San Diego, CA
Mayor of big city needs executive experience that Turner lacks
Re “Despite missteps, Todd Gloria is the clear choice for mayor” (Oct. 10): If a major corporation with 12,000 employees and an annual budget of $5 billion were searching for a new CEO, it would never consider someone with no similar experience, or who has never been a chief executive of any company.
Yet that is what Larry Turner is asking voters to do in his run for mayor. Although he is accomplished, he’s never been chief executive of a major organization, nor has he served in elected office or as head of a major city department. His platform promises big increases in everything from homeless services to storm drains to policing, but he has no experience in balancing a city budget, let alone juggling competing interests such as trying to site a homeless shelter. Our city’s highest executive office is no place for on-the-job training.
— John Morris, Hillcrest