Bad Mayor Monday: Todd Gloria

that we like to call shitty mayres Monday. I don't know as we'll actually let us put shitty in the in the in the title. They might, they might. That's that's that's what we're calling it. That's what we're calling it on the can't stop us here. It would be funnier if it just had like ten seconds of bleep and then it was like bears Monday, like I'd said,

some truly unfathomable shit. Okay. So we've noticed that across America right there a lot of mayors who ran and were elected as liberals, progressives, certainly as Democrats, but tend to have governed in a particularly shitty and terrible way that doesn't really have any material difference from a Republican mayor, but like the way that they post on Instagram is a little bit different. So I guess that is nice.

And we're starting with the town I live in, which is San Diego, and with the mayor we have, who is Todd Gloria. The people might have heard of Tod Gloria, and last year we did we did an episode with several people who work with an How's people in San Diego Mutual Aid workers advocates, and they spoke a lot about Todd Gloria. Not in glowing terms, but we spoke

about Tod Gloria. So we're going to talk about his record on homelessness, We're going to talk about his life a little bit, and then we're going to look at sort of the promises he made when he was elected, I guess, and the things that he's done, which it will shock you to hear, are not the same things. And we're also going to talk about his hip hop video. Yeah yeah, yeah, Bunny really yeah he did. He did Return of the Mat but hilariously changed it to Todd

Gloria is Back. Oh yeah, No. If you want to see some problematically sinking, you're going to Yeah, Grace yourself. A local newspaper had a headline that called it the cringiest video ever, which rare wind for local media. Everyone's in a while, local news does one good thing. Yeah yeah, yeah, occasionally, like like like a stopped clock there, yeah exactly, yeah yeah,

all right. So when Todd Gloria talks about his early life, he talks about being the son of a maid in a gardener, and it's a way I think of distinguishing himself from the very few elites who have held power in the city for a very long time, people whose names are on every building. But his dad's LinkedIn profile

tells a little bit of a different story. According to his own LinkedIn account, Phil Gloria a sixty four, there's been in the aerospace industry for many years, including as a production controller at General Atomics, who people might remember as a manufacturers of the Predator and Reapid drones. Oh yeah, so it's a slightly different story, right, It's different from made in a gardener. Prior to working at General Atomics to a Gloria works for fourteen years the supervisor United Technologies,

another errors space and technology company. Gloria has clarified later that his parents didn't work in those specific fields that the son of a maiden a guiden the thing recently, but they did when he was born, so he wasn't he's not. Yeah, I don't, that's bullshit. Like I could,

I can. I could take this argument and argue that like I am the child of like a pancake maker and a dishwasher, like this is a yeah, yeah, it's like it's it's sort of classic like this classic politicians, right, like like telling enough of the truth for it not to be a lie, but but maybe not telling the whole truth. And like I know, like like my folks

worked in agriculture when I was a kid. They still do, but like they also worked very hard, you know to like provide for me and get a better splace in life. And I wouldn't want to run them down by denigrating the work that they did, but hey, I don't want

to be a mayor either. Yeah. It's also like also like you know, you don't get to do your fucking like burnishing working class credentials and then your dad worked for a fucking like yeah, yeah, none of my parents have ever made a reaper drone, so I guess I do have that in my favor, it is an extremely San Diego story. In twenty twenty, San Diego Union Tribune

wrote he was running so to San Diego. Story that allowed his mother, a hotel maid and his father, a gardener, to work hard and afford a home doesn't end with their generation. That story seemed to admit the glaring reality that San Diego is one of the least affordable cities in the world right now, and it's housing as unaffordable as ever has been, and it's got worse since took Gloria became mayor. So who is to Gloria. He's an enrolled member of the clinget hyda Indian tribe of Alaska.

