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Prop 50 mailers are hitting mailboxes and the ads are on TV. We’ve talked about it the last two podcasts but now it’s already set a congressional race in motion.
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SEGMENT 2 - Subscriptions Gone Wild
The Atlantic wrote about Alden Global Capital, the U-T’s owners, four years ago.
“What threatens local newspapers now is not just digital disruption or abstract market forces. They’re being targeted by investors who have figured out how to get rich by strip-mining local-news outfits. The model is simple: Gut the staff, sell the real estate, jack up subscription prices, and wring as much cash as possible out of the enterprise until eventually enough readers cancel their subscriptions that the paper folds, or is reduced to a desiccated husk of its former self,” the magazine wrote.
Bottom line: I think the U-T’s journalism is worth $2,000 a year, if it were a philanthropic cause and I could afford that. We have lots of donors who make bigger contributions than that. But this is not the way and it’s hurting trust.
Nieman Lab
Alden Global Capital is miffed that The Dallas Morning News won’t offer itself up for disembowelment
The hedge fund threatens to shift their takeover bid to shareholders — while trying to sweet-talk the only shareholder that matters.
SEGMENT 3 - Minimum Wage, the Cost of Living, and the Padres
SD Chamber teams up with Padres
SEGMENT 4 - Congressional Race - The (potentially) Redrawn 48th District
Mason Herron ran numbers:
Congressional District 48 - Issa
Trump +15.3%
Trump: 56.4% | Harris: 41.1%
Harris +2.6%
Trump: 47.4% | Harris: 50.0%
Congressional District 49 - Levin
Harris +7.8%
Trump: 44.7% | Harris: 52.5%
Harris +12.1%
Trump: 42.5% | Harris: 54.6%
Congressional District 50 - Peters
Harris +29.6%
Trump: 33.6% | Harris: 63.1%
Harris +17.5%
Trump: 39.7% | Harris: 57.2%
Congressional District 51 - Jacobs
Harris +23.5%
Trump: 36.7% | Harris: 60.2%
Harris +18.0%
Trump: 39.6% | Harris: 57.5%
Congressional District 52 - Vargas
Harris +21.2%
Trump: 38.1% | Harris: 59.3%
Harris +16.8%
Trump: 40.3% | Harris: 57.1%
"I've spent my career fighting for workers, women's rights and safety for everyone — the very priorities Darrell Issa and Donald Trump attack at every turn," she said. "This will be a must-win seat to take Congress back from Trump, and I'm the only Democratic candidate running who has won an election, flipped a seat from red-to-blue and actually delivered for working people."
Early endorsements include State Senators Catherine Blakespear and Steve Padilla, Assemblymembers Tasha Boerner and Chris Ward, San Diego County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer and her council colleagues Stephen Whitburn and Jen Campbell, among others.
"This campaign is about making sure that all families, from San Diego to Riverside, have a representative who works for them," Campa-Najjar said in a statement released
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