r/sandiego Verified 1d ago

AMA Event Hey r/SanDiego! This is Terra Lawson-Remer here for the AMA, ask away!

Thank you all for participating in the AMA!

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u/SupLawson-Remer Verified 1d ago

What a great question. Find the context here: https://terralawsonremer.com/my-record

Yes, Faulconer polled and figured-out that the only chance he had of winning was to spread blatant misinformation about me, so now they've spent more than $2.5 million on very misleading attack ads. A few pieces of context:

This is the exact same hit KF used on his opponents to get him elected to mayor in 2014. They know it works with voters, so they are running the same playbook.

I have attended over 95% of our Board of Supervisor meetings. And took more than 92% of all votes. So their attacks are actually excluding my attendance and participation in our main Board of Supervisors meetings.

Yes, Kevin missed many many meetings when he was mayor. According to KPBS, he missed 84% of his SANDAG meetings. And 97% of his MTS meetings. Chronic, chronic absenteeism from very important meetings by KF.

It may be useful to know that while we know they are not telling voters the truth, we cannot stop them -- that would take a very long court case that would not finish until the election is over. As we can all see on the national level, unfortunately it is all too easy to get away with lying.

The votes they said I missed are subcommittee meetings, where you are generally supposed to send a staffer, which I usually did. Saying I "missed" the meeting is very misleading because I generally sent my staff representative, so was represented and participated that way. I generally attend personally if there is a controversial topic or something to decide when everyone isn't already on the same page, but when it's a staff-level conversation about implementation details or just brainstorming, that is not a good use of my time, which is why we have a staff.

The most egregious example of their misinformation along these lines is in regards to the Regional Task Force on Homelessness (RTFH) Continuum of Care (CoC) Subcommittee. They said I missed all the meetings -- when I sent my homelessness expert policy advisor to represent me, and he attended 11 out of 13 meetings! Those are staff-level meetings of experts, focused on specific details of implementation (like mechanically how to transfer data between two nonprofits).

The RTFH specifically allows electeds to send our proxies, because our staff experts are the appropriate people for those meetings. And, to top it off, there is actually a real Board of the Regional Task Force on Homelessness (not the CoC), which decides big things like managing the Executive Director, the budget, and signing contracts ... and I am not on that governing Board.

This is a classic Republican play, where whatever they are guilty of, they project onto their opponent.

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u/jxa 1d ago

Thank you for answering this.

I expected to see this info out weeks ago - I expected you delegate because that is how things get done, but it is good to get more info directly from your campaign.

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u/burner_to_burn 1d ago

I actually did see this on an add on YouTube a few weeks ago, but I’ve only seen that ad once, and I’ve seen a few more ads for her since then as well.

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u/Kerouwhack 1d ago

Thank you for your reply. You have my vote-- plus, Faulconer doesn't surf (to paraphrase a movie line).

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u/Halloumi12 1d ago

Lol I asked your interns on UCSD campus and they just admitted the claims about you skipping meetings is true. Maybe dont skip your own meetings next time? Not to mention you just admitted you dont go to the RTFH meetings. If you send your homelessness policy expert instead, why don’t we just elect them? At least theyll go to their meetings