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Sanders is ahead 51 to 40 among likely voters. His largest lead yet. (bolding mine) --- Sanders’ lead among Republicans is 82% to 11% for Frye. Sanders picked up 2 points with Republicans since our last survey. Frye stayed the same. Sanders leads with males 52% and with females 49%, while Frye garners support from 40% of males and 41% of females. This is a large jump among females, 5 points, for Sanders from the last survey. “Sanders has the momentum right now. Frye’s base of voters is solid, but the undecided appear to be breaking Sanders' way... Among labor...

Talk host Roger Hedgecock has broken the news that City Councilwoman Donna Frye, Democrat, a candidate for mayor of San Diego proposed a 10 year, half-cent, $1 billion tax increase to address the underfunding of the pension system. She made this proposal during a meeting with the San Diego Union Tribune editorial board along with her RINO competitor Jerry Sanders. The segment will be in the last half hour of today's audio archives. The "temporary tax" proposed by Frye is mentioned in the Union-Tribune endorsement of Sanders.

San Diego Councilwoman Donna Frye and former Police Chief Jerry Sanders will face questioners under the sponsorship of California Common Cause in a two-hour forum on September 30 hosted by the University of California, San Diego. Co-sponsor of the event is the League of Women Voters of San Diego and the entire proceeding will be televised by UCSD-TV in a production to be repeated numerous times right up to election day, November 8. The debate at UCSD marks the first major engagement between the two candidates of the final election season. A focus of the forum will be the reform...

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...

SAN DIEGO – Councilwoman Donna Frye, the surfboard shop owner who nearly captured the Mayor's Office with an improbable write-in campaign last year, moved a step closer to the prize Tuesday as she easily outdistanced a field of 10 other candidates in the special mayoral election. But Frye fell short of getting a majority of the votes cast to win outright and will face a Nov. 8 runoff with former Police Chief Jerry Sanders. Although Sanders' lead over businessman Steve Francis was a modest one, it held steady as the returns piled up, and Francis never gained significant ground on...

A federal jury has found San Diego City council members Ralph Inzunza and Michael Zuchett guilty of several charges in connection with allegations that they accepted money from a strip club owner in return for efforts to rescind the city's no-touch ordinance. LISTEN FOR LIVE COVERAGE ON NEWSRADIO 600 KOGO.

San Diego's Acting Mayor Convicted By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago A federal jury on Monday convicted San Diego's new acting mayor and a city councilman of taking payoffs from a strip club owner to help repeal the "no-touching" ordinance at nude clubs, the latest blow to a city already awash in scandal. Michael Zucchet, who became interim mayor over the weekend, was found guilty of conspiracy, extortion and fraud on his first business day in office. He will almost certainly have to resign. Councilman Ralph Inzunza, who was also convicted of the same charges, is also...

SAN DIEGO -- As he prepared to leave office Friday — only eight months after getting re-elected — Mayor Dick Murphy said he never wanted a second term in the first place. The 62-year-old former judge said a "combination of duty and flattery" convinced him to run again. Now, Murphy is leaving to give the city a fresh start in the midst of a federal probe of San Diego's deficit-ridden pension fund and with a federal jury deciding the fate of two councilmen accused of corruption. A July 26 election is expected to produce a November runoff between the top...

SAN DIEGO - City Councilman Michael Zucchet has been logging long days in court, where his federal trial on charges of accepting illegal campaign money from a strip-club owner is finally set to go to a jury as early as Tuesday. On Friday, he is scheduled to take over as interim mayor of a city that has long prided itself on clean government. Or maybe he won't. San Diego, stung by a string of embarrassing scandals, is facing a fundamental question at a time of deep legal and financial trouble: Who's in charge? Voters are mulling who should replace Mayor...

Mayor just made a statement that effective in July, he will step down as Mayor of San Diego.