THAT Doug Manchester.)Manchester became a boogeyman in San Diego’s LGBT community after he contributed to the Prop 8 campaign to repeal marriage equality in 2008.
For years Gloria has repeatedly attacked political opponents for having any hint of association with Manchester or his real estate projects.Yet when it came time for Gloria to advance one of Manchester’s deals, a recently-released independent city investigation shows he took extraordinary and costly steps to hide it from the public – and the LGBT community in particular.Todd Gloria Advances a Bad Deal“It’s a great deal for taxpayers!” That’s what then-City Councilman Gloria said in 2016 when he led the City Council action to approve a lease-to-buy agreement for a 50-year-old.