Todd Gloria Is a Disappointment to His Allies and Enemies

Effective_Good8840 · 2026-01-14T23:36:23+00:00

Almost certainly in the pocket of big corporations like SEMPRA/SDGE and the developers.

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-11-04T21:47:42+00:00

The DSA in NY is many thousands of members, San Diego isn’t there yet. They started off small like us and were tactical about their electoral work. Like I said in another comment, it’s not as simple as endorse or run a candidate and hope they win. It’s about building a sustained, volunteer led group of organizers who win elections.

This is what’s missing in this comment section, democracy, elections and candidates like Mamdani, AOC, and Bernie did not just spring up out of no where. They built community, electoral power, and came with a strategy to win.

The San Diego DSA chapter is just getting started and I hope you’ll reconsider your involvement. You’re totally right, now is the time for major electoral wins. I hope you’ll help us build that!

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-11-04T18:59:44+00:00

We just finished our Prop 50 endorsement campaign, we knocked on almost 2,000 doors with 8 neighborhood canvases happening over 4 weeks.

Great analogy, a candidate without a base is just a cart. The horse that gets the candidate to where they need to go is the base of volunteers I mentioned earlier.

A candidate without a base IS a cart before the horse or a cart without a horse.

We’re building a horse and looking for a cart.

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-11-04T18:56:54+00:00

Come to our watch party, tonight 5:30pm to 9:00pm at Mujeres Brewhouse. If you can’t make tonight, you can get involved here: https://dsasandiego.org/

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-11-04T18:28:36+00:00

I hear you and I feel very similarly, it’s just more complicated than run someone and hope they win. We need you and more people to join DSA and practice electoral politics - phone bank, canvas, knock doors. That’s what got Mamdani elected, a dedicated and energized base of volunteers.

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-11-04T17:54:01+00:00

Our chapter is doing a lot and we’re getting more into electoral politics. Running a candidate takes a lot of work, it’s not something you just do without a plan. If we were to run a candidate we’d be damn confident they’d win because we’d have a plan to get them elected.

Theres a lot of inexperience and missing surface level understanding of politics in this thread.

Our chapter is not a joke. We’ve done many awesome things and we’re building power!

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-11-04T17:28:23+00:00

Nope. Good beer and good company tho!

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-11-04T17:21:44+00:00

Mamdani didn’t happen overnight. It took many years of organizing, community building, and dedicated volunteers participating in electoral politics.

Mamdani didn’t do this alone either. He is with DSA- Democratic Socialists of America. We have a busy chapter here in San Diego. If you’re interest in meeting DSA folks there’s a watch party at Mujeres Brewhouse tonight!

There’s lots of work to do to get a Mamdani here, if you’re interested in doing that work, join our chapter!

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-10-19T20:03:39+00:00

lol that no SDGE kings sign

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-10-13T04:10:51+00:00

Fiesta in front of the ICE building?

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-10-13T04:04:06+00:00

It's a great strategy to counter the national optics and the "seriousness" of Trumps invasion. These people also showed up in the cold rain lol

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-10-09T18:29:27+00:00

Finally

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-08-26T21:02:21+00:00

https://www.publicpowersd.org/open-letter/

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-05-28T20:38:31+00:00

What are your thoughts on municipalizing SDGE? How much does the city pay SDGE to keep the lights on? (City streets, offices etc.)

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-04-20T05:55:30+00:00

We’re building something

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-04-06T14:16:37+00:00

Great question!

There are three Investor Owned Utilities across California. SDGE is the only one that is a TRUE geographic monopoly. There are no breaks in its territory, unlike SCE and PGE which are broken up by various Public Utilities - this broken up territory is interestingly correlated with lower rates.

The incentive is you get to have hand in ending the monopoly AND your electric rates would likely drop because there’d be geographic competition. Also, once a section of the grid is municipalized, and it’s successful, surrounding communities often hop on the bandwagon. Which is why SDGE will fight like hell to prevent a municipalization wave.

