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Matt Hall
 
17,785 votes
46.2%
- Occupation: Councilmember/Businessman
  
Priorities:
- Economy and Jobs
 - Pension Reform
 - Quality of Life
  
Keith Blackburn
 
15,662 votes
40.6%
- Occupation: Carlsbad Councilman/Businessman
 - Master's degree in organizational management.
 - Bachelor's degree in personnel development .
 - Certified to teach critical thinking and managerial ethics .
 - Certified by the Josephson Institute of Ethics.
 - Founding partner of the Carlsbad Company Stores.
 - Recipient of the American Legion Heroism Award.
  
Priorities:
- Balance the budget and increasing revenue by supporting upgrades to Car Country Carlsbad and Westfield Mall.
 - Complete Alga Norte Park & Aquatic Center.
 - Implementing new traffic signal technology and signalizing crosswalks on Carlsbad Boulevard.
  
Glenn R. Bernard
 
3,424 votes
8.9%
- Occupation: Retired USMC Officer
 - BA from Whittier College (dbl major, Economics and Business Administration; PE Minor
 - M.Ed from Chapman University
 - Owner, BestStreetsInAmerica.com which omits the other 49 states; makes Carlsbad look great
 - Patent-Owner for SoccerGolf (Par3Soccer.com)
 - 20 months with FBI in Washington DC
 - Although opposing oil drilling in any ocean, was quoted in the Financial Times, Sept 2008, as favoring natural gas production in remote areas
  
Priorities:
- "Double encouragement" for everybody to install solar by waiving City's permit fees (and get the income tax credits for solar while we can)
 - Repeal of goofy new ordinance, CS-072, requiring Carlsbad to unnaturally become "forested," whilst eliminating great and valuable mtn & ocean views
 - All city jobs, less firefighters & EMT's, should become outsourced prior to Jan 1, 2016.  Prop G too timid,as it addresses pensions while ignoring pay
  
Walt Meier
 
1,665 votes
4.3%
- Occupation: Irrigation Repair Specialist
 - State Licensed Landscape Architect
 - Open Space Activist
 - Businessman and consultant, 54 years
 - Strategist, Ronald Reagan for President 1980
 - Howard Jarvis Tax Payer Association Prop. 13 Proponent
 - Four years California Polytechnic University, Pomona
  
Priorities:
- Purchase open space, as dictated in voter approved proposition "C" in 2002
 - Follow the core values of "Envision Carlsbad"
 - Open door policy, active, visible Mayor
  
  
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