Enron by the Sea triumphs again. Give credit to the con artists who masked the facts regarding Proposition D.\u00a0In San Diego, the “strong mayor” form of government preceded the city council\/manager form of government and dates back to 1931 when the public\u00a0got fed up with its ongoing corruption\u00a0and ousted the then-strong mayor and created San Diego\u2019s city council\/manager government. Mayor Jerry Sanders and\u00a0City Councilmen Kevin Faulconer and Carl DeMaio made many believe it was the city manager who created the pension mess, when in reality it was then-Mayor Susan Golding who orchestrated it. Ironically, this is the same mayor and same councilmen who approved cutting police, creating fire station brownouts, cutting library and recreation center\u00a0hours \u2014 yet who mystically claim to have money to spend on a ninth, unneeded $1 million-plus City Council district. Much of their false claim of need was to break the voting ties at City Council,\u00a0which could have been done by bringing the mayor back to the council meetings. Again, give credit to the con artists who planned the whole series of “strong mayor” ballot proposition elections in off-election years, when typically only around 35 percent of the eligible voters turn out. Then there are the large sums of special-interest money from developers and the like who helped to buy\u00a0much of the pro publicity, and who then have\u00a0easy access to the “strong mayor.” This mayor and the same councilmen made many claims of correcting the financial mess this city was in. In reality, they have only succeeded\u00a0in cutting public services and deferring the bulk of\u00a0the mess into the future through restructured bonds at even greater cost to the public. Outsourcing? That is just another way for the “strong mayor” to pay off campaign contributors. So fasten your seatbelts, San Diegans. It\u2019s going to be a bumpy ride. Oh … and don\u2019t forget to thank the San Diego County Taxpayers Association the next time you get a water-bill increase or other fee increases to pay for that $1 million-plus ninth council district, not including\u00a0its staff healthcare and pension benefits.\u00a0 \u00a0 Jarvis Ross Point Loma<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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