Former "City Mangler" [sic] McGrory really screwed the taxpayers didn't he? That ticket guarantee where WE ended up PAYING the team MILLIONS to rent OUR statium was only the tip of the iceberg. Him behind this? Wouldn't surprise me.
This is not accidental. I firmly believe there was collusion between Murphy and Frye. We still don't have the required-by-law expenditure reports from the Frye campaign and supporters even now. How much *did* the unions throw at this effort? Her job and their task is to move San Diego, perhaps the last *REPUBLICAN* major city in California, into the liberal Democrat column for good. The city will slide into the sewers like Philly, LA, NYC, Chicago, Boston, DC, Baltimore, Cleveland and others...
Just imagine, with indictments pending, two trials pending, one dead councilman, no audits, closed meetings, suspended bond rating, unwillingness to concede "illegalities" in the pension mess, what REAL EVIL lurks in city government that SO MUCH effort would be put into keeping the ONE outsider OUT of the mayor's office: County Supervisor Roberts. This smell of a MAJOR coverup and widespread CYA effort.
Yep, he was a real force to be reckonded with, and still is. Not too many folks know that after he brought out the midnight bulldozers to level Murphy field and subsequently "left public service," he went to work for the financial interests behind the Charger Stadium reconstruction and then he was heavily involved in bringing the PETCO project to fruition.
Some folks got the feeling that he was in the pocket of certain outside interests for much of the last months he was being employed by the city to look out for the city's interests only. That's the kind of stuff that, to a suspicious taxpayer, gives graft a bad name. However, looking back at what's gone on after McGrory's left, I can't say that things appear to have materially improved in any respect.