Retired Naval officer | Board Member | Public Servant | Grandfather | Disabled Combat Veteran
San Diego, CA
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Eric Law retweeted
Secretary Rubio releases a video on Victims of Communism day.
Today, November 7th, the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Marxism/Communism/Socialism has murdered over 100 million and caused just as many to flee.
Eric Law retweeted
The mayor may want to scale back any congratulatory city of #SanDiego related budget pronouncements.
1. There is a expecting a small FY 2028 surplus, but the spending projections are based on the city's decision to underfund reserves. This is questionable in most years, and indefensible during an El Nino year.
2. The operating budget surplus becomes a deficit starting in FY 2029, has personnel costs push up spending.
3. Optimistic revenue projects and a reduced pension contributions are based directly and indirectly on the assumption of continued stock market gains.
4. The new budget does nothing to reverse the city's chronic underfunding of the city employee pension funds.
5. There is no effort to increase the spending on road and storm drains to close the large and growing infrastructure funding gap.
What does the five-year outlook mean for San Diegans? A more sustainable City budget. For the first time in 20 years of forecasts, our next budget year is projected to be balanced without one-time fixes or another round of cuts. #ForAllofUs
Eric Law retweeted
2051 w/ Latest sea level rise a a king tide and a winter storm.....
Reporting confirms a large sewer line runs across the property -
#Enshitifdication #midwayrowing #fleeced #floating
Just a reminder: the socialist spectrum - from fascism to Communism - killed more people than any other ideology ever.
Eric Law retweeted
Today is the National Day for the Victims of Communism. Communism killed more than 100 million people in the 20th century.
This memorial, The Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Prague, powerfully captures what communism does to the human person.
We don’t remember how terrible this event was in the annals of human history. Our current idiotic dabbling in socialism demonstrates how education has intentionally failed to inculcate an understanding of how horrendous the socialist spectrum is.
Eric Law retweeted
The declaration that the city of #SanDiego's city finances have stabilized is misleading at best.
1. While there is a slight operating budget surplus in FY 2028, deficits totaling $71.6 million are projected in the subsequent four years.
2. The city does not plan to replenish dangerously low reserve levels.
3. There is no funding to address the large ($6.8 billion and growing) infrastructure funding gap.
4. A declining pension payment based on assumed continued stock market growth.
5. The pension deficit remains high ($3.46 billion).
The city may have avoided the need for budget cuts or revenue increases in the next budget cycle, but the long-term financial outlook continues to get worse.
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Eric Law retweeted
Local community leaders launch recall of SD Mayor Todd Gloria, saying they have “ lost confidence in his competency, leadership, judgment, & candor.” Notice triggers countdown to gather over 122k signatures needed to place it on a special election next year.
Eric Law retweeted
1/This is the 2nd incident on Morena Blvd (so far) this year - fortunately the gas, electric & cable lines were not affected this time
But count on this happening more frequently as sea level rise pushes groundwater upward, breaking water pipes and undermining streets
#Midway
Eric Law retweeted
1/2026 #SanDiego infrastructure damage & business closure scorecard (so far):
What’s causing this to happen?
January- Morena Blvd (lost water, gas, electricity, communications)
August- La Jolla shores (sewage leak)
September- Pacific Hwy (water)
November-Morena Blvd (water)
1/This is the 2nd incident on Morena Blvd (so far) this year - fortunately the gas, electric & cable lines were not affected this time
But count on this happening more frequently as sea level rise pushes groundwater upward, breaking water pipes and undermining streets
#Midway
Voting for Measure B is equivalent to endorsing continued county Supervisor financial mismanagement. Instead of holding them accountable, it creates a new revenue stream for them to continue to spend without control or quantifiable outcomes.
Measure B, a half-cent countywide sales tax hike, is on the ballot.
"Mark Kersey, president of the #SanDiego Taxpayers Association, said he’s concerned that having a local tax for the ongoing crisis 'alleviates the federal government from this responsibility to do more.'
