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Todd Gloria
Member of the California State Assembly
from the 78th district
Assumed office
December 5, 2016
Preceded byToni Atkins
Member of the
San Diego City Council
for the Third District
In office
December 8, 2008 – December 5, 2016
Preceded byToni Atkins
Succeeded byChris Ward
Mayor of San Diego
Acting
In office
August 30, 2013 – March 3, 2014
Preceded byBob Filner
Succeeded byKevin Faulconer
Personal details
Born
Todd Rex Gloria

(1978-05-10) May 10, 1978 (age 45)
San Diego, California, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Other political
affiliations		California Democratic Party
Residence(s)San Diego, California
Alma materUniversity of San Diego
WebsiteAssembly District 78 Website

Todd Rex Gloria (born May 10, 1978) is an American politician serving in the California State Assembly. A Democrat, he represents the 78th Assembly District, which encompasses much of San Diego.

Prior to his election to the Assembly in 2016, Gloria served as the interim Mayor of San Diego after the resignation of former mayor Bob Filner in August 2013. His term as interim mayor concluded on March 3, 2014, when Mayor Kevin Faulconer was sworn in.[1] In addition to serving as interim mayor, Gloria served as a San Diego City Councilmember representing District 3. He also served as president of the nine-member Council from 2012 through 2014.

Life and career

Gloria is a third generation San Diegan, all four of his grandparents having moved to San Diego because of their involvement with the military.[2] He has described his ethnic background in an interview as being: "[b]asically half Native American (Tlingit-Haida, an Alaskan tribe), a quarter Filipino and then a little bit of Dutch and Puerto Rican."[2]

He grew up in the Clairemont neighborhood and attended Madison High School. He was interested in politics from childhood. At age 10 he was runner-up in a "mayor for a day" contest. At 14 he volunteered to work for Democratic candidates in the 1992 election.[3]

Gloria graduated summa cum laude from the University of San Diego, with majors in history and political science.[4] While a student at USD, Gloria was active in the effort to add "sexual orientation" to the campus nondiscrimination policy.[3]

U.S. Congresswoman Susan Davis has been his political mentor ever since they first met in 1993, when Gloria was a high school freshman and Davis was the director of the Aaron Price Fellows Program, a San Diego leadership program for high school students focused on civic education and cross-cultural understanding.[4] In 2002, Gloria became Davis's district director,[4] a position he held until being elected to the city council in 2008.[5]

While working for Davis, Gloria also served as a San Diego Housing Commissioner from 2005 until 2008. Openly gay, he is also a former chairman of the San Diego LGBT Community Center and was a resident panelist on San Diego's Prostitution Impact Panel.[6]

San Diego City Council

Elections

See also: San Diego City Council election, 2008 and 2012
Council Member Todd Gloria speaking at a San Diego Workforce Partnership function

Gloria ran for the District 3 seat vacated by the termed-out Toni Atkins in the 2008 election. He received a plurality of votes in the June 2008 primary election, 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.[6][7] Gloria defeated Whitburn with 54.3% of the vote.

In the 2012 election, Gloria ran for re-election unopposed and was re-elected in the June primary.[8] As of his second term, District 3 included the neighborhoods of Balboa Park, Bankers Hill/Park West, Downtown San Diego, Golden Hill, Hillcrest, Little Italy, Mission Hills, Normal Heights, North Park, Old Town, and University Heights.[9]

Tenure

Gloria and San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer at a San Diego Comic-Con event in 2014

Gloria was chair of the city's Budget and Finance Committee from 2011 to 2016. Gloria represented San Diego on the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System Board and SANDAG, where he chaired the transportation committee.[10] In December 2012, at its first meeting after new members took office, Gloria was unanimously elected to serve as Council President, replacing retiring President Tony Young.[11]

Upon the resignation of Mayor Bob Filner on August 30, 2013,[12] Gloria became the interim mayor of San Diego, with limited powers.[13] This made San Diego the second largest city in the United States (after Houston) to have an openly gay mayor at that time.[14][15] He served until March 3, 2014 when mayor-elect Kevin Faulconer was sworn in. While serving as interim mayor he remained the city councilmember for District 3 and retained the title of city council president; however, City Council President Pro Tem Sherri Lightner carried out the duties of the council president.[16] Gloria was considered a possible candidate to replace Filner, but he chose not to run.[17]

