Marni von Wilpert for City Council

For Marni, it’s always about progress – never today’s divisive, ugly politics. Marni authored the first-of-its-kind law to stop the flood of untraceable ghost guns – and it’s keeping San Diegans safe. She launched the Homelessness Conservatorship Unit for new, urgent action on the most tragic mental illnesses – and it’s showing promise..

Re-elect Marni von Wilpert for City Council

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## **She’s our Councilwoman and our community’s champion.** She fought for safety and justice as a local city prosecutor. And Marni grew up right here in our neighborhood – she graduated from Scripps Ranch High, led our local girl scouts as a teenager and still lives just a stone’s throw from her childhood home.

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**Leading the city’s Public Safety Committee, Marni is bringing unflinching focus to the task of keeping all of San Diego safe.** In addition to her landmark work on gun safety, Marni has fought to hire more police officers and firefighters, and provide better training and better pay for our critical first responders. And she’s leading the charge to step up San Diego’s response on the opioid crisis, with more prevention, enforcement and access to life-saving overdose reversing treatment.

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**Marni has a well-earned reputation as the go-to taxpayer watchdog on the City Council,** where she’s known for speaking out against bad deals for the public and lasering in on the small print that can have a big impact in city contracts. Marni’s has consistently fought to save taxpayers millions, and she’s held city contractors accountable for services they pledged to provide.

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**Marni authored the first-of-its-kind law to stop the flood of untraceable ghost guns –** and it’s making San Diego safer.

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**She’s added new parks and sped up road repairs –** and it’s making life in our neighborhoods even better.

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And time and again, when risky downtown deals put taxpayers in jeopardy, **Marni speaks truth to power and fights for us.**

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That’s Marni. **People over politics.** Always.

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**Marni von Wilpert, San Diego City Councilmember for District 5, today formally announced her reelection campaign**, which has drawn overwhelming early support from local leaders and organizations.

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Marni von Wilpert Launches Reelection Campaign

**The San Diego City Council Tuesday approved** an update to the city’s Climate Action Plan, including setting a goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2035.

City Council  Adopts Updated, More Ambitious Climate Action Plan with Zero Emissions Goal

For over 15 years, a hopeful sign stood on a vacant lot on Village Center Loop Road, reading “Future library”. That future got one step closer with the official groundbreaking of the new Pacific Highlands Ranch Library on a sunny July 15 morning. San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and City Councilmember Joe LaCava helped lead the ceremonial shoveling of dirt to mark the long-awaited start of construction.

**For over 15 years, a hopeful sign** stood on a vacant lot on Village Center Loop Road, reading “Future library”. That future got one step closer with the official groundbreaking of the new Pacific Highlands Ranch Library on a sunny July 15 morning.

City breaks ground on Pacific Highlands Ranch Library

**San Diego City Councilwomen Marni von Wilpert** and Jennifer Campbell joined San Diego School Board trustees on Friday to announce the Stop Adolescent Addiction to Flavored E-Cigarettes Act was officially signed into law by Mayor Todd Gloria.

Ban on flavored-tobacco sales in San Diego signed into law

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“**It’s been an incredible two years**—we've passed a landmark law banning illegal ghost guns, stopped big tobacco from targeting youth with candy-flavored vapes, created more affordable housing, and invested record resources in our city's infrastructure.

## **Marni’s dedication to service isn’t new – it’s her lifelong passion.** 

**After college, Marni served in the Peace Corps in Botswana amid the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Graduating law school at the top of her class, Marni again chose public service** – she fought for the underserved, founding the Mississippi Center for Justice to combat anti-LGBTQ, racial and gender discrimination. And Marni served as a litigator for the National Labor Relations Board and counsel to the Congressional Committee on Education and Labor, where she wrote federal legislation to strengthen workers’ rights, wages and safety on the job.

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**But after working all over the world, nothing could keep Marni from coming back to the community she’s always called home** and working to make it even better. Prior to her election to the City Council, Marni was a civil prosecutor in the City Attorney’s Office where she cracked down on price gouging of essential goods during the pandemic, held polluters accountable for toxic dumping and went after wage theft that robbed workers of their hard-earned pay.

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Marni is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the Fordham School of Law. She is the first Democrat in a generation to be elected to represent District 5, San Diego’s most conservative district. In addition to her service on the City Council, Marni continues to give back by serving on the boards of San Diego Youth Services, and Teen Health Mississippi.

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Marni von Wilpert Launches Reelection Campaign

City Council Adopts Updated, More Ambitious Climate Action Plan with Zero Emissions Goal

City breaks ground on Pacific Highlands Ranch Library

Ban on flavored-tobacco sales in San Diego signed into law