Endorsement: Why Monica Montgomery Steppe is our choice for San Diego County Board of Supervisors [Opinion]
San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher’s scandal-driven May 15 resignation left a vacancy in the board’s District 4, whicheast from Clairemont and Bay Park in San Diego to La Mesa, Lemon Grove, Spring Valley and Rancho San Diego. Voting on his replacement, who will serve until January 2027, begins next week and ends Aug. 15.
While Fletcher ultimately let down constituents, he lived up to his promise in his 2018 campaign to end the complacency that had been the Republican-dominated board’s defining trait for two decades. Especially after 2020’s election gave Democrats a board majority and led to Fletcher becoming chair, county government got better on many fronts — starting with increased access to mental health care and a much more active approach to homelessness.
Republican Paul McQuigg, 46, a retired Marine gunnery sergeant who lives in Ridgeview-Webster, made several strong points inwith the editorial board. His ideas about making sturdy, cheap prefabricated housing a part of the response to the housing crisis and having the Army Corps of Engineers help out with Tijuana’s broken sewage infrastructure are smart. But he showed less mastery of basic county issues than other candidates.
Republican Amy Reichert, 55, a licensed private investigator who lives in La Mesa and who lost to Fletcher in District 4 last November, was stronger in. She says current supervisors haven’t done enough to respond to frustrations felt by many low- and middle-income households, and she speaks with insight about the need for public transit to improve “first- and last-mile” connections, especially for vulnerable populations. But she showed less of a grasp of government finance than others.
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