Opinion: San Diego leaders shouldn't use misleading language to win approval of ballot measures [Opinion]
, which also won easily, gives the “city manager” authority to unilaterally enter into lease agreements with child care centers on city parkland without a public vote, wiping out restrictions in the City Charter. But as retired San Diego Chief Deputy City Attorney Hal Valderhaugduring the election, San Diego no longer has a city manager so those powers belong to the mayor.
City Attorney Mara Elliott’s chief of staff, Gerry Braun, said standard practices were followed in reviewing all the measures’ ballot language, and that public input was welcome. He also said Measure H has safeguards Valderhaug didn’t acknowledge. But he had no specific response to the concern that ballot language for some measures seemed misleading and designed with outcomes in mind.
San Diego’s mayor and council are self-avowed public-interest watchdogs. As is the city attorney. But changes are plainly needed to keep the local ballot measure process neutral.
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