The homeless issue became a humanitarian crisis under Mayor Todd Gloria, and he’s lost control. As a Marine Officer, I supported humanitarian operations in impoverished countries using best practices – in America’s Finest City, I see professional politicians use worst practices.
The mayor says he’s tried his hardest. We must elect leaders
The homeless issue became a humanitarian crisis under Mayor Todd Gloria, and he’s lost control. As a Marine Officer, I supported humanitarian operations in impoverished countries using best practices – in America’s Finest City, I see professional politicians use worst practices.
The mayor says he’s tried his hardest. We must elect leaders based on results, not efforts.
The mayor’s plan is to put homeless San Diegans into Empty Promise Parking Lots and feed them pop-tarts. Who is surprised, then, when we see outbreaks of “mystery illnesses,” crime, and flooding. The last thing our city should be doing is pushing more homeless into another unsafe city encampment.
I personally know many homeless San Diegans in my capacity as a Community Relations Officer. These people are individuals with unique stories. Mayor Gloria, please stop shuffling homeless San Diegans outside downtown so you can congratulate yourself on decreasing homelessness “in the Downtown area.”
I have a plan that’s been successfully used around the world. Don’t let failed politicians trick you into believing this can’t be done. This crisis will be handled in the first 180 days of my
tenure. I will immediately direct the building of 5,000 shelter beds with true resources that
address mental health and addiction. I will identify those on the verge of homelessness and provide help. I will empower police to end the violent criminal element that hides amongst the homeless. The only thing stopping us from solving this crisis is the lack of will and courage. No more half measures.
For many years, San Diegans have complained about our potholes. So much so that Todd Gloria spoke about his plan for “sexy streets.” The effort put into that slogan matches the effort his administration put into our streets. The recent flooding was met with excuse after excuse on why his administration was not permitted to fix the canals,
For many years, San Diegans have complained about our potholes. So much so that Todd Gloria spoke about his plan for “sexy streets.” The effort put into that slogan matches the effort his administration put into our streets. The recent flooding was met with excuse after excuse on why his administration was not permitted to fix the canals, it was climate change’s fault, and the worst one of all was that no storm water system could have handled the mere inches of rain. It’s time to put some adults back in charge of our infrastructure.
The top two jobs of city government is safety and infrastructure and in both these responsibilities, the Mayor has failed that test miserably. The misery and suffering of our community demands change now. I ask you to allow me to be the adult in the room and make our infrastructure disaster a top priority as most voters agree it must be right now.
I am the only proven leader who is running for Mayor of San Diego. My leadership has been tested in the most adverse conditions around the world with outstanding results.
The only goal I have is to turn this out of control problem completely around, stop the insanity of allowing developers to keep the infrastructure fees San Diego obviously need, and make the most important investment of a functioning city infrastructure. No more potholes, no more floods, no more politicians who have proven time and again they are in way over their head.
Our convention center should be full year-round and that will happen when we’re known as the safest and cleanest city in America.
We need an aggressive approach to keep small businesses in San Diego and help them to be
successful. Previously, California was a desirable place to live. However, today we’re
experiencing the first ever populat
Our convention center should be full year-round and that will happen when we’re known as the safest and cleanest city in America.
We need an aggressive approach to keep small businesses in San Diego and help them to be
successful. Previously, California was a desirable place to live. However, today we’re
experiencing the first ever population decrease in California and San Diego is following.
I want to prove how great our city is.
We’ll entice businesses with economic incentives to bring their industry and jobs to our area creating new higher paying jobs for San Diegans. I want businesses to be excited to be in San Diego, instead of rushing to leave.
We will create a business-friendly government that will listen to small businesses and put in
place the policies to help them excel. While I can’t help with our national and state policies, I
will do everything in my power to make the impact caused by those politicians less severe on San Diegans through a dynamic and robust local economy.