He was born and raised in San Diego and graduated from me Versity of San Diego with a bachelor's degree in history and political science. He began his career to San Diego's Health and Human Services Agency, and then he

worked with Congresswoman's Susan Davis, who became his mentor. He was elected to the city Council in two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve and served as interim mayor from August twenty thirteen to March twenty fty He was also elected to the California State Assembly in twenty sixteen and twenty eighteen, and he chose not to seek reelection for the Assembly when he launched his campaign for

mayor in twenty twenty. So he's done the kind of the sort of the climb up of offices that you see a lot of these folks do, right, And I'm sure that he has admissions to run for further office. That would be my guests. So in twenty twenty he was elected mayor of San Diego. He became our first gay mayor, our first mayor of color, our first indigenous mayor. So it was a lot of first for us. And it is good to have a gay indigenous mayor, right like, if we're going to have a mayor, you didn't know.

It's nice to there's a position. It's open to more people. But unfortunately he hasn't done a lot else to encourage up with social mobility. He made a big push for private sector housing building as opposed to subsidize public housing, and he promised police reform. In a twenty op ed for The Union Tribune, Lauria wrote, we watched in horror as George Floyd was killed by four Minneapolis police officers.

Mister Floyd and other victims of excessive force by law enforcement demand that we revisit, reconsider, and reimagine how police operate in our community and how we expect them to interact with the public. It's time we work together to create a more just system of policing. The primary responsibility of government is protected. It's people, all people. Many of us don't feel safe or protected, particularly our black community, so it seems like a like a pro at least

reform statement, right. He went on to say, whether it's our mental health crisis or a homelessness crisis, we resort to the same solution, send the police and arrest people. We have to stop severely penalizing some people for minors steps and invest in lifting people up from difficult situations. I will need to put a pin in that. As we talk about his politics, it will shock you to

hear that he's done exactly that. He also wrote, the rapidly expanding and secretive use of digital surveillance of our community members is unconstitutional and it should end. Again put a pin in that. As we get back to discussion of the cameras that we're putting on street lights in

San Diego. So in a PDF of his plan to end homelessness, which has been removed from his campaign website but was sank represerved by our friends at Voice of San Diego, Gloria wrote, no more criminalizing the existence of San Diego's poorest and sicus residence. He also told right wing news station KUSI that San Diego cannot claim to be America's finest city or even a great city where thousands of people live unsheltered and dying on our streets.

It's time to stop the band aids, the temporary solutions, and bad policy from city hall on this issue, he said. As mayor, my administration will prioritize ending chronic homelessness, focus the cities energy and resources and results oriented programs proven to get homeless individuals off the street, connected to services, and back on their feet. Not to be fair. Well, one is that anything okay, like any person who was running from mayor, is the system out can lying to

you about what they're going to do. The second thing is if you ever hear someone say the words results oriented, it is time to grab like the largest saber you have and like get to work. Oh yeah, And as we'll discover the results that he has oriented towards somewhat disappointing. For I was gonna say for all of us. Hashtag

for all of us is his campaign slogan. It's yeah, it's just it's very cringe and I don't know, will it's very sad when we see the impact of this for like the least fortune of people in San Diego and then like it, it is very funny. But when you see how this plays out on the street, so it's also very sad. You know what is also very funny. I'm kind of sad. Mia the coin, so yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a Ronald Reagan silver coins that pay for my

friends to get hormones. So please enjoy these adverts. Thank thank you, ally Ronald Reagan for funding the HRT. Yeah, thanks for Ronnie. All Right, we're back and we're talking about Todd Gloria, san Diego's mayor, and we've just before the break we talked about like his promises, right, so let's see how he did on those promises. I want to start with January nine, twenty twenty one. Tod Gloria

taken office a few days before. If you can cast your mind back then there have been a significant event at the at the Capitol A couple of days before Proud Boys the Nazis Earth assorted ch decided to visit

