MIRA MESA — The chase for San Diego's alone accessible Burghal Board bench is heating up, with candidates criticizing anniversary other's voting annal and Republican Chris Cate accusing Democrat Carol Kim of authoritative promises she can't accumulate apropos bounded schools.
The chase will advice appearance the council's political dynamics. Kim charge defeat Cate for Democrats to absorb a 6-3 majority that allows them to override vetoes by Republican Mayor Kevin Faulconer. If Cate wins, the Democratic majority will compress to 5-4.
The altercation over voting annal began aftermost weekend back Kim accused Cate of declining to vote in 80 percent of contempo elections.
Carol Kim, applicant for San DiegCity Board Commune 6.
— K.C. Alfred Carol Kim, applicant for San DiegCity Board Commune 6. — K.C. Alfred
That prompted Cate to affair a account absolution agitation that by assuming that he's voted in 13 afterwards elections back 2006. During the aforementioned period, Kim didn't casting a acclamation in three elections: the 2012 presidential primary, the 2010 gubernatorial primary and a 2008 primary.
"We're aggravating to set the almanac straight," Cate said in a buzz account this week.
In response, Kim said the ambit of elections called by Cate was egoistic because it began aloof afterwards four afterwards times he bootless to casting a ballot: the 2004 presidential election, two elections in 2005 and a aldermanic primary in 2006.
"Chris Cate would accept you accept his voting almanac is perfect, but he is actuality deceptive," said Kim attack backer Jennifer Tierney.
Cate said he absent those four elections because he was young, accessory academy and active a business. Cate is 31 and Kim is 38.
Cate additionally attacked Kim this anniversary for authoritative promises apropos bounded schools that he says would be absurd to accumulate because board associates accept no administration over schools.
On her official acclamation statement, Kim says she will alike "the burghal and academy systems to abate chic sizes, cut aerial so money goes anon to classrooms and advance in after-school programs and career abstruse education."
Cate said the account shows that Kim is either aboveboard about how government works or carefully ambiguous voters.
"As a Burghal Councilmember you accept no administration whatsoever over the academy commune budget," Cate said. "She's activity to focus on a botheration she has no ascendancy over."
Kim said she affairs to coact with academy commune officials, not do their jobs for them.
"This is absolutely why Chris Cate shouldn't be on the Burghal Board — he isn't accommodating to attending accomplished the archetypal description of the duties of a board affiliate to focus on means government agencies can coact to amplitude our tax dollars," said Tierney, the Kim spokeswoman.
Mail-in ballots for the Nov. 4 acclamation go out Oct. 6. The candidates are gluttonous to represent Commune 6, which includes Mira Mesa, Kearny Mesa and genitalia of Clairemont and Rancho Penasquitos.
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Title : Candidates batten over voting records, promises
Description : MIRA MESA — The chase for San Diego's alone accessible Burghal Board bench is heating up, with candidates criticizing anniversary o...