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Election is coming up it’s a good opportunity to remind our elected officials they are public servants. This upcoming June we should do this by booting San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders out of office.

Why boot Sanders? Let’s start:

1) City finances. The mayor has been all talk but next to no action. He told us he inherited the mess and it’s not his fault – while true, as mayor he is expected to clean up. If he can’t clean up – he should leave. We have a city with a huge deficit, but he failed to balance the budget without committing us to super expensive loans. Why is it that he can’t understand that when budget is short – you reduce expenses!

2) Homosexual daughter fiasco. Mayor Sanders told us before he got elected that marriage is between a man and a woman – and that was his stand as our representative. Halfway through his term, he flipped on his position. Was the change due to public interest? Was it due to a change of heart within the San Diego community? Absolutely not – it was because he has a Homosexual daughter. Now, why should any of us care about Mayor Sanders’ daughter? Why would this personal matter cause him to change the position of the San Diego community? What’s next? His wife runs into financial problems, so Sanders will choose to declare that the City of San Diego supports bankruptcies? There is nothing wrong with his daughter’s sexual orientation, but city policy should not be based on Mayor Sanders’ family issues.

2) Sunroad building fiasco. Mayor Sanders failed the newspaper test on this one. His actions are those of someone guilty of corrupt involvement. This is coming from the person that came into the position promising to “clean up” the city and it’s government agencies.

3) Favoritism with Police/Fire Departments. We have a deficit – but he gives his Police and Fire department buddies generous raises. Some may get the feeling that Sanders is nothing but a Police and Fire Union puppet mayor.

4) “F-U Steve”. In a mayoral debate, Mayor Sanders couldn’t help himself to greet Steve Francis good-bye in any other way than “F-U Steve”. If he can’t control himself in public, what’s he like behind closed doors? What’s he like in the office?

5) Perpetual cry-baby. Mayor Sanders continuously complains about the fact the Steve Francis is self funded. At least Steve doesn’t take money from special interest groups.  If Mayor Sanders had real achievements to show for, he wouldn’t care about Steve’s campaign funding.  But since Mayor Sanders doesn’t have much to show for his term in office, he has to portray himself as the poor underdog.

Bottom line: His ethical standards are suspect, he failed to take aggressive action to repair our corrupt city government, he can’t control himself, and he acts like a Police and Fire Department Union crony.

Let’s put in someone new, like Steve Francis. What do we know about Steve Francis – very little. But the fact is that we need to remind our public servants who is in control, and whenever they get out of control – we need to exercise our civil rights, rattle their cage and vote them out of office. This is probably the most effective way to motivate our public servants to do their job – serve the public.

Steve Francis’ page: http://www.steveformayor.com/

Eric Bidwall is 25 years old, has dread locks and wears T-shirts for mayoral debates. Everyone considers him a novelty candidate, but then again, they said an actor can’t be the governor of California and the president of the US: http://revolutionarymayor.com/