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The Gloria Files

Dossier: Mayor Todd Gloria

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The Machine: How Todd Gloria's Campaign Committees Move Corporate Money Past Every Safeguard

How Todd Gloria's Campaign Committees Move Corporate Money Past Every Safeguard

$2.1M raised across four campaign committees

We followed the money. All of it.

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The Donors

The Full Network Map of Todd Gloria's Corporate Roster

162,513 donor-to-politician connections mapped

The donor list tells a story the campaign website doesn't.

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The Payoff: What Todd Gloria's Donors Got for Their Money

What Todd Gloria's Donors Got for Their Money

$847K in developer donations before key housing votes

$24,999. One dollar below the disclosure threshold. It happened more than once.

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The System: Every Safeguard Failed. None of Them Were Broken.

Every Safeguard Failed. None of Them Were Broken.

0 safeguards that stopped the money

Every safeguard failed. Not one of them was broken. That's the point.

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The Parking Play: How One Family Has Controlled San Diego's Public Parking for 76 Years

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The Budget Chose Who Could Afford To Be Cut

How Mayor Gloria's $118M deficit became a loyalty test — and who failed it

1 : 812 Gloria's lifetime arts patronage vs. his single-year arts cut

The categories Gloria cut all share one structural trait: they cannot legally donate back. The categories he protected all have PAC capacity. The alignment is perfect. 72 hours until the first hearing.

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On Saturday The Library Is Closed: How San Diego Chose The Budget Crisis

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The Sign Lie: How a Yellow A-Frame Hides a $30M Police Raise

Part 4 of the meter saga

$30,513,332 SDPD FY26 GF increase while sworn officers fell by 9.88

San Diego doubled parking rates for "deficit relief." The IBA says $8.6M went to police — to fund raises Gloria signed 19 months before the vote. The yellow sign is on 6% of the take.

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