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Politics Report: Hotel Union Leader to Lead Union Leaders
Brigette Browning will take over management of the Labor Council and the big soap box it offers. If hotel taxes rebound, they’re going to roads. And what to keep in mind about the Sports Arena project.
Brigette Browning is president of Unite Here! Local 30, a hotel workers union. / Photo by Megan Wood
This week the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council announced that Brigette Browning will run unopposed to become the new executive secretary-treasurer of the group, the union of labor unions for the region. Browning has been the leader of Unite HERE, the hotel and restaurant workers union.
Carlsbad Councilwoman Priya Bhat-Patel was among the city’s Democratic leaders who voted to make Republican Mayor Matt Hall the city’s representative at SANDAG. / Photo by Vito Di Stefano
When Will Rodriguez-Kennedy took over San Diego’s Democratic Party, he proposed setting the party’s electoral priorities around a straightforward metric: whether the race flips a seat on the board for SANDAG, the regional agency revamping the county’s transportation system, and all the infrastructure spending that goes with it.
His “SANDAG Strategy” was one part a solution to a recurring party problem: the perception that races were prioritized arbitrarily or by the influence of candidates running in them. And another part was recognition of a shift at SANDAG, once an uncontroversial agency where most decisions were unanimous, and now one of the region’s most combative partisan arenas.