San Diego. Three days after they visited the capitol, Anti Fascist assembled shows them they weren't welcome, and the police responded by declaring the anti Fascis assembly illegal, escorting the chent around Pacific Beach as they did various crimes and trying to shoot me in the dick with pepper balls. Garrison's just smirking, I thought. Gloria, the guy who ran on police reform, had this to say. Mayor Gloria spoke candidly about what happened at the Capitol and how that's

reverberating around the country. After seeing what happened in Washington on Wednesday, What are you doing out on our streets supporting that mess right racism, fascism, anti democracy. Why would you choose to be out there, Gloria says, despite his feelings, San Diego supports peaceful protests of all kinds. But on Saturday, police say three people were arrested and five officers suffered

minor injuries. We're asking for the public's assistance and helping us identify some of those folks who we were not able to apprehend yesterday, to make sure they held account with these people on both sides of the debate. Both sides, Yeah, both sides. So some of you remember some other people have caught out people on both sides the debate. So I think the most blatant sort of thing he did with regard to the police comes after Derek Shovin, the

cop who murdered George Floyd, was convicted of murder. I guess a few you can probably remember where you were that day. I can remember I was, and it was at the very least after an entire summer of protest. Right, it was like the smallest token instance accountability, but I guess at least it was something. And in that moment told Gloria, who was looking at that same thing that

nearly everyone was looking at in this country that day. Right, He thought about what he wanted to do, and he decided that rather than talking to the black organizers who had been a street for almost a year and have been peppable and tear gassed and maced and never stopped in minding justice, he was instead going to call the cops and he's such many such cases. Yeah yeah, and check out the video that the verdict wasn't making him sad.

What he did was took over the entire police scanner radio thing and delivered a message to the cops, which I've got audio of here. Colleague, this is Mere Todd Gloriam. I want to address each and every single one of you who nobly serve our great city. Today's verdict is just the beginning of building a deeper trust with our community. Justice will served today against someone who does not represent you, or us, or our department, or who we are as a nation. So I want you to hear from me today.

I know who you are. You are people who help complete strangers on the worst day in their life. You are people who believe in collaboration in community. You're people who put your lives on the line every single day to protect this city. I and the people of San Diego are grateful for your dedication and your service. With today's decision made, there's now time for all of us to come together, to heal and to move forward. Please take care of yourself of each other. You know the

people of this great city. Be safe. Everybody has anyone ever said the words to move forward and not be in like, not just be an absolute dipshit. This sounds like it was written by an ai y. Yeah, if you had a chat GPT for a liberal mayor, it wouldn't look hugely different to several mayor statements. Yeah yeah, chat GPT, right, liberal mayor writing a ponto the cops. Now it's time to heal and come together as a community. Yeah,

stop with you a black lives mattering. It's it's scary. Yeah. Yeah, it was extremely cringe like, especially when you consider how it differs from what he was saying just a few months ago. And that again, like this was about a man who murdered someone, and that somebody in sending it was an STPD who killed the person, but somebody in San Diego died in similar circumstances with someone doing a carotid straight on them. A few days before this, Gloria

also proposed a budget. In his budget, he proposed that we cut library hour significantly and lay off one hundred and fifty three library employees, but give the police nineteen million dollars more than a previous year. The previous year, I probably don't have to remind people is a year in which San Diegans had turned up in droves at zoom council meetings to urge the city to do the exact opposite of this. Let's check in on that surveillance

claim he made. You remember that he said it was unconstitutional? Right, so on ye the second of this year, told Gloria in a shocking vault fast tweeted street light cameras and license plates readers can be helpful public safety tools. You know, just because he thinks it's unconstitution or doesn't mean he doesn't think it's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's once again been held back from protecting the people of San Diego

by that pesky constitution. The city pass strong privacy protections last year, and now it's time for at San Diego PD to use this technology to keep us safe public eatings. To get this done, start soon. So yeah, these street lights, they were deactivated in twenty twenty, but they had previously been introduced and build us a way to assess traffic patterns. But in fact, they never assessed traffic patterns. Yeah, yeah,

this will shock you. They put thousands of cameras and microphones on our streets, including one outside a planned parenthood facility, you know, for traffic You know, the funniest part about this, this was literally the thing about doing traffic science was this was literally Tom Cruise's cover story and like one of the early Mission Impossible movies. So that's what we

have next. Is it fucking scientology coming for San Diego? Yeah, it'll it'll shock you to hear that we stopped using these for very reasonable people had very reasonable concerns in twenty twenty that you know, it's not a good idea for the cops to be able to see and hear everything that you do, to be able to read your

