Mayoral-Go-Round

With the endorsement of millionaire Steve Francis by the Republican Party of San Diego County's Central Committee, the infighting has begun.

Ask your average urban dweller hownour city—once touted as a paragon of financial virtue—fell from grace into thenmunicipal manure pile, and you'll either get a blank stare or a mumblednexplanation that has something to do with a pension system.

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As random shoppers hustle across a sizzling Mission Valley parking lot toward the air-conditioned innards of a Ralph's supermarket, a man approaches and offers an introduction. “Hello, I'm Steve Francis and I'm running for mayor of San Diego,” he says.

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The money still flows to politicians, legal problems be damned

Relief. That's what Deputy Mayor Michael Zucchet said he's feeling these days. It's an oddly cool answer from a man who, in light of Mayor Dick Murphy's resignation last week, may end up in charge of an imploding city government and, arguably more important at the time, was just days away from the start of his federal corruption trial.

Job cuts and service reductions factor heavily in proposed city budget