Flashfax (July 13, 2005)

THE ROGER HEDGECOCK SHOW
KOGO/AM 600 - 3P - 6P (Pacific)
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
THE RADIO MAYOR OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY JULY 13TH   , 2005

TODAY ON THE RADIO: ROGER reviews his debate of yesterday. Perhaps some
shuttle chat (Lord be with the crew)…Today is the day we learn the vector
control vote outcome. Check out our homework page for items that you may
want to chat up. Homework by the way is mandatory:
 http://www.rogerhedgecock.com/rogersnews7-12-05.html


THE GREAT DEBATE….WAS….GREAT!!
(two hours straight)

ROGER moderated the debate live from the Windham Hotel in downtown San
Diego. Tough questions, plenty of time to answer and a lively interchange
between the six primary candidates for Mayor of SD City. A really fine use
of the public airwaves. There was so much detail that city voters will
likely want to review the debate again before casting the ballot. To that
end the debate is archived on ROGER’S website at www.rogerhedgecock.com
and we’ve also posted it on the Politics 2005 page on the website.

Many thanks to the Windham Hotel. They did a professional job of setting
up a ballroom and a green room for the candidates. When we needed to
expand the room because of audience overflow the hotel staff did so
quickly and quietly while we were on the air. We hadn’t visited this hotel
ever. The place is beautiful.

Parking is always a bit of a hassle downtown. ROGER and I decided to valet
park our cars to ease getting to the broadcast site and then out after the
show. The tab for about 4 hours of parking? $24 bucks a car. Yikes. ROGER
and I had to pool our money to pay the bill.

And we learned a lesson about commercial free debates. KOGO scraped all
commercials between 4pm and 6pm to allow maximum time for debate. The only
break was at the top of the 5pm hour for news. A mistake. The news slot is
scheduled to run 3 minutes. That meant that our debaters had just that
amount of time to stretch, visit a rest room and open a fresh bottle of
water. Not enough time, particularly after a full hour of pretty intense
debate. We had to pump in a couple-three minutes worth of promotional
announcements to allow all the candidates to get rested if you know what
we mean.

AND OUR KUDOS TO KOGO…our promotions and programming crew matched the
professionalism of the Windham Hotel. The broadcast room was set up to
serve a large live audience and our radio audience. Flawless is a good
word here.

THE CANDIDATES….a remarkably short campaign prompted by Dick Murphy’s
resignation has yielded an exceptional cadre of candidates. One may differ
with views of one or another but to a person the group is solid, savvy and
well versed and articulate. Been a while since we’ve had this caliber of
candidates. And the ponder is prompted, wouldn’t it be great if all
campaigns were this short? Weeks instead of months!!

We did notice that the dreaded B word appears to be less dreaded by many
of the candidates. Well, they call it re-organization, so they don’t have
to actually talk dirty with the B word. More and more of this group have
come to understand the reality of union thuggery. Union bosses will loosen
their grip on power only at the point of a court mandate.

ANYWHO…it’s about two weeks from election day. Please remember to VOTE YES
ON PROP A…SAVE OUR CROSS!! No confusion this time. Yes means keep our
Cross on Mt. Soledad. Period, simple, done!!

MUTTERINGS

**LONDON BOMBING….GB is a time bomb. Wonder the fuse hadn’t burnt down
sooner. The Brits harbor Islamic hate cases, allow Mosque preachers to
teach murder, refuse to extradite terror nuts from other countries, won’t
arrest terror suspects in own country and preach tolerance to a fair thee
well. Boom!! And the real scary part is that this group of killers may be
home grown. Native Brits. Good religious boys….hummmmm!!

