DeMaio continues giveaway to hotelier donors  Friday, April 6,
2012  Carl DeMaio has spent months pushing for special rules to
apply to rich downtown hoteliers, and the hypocrisy continues
tying him in knots. On the one hand he talks a good game about
transparency, accountability and the right for the public to
vote on policy. On the other, he's pushed for a possibly illegal
special district of hoteliers, pushed to let them tax the public
with no public input, and led the charge to privatize control of
the Convention Center. And now it's getting worse.  In a recent
series, Voice of San Diego has highlighted yet another problem
in the whole process, especially given DeMaio's lip service
about transparency and public accountability. It turns out, when
hoteliers hold their special vote, nobody will know how the
votes are divided up. Since the council set things up so that
the votes are divided up based on how much business the hotels
have been doing, the public isn’t allowed to know who gets how
many votes. Beca