{"id":8836,"date":"2022-06-17T16:42:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T23:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8836"},"modified":"2022-06-17T10:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T17:00:25","slug":"the-man-has-a-temper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8836","title":{"rendered":"The Man Has a Temper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Mary Ann Wentnik<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once upon a time in California, a young Marine sergeant left the military to pursue a career in politics.\u00a0 Combining his military service with a conservative narrative, he seemed a perfect fit for the Republican Party.\u00a0 Indeed, that won him an election and sent him to the State Assembly less that a year later.\u00a0 There he served honorably and well to the point that his fellow Republican Assembly members elected him as Republican whip in another two years.\u00a0 He was popular at home, too, and, facing term limits, chose to run for San Diego City Mayor in 2012.\u00a0 One of his opponents was another popular Republican politician who had concentrated his career on city issues and just served a very successful term on the San Diego City Council.\u00a0 Both men sought the San Diego County Republican Party\u2019s endorsement.\u00a0 The councilman won it, and our Assemblyman, in a fury, announced he was no longer a Republican but would re-register and pursue his mayoral campaign as an Independent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In so doing, he virtually assured the election of Democrat Bob Filner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Filner resigned less than a year later in disgrace, and our former Assemblyman, now a Democrat, again ran for Mayor and again lost.\u00a0 Unabashed, he took a senior corporate position and became an adjunct professor at the University of California, San Diego.\u00a0 He became increasingly active in local Democratic Party politics and divorced his Republican wife to date then marry a Democrat CA Assembly leader.\u00a0 Throughout this period, he moved from his former conservative stance to an increasingly liberal, not to say progressive position.\u00a0 It paid off for him.\u00a0 In 2018 he was elected as a San Diego County Supervisor and has since supported numerous liberal policies including the redefinition of women to include anyone claiming that gender under any and all conditions.\u00a0 He also supported Biden\u2019s and Newsom\u2019s vaccine mandates, even going so far as to post the attached Instagram posting after being questioned.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kusi.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/r\/q\/nathan-fletcher-instagram-response.jpg\" alt=\"Supervisor Nathan Fletcher tells San Diegans they are too dumb to research  COVID -\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we said, the man has a temper \u2013 which in this particular diatribe also underlines his personal arrogance and disdain for any who choose to disagree with him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s defeat this opportunistic egoist who has shown time and again he\u2019ll let nothing stand in the way of his own ambition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stop Nathan Fletcher.\u00a0 Elect Amy Reichert!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Mary Ann Wentnik Once upon a time in California, a young Marine sergeant left the military to pursue a career in politics.\u00a0 Combining his military service with a conservative narrative, he seemed a perfect fit for the Republican Party.\u00a0 Indeed, that won him an election and sent him to the State Assembly less&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - 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