For me it translates into, “We don’t want to make a plan, stick to it and get something done. We’d rather have committees, commissions and paid consultants study the situation ad nauseum, and then decide that the plan is too expensive, so let’s start all over again.”

In the meantime, more than fifty percent of all the services for homeless people are in District 3. They create a ton of trash but the streets in District 3 are not swept. The homeless encampments are not only still with us, but growing thanks to the Mayor’s plan to sweep the Guadalupe south of Julian (where did he think those folks would go?!). Lots of people with issues on the street, and little consistent attention from the police, even though the station is only blocks away from downtown neighborhoods. Now we’re going to have downtown electronic billboards thanks to an interim City Council rep who put his hands on his ears and sang la-la-la when faced with constituent resistance.

Even the mail delivery is relentlessly and one might say criminally unreliable. (I know that’s federal, but some years ago Liccardo took it on with some short lived success, because he understood that you can’t have a vibrant downtown if you have lousy customer service and lots of inconvenience so nobody wants to live there).

I don’t want ‘agility.’ I want someone who will fiercely protect this district and stand up to other districts that want it to be a dumping ground, someone whose office will answer email and phones and deal quickly and decisively with the problems that face the people who actually live here, as opposed to the priorities of Big Labor and other folks with Big Money, and Big Lobbyists.