Here we go - these are just a few overview citations. There are countless news stories, minutes from meetings/hearings/etc... that delves much deeper into this.
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On the downside, he'll have to counter the carpetbagger dig. Bilbray recently moved to Carlsbad, but his political career has been largely in the service of South Bay, not North County.
If he winds up as a front-runner, other candidates will repeatedly remind voters that then-Supervisor Bilbray was a principal architect of the calamitous trash-to-energy recycling plant in San Marcos, a debacle that, for the county, was the equal of the city of San Diego's pension disaster.
In the rubbish-filled days of the early '90s, Bilbray was not shy in expressing the opinion that North County was derelict in its regional duty to absorb its own trash.
A San Diego Union-Tribune database search of the words "Bilbray," "North County" and "trash" coughs up 200 stories. That's a lot of trash talk on the record.
SOURCE: San Diego Union Tribune - Logan Jenkins, December 3, 2005
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"Oh let me count the big-money boys: former congressman and supervisor Brian Bilbray, the man who thought North County was a good place to dump the county's trash;" Sizing up 50th's crowded field - J. Stryker Meyer - North County Times
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The most obvious case in point is North County activist Tom Erwin's struggle in the late 1980s to pull the plug on plans for the white elephant San Marcos trash-to-energy plant. Although armed with enough evidence to convince an O.J. jury that the plant would bankrupt the county, Erwin was dismissed by then-supervisor and plant crusader Brian Bilbray as a NIMBY who wanted to dump North County's trash in the South Bay. As late as last summer, when the trash system was clearly collapsing, now Congressman Bilbray continued to use the NIMBY Hypothesis to defend his project. Source: Lisa Ross - San Diego Daily Transcript, December 10, 1996