Ouch! Yeouch, even!

So who’s a better option. Padilla?

Hi Cool DMZ thanks for the link! Will return the favor for sure in the future. I hear you about the immigrant remark. What’s shocking about it is that we’re ALL immigrants. I think the word she was looking for was IGNORANTS. Yes, we certainly have a LOT of ignorants, and Fargo is the village ignorant supreme

1) We are not ALL immigrants. Unless you count people from other States in the Union, which I don’t.
2) Lets objectively look at the numbers: I’d like to see the immigrant (broken down by both illegal and legal) perp crime rates, compared to the non-immigrant crime rate, to support/refute this comment. FBI stats would be fine.

A) She’s nuts and/or out of touch, and should not get our support.

OR

B) She’s right and willing to say things that are unpopular but technically true, and therefore should get our support.

So what do the numbers say? Let’s see, shall we?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1717575,00.html
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/cacounts/CC_208KBCC.pdf
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-106492.html

No FBI stats, but interesting…

You have a transcript or some place you can point me to for that quote? I don’t remember reading it in the Weintraub piece, obviously.

I am, of course, referring to her quote about immigrants.

Raddogg - http://www.sacbee.com/weintraub/story/932913.html

What did ya’ll think of El Patron?

Ugh. One of the few times in my life I’m seriously considering not voting at all. Our choices stink.

Jesse: I hear you. I think badhairday put it best, our options stink. I suppose that means we’re stuck with 4 more years of this cluelessness.

Turty Squip: I think there is a C) she has no idea what she is talking about, was caught completely off guard by the line of questioning, and just started putting words together.

How many people here have lived in another major city and were familiar with that city’s mayoral race? From what I can see, many cities’ mayoral races are filled with flawed, less than stellar candidates. Look at our great neighbor, San Francisco. Gavin Newsom will steamroll over any opponent. Even though the homicide rate is the highest in 12 years. Even though he, like Fargo, has failed to get citywide Wifi off the ground. Even though he’s the type of guy to bang his best friend’s wife. At least SF’s budget is in the black. Oh wait, nevermind, it had a projected $340 million deficit.

If a far greater city like SF can’t produce a mayor without glaring deficiencies (to his credit, Newsom also has plusses. But so does Fargo)., then why should we bitch and moan about Sac’s candidates?

Don’t forget Newsom also banged a subordinate. I don’t know why he wasn’t recalled for that, it’s horrendously crooked.

Other than the usual public figures like BLoomberg, it appears that the bar for US mayors isn’t too high:
http://www.time.com/time/press_releases/article/0,8599,1050348,00.html

As a former SF resident, I can attest to the fact that our Mayoral deficit is not unique to Sacramento. Hell, I was there during the Frank Jordan era. Ack!

DMZ - You forget the “3-S” cardinal rule of politics and sex - If both participants are straight, single and sexy, no one cares.

you guys are letting the city council off way too easily here.

TP, it is very important to remember that we have a ‘weak mayor’ system here, and that the person really running the show is the City Manager and, to some extent, respective department heads. We tend to think that the mayor is the person ‘in charge’ with the power to be a chief executive, when that really isn’t true.

Just because other cities have bad choices for mayor too doesn’t make it OK that Sacramento is joining that party.

Very good point about the weak mayor system, Stickie. Of course, it doesn’t excuse Fargo’s lame-brained reponses on crime, flooding, and budget issues.

My question is…does anyone really believe KJ can do any better? (I mean, come on, the guy’s under a federal investigation, St Hope has had more scandals than successes, etc. etc.)

I hate to vote with a sense of doom, but that’s what I’ll be doing this time. For Fargo. Um. Yay.

So it’s not that she was factually wrong- just that she would say something so “offensive to some people”?

she must be talking about those damned irish with their drinking and babymaking…

For those who asked, the exact quote is:

Daniel W/Sacbee: “Crime has also been dropping in San Diego and San Jose, the state’s No. 2 and No. 3 cities in terms of population. In San Jose, a city of nearly 1 million people, the murder rate is one-fourth what it is in Sacramento. The rate for rapes is about 60 percent that of the capital, the robbery rate is 25 percent as high as it is here and the assault rate is about one-third as high as Sacramento. I pressed Fargo to speculate about what might explain the difference.

“We do have a lot of immigrants,” she said..

Contrast this against her recent interview with Inside East Sacramento this month where she cited “diversity” as being the city’s greatest strength. : Joe reaches for Advil :

Well- East Sac’s diversity is a whole lot different from Sacramento’s at large.

Maybe she is expecting a benevolant vigilante to clean it all up. That’s what happens in Spiderman.