Candidate for Supervisor, District 1, May Lack Ability to Manage County Funds

If San Diego County Supervisors were required to first serve as a Mayor of a city, I think that they would have the experience needed to administer a District, which is much like a BIG city made up of lots of smaller cities and unincorporated areas.

Some of our best Supervisors governed cities before becoming Supervisors. Greg Cox was the Mayor of Chula Vista and Jim Desmond was the Mayor of San Marcos. Those are the first two that come to mind and there are probably others. I feel that this gives them the familiarity with the ends-and-outs that are involved in keeping a community afloat.

With that in mind, both current candidates for the office of Supervisor, District 1, have the expertise of running a city. Paloma Aguirre is the Mayor of Imperial Beach and John McCann is the Mayor of Chula Vista. So we're off to a good start.

Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre and Chula Vista Mayor John McCann

The second thing that I believe is important is that a Supervisor be able to manage finances, starting with their own family finances.

Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer, District 3, appears to have difficulties with money. When she ran for her position in 2022, it was reported in Voice of San Diego that she had used over $7,500 of her campaign money for childcare expenses. Not something that builds trust with her constituents.

Now that Ms. Lawson-Remer is a Supervisor, it seems that she is always trying to break into the County piggy bank.

The County has a deficit because the Feds pulled back funds when Nora Vargas, Terra Lawson-Remer and Monica Montgomery Steppe voted for the County of San Diego to be a sanctuary haven. Always looking for money, Ms. Lawson-Remer advocated for three solutions to the new deficit:

1. Higher taxes for constituents

2. Extra taxes when selling a home

3. Pillaging the Emergency Fund

As of today, Ms. Lawson-Remer and Ms. Steppe have be unsuccessful in achieving their attempts at money grabbing. Note: Neither one of these Supervisors served in a Mayoral position in the past so both have little experience for County operations.

So as you can see, it is important for our new District 1 Supervisor to be able to track spending, separate expenses into "needs and wants", adjust spending when necessary and keep long-term goals in mind. This takes someone with a strong budget-management ability because they will be working with the other Supervisors to manage the $8 Billion County budget.

Recently, "a little birdie told me . . . " something that caused concern about the financial skills of candidate Paloma Aguirre. According to my source, Manuela Aguirre  (Paloma's real name) and her husband Delio Bacalski have been delinquent on their property taxes since 06.30.22. That is a real concern.

The birdie also revealed that Ms. Aguirre owes nearly $6K to Capital One for unpaid credit card amounts in a court-ordered judgment.

When a candidate runs for a Supervisor position, their financial records should be squeaky clean.

Paloma Aguirre's unpaid debts indicate that she could be deficient in the ability to handle financial obligations and make good financial decisions. 

This should serve as a warning that Ms. Aguirre could lack the proficiency or rather aptitude to manage the County's budget or be anywhere near the piggy bank.

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