questions in advance.
The NY Times conspired with the Clinton campaign to deceive American citizens when it gave editorial oversight to the Clinton campaign and then printed pro-Clinton propaganda while telling voters it was "unbiased reporting".
We know that ABC, CNN, CBS, NBC, Fox and other outlets all attended a secret dinner with the Clinton campaign just prior to her announcement and conspired to commit fraud on the America. On the agenda for the meeting included "messaging". They presented this "messaging" as "unbiased news".
We know that the leadership of both parties- the Bushes and Buffet, the Koch Brothers and Soros all actively worked against candidate Trump.
The results of this election were only a surprise to those who believed the "narrative' being told by the crooked media and ruling elites was true.
The election was won on the issues.
Immigration- enforce our current laws to protect and benefit citizens.
Trade- write trade deals to benefit American families and American workers.
Security- enforce laws to protect American families and citizens.
The question before the citizens of America was either we have a country that serves citizens or we don't.
There is no reason to ever believe ABC, CNN, USA Today, Fox, the NY Times , the WSJ or any other pollster. They have been exposed. They are liars.
They called us racist, bigots, sexists, angry. They tried to marginalize us, ridicule us and disenfranchise us.
We are simply Americans of all races, colors and creeds who know you can't fix a rigged system by electing the people who rigged it.
Drain the swamp.
Words have consequences - end of story........
Delete- The Sculpin
[November 9, 2016 at 1:28 PM] That's one of the best 180º spins of Trump I've read yet. If you're not in PR, you should be!
Delete1:28 Complete wacko bullshit. The pea-brain mentality that got the orange asshole elected — not by the popular vote, mind you, but by the undemocratic electoral college.
Delete2:05
DeleteThere is no reason to believe the crooked press is telling the American people the truth of the vote totals.
CNN committed fraud in rigging the debates.
The NY Times committed fraud presenting Clinton prepared propaganda as "unbiased journalism".
Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer colluded with Clinton asking Clinton to write interview questions of candidate Trump-
Peter Kradzik of the DOJ colluded with the Clinton campaign sending "heads up" emails to the Clinton campaign.
CNN conspired with the Clinton campaign to manufacture "messaging narratives" before releasing poll results.
The crooked entities ABC and Washington Post manufactured a false poll claiming Hillary was leading by 12%, 7 days later she lost.
The citizens of Wisconsin voted for a new vision, new leadership and new representation.
The citizens of Penn voted for new leadership, a new vision and new representation.
The citizens of Ohio voted for new leadership, vision and representation.
Candidate Trump was opposed by the globalist Soro and Koch, a crooked media and a crooked Uniparty working in tandem to mislead voters- yet he still prevailed.
Candidate Trump got more people to vote in the GOP primary then any other election.
Candidate Trump got more voters to register for the GOP in the general election in history. He blew candidate Romney away.
Is there reason is to believe the election was even close? the ones promoting the election was close is the press- the same press that colluded to defraud voters, mislead citizens, suppress the vote and rig the election.
We know there was voter fraud, people were arrested. We know there was voter fraud- people who were dead , and voted, were caught. We know there was voter fraud- election machines owned by a George Soros backed company were registering votes for Hillary- before a single person had even voted. These are some of the frauds we know of.
We now know the press lied to America and hoped they would get away with it. They have been exposed.
There is no reason to trust a word the press reports.
2:46 Hillary won the popular vote. The undemocratic electoral college gave the win to Trump. The electoral college should be abolished.
DeleteYour vast conspiracy theory doesn't hold water.
2:46 As of now, Trump has less votes than Romney got in 2012.
DeleteIt would take another Federal Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Electoral College. It does weaken the democratic process. Even Trump has affirmed that fact. He doesn't seem to mind when the system is "rigged" in his favor.
Deletewho is saying Hillary won the popular vote??
DeleteOh right , the liars at CNN, ABC, Fox and the NY Times that colluded with the Clinton campaign to commit fraud and misinform voters.
So you believe the distributed and fragmented state and local election systems that delivered the electoral college, but you don't believe those same system's raw vote counts?
DeleteWe have a fundamental problem with people altering reality by aligning facts to fit their conclusions when it should be the other way round.
We live in an age where the internet uses our past click activity to filter and deliver only news that confirms our biases. It's dangerous.
If you want to believe that climate change isn't a problem, and you click on 10 "news" items with headlines and sources that confirm your bias, an analytics engine managing your Google or Facebook feeds will detect that you tend to click on articles that deny climate change. Since they get paid to drive traffic, your news feed is changed to only show news items that confirm your bias.
To you, the "news" is filled with evidence that climate change isn't a problem. Before long, you can't even understand what the fuss is about. You assume it's everyone else that is failing to read the "news" and understand the "facts" as represented by your news feed.
