Outgoing Mayor Bond is rewriting history here (as he is wont to do). This video is his previous description of the tradition pattern of rotation known for over twenty years as the method used to select a new mayor.
First Time Teresa Barth is in line as mayor, December 8, 2009:
San Diego Union Tribune article December 11, 2009 regarding Jerome Stocks:
"Stocks didn't explain his reasoning at the meeting. But in a phone interview yesterday, he said he was sending Barth a message that she had angered the council majority with personal attacks and a lack of leadership since 2006."
Teresa Barth had boycotted closed sessions by the council and the 24-hour notice used to label all closed sessions as special in what one critic describes as and obvious construct to circumvent the law. The city subsequently changed noticing without acknowledging these tactics.
Barth also responded in 2009 to Orpheus Park neighbors by asking the City and her Council colleagues to halt trees being cut down until someone could explain to these citizens why it was necessary. Mayor Dan Gallager reacted to the public and press attention with email blasts against Barth saying,
"I will NEVER vote to appoint into that position anyone who does not have the competency to work through the system to obtain their goals, and instead spends their time fueling Chinese fire drills and planting discord, solely to keep the spotlight on themselves."