Americans are tired of hearing politicians blame each other for decades about our border and immigration failures. These elected officials have dropped the ball and refuse to pick it up. San Diego has a large population of great immigrants who, whether documented or undocumented, are part of our San Diego family. This is personal to me as
Americans are tired of hearing politicians blame each other for decades about our border and immigration failures. These elected officials have dropped the ball and refuse to pick it up. San Diego has a large population of great immigrants who, whether documented or undocumented, are part of our San Diego family. This is personal to me as my wife’s family came here undocumented, worked like heck to make a positive difference for their children, and are now making great contributions as US citizens. So many similar San Diegans are here but feel they have to hide in the shadows, afraid to call police when they are victims of crime, and thus unable to fully become part of our amazing San Diego culture.
Mayor Gloria has done nothing to correct this situation. I have spoken to these groups and developed a trust that I plan on building when I become Mayor. We need an expedited process in San Diego for San Diegans to become documented and follow a faster path toward citizenship if that’s their goal. As San Diegans flee our once great city, we have room for hard working and ambitious families to join our team. The majority of our immigrant population are amazing people we welcome into our family.
But we do have the dark side of our border failures with the human trafficking, increased narcotics, crime, drug cartels and gangs. This provides a level of attention our local law enforcement and outreach organizations were never designed to handle. Our federal and state governments have failed miserably at doing their job to protect San Diegans and Mayor Gloria is never heard on this issue. When media first began reporting on the bus loads of migrants being dropped off in San Ysidro, I asked one of Mayor Gloria’s advisors if he had been notified by federal authorities prior. I was told the Mayor was informed prior, but this Gloria advisor then stated that it was not that bad because they weren’t being dropped off in San Diego. Hiring advisors who don’t know San Ysidro is San Diego is a symptom of a much larger problem with Mayor Gloria.
Give me the opportunity to demonstrate leadership on this. I am not beholden to a political party, so I will call out our state and national political leaders of both parties when they are guilty of dereliction of duty. If the situation worsens and we need greater enforcement assistance along our border, then I will call on the Governor to assist with all tools at his disposal. Believe me, I am not afraid to call out failed politicians. We will sue all the levels of government to recoup our losses by doing their job. If the federal government informs me they will be dropping off undocumented migrants in our city, you can bet I will call an immediate news conference to call them out and we will have humanitarian aid at the drop off site to help those migrants. How did we get to a point in our city where that is a bold approach? Nothing bold about that, its just common sense and how we should always treat those in need.
When you’re told that you should be grateful that San Diego is not the most dangerous big city in America, that it’s ranked somewhere in the middle, does that make you proud? Mayor Gloria touts this as a great accomplishment. Any Mayor who doesn’t demand from his administration anything less than being the safest city in America should be
When you’re told that you should be grateful that San Diego is not the most dangerous big city in America, that it’s ranked somewhere in the middle, does that make you proud? Mayor Gloria touts this as a great accomplishment. Any Mayor who doesn’t demand from his administration anything less than being the safest city in America should be fired. I will never accept anything short of safest city in America and I will make that happen.
Currently, we see an increase in every type of crime. I am on the street dealing with violence and crime everyday: our city has seen a dramatic increase in every type of crime and we all see this. This Mayor has led the single greatest departure from our police department, and those talented officers will not come back under his watch. He has no effective plan to recruit new officers. This Mayor prohibits police from enforcing current laws, and pushes for city ordinances which actually soften our enforcement on crime. This Mayor has pushed onto police the requirement to contact individuals up to four times before the police can take action. This Mayor has allowed there to be a shortage of call takers at our call center, leading to hold times of up to two hours. This leads to San Diegans hanging up or being taught by the Mayor to never call because it will take too long.
This Mayor’s actions have led to the police department to not accept calls for help regarding homeless individuals camping or using narcotics in your neighborhood, but forces you to complain via a website which takes several days to respond. Please allow me to turn this dire situation around. There are ways to bring the best and brightest police back to our city in large numbers. There are desperately needed reforms for our police department to bring them up to modern standards and in developing closer relationships with our communities.