As interim mayor Gloria reversed several of Filner's actions. In September 2013 he ordered city police and zoning code officers to resume enforcement actions against medical marijuana shops; in one of his first actions as mayor, Filner had ordered city staff to stop such enforcement.[18] He also announced the city will re-hire lobbying firms in Sacramento and Washington that Filner had fired.[19] He ordered that public records be made more quickly and easily available to citizens, in contrast to the cumbersome centralized process established by Filner.[20]

On December 10, 2014, the city council voted 4–5 on a motion of whether to reappoint Gloria as council president for the new term, with Sherri Lightner joining the four council Republicans to defeat the measure. The council then voted 7-2 to appoint Lightner as council president, with Gloria and David Alvarez in opposition.[21]

California State Assembly

On April 7, 2015, Gloria announced that he would run in 2016 for the California State Assembly 78th district seat held by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, who was termed out. Gloria was immediately endorsed by Atkins and by Sarah Boot, who had earlier announced her own candidacy for Atkins' seat, but withdrew upon Gloria's announcement.[22] On November 8, 2016 Gloria was easily elected over his relatively unknown Republican opponent with the second-highest margin of victory in San Diego County.[23]

2016 California State Assembly

See also: California State Assembly election, 2016
California's 78th State Assembly district election, 2016
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Todd Gloria 91,602 71.8
Republican Kevin D. Melton 36,013 28.2
Total votes 127,615 100.0
General election
Democratic Todd Gloria 122,828 68.9
Republican Kevin D. Melton 55,414 31.1
Total votes 178,242 100.0

References

  1. ^ Alford, Matt Johnson, Abbie. "Mayor-elect Kevin Faulconer expected to be sworn in March 3".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b Scannell, Christy (December 29, 2009). "Todd Gloria's juggling act part 2". San Diego News Room. via Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2013. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ a b Rowe, Peter (August 24, 2013). "Todd Gloria, in the mayor's office -- at least temporarily". San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
  4. ^ a b c "ASIAN JOURNAL a San Diego original. The 1st Asian Journal in Ca,USA. A Filipino American weekly. Online - Digital - Print Editions".
  5. ^ Writer to hold funeral for unpublished novel | The San Diego Union-Tribune
  6. ^ a b Steele,, Jeanette (Oct 18, 2008), "District 3 candidates are alike but different", San Diego Union Tribune, p. CZ-1{{citation}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  7. ^ Opposing forces | The San Diego Union-Tribune
  8. ^ "County of San Diego, Presidential Primary Election, Tuesday, June 5, 2012" (PDF). San Diego County Registrar of Voters. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  9. ^ "Communities - City of San Diego Official Website".
  10. ^ "About Todd Gloria". San Diego City Council. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  11. ^ "Gloria succeeds Young as City Council president". CBS-8. December 3, 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  12. ^ "Bob Filner Resigns: San Diego Mayor Agrees To Step Down Amid Sexual Harassment Scandal". Huffington Post. August 23, 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
  13. ^ Dotinga, Randy (August 22, 2013). "The Differences Between an Interim Mayor and a Strong Mayor". Voice of San Diego. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  14. ^ "Todd Gloria to serve as interim mayor following Bob Filner's resignation". LGBTQ Nation. August 24, 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  15. ^ Ring, Trudy (August 23, 2013). "San Diego Mayor Resigns; City Will Have Gay Interim Mayor". The Advocate. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  16. ^ Gustafson, Craig (August 30, 2013). "Q&A with Todd Gloria, interim mayor". Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  17. ^ "Former Councilman Carl DeMaio, Supervisor Ron Roberts will not run for San Diego mayor". ABC 10 News. September 3, 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
  18. ^ Gustafson, Craig (September 12, 2013). "Gloria: Med pot shops illegal: Interim mayor says he'll enforce de facto ban on pot shops". San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  19. ^ Gardner, Michael (September 11, 2013). "Gloria wants lobbyist for San Diego". San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  20. ^ Seibert, Trent (September 10, 2013). "Public records start to flow under Gloria". San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  21. ^ Mento, Tarryn; Trageser, Claire (December 10, 2014). "Gloria Ousted As San Diego Council President; Fellow Democrat Lightner Elected". KPBS. Retrieved December 10, 2014.
  22. ^ Garrick, David (April 8, 2015). "Gloria to run for Atkins' Assembly seat". San Diego Union Tribune. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  23. ^ Stone, Ken (November 8, 2016). "Todd Gloria to Trump: California Will Stay Progressive - Times of San Diego". Times of San Diego. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

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