1. Todd Rex Gloria was born on May 10,1978 and is an American politician serving as the 37th mayor of San Diego since 2020.
34 Facts About Todd Gloria
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Todd Gloria was president of the nine-member council from 2012 through 2014.
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Todd Gloria was then elected to represent California's 78th State Assembly district, which encompasses much of San Diego.
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Todd Gloria's father was a Production Controller at General Atomics.
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Todd Gloria comes from a Filipino, Dutch, Puerto Rican, and Native American background.
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Todd Gloria is a Tlingit member of the Tlingit Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.
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Todd Gloria completed his college education at the University of San Diego, where he was the student body president.
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US Congresswoman Susan Davis had been Todd Gloria's political mentor since they met in 1993 when Todd Gloria was a freshman in high school.
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Todd Gloria began his career at the County of San Diego's Health and Human Services Agency and joined the office of Susan Davis as a community representative.
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In 2002, Todd Gloria became Davis's district director, a position he held until his election to the City Council in 2008.
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Todd Gloria served as a San Diego Housing Commissioner from 2005 until 2008.
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Todd Gloria was then elected as a representative of the 78th District of the California State Assembly and rose to the position of Majority Whip.
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Todd Gloria established legislation addressing issues in San Diego, such as housing and homelessness, gun violence, and global warming.
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Todd Gloria was the vice chair of the California Legislative LGBT Caucus.
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Todd Gloria ran for the District 3 seat on the San Diego City Council vacated by the termed-out Toni Atkins in the 2008 election.
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Todd Gloria received a plurality of votes in the June 2008 primary, leading to a November run-off election against fellow Democrat Stephen Whitburn, a former journalist, community activist, and ally of then-District 6 Councilmember Donna Frye.
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Todd Gloria was chair of the city's Budget and Finance Committee from 2011 to 2016.
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Todd Gloria represented San Diego on the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System Board and SANDAG, where he chaired the transportation committee.
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In December 2012, at its first meeting after new members took office, Todd Gloria was unanimously elected to serve as Council President, replacing retiring President Tony Young.
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Todd Gloria served until March 3,2014, when mayor-elect Kevin Faulconer was sworn in.
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Todd Gloria was considered a possible candidate to replace Filner but chose not to run.
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Todd Gloria ordered city police and zoning code officers to resume enforcement actions against medical marijuana, re-hired lobbying firms in Sacramento and Washington that Filner had fired, and ordered public records be made more quickly and easily available to citizens.
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Todd Gloria's administration authored and released a draft of the San Diego Climate Action Plan.
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Todd Gloria was immediately endorsed by Atkins and by Sarah Boot, who had previously announced her own candidacy for Atkins's seat but withdrew upon Todd Gloria's announcement.
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On November 8,2016, Todd Gloria was easily elected over his relatively unknown Republican opponent with the second-highest margin of victory in San Diego County.
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Todd Gloria was easily re-elected in 2018 with over 70 percent of the vote in both the primary and the general elections.
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Shortly after assuming office in 2016, Todd Gloria was chosen by Speaker Anthony Rendon to join Democratic leadership in the Assembly as Assistant Majority Whip.
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Todd Gloria announced his candidacy for mayor of San Diego in 2020 on January 9,2019.
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Todd Gloria's campaign focused on issues such as the housing crisis, affordability, public transportation, and climate change.
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Todd Gloria was endorsed by several politicians, including Governor Gavin Newsom, former Governor Jerry Brown, and San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott.
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Todd Gloria claimed this was a technical oversight and filed the relevant paperwork the next day.
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In 2021, Todd Gloria proposed reforms for policing and public safety in San Diego, many of which were formed in response to the citizens of San Diego.
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For one of the items, Todd Gloria promised to adequately fund the Commission on Police Practices, which is an independent organization in charge of overseeing and investigating incidents involving the San Diego Police.
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Todd Gloria stated he wanted to avoid the impression "that it's easy to be homeless here and you can do drugs in my city".