Learn the Facts About Mara Elliott

Mara Elliott has concocted a Vehicle Mile Traveled (VMT) tax plan that will raise the cost of living on San Diego families! (1)

A new Mileage Tax will charge you 6 cents per mile you drive - costing the typical driver $900 per year on top of sky-high gas and car taxes you already pay!

If Mara Elliott is elected to the State Senate, she will be the deciding vote on this insane Mileage Tax - and you'll get stuck with more bills you can't afford!

As City Attorney, Mara Elliott put a misleading ballot title on Garbage Tax Measure in 2022 that failed to disclose that the measure would charge every household $700 per year for trash service. The Union Tribune slammed her ballot title as "deceptive" but because Mara Elliott manipulated the vote, San Diego families got stuck with another costly and unfair bill they weren't expecting. (2)

Mara Elliott is on record wanting to repeal Prop 13 - the voter-approved reform measure that limits increases in property taxes. If Prop 13 is repealed, the average San Diego homeowner will be forced to pay $9000 more per year in property tax assessments. (3)

Mara Elliott supports banning all gas appliances in homes - and even wants to impose a retrofit mandate to remove every gas stove, water heater and appliance that could cost each homeowner up to $30,000 to comply with. (4)

As San Diego City Attorney; Mara Elliott was found to have engaged in prosecutorial misconduct. She ignored a Judge's orders to produce evidence and hid body camera footage from defendants. (5)

African Americans were also found 5 times more likely to be prosecuted by her office than Whites for minor offenses.​ (6)

As the San Diego City Attorney, Mara Elliott repeatedly approved bad real estate deals that cost taxpayers millions while enriching developers who gave her campaign contributions. Elliott even threatened to arrest a reporter who asked her about her role in the bad deals.​ (7) (8)