I woke up early this morning to see that Danon sent out an e-mail to Pam Slater-Price and her Chief of Staff, John Weil, regarding the County’s Neighborhood Reinvestment Program (NRP).

The email was brief and had a nice long letter in PDF format attached to it.

In the e-mail Danon states:

Everyone knows I am not a big fan of Pam Slater-Price. If anyone needs to know why she doesn’t deserve re-election, just reading this article from the SDUT about her recent grants to the SD Opera and Old Globe theater. She donated a total of 250,000 dollars to these organizations last week. My tax dollars are being funneled to fund Slater-Price’s favorite hobbies.

Everyone is hurting in  today’s economy and we need to be spending our tax dollars to maintain our essential services and fund projects that create jobs and business opportunities. Helping two elitist SD Arts organizations to continue catering to the elite crowd doesn’t fall into the business opportunity category in my book.

Fortunately all of us can breathe a sigh of relief because it looks more and more like Pam Slater-Price will be unable to win re-election in 2012 and will likely have to retire instead of seeking re-election. Steve Danon, Chief of Staff to Brian Bilbray, has been racking up impressive endorsements and now has just received the endorsement of the Escondido Police Officer’s Association. He is building a reputation for having the strong backing of the law enforcement organizations and not the elitist arts organization.

This is a paragraph from his press release:

“Steve Danon has been a strong supporter of public safety and law enforcement for a very long
time,” said EOPA President Tony Masten.  “We need a partner at the County who will work with
us in keeping kids off the street and out of trouble. Steve will fight to keep critical funding in
after-school, anti-gang and domestic violence programs.  It will be refreshing to have a true
County partner,” continued Masten.

Nice. Someone who will make sure my taxpayer dollars will actually be spent on programming that affects the lives of our youths.

I know some of you are rolling your eyes that I would write something nice about Danon, who works for someone that we really want to kick out of Congress (Bilbray). The fact is that we have no formidable Dems to kick Pam Slater-Price out of office in 2012 to keep her from spending our taxpayer dollars on projects that don’t affect the hard-working families that are suffering. That is where Danon enters the picture. I will be supporting Danon and hoping for a fresh new board by 2012 with Frye, Ducheny and Danon in place by January 2013.

When I first wrote about the fast growing Frye for Board of Supervisors FB group, I checked the Re-elect Roberts group and it only had 52 members. I am guessing they took notice that they were a very small measly FB group and started recruiting former staffers and party insiders to grow quickly.

Now the group has grown by nearly 200 members which is a good thing for Roberts but I took a look at the larger member list and saw very few young members which is an indication of a good group of volunteers eager to walk for candidates in hopes of landing internships or entry level jobs. I did see four young members of the group but two of them were staffers, another was a brother to the staffer, and the last one was a former intern.

Eh.

Interestingly the page lists his educational background and his date of birth! I didn’t realize he was born 25 years before my parents were born! He graduated from high school in 1960. He makes me feel very young. If Roberts wins re-election for what is expected to be his final term, we can expect him to be 72 years old when he leaves office. That is pretty old but he looks like he is in good shape. Kudos to Roberts for staying in shape and looking younger than he is. But he needs to hide all that age and education question, makes him look too old and voters aren’t always necessarily interested in what year their candidate was born or when they graduated from high school.