It doesn't appear the public is clamoring for it, but some current and former San Diego officials want to split the job, with the council appointing their own legal adviser
There have been plenty of disputes between San Diego city attorneys and other elected officials at City Hall over the decades. Some have been legendary.
It’s the non-prosecution duties some council members have a problem with. They say an elected city attorney’s politics, ambitions or ideology can affect how they write laws or dispense advice, as David Garrick of The San Diego Union-Tribune has written in coveringThe council’s Rules Committee last week voted for an analysis of the latest proposal, which would be expected to go to the full council and be placed on the 2024 ballot.
The Oakland city attorney had been changed from an appointed to an elected position in 2001, and just one person had been elected to the job before the council tried to change back. Further, analysts suggested that the Oakland measure failed in part because people generally don’t like the idea of their ability to vote for or against officials being taken away.
An argument can be made that the tension between the city attorneys and others grew after voters approved term limits in 1992, making competition for another office more intense. His successor, Jan Goldsmith, and Mayor Bob Filner, who followed Sanders, had high-profile disputes. Filner sought to slash the city attorney’s budget and once showed up at a Goldsmith news conference and essentially heckled him.
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