San Diego Union-Tribune

We need first to fix what we already have

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Re “New poll shows Bry, Gloria in near dead heat as race for San Diego mayor enters final stretch” (Oct. 6): Interestin­g to read about both candidates’ ideas for the future of San Diego. Housing for the homeless, redevelopm­ent of the sports arena area and a proposed grand transporta­tion hub, which Todd Gloria says we need in order to be a worldclass city.

These ideas will take untold billions of our taxpayer dollars to fund, while our streets are Third Worldclass and our city parks are an embarrassm­ent. We definitely need a change of leadership or maybe I should just say we need some leadership. developer. Its proposal is a dense housing developmen­t, not a “farm” as the project is misleading­ly called. We’re tired of these gross misreprese­ntations.

Integral, the voracious developer, has pumped almost $2 million into its deceitful campaign to thwart the will of citizens. We have successful­ly placed a propositio­n on the ballot to oppose its encroachme­nt on prime agricultur­al land. This puts the decision in the hands of voters, not developers and the Oceanside politician­s who have taken their money.

We are not fooled by their flood of pop-up ads and pretty pictures of rolling farmland. We adamantly oppose developers who want to infect our town with Orange County density and traffic.

Vote no on L. Show them our vote can’t be bought. from a nice place in a normal person’s heart. However, I can only surmise how this would play out if the roles were reversed and Joe and Jill Biden tested positive. We can only imagine the cold-hearted tweetstorm that would have been unleashed denigratin­g Joe Biden for being old and weak with not one single word of condolence­s or well wishing.

On top of that, no one would have been surprised one single bit. So I don’t wish anybody ill from this virus, but karma is a funny thing. there to care for me, I might worry a little less.

But since I don’t have those lifelines, I will continue to exercise caution, mask-up and lay low until we get through this pandemic. supplement or supplant school funding and the answer was a resounding supplement. Did it supplement or increase funding? No, they simply changed the formula by which they doled out funds to the various districts.

If schools see anything from Propositio­n 15, it will be a miracle. Vote no on 15

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