Spooky.
Spooky
DeleteWhat is spooky is trusting a crooked entity, that has pro rn itself to be dishonest, to be honest.
I encourage you to watch the project veritas investigative video, there you can see for yourself democratic operatives stating as fact methods they use to steal elections I. America
Registrar of Voters
ReplyDeleteTHESE RESULTS ARE UNOFFICIAL
Last updated on: 11-09-16 at: 06:23:36
There are APPROXIMATELY 620,000 Mail / Provisional ballots still to be counted
Anything that's close — Roberts-Gaspar, for example — could tilt the other way.
Filner got run out of office for what? Bill Clinton did what? We may end up with Pence if the Dems become as petty/obstructionist as the Repubs.
ReplyDeleteWe survived eight years each of Reagan and W. If Trump makes it through four years, we'll survive that too. But he's already damaged American society, and he'll do much more damage regardless of how long he's in office.
ReplyDeleteOne of our greatest fears is his appointing one or two Supreme Court Justices. Obama could have appointed one when Congress was in recess, as Eisenhower did, before him. Then Senate confirmation isn't required. He didn't do that, leaving that for Hillary. "The best laid plans of mice and men . . ."
Delete3:42
DeleteIt is now possible to appoint justices who will follow the constitution and enforce the rule of law for all equally.
Immigration- enforce existing laws to protect Encinitas families.
The WikiLeaks emails revealed the Clinton Campaign including Podesta and Mooks were so happy that Citizens United allowe them to raise more moneuy thru PAC's.
The media lies to citizens suggesting the democrats are different than establishment GOP, and Soros is different than the Koch brothers, in reality they are the same.
Hillary Clinton raised $ 173 million for hedge fund and bankers, that same group only gave $ 19,000 to Trump.
Eisenhower also enforced immigration laws and deported those in the country illegally- great reference and good information on Eisenhower to know.
I just found this on Manjeet Ranu's Linked In page:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/manjeet-ranu-7a6b7715
Greater San Diego Area - Acting Director at Encinitas - City of Encinitas
View Manjeet’s full profile. ... Manager of the planning division, code compliance and economic development for this City of 100,000 in the San Diego metropolitan region. ... Senior project planner for land use entitlements...
What economic development did he ever create except for his own benefit? He left a terrible legacy in Encinitas.
Look down and you will see that he was also in a revolving door:
ReplyDeleteSenior Project Planner
Baldwin & Sons
April 2010 – February 2011 (11 months)|Greater San Diego Area
Senior project planner for land use entitlements. Baldwin & Sons is a land developer and home builder in Southern California, including the community of Otay Ranch.
The Baldwins (Father & Sons) own several LLC corporations, essentially one for each development. One of their companies has an application currently working to build in Encinitas. Contacts and influence are what that business is about.
DeleteNotice that he suggests that Encinitas is a city of 100,000! He certainly tried to make it one, but the heroes of No on T stopped him and now he's gone!
ReplyDeleteI read the news today, oh boy
ReplyDeleteAbout a crazy man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph.
Corporation T shirt, singing bloody Tuesday Man, you shoulda seen'em kicking Edgar Alan Poe, I am the egg man, you are the egg man, I am the Walrus, gook goo ka joob...
ReplyDeleteRoberts leads Gaspar by 2,293 votes with about 620,000 votes left to be counted as of about 6:30 this morning.
ReplyDeleteThat was 620,000 votes to be counted in the state I believe. D3 has less than 200,000 registered voters total.
Delete7:43 You believe wrong. It's the COUNTY registrar of voters, not the secretary of state.
DeleteThis hasn't changed since early this morning:
THESE RESULTS ARE UNOFFICIAL
Last updated on: 11-09-16 at: 06:23:36
There are APPROXIMATELY 620,000 Mail / Provisional ballots still to be counted
Of course, not all 620,000 are in district 3.
339,866 registered voters in District 3.
DeleteNo worries. Roberts will win. GASpar is toast.
ReplyDeleteGood riddance!
DeleteGood news....Kristin Gaspar will invite Logan Jenkins to her house for dinner. The dessert will be a fashion show by none other than Barbie herself, equipped with a new short skirt and higher heels. Just think about that big smile Logan will have at the end of the evening.
ReplyDeleteHas she officially lost yet? I want to hear her political coffin lid slam shut!
ReplyDeleteshe is coming back in the late returns and may overtake Dave.
ReplyDeleteRoberts still has about a 1500 vote lead, with some 300,000 ballots yet to be counted. Did they enlist the DMV to count the ballots? Maybe the results will be known by the mid-term elections. Obviously every vote counts, contrary to some skeptics.
DeleteIf Gaspar wins, kiss off the open space in San Diego County. She is dumber than Melanie Trump, and that's hard to accomplish.
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