Posted on 07/28/2005 10:06:48 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN DIEGO – Steve Francis, the San Diego businessman who came in third in Tuesday's mayoral primary, announced Thursday that he was endorsing former police chief Jerry Sanders in the runoff election.
Francis encouraged the 56,800 voters who supported him to pick Sanders over Councilwoman Donna Frye in November. Frye came in first place in the primary with 43.3 percent of the vote. Sanders earned 27 percent. Francis got 23.5 percent.
During the primary campaign, Francis had staked out a strong no-taxes stance and had criticized Frye and Sanders over their positions. On Thursday, he said he and Sanders "don't agree on everything" but he could accept Sanders' position on taxes.
"I'm comfortable with Jerry right now," Francis said. "Jerry made it very clear ... that taxes were not part of his agenda as mayor."
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Can we wrap this up now, or will someone start whining about RINOs, and let the hippie surfer walk away with the election?
San Diego went to Bush. There is no way Freaky Frye will win.
Donna Frye would be a further disaster!
Well .. I'm not thrilled with Sanders, but there is no way I want Frye to be Mayor.
How about we run a write-in candidate on the Democrat side? A little dilution of Frye's base can't hurt. Sure it's against the law to do in a runoff, but Frye did it and got away with it, so the precedent is set: bleep the law when it comes to elections, let the "people" "vote"!
San Diego almost went to Frye during the last run-off, and she wasn't even one of the candidats.
Take a look at this.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1453423/posts
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