Tell me, pray tell me, why so much importance is put on what someone has done over what someone might be able to do or to accomplish because of who they are or who they know or who they are able to work with for change? Sure, sure, I know if someone did good before they will maybe hopefully do good again, but really there is no guarantee. Government is collaboration and if the other side has contempt for you or those on your side have diminished respect for you, your ability to accomplish is drastically hindered. I like to see people elected who have the karma and charisma, the fire in their belly to get things done. Atkins is a burn out frump without karma or charisma and if she is elected she will be Peter Principled (look it up and get you mind out of the gutter) just like Kehoe. Denney, way more that Atkins, deserves a go at it because of how he will connect and what he will be able to accomplish for our better tomorrows.

This state is virtually bankrupt thanks to Democrats who have long controlled the Sacramento legislature and who refuse to put limits on welfare while coddling the illegal aliens who fill our public schools, hospital emergency rooms, jails and prisons. They keep screaming that we need to raise taxes to pay for all of this -- even though California is already one of the most heavily taxed states in the nation, and even though businesses and the wealthy are leaving the state (and taking jobs and potential tax money with them) because of that. Our unemployment rate is over 12.5%. Keep voting for Democrats and there will be fewer and fewer jobs and fewer and fewer people to pay for all the goodies that Democrats want to give to the people who don't work or who make so little that they pay no significant income taxes (note: according to the State Franchise Tax Board, the top 1% of income earners in California pay over half of all state income taxes collected while the bottom two thirds pay virtually nothing but are allowed to vote to increase taxes on those who do pay.) I don't care whether or not Toni is lesbian. What I do care about is that she's just another liberal Democrat who is going to go down the same path as the other Democrats in turning California into the equivalent of an impoverished Third World country. Thanks, but no thanks!

Sexual preference is a personal CHOICE of both of these "guys," and what they do in the PRIVACY of their homes is up to them.

What concerns me is that in the push to force the homosexual lifestyles ligitimacy and "good choice" down the throats of Americans (I might add after 30 of 30 states overwhelmingly decided in the democratic way,) the voters wanted no part of bogus homosexual "marriage, they refuse to listen.

They continue their unholy push through the indoctrination of school children as young as kindergarden, the push for OPEN homosexual activity in the armed forces with little regard for what this will do to our military readiness. This shown for their demands not to first hear from those most affected, the soldiers themselves.

The willingness to throw under the bus traditional marriage, the strength of our country and the marriage of their parents and grandparents for their version of "marriage," which is all about the selfish push to gain acceptance of their chosen lifestyle.

No glory in this story for sure, and a sad recognition of another fine city gone the wrong way over many years. to glory in this story.

Theirs is a disease prone, dangerous, deviant, and dead end choice. It is their choice, but never the choice of the majority of the voters they attempt to intimidate and influence with their brand of "tolerance." James Finnegan Barrington, Illinois and Naples, Florida

Atkins messed up San Diego and now is going to mess up California if elected. Throw the bums out and she is a BUM!

Democrat or Republican ?

Gay historian and intellectual Gore Vidal- Google him if you don't know the name- put it this way:

"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party . . . and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently . . . and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties."*

It is time to take off the gay blinders.
Democrat or Republican, the Empire is crumbling under the endless lies and broken promises of both parties.

*http://bluwiki.com/go/Gore_Vidal_Quotes

I agree with Chuy. Toni Atkins is the one of the main reasons SD is in the shape that it's in. Aside from showing up to a couple of LGBT events throughout her career as a councilwoman, it'll be enough for her to win a significant portion of the community's vote. To me however, she has not caused me to think of any kind of legitimate reason why she should continue her reign of financial mismangement in Sacramento. What kind of momentous change or difference is she going to bring the people of California?

Atkins and Schwarzenegger just claim leadership because of who they are. We need real leaders in California.

I don't vote for republicans. For the most part, they're evil corporatists. But at least I can think that since Denney is gay, republicans in Sacramento won't like him. And because he's republican AND gay, the Democrats in Sacramento won't like him. So, if I want someone to shake things up I know who I'm voting for.

You know, I laughed when I first read Mr. Reynolds' statement. But in fact, it's true. Even without being elected, I have observed first hand the disrespect (if you like, hate) that Ralph has received from Democrats (mostly the gay democrats) and the more more socially conservative Republicans in San Diego. Mr. Reynolds is correct. And since Ralph will stand on his principles and be a slave to none of the hypocrisy of any of these groups (quite unlike Atkins), you know he'll be willing to stand up for the people for California even when the winds of the political machinery are against him.

Oh, and yes, currently the GLT poll stands at:

56% Denney
44% Atkins


Paul

Did the Center write your editorial this week? Its so bland and lifeless.

Are there any worthy Democrats willing to run as a write-in candidate against Toni Atkins for State Assembly?

Please...someone, step up to the plate.

Otherwise I'll be forced to vote for a Republican for the first time in ages. (At least Ralph Denney is a gay GOP, but more importantly...he doesn't have Toni Atkins' bad track record.)

No Paul, you're wrong that "Ralph will stand on his principles and be a slave to none of the hypocrisy of any of these groups (quite unlike Atkins), you know he'll be willing to stand up for the people for California even when the winds of the political machinery are against him." When push comes to shove up there in Sacramento, Ralph will fall right in line with what the rig-wing GOP leadership of the Assembly wants. That's the way the real world is in Sacramento.