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<\/a>Coons, who told his supporters of his decision the previous Saturday, will continue working with Alvarez to become the \u201cchief advocate\u201d for citizens, elevating the economy for small and large businesses as well as tourism, and \u201ccreating a transportation system that is truly integrated for all communities,\u201d a separate Coons press release stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs our next mayor, [Alvarez will] be the one to make tough decisions, standing up to the Downtown power brokers and outside interests to ensure that the residents of San Diego can have an improved quality of life,\u201d Coons said.<\/p>\n
Alvarez was grateful for Coons\u2019 support, and touted his continual work at SOHO as important to San Diego\u2019s neighborhoods.<\/p>\n
\u201cBruce\u2019s tenure as an activist, advocate and leader in our city cannot be understated. I\u2019m extremely proud to have his endorsement and look forward to working with him as mayor,\u201d Alvarez said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBruce has elevated the conversation in this election to the things we both care most about, the residents, the disadvantaged [and] community groups,\u201d Alvarez said, \u201cand encompassing all of that are the quality-of-life issues that are infrastructure [and] community character, to mass transportation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also at the Oct. 7 announcement, Coons outlined a new Neighborhood Partnership PAC he was creating that will focus on these same quality-of-life issues for residents, students and property owners throughout San Diego\u2019s neighborhoods. The political action committee would also be a way for residents to participate in future public service initiatives.<\/p>\n
The Neighborhood Partnership PAC\u2019s mission is to create \u201cpolitical means\u201d for improving San Diegans\u2019 quality of life by \u201cmanaging growth, encouraging and sustaining neighborhood diversity [and] community character, and increasing economic viability,\u201d his release said. Coons will remain executive director of SOHO.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am excited and more determined than ever before to protect, preserve and promote San Diego,\u201d he said. \u201cThe city has been reenergized by my campaign\u2019s ability to change the conversation and to elevate the dialogue to include the real issues facing all San Diegans today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coons said the non-partisan PAC would use similar means as SOHO to \u201cbring up the politicians of the future,\u201d primarily through promoting participation in neighborhood community groups and planning boards. This is one of the \u201cdriving forces\u201d for forming the PAC, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Neighborhood Partnership will also focus on large-scale voter registration drives and make sure all viable candidates have a forum to be heard. Clearly when highly qualified candidates cannot be heard above the noise of special interests, something has gone wrong in our political process,\u201d the Coons release said.<\/p>\n
A Democrat, Coons\u2019 withdrawal from the mayoral race leaves four remaining front-runner candidates for the Nov. 19 special election: democrats Alvarez, Nathan Fletcher and Michael Aguirre, as well as Republican and current Councilmember Kevin Faulconer.<\/p>\n
Coons ended by thanking his neighborhood supporters, SOHO board and staff, and wife Alana, and said it was important to continue to push civic conversations.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that\u2019s what I will be doing, and I invite you to join me in the effort to bring a more informed candidate into the mayor\u2019s office,\u201d he said. \u201cVote for David Alvarez and help bring the progressive vision to City Hall.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SOHO leader forms neighborhood PAC & pushes progressive vision By Anthony King | SDUN Editor Save Our Heritage Organisation (SOHO) executive director and businessman Bruce Coons dropped out of the mayoral race and backed candidate and current Councilmember David Alvarez in his bid for mayor. The official announcement was made at Coons\u2019 University Heights campaign […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":246633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Coons withdraws from mayor\u2019s race, endorses Alvarez","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11551,11550,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","category-top-stories","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}