By Doug Porter
It’s hard to miss the Faulconer campaign’s warm and fuzzy broadcast ads featuring former Mayor Jerry Sanders. We’re told several times about how the Republican Mayoral candidate “saved” San Diegans a billion dollars through pension reform. We’re told this money can be used for needed projects in our neighborhoods. Those assertions are fine examples of the ‘lots of baloney, served often’ strategy being used on Faulconer’s behalf. Our ex-mayor is an excellent salesman, ready to sell you discount passes for the (toll-free) Coronado Bridge is you’re gullible enough. Voice of San Diego revisited that oft-quoted one billion dollar figure yesterday in light of newly released information, deciding it merited no better than a ‘misleading’ rating.Pension savings of $1 billion will come over decades and any contention that they can be put back into neighborhoods immediately, as Faulconer implied in November, is misleading.