SILLY ACCUSATION

As I said earlier this week, I'm no supporter of term limits, however term limits might help us rid our county of the stupidity that is Dianne Jacob (She Who Must Be Obeyed), another of our supervisors-for-life. I'm also not a supporter of San Diego Gas & Electric's power shut-off proposal.

But Jacob's accusation that SDG&E "stacked" the hearings with supporters of the plan is just plan silly. I attended the hearing that was held at Harrah's Rincon Casino a couple of months ago, attended by a couple of hundred people, and almost no one who spoke was in favor of the plan. Well, there were a couple of safety organizations that spoke in favor, but 90% of the people who spoke, and almost all of the audience, was against SDG&E's plan.

How this could be called "stacking" is beyond me, but it's typical of the kind of ridiculous things that Jacob says. I recall during the wildfires of 2003 that she accused then Governor Gray Davis of delaying fire-fighting resources to San Diego because, she alleged, he was punishing the county for being the birthplace of the recall movement against him!

This is as dumb as some of the things that Nancy Pelosi says about the CIA. But, because no one ever challenges Jacob in her secure district (unlike Bill Horn, who, although he too says ridiculous things frequently, does at least get viable challengers) she can get away with conspiracy theory type pronouncements that would get other politicians pilloried by the public and the media.