Print San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer is out of office and in the mix to challenge Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. But his record as mayor is remarkably checkered for a potential 2022 GOP gubernatorial candidate in the nation’s largest state, where only two Republicans have won statewide office this century — a Hollywood action hero as governor in 2003 and 2006 and a tech titan (who has since left the party) as insurance commissioner in 2006. Faulconer replaced disgraced former Mayor Bob Filner in 2014 and easily won re-election in 2016. Then his second term was rocky. Now the former San Diego State University student body president, public relations executive and city councilmember has a history at City Hall that will be cherry-picked by admirers and critics alike to paint a portrait of a mayor who did well in trying circumstances or one who was in over his head. He deserves praise for how he helped the city’s homeless population and how he managed the pandemic. Yet in major ways, he mismanaged the mayor’s office as never before.