San Diego mayor’s ‘personal favorite’

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Jerry Sanders was a police officer for 25 years before he became mayor of San Diego, and sometimes he reverts to old ways.

At a press conference at Qualcomm Stadium, where 10,000 evacuees from the county’s fires have taken refuge, Sanders was reading to reporters a list of companies that have come forward to offer goods and services.

He stopped at one name and called it “my personal favorite”: Krispy Kreme, the doughnut makers.

“I’m a cop, what am I supposed to say?” Sanders joked.

It was the first laugh for the mayor or his audience in a couple of days.

-- Tony Perry in San Diego