The battle began on March 10, the day San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis formally announced her candidacy for mayor of San Diego. A City Hall watchdog, Shapiro immediately filed a request under the California Public Records Act (CPRA)—a sort of citizen’s subpoena—to find out how effectively Dumanis’ office has investigated corruption and fraud perpetrated by politicians.

“The inmate seemed quite apprehensive about the interview, the fourth he’d had in a matter of four days,” wrote psychologist Hy Malinek about Small. It was Saturday, March 24, 2007, and Small was set to be released from prison the following day. 

Peters expressed sympathy for the protesters, but he was dismissive of the idea of a demonstration at the port. Peters said he’d checked and he was fairly certain there would be no protest. Boy, was he wrong.

Goldsmith said his support of the initiative is meaningless. If that’s true, why did he bother showing up at that press conference in April?

It began recently when a longtime community activist sent out an email questioning the leadership qualities of former San Diego school board member Shirley Weber, the most familiar name in a growing field seeking the newly shaped 79th District seat.

We interviewed Congressional candidate Scott Peters about the city’s pension mess, the securities scandal that blew up during his tenure on the City Council, his policy priorities, President Obama, Occupy Wall Street, the Republicans and more.