{"id":3467,"date":"2008-10-13T04:31:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T11:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2008-10-12T17:37:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T00:37:58","slug":"union-tribune-picks-kulchin-and-blackburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3467","title":{"rendered":"Union-Tribune Picks Kulchin And Blackburn"},"content":{"rendered":"

To decide who they are going to endorse San Diego’s traditionally conservative Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong> sits all six candidates down with “a member of the editorial board” and lets them make their case for being elected. After that sit down the U-T<\/strong> selected Ann Kulchin<\/strong> and Keith Blackburn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here is some of their reasoning for Kulchin:<\/p>\n

Kulchin has a long record of service to her community. And while the prospect of new blood is always appealing, the 76-year-old hasn’t done anything to warrant her removal. She should be re-elected for what we’d respectfully suggest should be her final term.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And their Keith Blackburn<\/strong> logic goes like this:<\/p>\n

A family man and longtime resident of Carlsbad, Blackburn has a rare and useful blend of service in three fields: public, private and philanthropic. As a police sergeant who has been on the job for more than two decades, he understands the city better than most – and in ways that many other residents wouldn’t be able to appreciate. He has pledged to resign from the Police Department if elected. Blackburn is also a successful businessman, and he is the head of a family charitable foundation that donates funds to local community organizations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We figure if Ann Kulchin only wants one more go round she might as well start her retirement this year. And as much as we absolutely adore Keith Blackburn as the handsome, polite, well-spoken, thoughtful policeman straight out of central casting, we really don’t like the thought of the managing partner of a “$30 million real estate investment company” deciding the future of Carlsbad, no matter how much he says he loves “open space,” pristine beaches, and our “quaint Village.”<\/p>\n

[Link: <\/strong>San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To decide who they are going to endorse San Diego’s traditionally conservative Union-Tribune sits all six candidates down with “a member of the editorial board” and lets them make their case for being elected. After that sit down the U-T selected Ann Kulchin and Keith Blackburn. Here is some of their reasoning for Kulchin: Kulchin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}