Candidate for
Mayor; City of San Diego

Honor, you don't hear much about that in today's world, but it will be an important part of my candidacy. No one wants to hear about bad news, but if I have bad news to tell, you'll hear it. I've had plenty of bad news to tell my boss in my current job, and it is part of the job, it will be a part of my job as Mayor too.

Responsibility: As your Mayor I will be responsible for helping the City Council make important decisions regarding your city and I will help them make the right ones. No more pandering to the special interests, but making decisions based on what is RIGHT.

Accountability: I will hold myself and everyone else accountable for their actions, whether it is a decision at City Hall, or it is the crews that are repairing our streets. If it isn't done right the first time, it will be fixed and the people responsible will be held accountable.

San Diego needs a Mayor that will treat it as a job, not a hobby, or just something to do. I will be that person, walking away from a job that is secure and that I have done for 19 years. San Diego needs a Mayor that will the "human" and "right" things, with no pressure from anyone except my moral compass.

First off I intend to work with the City Attorney in solving the alleged illegality of the City's pension plan that has caused the City such grief and national attention, which would then restore our credit rating and get our City back on its feet.

Concurrently, I will be working with City Hall to draft a budget that will not cut Police, Fire or Education, anything else is fair game. That includes future plans for a downtown library and the under-grounding of city electrical wires and other non-public safety/education city services. I will take steps to reclassify De Anza Cove and make it a permanent place for people to live, which will remove a fiscal responsibility from the City and turn it into an income device.

I will work with Sacramento to get more power plants built to so that the rising utility costs can be offset to give the San Diego citizen more to spend on their local economy instead of utilities.

The Centre City Development Corporation will also get a good deal of my time as I work with to ensure that their funds are "theirs" and the City continues its growth as a tourist hotspot.