''If you start raising money out of San Diego's pockets to pay for something that is fundamentally a Mexico-U.S. federal government problem, then all of a sudden Washington could look at this and say, ‘Well, hey, we don't need to invest any more money into San Diego because they pass this, over the life of it, multibillion-dollar tax measure.'
"'Measure B has no sunset clause. Without one, a permanent tax is shortsighted', added Kersey.
''While well-intentioned, it’s just bad policy because it goes on forever,' he said. 'It locks in funding formulas that are based on the needs of today that very well may not be the needs of tomorrow, five or 10 years from now.'"
kpbs.org/news/politics/2026/…
The SD Taxpayers ballot guide is online
sdtaxpayers.org/tracker
Eric Law retweeted
Five days before the election, @sdutOpinion offers this strongly-worded call for s reset of the @SDCityCouncil.
Eric Law retweeted
The YIMBY-driven dense building fetish will never produce housing affordability, and will instead continue to drive land prices up as the supply of buildable urban land evaporates.
YIMBYs are the cause of, not the solution for, the urban housing affordability problem.
The book directly challenges the now-dominant "just build more housing" account of urban housing crises associated with economist Edward Glaeser and the broader YIMBY policy consensus. Condon's counter-argument is that restrictive zoning is not the primary driver of unaffordability, and that density deregulation — upzoning that allows more building on a given parcel — mostly inflates land values rather than lowering housing costs, because the anticipated development rights are quickly capitalized into the price of the underlying land
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Eric Law retweeted
The book directly challenges the now-dominant "just build more housing" account of urban housing crises associated with economist Edward Glaeser and the broader YIMBY policy consensus. Condon's counter-argument is that restrictive zoning is not the primary driver of unaffordability, and that density deregulation — upzoning that allows more building on a given parcel — mostly inflates land values rather than lowering housing costs, because the anticipated development rights are quickly capitalized into the price of the underlying land
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Eric Law retweeted
This is what YIMBYs actually want: removal of PoC from valuable land.
Despite promises, any sales tax increase will eventually be diverted to whatever the supervisors want. There are no definitive guardrails for spending, and no end in sight.
Vote No on B
Measure B on the November ballot "would raise the sales tax by a half cent forever, with no end date, and bring in up to $450 million a year.
"Its official text sets aside up to 60 percent of that money for health care, food and child care programs.
"Mark Kersey of the San Diego County Taxpayers Association put it plainly: 'Those spending priorities will be the priorities in perpetuity.'
"Two county unions wrote clauses into their contracts that reopen wage talks if a measure like this passes.
"A permanent tax, permanent programs and a permanent constituency that depends on them is the first future, built one ballot measure at a time."
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Eric Law retweeted
Gloria should resign.
He is not a leader and certainly not an executive. He is a gross failure in managing a multi billion dollar enterprise…and the taxpayers are footing the bill for his incompetence
Another costly management failure by @MayorToddGloria. Shameful and embarrassing that the auditor, the media, and whistleblowers consistently find graft and mismanagement that should be prevented by management. It’s infuriating. sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
Eric Law retweeted
Today in San Diego sea level rise news:
➕Midway Dr is closed to thru traffic again due to flooding
➕The river is the highest level I’ve ever seen from I5 to the ocean
➕These levies are not maintained to #FEMA standards so nearby businesses can’t purchase flood insurance
Eric Law retweeted
Midway Dr was completely closed this morning between Rosecrans & Barnett
The problem is not only on the surface- San Diego needs to be concerned about the weight & pressure of rising sea levels + groundwater intrusion damaging infrastructure throughout the Midway area.
Eric Law retweeted
A new audit report provides further documentation that the City of San Diego does not suffer from a lack of revenue, it suffers from a lack of accountability and a culture of mismanagement.
“two electricians found by the audit to have spent 198 hours – the equivalent of 25 workdays – parked for long stretches at sites where no documented repairs took place.”
sandiegouniontribune.com/202…