About the Business in Faulconer’s ‘Businessman’ Ballot

Mayor Kevin Faulconer speaks with a man after finishing a press conference for Operation Shelter to Home. / Photo by Brittany Cruz-Fejeran

You’d be forgiven if you learned that former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer was a “businessman” last week when a judge ruled that he had to be listed on September’s recall ballot as “businessman/educator,” after he lost an attempt to describe himself as “retired San Diego mayor.”

Faulconer hasn’t had much to say this year about any role he holds with a business, busy instead with a gubernatorial campaign that he began exploring in early January and which he officially launched in February.

But, it turns out he has also been working part time as a strategic adviser for a company called Collaborate for California, a government consulting company started on Jan. 1 of this year by Aimee Faucett, Faulconer’s former chief of staff. The “educator” portion of his ballot title owes to his…

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