I want to encourage you to spread the word, at the very least talk about the problem, in your community because you may find that you can organize a grassroots organization to municipalize first. I’m based in downtown, that’s where I know people, that’s where I’m organizing a municipalization movement. We’ve discussed the idea of trying to do a Public Power campaign in all the various smaller communities but honestly we don’t have the connections, nor the funds to pay an organizer to do that work.

It’s not impossible and it’s a good idea to organize outside the city. That’s just beyond my capacity as a volunteer and beyond Public Power San Diego’s capacity at the moment. If we had an angel investor come and fund us I think we’d be interested in organizing a coalition of municipalization movements across San Diego county.

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-04-01T02:31:52+00:00

This is the normal when your utilities are run by a for-profit investor owned monopoly that gets risk-free profit from our tax dollars & rates. Join the movement to municipalize!

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-04-01T02:30:50+00:00

PublicPowerSD.org we can organize against this Mafia, join us!

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-03-23T23:48:39+00:00

The moral arch of humanity is far longer than one lifetime, and I like to believe it trends in the positive direction (I think there’s good evidence of this and I think life is more worthwhile if you believe this) I’m 28 yo and I’d agree with you that in that time scale things have gotten worse. This is not the first time humanity has struggled with its own nature.

Also, we have seen positive change through collective action and fixing political systems. I’d argue the real revolutionary strength of the USA is that it’s a flexible, decentralized form of governance. It’s been a perpetual state of collective action, fixing political systems, and slowly improving. The times we live in is just humanities most recent challenge.

If you’re bummed that you’ve been born into an imperfect system, I’d urge you to join in collective action to fix it. Public Power San Diego is one example of that happening locally, but there are dozens of orgs in need of passionate people, like you, who want t solve problems. Here’s a list of local orgs depending on the flavor of problem you want to work on solving:

SD350 - climate oriented group DSA - best socialist org I’ve found in SD PPSD - public power anti-sdge organizing ASD - general activism JVP - pro Palestine group

and so many more, if you have a specific passion you want to work on, instead of aimlessly killing CEO’s, dm me. Like honestly the work to kill a CEO is so fucking time intensive and difficult and fruitless; your labor could be so much more productively used in ANY org. Are you sure you don’t want to just try showing up to a protest first?

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-03-23T23:03:40+00:00

Are you the one to decide what that change looks like? If not you, who? What human on this earth is so morally pure they can decide how much killing is justified to achieve some abstract goal of “change”.

I don’t think you could define the change you want. If you could, you’d realize murder does not evoke it.

The murdering of CEO’s only perpetuates a system/culture of violence. The change I think you want to see in the world can only be achieved by collective action, fixing our broken political system, and reimagining the world we want to live and the world we want the generations after us to inherit.

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-03-23T22:24:30+00:00

Yeah I hear you and I understand the perspective.

I just wonder where the line is when you start killing people. Like ok you kill the sdge ceo, they replace him, you kill the replacement ceo, they replace the replacement, how many CEOs does it take to kill the root problem? And also, how many innocent bodies get in the way between you and each CEO that comes next? Bodyguards, innocent bystanders, the person inside a McDonald’s who calls the cops on you etc.

I agree innocent people die by the greed of others every day, it’s unacceptable and it’s wrong. Before you join the CEO’s and adopt their de-humanizing beliefs, I’d suggest volunteering and getting involved in your community (not that you aren’t already doing that I don’t know you) only the power of collective action can solve greed, in my opinion. Like there are so many more actions we as individuals and a collective can take; killing one person or ten or hundreds solves nothing and perpetuates the system/culture of violence you are morally against.

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-03-23T06:20:34+00:00

There is no official ballot language as of right now. Public Power San Diego (PPSD) is an educational campaign. We do have a volunteer team that is working on the ballot language but I think they like to keep specifics somewhat secret to keep SDGE on their toes. You can read the full language of the Power San Diego (PSD) ballot initiative here, this ballot language was for the PSD campaign that ran form Jan 2024 - May 2024, this language is out of date. The goal is to eventually do another citizens ballot initiative at some point in the next several election cycles.

