Mayor Kevin Faulconer won’t be supporting the Chargers stadium initiative. Can it win without him?
The mayor hasn’t announced his stand and he certainly hasn’t told me what he’s going to do. But this really isn’t going out on much of a limb. It would defy political logic for Faulconer to back the hotel tax increase for a downtown stadium-convention facility.
This is a mayor who wants to be known for repaving roads, slowly taking on the city’s huge backlog of needed infrastructure improvements and pushing a cutting-edge local Climate Action Plan. Yet he scuttled a plan for billions of dollars in infrastructure bonds because it would raise property taxes, and he just voted against a proposed sales tax increase to do all that stuff and more countywide.