{"id":504431,"date":"2026-10-22T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504431\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:22:08","slug":"reasoning-behind-von-wilpert-endorsement-questioned-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504431\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasoning behind von Wilpert endorsement questioned \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cVon Wilpert, Levin for House\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/10\/16\/vote-for-von-wilpert-levin-to-end-maga-control-of-house\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 16<\/a>): I was saddened by the U-T Editorial Board\u2019s endorsement of Marni von Wilpert for the 48th Congressional District \u2014 not for the choice, but for the reason given. Supervisor Jim Desmond was praised as \u201ca voice of sanity in county government,\u201d while City Councilmember Von Wilpert was linked with Mayor Gloria\u2019s \u201cdysfunctional era.\u201d But Desmond is a Republican. That was it. That recalled the last mayoral election when a U-T editorial recounted Gloria\u2019s mistakes chapter and verse and then said to vote for him anyway. Look what that got us!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas W. Schoene, La Jolla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cVon Wilpert, Levin for House\u201d (Oct. 16): I was saddened by the U-T Editorial Board\u2019s endorsement of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-504431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}