license plate and see everywhere that you go. Betond once some back and if people actually want to follow the discussion about having them back, because every single time, like every single public meeting, there's someone and they'll stand up and have a vehement like position pro cameras, and then it'll turn out that they are like a prosecutor at the DA's office or in one instance, there was a prosecutor in one instance who insisted he was there in

his personal capacity, but like the lieutenant for Soron is defending the surveillance cameras that are being posted around Middle Earth. Curious this, this guy whose name is not Big Brother, is here to advocate for having cameras in your home. The King of the a new surveillance progres. But he's wearing a fake mustache, so you can't tell who he is. So let's look at what he said about stopping criminalizing homelessness. Right, And this is a big, big issue. In San Diego.

We have a massive and growing gunhouse population because our rent so are exceptionally high and oh waits are not. So the number of unhoused people has increased in the Gloria so of death on the street, which hit a record of five hundred and seventy four in the county last year. So that's more than one person dying every single day in the streets. Right. He's opened some shelters,

but some scouters are scheduled to close. The shelter beds and traditional transitional housing provided have failed to go at the same rate as a young house population. Let's haven't stopped him taking photos and claiming every single one. It's a huge step forward. We also continue to build what are called congregate shelters, which which don't give people privacy, right,

which don't give them. A lot of people might not want to go into a congreate shelter, into effectively a dormitory, and there are a number of reasons why you might not want to do that, and yet that's what we're building. There are also some other sort of single occupisity shelters, but nowhere near enough. He's been a huge backer of something called California's Care Court. Are you guys familiar with the Care Court at all? No? No, this shit is dystopian.

This could be a whole episode. Maybe one day it will be CARE stands for community assistance, recovery and empowerment, which I have a feeling that this is not going to be about empowerment. Yeah, when it's empowering someone Garrison, but it's not empowered to people we might want to empower. What it is in practice, it's a massive expansion of force conservatives ship. So I'm going to quote from Human

Rights Watch here. Human Rights Watch said the plan promotes a system of involuntary coerced treatment enforced by an expanded judicial infrastructure that will in practice simply remove unhoused people with perceived mental health conditions from the public eye without effectively addressing those mental health conditions. Jesus, Yeah, it's pretty bad. It doesn't provide money for mental health services. It takes money that's already existing in the budget and puts it

across to court mandated treatments. It doesn't provide housing, which the multiple study share that housing First's approach a housing first approach is a way to solve homelessness. Instead, it allows for a broad range of people, which include family members, first responders including cops and outreach workers, the public guardian, service providers, and the director of the county Behavioral Health agency, to refer individuals to the jurisdiction of the court to

take away their autonomy and liberty. It very broadly covers people it describes to having schizophrenia, spectrum or other psychotic disorders. Under this system, judges can force people into treatment and housing. If they don't comply, they can be forced into conservatorship. Now, obviously evidence doesn't support the conclusion that involuntary outpatient treatment it's more effective than intensive voluntary outpatient treatment, and indeed

it does show that involuntary coercive treatment is harmful. But it isn't really about people with mental health. It's about keeping gun house people where they can't be seen, and Human Rights Watch claims that this violates due process and

international human rights conventions. And yet the Clode Door and Gavin you some to be fair, who I'm sure we'll run for president soon, have been cheer leading this and it's I'm surprised it hasn't got more press coverage into nationally and naturally sorry, because it's a massive assault on personal freedoms, right, And it's extremely easy to effectively say that somebody quote unquote need to mental health, help force

them into conservatorship. And if they're not willing to attend these treatments, so they're not able to attend these treatments, that they're not willing to go into the housing that they are assigned. Let's say that they don't want to live in in congret at housing, right or something like that, or they're in housing with someone who they don't feel comfortable or safe with them, they could be forcing into conservatorship and effectively lose all their liberty. Rent. Yeah, it's

pretty bad. It's a new and exciting way of criminalizing homelessness effectively. Like I said, it doesn't provide housing, it doesn't provide funding, for behavioral healthcare. It just directs existing funding to court mandated programs. So I could pick hundreds of other examples of this told glorious stuff, but I want to pick one more to focus on, and it's something that I think it gets a little bit like inside politics, grifty stuff, but it like it has ruined

