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nesses need. The association seems to be avoiding those things. Nicholls has been saying things that have not been supported by the HBA board, and there’s nobody to rein him in at this point.” Nicholls sees it differently.


“The Hillcrest Business Asso- ciation should absolutely be involved in community plan- ning. It doesn’t matter how many street fairs we hold or promotions we run, if the neighborhood plan is going to stifle business, Hillcrest will continue to stagnate as it has since height limits were forced on the community.” Nicholls believes new


commercial and residen- tial development is key to Hillcrest’s future. And with new developments, he says, come new and improved infrastructure, a new focus on transit, and less need for parking. “In 2010 we began a pro-


cess to engage our members to gather their input on what they wanted to see for the plan. It was called Hillcrest 2.0 and involved comments from over 200 business people at five dif- ferent forums. Our meetings had vastly more input than the Uptown Planners meetings or the city workshops. Our mem- bers advocated for Little Italy– style development. My mem- bers want the kind of improve- ments that we’ve seen in that dynamic neighborhood. I have taken this mandate and advo- cated for it.”


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behind Gaffen comes from Jeff Jacobs, one of Irwin Jacobs’s four sons, who with Gaffen and longtime Jacobs associate Jeff Essakow, have set up Protea Water- front Development to rede- velop the bayfront property. City campaign disclosure


filings show that the three men have been longtime


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providers of major money to San Diego politicos, including $15,000 from Jeff Jacobs to the GOP Lincoln Club. For his part, Essakow and his wife have given over $20,000 to San Diego city campaigns and political causes, including $5050 to the 2016 reelec- tion campaign of GOP mayor Faulconer and $2000 to Republican city council- woman Lorie Zapf. Gaffen, family members,


and employees have come up with a grand total of $41,395 for city political campaigns since 2007, according to filings, with $6000 for the 2013 mayoral campaign of Democratic city councilman David Alvarez, $2000 for his opponent Faulconer, and $2500 for the Lincoln Club. Critics of Irwin Jacobs’s


Balboa Park road and park- ing-garage makeover say the project lacks financial transparency and that future park development sponsored by the billionaire and his family’s foundations could end up being a burden on city taxpayers. The family patriarch


has told the Union-Tribune that he doesn’t expect to be the only one to pay for the disputed megamillion- dollar undertaking.


Matt Potter


Poway schools’ rep gets bad rap “Corruption runs deep here, but the good outweighs the bad.” Much of the focus on the fir- ing of Poway Unified School District superintendent John Collins on July 13 has related to the alleged mis- appropriation of more than $300,000 in district funds, either improperly issued as vacation pay or directed to the accounts of his law- yers. But local leaders of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network say the problems created by Collins’s tenure go deeper, reflecting a lack of concern for minority stu- dents and an insider mental- ity that fails to address the


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needs of all students. “There was a time when


I loved John Collins, when I looked to him as a mentor,” said local National Action Network chapter vice presi- dent Chris Garnier, who grew up attending Poway schools and was at one point a dis- trict staffer (a wrongful-ter- mination suit is currently working its way through the courts). “It breaks my heart that


he placed a restraining order on me without board approval, that because of my strong stance on minority issues and taxpayer protec- tion that he went after me.... “John Collins and his lack


of tolerance has pushed me into the arena of social justice. His firing comes with a feeling of jubilation due to his lack of inclusion and lack of commitment to social justice.” Garnier and his father-


in-law, Keith Wilson, were the subjects of restraining orders Collins sought with- out school-board permission but used district funds to pay law firm Shinoff & Holtz to obtain. Garnier’s wife Kimberly,


also a National Action Net- work officer, lobbed addi- tional complaints. “Some of our test scores


are among the highest because [Poway Unified School District] gets rid of students it considers unde- sirable, who do not perform well on tests,” Kimberly said. “Some principals have actu- ally taken their struggling students aside for testing, and those students score remarkably high when [high scores] wouldn’t be the logi- cal result. Corruption runs deep here, but the good out- weighs the bad....” Network chapter presi-


dent Shane Harris referred to an “education achieve- ment gap” that he said was “important because it clearly defines the failures of the education system to properly educate every cul- ture within that system.” Dave Rice


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squelches the funny “Like I want everyone to know my middle name is Wilbur.” Over the Fourth of July week- end, longtime San Diego comedian Russ T Nailz was advised by Facebook that his personal page — one he’s had since Facebook started in 2004 — had received too many friends. The advisory said he had to have a fan page, rather than a personal page, because of too much traffic to the Nailz page. In order to get his per-


sonal page back, Facebook made him start using his real name — Russ Wilbur Stol- nack. “Like I want everyone to know my middle name is Wilbur,” he said. Nailz thinks he had only


about 1200 friends, but traf- fic to his page must have blown up just prior to the Fourth. He made several local TV and radio appear- ances promoting his upcom- ing comedy show that week- end, and he thinks that’s what triggered Facebook’s actions. “Over the years I added


friends. People I don’t know asked, and I said, ‘Sure.’ I just wanted to make people laugh and post funny pic- tures,” Nailz said. His new Facebook fan


page appears to be limited. Having to use his real name ruins the launch page for his comedic impressions, appearances, and photos as Russ T Nailz. He also said he’s been unable to post his live streaming videos, among other things. “The lines get blurred,”


he said. “Sometimes I want to get serious and people think it’s a joke.” If one searches Facebook


for Russ T Nailz, it comes back to his real name’s page. As of July 11, Nailz had


over 18,000 comments on his fan page. And he has regained 350 friends on his personal page, his middle name of Wilbur apparently no deterrent.


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