Lately I find myself shocked, hurt and disappointed by the war LGBT Weekly seems to be mounting against city councilmember and mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio.

In fact, you can read some sort of attack against him in the LGBT Weekly almost every week, and it has become very disturbing.

I say this as a young voter, a community organizer, a veteran, a proud member of the San Diego Democrats for Equality (SDDE), former member of the LGBT redistricting task force, and most importantly, a Democrat.

SAN DIEGO – Elections are more than a year away, but at this point, is it already possible to determine whether Republicans will come out on top, or are many voters still undecided?

Mayoral Race

According to a recent San Diego mayoral survey conducted by Survey USA for KGTV/10News, Councilmember Carl DeMaio and Rep. Bob Filner are the two front-runners in the race, each garnering 25% of the potential votes.

Support for District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis came in at 16%, with 10% for Assemblymember Nathan Fletcher.

SAN DIEGO – The upcoming week is jam-packed with Republican-related events featuring national and local candidates.

With President Barack Obama likely running unopposed for the Democrats, much of the debates and events at this point have been all about the Republican Party. On Monday, Sept. 12, the front-runners for the GOP nomination met in Florida for the Tea Party Debate hosted by CNN; that is, all of the candidates except the openly-gay Republican, Fred Karger.

Some people involved in politics (elected officials and activists, alike) sure know how to squash a dream.

Ever since I was 15 years old, I had this dream of one day running for a seat on San Diego's City Council. In 1995, when I was in the ninth grade, then-District 7 City Councilmember Judy McCarty came to my school to speak. After the assembly, I rushed up to her staffer and asked if I could intern in her office (I don't even think I knew what the word "intern" meant then - it just sounded good).