POINT LOMA & OB DEMS

Omar Passons @omarpassons moderated a timely discussion of Short Term Rentals with a knowledgeable panel consisting of:

• Belinda Smith @lindismith, Short Term Rental Alliance of San Diego
• John Anderson @j_p_a_, North Park homemaker and AirBnB host
• Joe LaCava @joe_lacava, clubmember, Chair of the San Diego Community Planners Committee and candidate for San Diego City Council District 1
• Gil Cabrera @gilcabrera, Owner, the Cabrera Firm, APC and candidate for San Diego City Attorney
• Giovanni Ingolia @IngoliaGiovanni, Co-Chair of the OB Community Plan update sub-committee, has served 8 years on the OB Planning Board and former chair
• Eric Murphy @UNITEHERE30, Research Analyst for UNITE-HERE Local 30, a union of more than 4,500 hotel and food service workers in the San Diego area

For more details of the meeting read our summary here.

As well as the panel introductions and wrap-up we’ve included much of the Questions and Answers section of the meeting in this month’s Podcast. The Q&A was edited for improved audibility while retaining the running order of the discussion. We encourage you to subscribe to our Podcast channel here. You can also find us on the iTunes Store just search for Point Loma & OB Dems or click here, as well as on Stitcher.

https://pointlomadem.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/short-term-rentals-wtf_-e28093-what_s-the-future_.m4a

Recordings used during the discussion do not contain explicit language.

Music used by kind permission of the Oily Buoys.

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In October 2023 our guest speaker was Art Castañares. He joined us to discuss the latest impact mailers had on local elections and the rules surrounding their use.

Here are a few recent articles of interest, written by Art Castañares in La Prensa San Diego.

https://laprensa.org/massive-campaign-cheating-scheme-run-democratic-consultants

https://laprensa.org/political-consultants-caught-working-against-same-candidate

Since the meeting, La Prensa San Diego was awarded the 2023 Media Watchdog Award for their coverage of goverment officials.

Art has been the publisher of La Prensa San Diego since 2015. Winner of the Ruben Salazar Award for Excellence in Journalism. Mr. Castañares has more than 30 years of governmental and business experience. Prior to becoming a journalist, Castañares served for 13 years as staff for the California State Legislature, and also provided political and marketing consulting to clients throughout California.

We encourage you to subscribe to our Podcast channel here. You can also find us on the iTunes Store just search for Point Loma & OB Dems or click here.

Recordings used during the discussion do not contain explicit language.

Music used by kind permission of the Oily Buoys.

What are Podcasts? Our podcasts are edited audio recordings of our meetings made freely available on the Internet.

One-third of all Americans (12 years of age or older) have listened to a podcast according to Pew Research on Podcasts.

Our podcasts are a great way to share information from our guest speakers for free and enable us to reach a wider audience.

We hope you enjoy our podcasts. Let us know what you think in the comments.

Crimmigration is the intersection between criminal law and immigration law.

From a recent review of “Crimmigration Law, Second Edition”:

For most of the nation’s history criminal law and procedure and immigration law and procedure operated almost independently of the other. Criminal law and procedure were thought to be the province of prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys and the state and federal judges. Immigration law, in contrast, was confined to immigration courts housed within the executive branch of the federal government and staffed by immigration attorneys, immigration judges and prosecutors employed for many years by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and now the Department of Homeland Security.

American Bar Association, August 9, 2021

We had a great panel of speakers including local defense attorney Gerry Wasson, Andrew Nietor, chair of the local American Immigration Lawyers Association and Aude Ruffing, Staff Attorney at the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA).

We encourage you to subscribe to our Podcast channel here. You can also find us on the iTunes Store just search for Point Loma & OB Dems or click here.

https://pointlomadem.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/crimmigration-2021-10-17.m4a

Recordings used during the discussion do not contain explicit language.

Music used by kind permission of the Oily Buoys.

What are Podcasts? Our podcasts are edited audio recordings of our meetings made freely available on the Internet.

One-third of all Americans (12 years of age or older) have listened to a podcast according to Pew Research on Podcasts.

Our podcasts are a great way to share information from our guest speakers for free and enable us to reach a wider audience.

We hope you enjoy our podcasts. Let us know what you think in the comments.