57 Facts About Kevin Faulconer

Kevin Lee Faulconer was born on January 24,1967 and is an American politician who served as the 36th mayor of San Diego, from 2014 to 2020.

Kevin Faulconer was born in San Jose, California, and grew up in Oxnard.

Kevin Faulconer entered politics in the 1990s to work on the campaigns for then-Governor Pete Wilson; he began to run in San Diego City Council elections to represent the 2nd district in the early 2000s.

Kevin Faulconer was elected in a 2005 special election and was re-elected in landslides in 2006 and in 2010.

Kevin Faulconer was re-elected in 2016, but he was not eligible to run in the 2020 election due to term limits.

Kevin Faulconer is considered to be a moderate Republican, holding fiscally conservative and socially liberal views.

Kevin Faulconer announced his candidacy for governor of California on February 1,2021, and was one of the main candidates in the 2021 gubernatorial recall election, placing third in a field of 46 replacement candidates.

Kevin Faulconer was born in San Jose, California to Jim and Kay Kevin Faulconer, an assistant city manager of Oxnard and an instructor at Oxnard College and Ventura College, respectively.

Kevin Faulconer grew up in Oxnard and learned Spanish while in grade school.

Kevin Faulconer later enrolled in and graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in political science.

Kevin Faulconer later helped work on the campaigns for California Governor Pete Wilson.

Kevin Faulconer ran in the 2002 city council election for District 2 but lost to Michael Zucchet in a hotly contested election.

Kevin Faulconer was elected to a full term in June 2006 and re-elected in June 2010; in both cases he won an outright majority in the primary and so did not have to run in the November general election.

Kevin Faulconer was ineligible to run for re-election in 2014 per city term limits.

Kevin Faulconer supported the price-fixing agreement and spoke at the press conference announcing the agreement.

Kevin Faulconer campaigned against a proposed sales tax increase in 2010.

Kevin Faulconer promoted the North Embarcadero Visionary Plan, a project seeking to redevelop the San Diego bayfront.

Kevin Faulconer pushed for several years for an ordinance limiting the parking of oversize vehicles on the streets; the ordinance finally passed the city council in July 2013.

Kevin Faulconer was chair of the council's Audit Committee, which is charged with clearing out an audit backlog and restoring the city's credit rating.

Kevin Faulconer was vice-chair of the Rules and Economic Development Committee and a member of the Budget and Finance Committee.

In September 2013 Kevin Faulconer entered the special mayoral election that resulted from the resignation of mayor Bob Filner.

In 2015, Kevin Faulconer declared his intention to run for a full term in 2016.

Kevin Faulconer won re-election in the June 7,2016 primary by garnering 58.2 percent of the vote.

Kevin Faulconer endorsed Marco Rubio in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries.

Kevin Faulconer had been urged by state Republican leaders to run for governor in 2018, and polls showed him as the leading Republican candidate.

Kevin Faulconer consistently said he would not run, and in June 2017 confirmed it, saying his top priority was finishing out his term as mayor.

In 2014, Kevin Faulconer released San Diego's first Climate Action Plan.

The plan outlined Kevin Faulconer's proposed strategy for the city to meet State goals for the city to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2018, Kevin Faulconer proposed pursuing a city-run Community Choice Aggregation program to meet the plan's goal of purchasing 100 percent renewable energy by 2035.

Kevin Faulconer campaigned to keep the Chargers in San Diego and proposed that the city build a new stadium, financed in part by the city and county governments.

Kevin Faulconer later endorsed a ballot measure sponsored by the Chargers that would raise the hotel tax to pay for a stadium.

In 2017, Kevin Faulconer put forth a measure that would fund the expansion of the San Diego Convention Center by increasing the hotel tax, but the City Council declined to call for a special election.

In 2018, Kevin Faulconer supported a citizen's initiative that would accomplish the same thing as his original measure.

Kevin Faulconer has been an outspoken opponent of the "Not In My Back Yard" mentality.

Kevin Faulconer has called for scrapping restrictions on housing development, such as building-height limits near public transit and parking requirements, as well as various restrictions on dense housing.

Kevin Faulconer has called for streamlining of the approvals process.

Kevin Faulconer said these reforms were needed to combat San Diego's housing crisis, reduce homelessness and improve the environment.

In both his 2018 and 2019 State of the City addresses, Kevin Faulconer vowed to reduce the growing number of people who are street homeless in San Diego.

Kevin Faulconer's efforts included a 40 percent increase in funding from 2018 to 2019, the opening of shelter tents, the creation of safe parking spots, a storage center for the homeless, and successful advocacy for more funding from the State.

Kevin Faulconer's administration relied upon a dual agent who represented both the seller and the buyer in the transaction.

Kevin Faulconer and his staff learned of the Hepatitis A outbreak in June 2017 and proposed plans to combat it, including installing hand washing stations near homeless encampments.

Kevin Faulconer announced that the San Diego Convention Center would be opened as a shelter to protect the homeless from the pandemic, and that 240 new shelter beds would be added to Golden Hall.

Kevin Faulconer responded to Governor Gavin Newsom's statewide beach closure, stating that it is "sending the wrong message" as Kevin Faulconer allowed beaches in San Diego to reopen on April 24,2020.

Kevin Faulconer has described himself as pro-choice on the issue of abortion.

In 2016, Kevin Faulconer entered into a lease-to-own agreement for San Diego's new City Hall at 101 Ash St The building is uninhabitable with Asbestos and other issues.

Kevin Faulconer strongly criticized Newsom following the scandal at The French Laundry, an expensive, five-star restaurant in Yountville which the governor had attended for a birthday party in November 2020, in violation of state gathering rules that he himself had enacted.

Kevin Faulconer was compared to fellow moderate Republicans Larry Hogan of Maryland and Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, who hold such positions in deeply Democratic states like California.

Speculation increased in November 2020, when Kevin Faulconer confirmed that he was "seriously considering" running for governor in the upcoming 2022 election.

On January 4,2021, Kevin Faulconer launched an exploratory committee to run for governor of California.

Kevin Faulconer has indicated that he could be part of the recall election's list of replacement candidates if it proved to be successful.

San Francisco Gate argued that Kevin Faulconer probably has the best chance of being elected in a recall election.

On February 1,2021, Kevin Faulconer officially announced that he was running for governor of California in either 2022 or a recall election and stated that, "I'm going to be a voice for Californians who are suffering because California can't do the basics".

Kevin Faulconer reiterated his support for the campaign for a recall election against Governor Newsom, which by that point had reached 1.3 million signatures out of the 1.5 million required to reach the ballot.

The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board declared that Kevin Faulconer would be the least offensive of the replacement candidates to Gavin Newsom, and endorsed him for the replacement question.

In 2024, Kevin Faulconer challenged Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer for her seat in coastal District 3 in his first attempt at office since his bid for governor during the failed recall campaign against Governor Gavin Newsom in 2021.

Kevin Faulconer is the founder and president of Restaurant Events, a company that plans block parties and other events, and has been described as the primary breadwinner in the family.

Kevin Faulconer is a member of Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church, a congregation of the Presbyterian Church, and has described his faith as important to his values.