Jim Dean – chair of Democracy for American and the brother of one-time presidential candidate Howard Dean – will visit Stockton this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. to endorse council candidate Michael Tubbs. Tubbs billed this as his second national bump, the first being in the form of a $10,000 campaign donation from Oprah. Tubbs is [...]
The Stockton City Council race to watch is between Michael Tubbs and incumbent Dale Fritchen. Fritchen distinguished himself as the lone wolf who opposed Stockton’s bankruptcy filing, and yet Tubbs beat him in the June primary by some 12 percentage points. Next the race goes citywide, where the dynamics are different. Fritchen seems to have [...]
The most interesting Stockton race headed into November is for District 6 – Dale Fritchen v. Michael Tubbs. Reporter Roger Phillips explored the city races in this story. And this 2009 story explains Fritchen’s history with the B-word and his uttering of it in a budget meeting derailing a bond sale (allegedly). Fritchen’s response at [...]