a good number of careers in San Diego politics. And I'm really heavily indebted to that plan certain Voice of San Diego for their reporting on this. But let's start by talking about public restrooms. So I think most of us are going to agree that, like having a safe place to shit and wash your hands is a pretty basic human right, but in San Diego it's something that

not everyone has. So since two thousand four, grand jury reports have warned the city's inadequate public restroom infrastructure could

become a public health threat. That's what happened in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen when a hepatitis a swept through the city, sickening five and eighty two people and killing twenty So after the hepit yeah, it's not a thing that like you expect, right and like like on the left coast America's find a city most Americans will not encounter, thankfully hepatitis in their lifetime and sadly made this isn't

our only hepatitis outbreak, so that's great. Oh no. And so after the hepe outbreak, the city stopped locking restrooms at night, which they had done previously, but that changed with the COVID pandemic when the facilities were temporarily closed and some have since not returned to twenty four seventh service.

Following this, a twenty twenty one Shigella outbreak second at least forty one homeless residents, most of whom were staying in central San Diego, further shed light on the city's restroom issues, much as this was dealt with in a great report by Bella Ross in The Voice of San Diego, to which Gloria commented, the goal here isn't to add as many permanent public restrooms as possible. The goal is to help get unsheltered residents off the streets and into safe,

sanitary shelter and permanent housing. Like I don't quite know where he was going for here, but not having a place to sit is an everyone issue. This isn't just an unhoused issue, right Like everybody poops and not all of us live in houses and have giant offices in city Hall downtown, and so it was this bizarre kind of gas lighting approach, like we fundamentally have an issue with access to bathrooms and to try and like reframe

this as another issue where he's also failing. Was It's kind of indicative of their response, but also very bizarre. Where the city has installed new bathrooms, they're often installed by private groups as part of development projects, which is great, right, a good old a public private partnership has never gone wrong before, so it will shock you to hear that these private groups are responsible for maintaining and securing these facilities,

and this means that they're often locked. So despite literal human shit being all over downtown and people are being forced to endure the massive and dignity of having nowhere to poop. In December twenty twenty two, researched by STSUS Project for Ntation Justice found that less than half of the city's permanent restrooms could be considered truly open access, and that just two permanent facilities were available around the clock,

seven days a week. Gloria has later acknowledged that the city has an issue, but he's chosen to blame residents. I just need folks to quit acting a fool in these bathrooms. I mean, it's not just a homeless population, it's everybody, he said in an interview. In February twenty twenty three, nearly five years after the last outbreak, San Diego County again began recording an uptaking hepatitis say cases. Which is great, Right, We're back to where we started.

Much of this resporting was met with absolutely unhinged responses on Twitter from some of Glorious staff. They called themselves the Todd Squad. That sus Yeah, yeah, it's pretty bad. So notable responses come from Dave Rolland, who left the old Weekly City Beak for a job in PR, and Rachel Lane, who's Todd's i think, head of public relations. She spent June of twenty twenty posting about black Lives Matter whilst also doing volunteer public relations to work for

the cops. Wow amazing, yeah, yeah, voucher public relations. Yeah yeah, yeah, Like there there there's there's like a there's like a joke on like there's there's like a sort of pejorative label for the okay, so on Chinese Twitter, there's this there's this a joke of calling people unpaid five cent army, which is like army is like or well, the number of sense changes over time, but it's like there there used to be a thing where like you could get paid by the government to get like like to to

to like that you get paid pro post to like posts. Wow, whatever fucking shit the Chinese government wanted to like have posts on But this person's actually literally an unpaid but like actually literally like volume cheer, yeah, like volunteer public relations for the cops, Like what the fuck is this bullshit? Oh yeah, it was really a magical when I sent that pr email. Yeah yeah, I think she framed it as like helping the community and the police talk to

one another in a difficult time. The future is the giant boot stamping on your faces while people volunteer to paint the boot. Yes, yeah that is yeah, yeah, there there is a rainbow boot. Yeah, I mean you can you can find their feed. Some of the attacks on myself and some of my colleagues are like incredibly petty and unprofessional and also quite nerving when you consider the huge amounts of taxpair money that are wasted on their salaries,

