The current San Diego City Attorney and her two immediate predecessors have differing views on who is responsible for the final approval of the 101 Ash St building deal, but the City Charter points to only one ultimate legal authority that was empowered to approve the deal: the current City Attorney, Mara Elliott.
Todd Gloria Says He’s ‘the Son of a Maid and a Gardener’, But Critics Question Accuracy
(Pictured above, Todd Gloria with his parents, Phil and Linda Gloria, and his partner, Adam Smith, on March 3, 2020, at Registrar of Voters. Photo credit John Gibbins / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
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State Assemblyman and candidate for Mayor of San Diego Todd Gloria has consistently told voters that he’s become a successful community leader having been raised as
“the son of a maid and a gardener” as a way to demonstrate that he’s not part of the elite political establishment, but that narrative is now being challenged after he admitted his “mom and dad were a maid and a gardener in the 1970s” before he was born and his dad has been an aerospace industry executive for most of Todd’s lifetime.
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In 2012, when Mayor Jerry Sanders led the push for Proposition B a ballot measure that would end guaranteed pensions for most new city hires The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board offered strong support, and nearly 2 in 3 voters approved the change. The extreme cost of public employees’ retirement benefits is the main reason the California State Auditor’s Office says dozens of cities face severe fiscal risk in coming years.
The case for costly public service retirement benefits is weak, the concept long put to pasture in the private sector and deeply unfair to taxpayers. There’s no evidence it’d be hard to find government job candidates if pensions were akin to Social Security benefits. When state and local government worker pensions began rising in 1999, it was a reflection of union clout not recruitment difficulties. The result is hundreds of thousands of government retirees who often get 75 percent or more of their final pay for decades after leaving thei
The San Diego County government has entered a new era with the departure of termed-out Republican Supervisors Dianne Jacob, who served 28 years, and Greg Cox, who served 26 years. A county board long dominated by the GOP now has three first-term Democrats in charge new board Chair Nathan Fletcher and new members Nora Vargas and Terra Lawson-Remer. In a recent Zoom interview with The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board, Fletcher vowed an “aggressive” challenge to a county bureaucracy with a history of complacency. He wants improvements in “public health, mental health, substance abuse and behavioral health.” He said the county would see its role going forward as being how “to do the greatest good for the greatest number in a financially responsible way.”