I'm a public servant who earns his city millions of extra dollars a year and makes a cool $13k a year doing it. That's right, drink it in.

I went to France and they said you live here.

The media landscape in future America must feature credible, relatable, interesting local news for normal people, and it must be robust enough to meet them where they are: reading, listening, or watching (or whatever fourth thing youths are doing these days). We need an oasis for every news desert.

Hello! A warm thanks to everyone who pushed for me to become the next San Diego County Treasurer. I know my decision not to pursue that office has disappointed some folks, and I am sorry about that. But I intend to work in other ways towards protecting and restoring our society and our communities.

What's that? No, I haven't seen the article or heard the news. I've been walking the cloud battlements.

Fun to imagine the statewide electeds we'd get in a San Diego/Imperial state.

I'm currently crunching the numbers for the previous quarter and I'm happy to say that La Mesa once again made a lot of money.

Every day I am proven right again.

There was a special election tonight to determine partisan control of America's 5th-largest county. Democrat Paloma Aguirre appears to have defeated Republican John McCann, giving Democrats a 3-2 majority on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, which serves 3.3 million people. Big win.

The Supreme Court reminds us again today that the modern American right wing has only ever seen the Constitution as a tool to get what it wants when it's out of power and a meaningless impediment to be ignored when it is in power.

It's so regrettable that we've created a society where money is the only real source of security.

That's correct.

I manage an $80M+ investment fund for my city. This year I've made our portfolio more liquid than ever before — it's hard to find a long-term investment that I currently trust. And I point the finger squarely at the president for that.

Bill Ackman, who said this about the largest city in the United States and the world's financial capital, is never right about anything.

Solidarity with Brad Lander today, and not just because city comptroller is just a fancy way of saying city treasurer.

Mike Lee is one of the worst people in the United States.

It is time for the governors of the targeted states to begin considering their options. States are not powerless.

🎵 Dan-dan-dandy San Diego, where the sweet perfume of the waterfront fills the air 🎵

I call upon every elected Republican in America to look within and reflect upon their role in fomenting the current atmosphere. How much longer will you point the finger at your fellow Americans and call us the enemy, the threat, the villain?

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

I am against any deployment of the United States military (1) against Americans and (2) in wars of choice.

Los Angeles is a great city full of great people.

Well, that's certainly not how I would have put it (from today's LA Times)

The President of the United States has deployed unnecessary but very real troops to Los Angeles in an attempt to goad America's second-largest city and largest state into a reaction that will justify a continuation of his quest to turn California into some sort of dangerous, un-American Other.

I am asking the Governor of California to do something about our treatment at the hands of this administration.

Feeling even better than this guy

I would simply just post better. Built different I guess.

Proud to announce that I will be leading a daring raid to free Sean Elo-Rivera from political prison after the feds come to arrest him.

I bought this bridge many years ago but I didn't think to take out insurance on it. Panicking.

On Tuesday, I presented to the City Council that investments under my management earned the most money in a single quarter in La Mesa's 113-year history. There's no video of this, though—it was followed by a 4-hour hearing on a 73-unit condo development. The city's posted video capacity is 4 hours.

1. Pay off credit card debt, if any. 2. Save up 3 months' worth of expenses. 3. Contribute to your 401k up to your employer's match, if any. 4. Max out your contribution to a Roth IRA. 5. Save up 6 months' worth of expenses. 6. Max out your 401k contribution. 7. Save up 12 months' worth of expenses.

This is one of those moments where if we don't make them back down, it's all over for all of us.

The La Mesa Treasury congratulates this man, specifically, on the Liberals' electoral victory in Canada this evening.

Another quarter, another investment record for the La Mesa Treasury. Q1 2025 was our most lucrative ever (again).

The earth itself quakes at the impressive investment returns earned at the La Mesa Treasury.

"What should I be doing with my money right now?" is a question I am asked a lot lately. I don't have a great answer. Even in the best of times, everyone's financial needs and goals are different and can depend on your age, current money situation, etc. So, all I can say is what I'm doing myself:

Early returns for tonight's San Diego County Board of Supervisors special election are coming in and folks you are NOT going to believe this

Look at how they abuse this poor man. They put these crazy ideas into his mind and then force him to be a senator and go on TV. It's outrageous. He should be allowed to spend his days playing mini golf and eating the apple sauce where his daily vitamins have been hidden. Shame on everyone involved.

INVESTMENT GUIDANCE FROM CITY TREASURER

BREAKING: Goon Yoon not immune; more soon

Finding out that the 20% tariff on the EU includes Italy

It would be cool if today were a national holiday.

The drive from La Mesa to San Diego is *incredible*

Senator Schumer just called me. He's distraught. He still believes in the promise of America, in its ideals and its aspirations. Nobody is taking this harder than he is. But he's fighting to the end, the right way — it's his promise to you. That's why if you RUSH a $10 donation right now,

I'm a minor local elected with no designs on Congress so this is very easy for me to say, but if I were in Congress right now, I would be engaging in unheard-of levels of obstructionism. It would put Obama Era Mitch McConnell to shame. Pulling fire alarms, clogging bathrooms, the whole nine yards.

Me grappling with the popularity of "Trump take egg"

The President is targeting a law firm with a heinous executive order over (entirely legal) political law work the firm performed in 2016. That's bad enough, but what makes it very stupid is that none of the lawyers who did that work are at this firm anymore. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Grimly wondering who will be the first Congressperson or Senator to get arrested by the current DOJ. That moment will be an inflection point in our history.