Larry Turner, who has been a San Diego police officer for the past eight years, is challenging Mayor Todd Gloria in the city of San Diego's mayoral race in…
Gloria has announced that he is seeking a second term as San Diego's mayor, but another candidate has launched a campaign for the job tooHe currently serves as a community relations officer, but he also served on the department's SWAT team. Prior to that, Turner was an intelligence officer for 23 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, retiring as a lieutenant colonel on various deployments and assignments around the world.
In fact, he says working with the homeless community in his role as a police officer is what inspired him to run for the mayor's office." got a chance to see a lot of developing countries, a lot of people who are suffering in these other countries," Turner said."To come home and see that happening here, and honestly at a bigger scale than some of the third world countries that I've worked in, it's just very sad.
"I’d bring in all of the players, all of the nonprofits here in San Diego, and bring them into one table," he said."We used to do this overseas all the time: the State Department and would bring all of the nonprofits together, and we would sit around the table, put all our assets there and come up with a really good plan — a synergistic approach to solving the crisis."Turner is running as an independent candidate.
Turner has the endorsement of one famous San Diegan, former NBA player Bill Walton, who has been a vocal critic of Gloria and his approach to homelessness.
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