which pay them to post. And again, this is a town where people die because they don't have a place to take a shit. But but we're paying people to get into Twitter beef. You know. It's it's also it's it's also really cool that like there's the sort of two axes of American politics are you can't use the bathroom because you're trans, and you can't use the bathroom because you don't own one. And then sometimes they just

coverage and it's the same yeah, yeah, yeah, lucking. Yeah, that's the hands clasping memelucking trans people out of the bathroom. All right, So now we're about to get to Todd squads finest an hour, which is when they use city resources and work time to make a video of them singing Return of the Mac. Only it wasn't Return of the Mac. It was Todd Gloria's back and yeah, I'm going to make you a watch it. So, yes, that was that was was he walking through at city Hall? Yeah?

Was the first part him walking to a security line at the airport. Yeah, which is funny. That's a security line to get into city Hall. Yeah, okay, okay, have you have you never been to a city hall before. Mine didn't have that certainly does now Chicago, Yes, it certainly has that. Now my local town one didn't. Are they Are they saying that the mayor lied to the city? Is that? Is that what they're saying? They yeah, the

previous Oh there, okay, wasn't he the previous mayor? Only for a little bit of time then he he was entering math Okay, they're play, Oh my god, I believe you when you said Eric, but why I thought he one guy that was like twelve guys. Yeah. It feels like it's gone on for like forty minutes. Yeah, if you stalin grad there's a point where they come in dressed as flavor. Flavor. He gets here and anyway, one of them's wearing a medallion that just says cocks on it.

Al is wearing a medallion here we can probably no note, hang on here he is again, franchise. That's some cops. What the leg of the ground circle? I think their heads touching. There's a person with a COXS medalion. Again, this is okay, is one of the worst things. One of these people showed up the chain that it was like an SD for San Diego when it first comes on to screen, it really looks like a swassica. This is the Padres logos. Yes, that's no shitty asked to go.

The Padres did a different genocide and should have been conflated with the other genocide. I'm I'm guessing this is like a sports thing or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they are a the sports ball team. Yeah, that's what I thought baseball to be specific. That M very proud of him. Yeah. But yeah, as you'll have noticed, one of the most

cringe things that has ever fucking happened. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty bad, right, like like it's it's it's pretty crushing when like, like I have personally known people who have died on our streets. And also my merrit is making Return of the Mac videos dressed as Flavor Flavor. So I think we're mostly done. I want to talk about one more thing, because no review of San Diego politics will be complete without a mention of the giant monument to Griff that is one O one Ash Street. So

what is one on one Street? In twenty sixteen, San Diego leased a downtown high rise, hoping to house city employees. It turned out that the building was riddled with asbestos, and it turned out the city knew is little bit when it started to lease the building. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then it will shock you to know that they deny this at first, but in the agreement to lease to own the building, it says Bayer acknowledges that the building contained asbestos and that SEMPRA has maintained an asbestos monitoring and handling program. So eventually in twenty nineteen they managed to move staff in after a renovation that ballooned in cost. In twenty twenty, they were forced to evacuate

the building because of the asbestos. Since then, DA's investigation has been opened into Jason Hughes, who publicly represented himself as a volunteer advisor to the city, according to Voice of San Diego, but unbeknownst to the city, collected nine point four million dollars from Cistero, who owned one on one Ash Street. The City Attorney's office alleged but could

not prove that. The city's former top bureaucrat, Chris Michael, ordered city information technology staff to purge record tied to the one O one Street barcle last year so they can improve that. She heads to records, But what they do know. That she did was pass a confidential legal document to Corey Briggs, a candidate for city attorney. NBC reported that the memo included a footnote, which Eliot and

others later decried as fabricated. In the footnote, they claimed that Elliot's office made an effort to shield Gloria from an outside probe at the one on one Ash Street debarkle. The footnote suggested an interview with Gloria might have clarified why the city decided to go forward with the Ash Street lease, given Gloria's skepticism about a similar past deal.