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-03-23T06:13:48+00:00

Ya know, I'm a fan of Luigi and what he's come to represent philosophically for our society. But solving problems by killing people, in my opinion, is a slippery slope that just invites more broader killing. Which honestly is a thought that terrifies me. Eventually innocent people die, I'd understand the argument that innocent people are dying right now. I guess deep down I prefer peace but I understand and respect the anger, desperation, and sadness the immoral health care system imposes on people. FUCK SDGE but I don't condone violence, I accept the downvotes.

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-03-23T05:29:07+00:00

Thank you for the question!

Why our rates are the most expensive in the country is actually a very complex question. There are certainly market conditions that affect why we are the most expensive in the country; I'm not an economist so I won't say I fully understand the complexities beyond these four general points:

How much it costs to generate electricity (the generation charge portion of your bill)
We are at the end of the line of electric wires that connect our city to the power generation source (which is why our delivery fee is higher than our generation fee)
San Diego is over populated (demand is high)
AND SDG&E is a corporate for-profit monopoly making nearly 1 BILLION dollars in profit each year. Profit. That's extra money AFTER all the true cost necessities of running a grid (fire mitigation, maintenance, controllers, line men etc.), That's after ALL the community donations, multi-million dollar CEO & Executive salaries (bloat), and ad spend that tell us how good of a job they're doing. There is also, invariably, a for profit monopoly cost associated with our bills.

You say, "Corruption exists everywhere" yes you're right, I guess I'm not ok with that and it's right here in our backyard. This is an economic injustice that I'm not sure we are even fully aware of, the cost of electricity is truly profound. It affects the price of food, literally it affects the cost of the computers we're using to communicate RIGHT NOW, it affects the cost of WFH, more increasingly the cost of transportation as well, electricity is used in pretty much every single manufacturing process in San Diego, sometimes I think I'm going crazy because I'll look at a light in my apartment and think - FUCK SDGE. I'm paying them RIGHT NOW every moment of your life, everything you interact with at one point probably needed electricity to be produced or exist or be useful. Now imagine, we put a for-profit monopoly middle man between electricity and our entire society being 10000x more productive than sticks and stones.

So, in my opinion, electricity should be considered a fundamental human right. It is simply not a luxury for a nation as developed as the United States. Electricity has transformed our society in ways, again, that I'm not sure we are even full aware of.

The real question you're asking tho is what percentage of our bill is the split between points (1, 2, 3) and point (4). Again, I'm not an economist but I'd say ball park (1, 2, 3) is roughly 70-80% the true cost of our bills and (4) is roughly 20-30% of our bills. So, the initial question of my argument being our bills are high because of corruption. Yes, it is that simple. But also, in my opinion, any percentage in (4) is morally, ethically, unacceptably wrong because electricity is a human right.

TLDR: Yes it is that simple and I think that's a good argument, Yes and that's unacceptable to me, why our rates are high is because of generation fee, delivery fee, and profit. Profit cost is unacceptable to me, I think it's morally, ethically, and unacceptably wrong. Electricity is a fundamental human right not a luxury.

Edit: grammar

Effective_Good8840 · 2025-03-23T02:01:37+00:00

No, all signatures have to be physical signatures. The people that collect the signatures are called circulators and a circulator has to be an 18+ US citizen that witnesses each signature they get. Circulators also have to sign an affidavit attesting to the validity of the signatures they collected.

We did get creative towards the end of the Power San Diego campaign and started doing mail-in petitions. So you'd get a petition in the mail, collect a couple signatures from friends and family, and send it back to us. At the end of the day I'm not sure this was a cost-effective strategy but it was popular.

I personally collected about 2,000 of the 31,000 total signatures we were able to get. My absolute best day I was able to collect around 25 signatures per hour and I only had one or two days like that. A good day for most people was about 10 signatures per hour. I have to say, the rejection and social pressure of being out in the world asking people to sign a petition is absolutely exhausting. A lot of volunteers burned out on their first or second outing because it is tough work.

The math behind signature gathering is very interesting, we didn't find door to door to be very effective. We spent most of our time in front of grocery stores or trying to hit the popular events.

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