**SAN DIEGO BUSINESS JOURNAL in this week issue notes that developers are
already licking lips over the possibility of BRAC adding the Broadway Navy
HQ and MCRD to the close it down list. Broadway is a missing piece for
downtown development and MCRD would allow expansion of Lindbergh Field.
Not sure there will be a lot of hassle about Broadway, that makes too much
sense, but the MCRD matter is another matter. Residents near the airport
likely to get stinky about closure and expansion of Lindbergh. Marines
ain’t happy either. The shutdown in San Diego would leave Parris Island as
the only recruit training place. But then the Navy put all it’s recruit
stuff up at the Great Lakes and that hasn’t caused the sea service a lot
of problems. Stay tuned!!

**WE GET ANOTHER UPDATE from our bud, a former San Diego Border Patrol
Agent who shifted to the northern USA border and then joined the Vermont
Guard and was instantly called to duty. His email handle is
“onefrozenmigra.” Anywho he gets some training at a place called Camp
Shelby and then boards an aircraft for Afghanistan.

You may have heard ROGER relate recently that our bud was allowed to get
on a chartered commercial aircraft for the Afghan flight with his
guns…M4’s, M-16’s and nine millimeter Beretta sidearms. But he was not
allowed to bring on board his nail clippers or tweezers. Hey, rules is
rules, right? (he also notes that the brass flew in first class…grunts in
coach)

Newest message is from an undisclosed location in the Afghan place. He
refers to the place as “Indian Country.” His first reaction is that the
Army is being real stingy with ammo. He gets a bare minimum amount of 9mm
ammo and none of the 5.56 stuff that he’d prefer. He notes that he carries
more ammo on him as a Border Patrol Agent than as a War Fighter on the
ground in Afghanistan.

Our bud also picks up right away that he’s bunked with some real stupid
folks. He sez that they had a chance to snag a #1 Taliban guy in the area
and refused to do so. Terror guy was 30 minutes away, an easy grab. Bud
sez Army wants folks to believe the area is Taliban free. Busting the guy
would have put lie to that assertion. (sounds like the Border Patrol
bosses).

“Onefrozen,” does ask us to send a shout out to the Chula Vista Border
Patrol Station for him. “Tell them old Victor 210 says hello and for them
to keep up the good work.” Pass the word along okay?

**VENTURED NORTH to Ithaca, New York over the past weekend. A reunion
trip. Ithaca is a college town. Both Ithaca College and Cornell are
located there. Lots of “peace” and “love,” bumper stickers…and “bring our
troops home,” and gag!! The 60’s never left this part of America. Folks
walk about in clothing made out of hemp. Everybody is drab and wrinkled
looking. You can’t smoke at some outdoor patio restaurant tables.

But this part of NY is beautiful this time of year. Trees and forests and
majestic pastures. Anytime anybody sez we’re destroying the planet take a
run thru here. The Lord’s bounty as far as the eye can see, well tended by
folks from our species.

**THE REUNION was disappointing. The state has become involved in the
George Junior Republic. No more student (citizen) government. No more
funny money and kids having to pay rent and for meals and having to work
to earn. Now they have social workers. The cottages have all gone to pot.
The place is a mess. John Galt has departed the premises.

**HOMEFRONT SAN DIEGO….We need you to visit with us come this Saturday
July 16th, at Budget Car Sales in El Cajon at 400 North Broadway. Live
music, Free food, kids face painting, bounce house and more!! A fund
raiser for Homefront San Diego. The second of three that Budget Car Sales
is doing for ROGER and his hometown military outreach. The event happens
from 11am until 2pm. Come boy, say hello to ROGER, grab a burger and big
dog in a bun. And you’ll be able to see Freedom’s Truck. But it ain’t for
sale. And thanks to the CA Army National Guard we’ll have a display of
military equipment from the Persian Gulf campaigns.

You can give us a couple of bucks or bring along a bagful of
non-perishable food items. We need both for our military families.

Our hotline serves both military families and those who want to help
military families: 866-424-9467

GOD BLESS AMERICA
WE REMEMBER SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
SAVE OUR CROSS - VOTE YES JULY 26TH
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