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SAN DIEGO – Former NBA superstar and San Diego icon Bill Walton is on a mission to bring change to San Diego.with the Lucky Duck Foundation where he blasted Mayor Todd Gloria’s failed leadership, and called on him to resign for allowing the homeless crisis to get so bad.
A year later, and Walton is now the spokesperson for the Sunbreak Ranch. The Sunbreak Ranch proposal is a privately funded homeless camp, on government owned land, which Walton says is “cheaper, more efficient more effective than anything that’s going on right now. All we get right now is hot air, all we get right now is talk. Talk is cheap.”
Walton believes it is “cruel and inhumane” for our elected leaders to allow the homeless to live and die on our streets. Explaining, “we need leadership, we need emergency temporary tent cities, we need comprehensive support and rehabilitation services, and we need enforcement. Enforcement of the laws that are on the books to give us our city back, to give us our lives back.”
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