So it's not clear if this, if this footnote was real or fabricated, like and then it's alleged it was fabricated, which it's bizarre, like this whole sort of weird, corrupt, corrupt thing is resigned. It may this may well not be true. To be clear, during this time, Dorian Hargrove, who was a reporter, obtained some of those records, face legal threat of prosecution from the city attorney and lost

his job for obtaining those records. So far, the city has poured more than sixty million into one one Street, roughly the same amount of this annual library budget. It's only occupied the OCFER space. Yeah, it's great, it's absolutely in. This has been occupied for like less than a couple of months for the five years since the city acquired it. Are they do do do? Do we know what their ties to like the contractors who are doing the renovations are,

and that will be an interesting thing. I actually don't know that. Yeah, because that that's like that that's that's that's like that's the classic Illinois griff. Yeah. You just keep keep renovating the building, keep getting donations from the from the contractors well or or or the contractors are just your friends and so that's okay. Yeah, keep the money around. Yeah, well they're not doing any more contracting

on it. Mayre because the city agreed to buy the building, which needs one hundred and fifteen million million dollars in repairs, for eighty six million last year. Yeah. It's good stuff, amazing yep. This week, the UT reported that San Diego's top real estate official did not seek input from her staff or a view internal files before recommending the city buy out the one or one as Street lease. They also reported that, in a confidential memo to the city

Auditor's Office. Anonymous employees wrote, the City of San Diego should be aware of the level of waste and abuse that is occurring within the Real Estate and Airport Management Department, which has led to a toxic, hostile revenue wasting, an unproductive work environment. Which is great. Yep, this is the San Diego we wanted hashtag for all of us. So this is a lot of inside San Diego politics, right. So it's a lot of lists of things and promises

made and promises broken. But I want to come back to the fact that this is a guy who ran for Mare on a ticket the push compassion and a relative liberal set of policies, and he's done the exact opposite in his time in office. He ran as a progressive, but he's done very little to differentiate himself policy wise from It's like Republican Kevin Faulkner. Obviously we're just cracking the lead on some of these policies here. He's consistently chosen to suppund it, to fund and support the police

over the people of the city. He's consistently moved to make it harder to live on the streets and harder to get off the streets. And he's consistently chosen photo opportunities over real governance for the city. His pr people spend hours bashing mutual aid workers like Michael who he had a guest on the show on Twitter and wasting taxpayer money doing it. Just this week, he welcomed right wing maniac Rishi Sunac, who actually as Prime Minister of

the UK. Despite the fact that people haven't noticed to our city and San Diego State University Research has released a report saying negative interactions with the police are driving black people who are experiencing homelessness away from services and housing opportunities. This is what we got from a mayor who positioned himself as a progressive and its governor as a rainbow Republican. So yeah, that's I would say. That's

all I have to say about Todd Gloria. If you follow me on Twitter, you'll know that it's not the case, and I will continue to have more to say about Todd Gloria. But yeah, it's really sad. It's deeply said, and it like I said, it's funny. The Cranty Mudic music video is funny. We'll linked to it in the show notes, but it's it's also really deeply troubling that this has real impacts for real people who are already down on their luck and you know, living on the

streets or experiencing you know, over aggressive policing. All the things that he said he would fix have just got worse. And yeah, it sucks. So thanks for listening to me why and about my city everyone, And yeah, again, my apologies for traumatizing you further with that video. It's fine.

Next week. Next week, we're well, okay, So we would have been doing Chicago's own version of this exact same person, which is Lloyd Lightfoot, except to the surprise of absolutely zero people who live in Chicago and everyone who doesn't live in Chicago, Lightfoot didn't make it out of her fucking primary. So we're instead of going to be doing Chicago's once in the future, while not once the potential

future mayor Paul Vallas, who absolutely sucks ass. So stay tuned for that in another week when I get a yell about Paul Vallas and inflict some truly horrific bullshit on all of you. Very excited to get my revenge, all right, well, I will look forward to seeing Paul Vallas's hip hop video Charrison's just sitting there background at dying. This is this is, this is worse than anything anything the Daily Liar can throw at me. Should we just

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