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Matt Hall
17,785 votes
46.2%
- Occupation: Councilmember/Businessman
Priorities:
- Economy and Jobs
- Pension Reform
- Quality of Life
Keith Blackburn
15,662 votes
40.6%
- Occupation: Carlsbad Councilman/Businessman
- Master's degree in organizational management.
- Bachelor's degree in personnel development .
- Certified to teach critical thinking and managerial ethics .
- Certified by the Josephson Institute of Ethics.
- Founding partner of the Carlsbad Company Stores.
- Recipient of the American Legion Heroism Award.
Priorities:
- Balance the budget and increasing revenue by supporting upgrades to Car Country Carlsbad and Westfield Mall.
- Complete Alga Norte Park & Aquatic Center.
- Implementing new traffic signal technology and signalizing crosswalks on Carlsbad Boulevard.
Glenn R. Bernard
3,424 votes
8.9%
- Occupation: Retired USMC Officer
- BA from Whittier College (dbl major, Economics and Business Administration; PE Minor
- M.Ed from Chapman University
- Owner, BestStreetsInAmerica.com which omits the other 49 states; makes Carlsbad look great
- Patent-Owner for SoccerGolf (Par3Soccer.com)
- 20 months with FBI in Washington DC
- Although opposing oil drilling in any ocean, was quoted in the Financial Times, Sept 2008, as favoring natural gas production in remote areas
Priorities:
- "Double encouragement" for everybody to install solar by waiving City's permit fees (and get the income tax credits for solar while we can)
- Repeal of goofy new ordinance, CS-072, requiring Carlsbad to unnaturally become "forested," whilst eliminating great and valuable mtn & ocean views
- All city jobs, less firefighters & EMT's, should become outsourced prior to Jan 1, 2016. Prop G too timid,as it addresses pensions while ignoring pay
Walt Meier
1,665 votes
4.3%
- Occupation: Irrigation Repair Specialist
- State Licensed Landscape Architect
- Open Space Activist
- Businessman and consultant, 54 years
- Strategist, Ronald Reagan for President 1980
- Howard Jarvis Tax Payer Association Prop. 13 Proponent
- Four years California Polytechnic University, Pomona
Priorities:
- Purchase open space, as dictated in voter approved proposition "C" in 2002
- Follow the core values of "Envision Carlsbad"
- Open door policy, active, visible Mayor
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North County Times
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