Bry is a better choice for mayor than Gloria

Re “Voter Todd Gloria for mayor of San Diego” (Oct. 11): Your endorsement clearly looks past Barbara Bry’s accomplishments while excusing Gloria’s missteps.

The Gloria-supported state law that would supersede local control and carve up our single-family neighborhoods deserved a Paul Revere wake-up call. Bry has led more thoughtful measures to increase housing supply such as limiting short-term vacation rentals.

You cite coalition-building as a key determinant of which candidate will make the better mayor. The most compelling example of coalition-building for San Diego’s benefit is the one Bry assembled to stop a developer’s land grab of the

stadium property, instead delivering it to San Diego State University. This will enable college educations and future high-paying jobs to tens of thousands of disadvantaged young San Diegans, while Gloria’s efforts on 101 Ash benefited but a few deep-pocket special interests.

Emphasizing Gloria’s Filipino LGBTQ credentials is laudable. But strictly on the candidates’ merits, your endorsement should have been Barbara Bry for mayor. Robert Freund Carmel Valley

Your recent endorsement of Todd Gloria for mayor, and an off-handed compliment, that his opponent, Barbara Bry, was the best person to bring transparency and accountability to City Hall and thus someone like her should be chief of staff, was spot on and 15 years behind the times.

Over a decade ago, we the voters, understood the problem with allowing a mayor to sidestep responsibility and we changed the City Charter to a “Strong Mayor” form of Government.

Bry is by far the more qualified candidate for the present job as mayor, and she should be given the “responsibility” and job title.

Peter Q. Davis La Jolla