I have the experience in this area that no other candidate can bring. While I have been a police officer for eight years, I was also a Marine for 23 years, so I am able to identify better the needs for change. Under this Mayor, the police have been handcuffed. Give me the opportunity to allow them to do their job. We can make this the city where kids can walk through the neighborhood without fear. We can have a trolley on which you’ll send your children without fear. Our elderly can walk the streets of downtown without being forced to walk in the street to avoid large encampments.
Why have we settled for these politicians who instead of doing their job, try to convince us this is unsolvable? They scoff at the common sense solutions because they truly aren’t courageous enough to stand up to their party. It is time for real leadership.
Intelligent, reliable transportation infrastructure should be top priority for our current leadership. But instead, we have focused on expensive bicycle lanes that are used far less than the “experts” expected, a trolley that is only used by about 3% of San Diegans, roads that regularly require San Diegans to pay for expensive vehicle rep
Intelligent, reliable transportation infrastructure should be top priority for our current leadership. But instead, we have focused on expensive bicycle lanes that are used far less than the “experts” expected, a trolley that is only used by about 3% of San Diegans, roads that regularly require San Diegans to pay for expensive vehicle repairs, sidewalks on which we can no longer walk with homeless encampments blocking them, the only major international airport in the US that has no direct highway entrance or trolley route, and of course, the countless MTS buses driving all over our city spewing pollutants into our atmosphere with few or no passengers.
The only proposed solution from Mayor Gloria is to pay developers hundreds of millions of dollars to build a 3 story trolley track through town to take passengers to the airport. There are plenty of other options besides providing large contracts to his big donors and special interests. I have a team of former city managers and transportation design specialists who will immediately begin a course correction for San Diego.
We’ve been letting Mayor Gloria drive this empty bus in circles and we have gotten nowhere over these past three years. San Diego can’t get those three years back, but we can avoid making the same mistake again. Mayor Gloria and his misguided advisors need to find new work and we need to help them on that journey by electing a proven leader who is not a politician, a leader with no strings attached by the donors and special interests, a leader with no future aspirations for elected office. We can correct the failures of these past three years and put us back on a trajectory to being the greatest city in the world.
It’s unfortunate that the mayor has denied residents who have contributed to San Diego a voice in the housing situation. The people who live in the neighborhoods should always have the greatest say in what plans the city imposes on their neighborhoods.
And let’s just consider the loss of the remaining green canopies in our city. Did we f
It’s unfortunate that the mayor has denied residents who have contributed to San Diego a voice in the housing situation. The people who live in the neighborhoods should always have the greatest say in what plans the city imposes on their neighborhoods.
And let’s just consider the loss of the remaining green canopies in our city. Did we forget about our quest to protect and save the environment? Our current mayor isn’t interested in saving trees and greenspaces in our communities. Instead, he is focused on building apartment complexes without parking, water, sewage, or power upgrades to the area, basically
without much thought of the consequences.
I’m about smart growth and preserving what makes San Diego the greatest city in the world. We do need affordable housing. However, what’s currently being constructed under the current mayor’s agenda isn’t affordable.
Our local government is using old growth numbers which has been challenged as invalid and inflated. San Diego is facing a population decrease that is being reported by the local and
national media.
We know that we’re not doing an acceptable job of assessing the developments currently on the market in the city: the quantity, type of units, and rental costs. It’s likely, we’re adding density to communities that may already be over saturated.
People are leaving San Diego because of safety concerns, cost of living, lack of affordable housing and their inability for home ownership.
I want to help San Diegans develop a pathway toward home ownership in our city and be a part of the American dream. We can do this without increasing density and destroying the quality of life for all San Diegans.
Copyright © 2024 Larry Turner for Mayor - All Rights Reserved.
We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.