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Has any one else heard about Maryor Murphy resinging and Donna Frye taking over??



San Diego - Major Murphy resigned this morning noting yesterday’s late night
California Supreme Court decision favoring the Donna Frye campaign. The 5 to 2
decision stated unequivocally that all votes cast would to be counted – a
broad ruling on “voter intent” which could throw the Ohio presidential
recount of “spoiled” African American votes back onto the political front
burner.  The mayor also acknowledged the mounting pressure by City Attorney
Michael Aguirre and the intensification of the DA’s pension probe in his terse
two-paragraph letter of resignation.

In his briefly worded statement Mayor Murphy thanked San Diego voters and
especially the business community for their support.  “The welfare of your
business has been the City’s business.  I will continue to serve you, but not
as your mayor.”

The dramatic turn of events even surprised councilwoman Donna Frye who was
awoken this morning by the press outside her home.  “I guess this is the start
of a new day for San Diego,” she stated as she faced a half-dozen reporters
and camera crews at her doorstep.  “There are several items of the people’s
business, which we will put on the docket in our first month for the City
Council to consider.  On April 12 at 10 AM we will take up the Living Wage
Campaign, the first of a series of measures to assure that all San Diego’s
working people will live with dignity.  The Labor Council has assured me, that
we can work together in a campaign to guarantee that no working family will be
left behind.

Secondly, we will work with the homeless and homeless advocates to insure they
will now get our compassion rather than loitering tickets; this measure alone
could save the city millions in emergency hospitalizations, incarceration costs
and police overtime.”  Despite her objection that it was too early for her to
fully articulate her plans, she laid out one further agenda item, which she
noted would surely rattle the “old boys club”.  “The housing crisis needs
triage.  I will propose that we reign in the real estate speculative market with
a 50% sales tax on the appreciated gain on apartment buildings, condo
conversions and larger investment properties.  Investors will still be making a
killing and the city will raise an estimated $780 million dollars a year for the
next 10 years.”  Without missing a beat she predicted that this single measure
would erase the city deficit, fund huge increases in the city’s contribution
to educational equity, maintain social services and begin an Affordable Housing
Trust Fund.  “Landlords grossed billions from housing inflation, now it is
time for a public to share the wealth, which our whole community created.
Skyrocketing rents and perhaps the least affordable housing market in the
country deserves immediate action.  I’ll propose that the City Council enable
non-profits, land trusts, cooperatives and the public sector to purchase
housing, which will perpetually be designated as ‘affordable’ and thus
outside the inflationary speculative market.”  As she entered her home to get
ready to the today’s noon swearing-in ceremony she added…  ”and San Diego
is going to be known as the 'Sunshine City', we are going into affordable solar
energy big-time.”

Reaction from the San Diego Realtors Association was swift and incredulous.
Reached by phone, local President Rob M. Blind stated that this last initiative
“threatens to eliminate the rise in property values for a decade.  It would be
disastrous for our industry.  It sounds like an April fools joke… it is
nothing short of municipal socialism,” he said emphatically.  “Next she’ll
want a single-payer a health care system or some such scheme.”