Downtown has enjoyed a resurgence since Torrey was thrown out of office. The buildings that stood vacant for years are full of businesses. We still have a vagrancy problem, but business downtown is booming.

I have never heard that there was a plan and money to build a new city hall under Torrey... are you sure?

The problems here aren't because of liberalism, but simple incompetence, primarily on the part of the city manager. (For clarification, I am not the former city manager Jim Johnson.)