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Where is former San Luis Obispo Mayor Heidi Harmon?

November 10, 2023

By KAREN VELIE

Former San Luis Obispo Mayor Heidi Harmon is looking for a new job, this time hoping to work as a campaign consultant, community organizer, communications specialist or strategic planning specialist.

Harmon, who worked with preschool children before being elected mayor in 2016, continues to reside in SLO. She is reaching out to her supporters on Instagram, asking if they can help her find a job.

“I am seeking a new role and would appreciate your support,” Harmon posted on Instagram. “I am a passionate climate champion eager to collaborate and drive positive change for a just and generative world. For 30 years, I have been a dedicated champion for a generative future for all, championing social, environmental, and racial justice.

“During my three terms as the mayor of SLO, I spearheaded the adoption of the most ambitious carbon neutrality goal in the United States, showcasing my visionary leadership. In my recent role as the Senior Public Affairs Director at Let’s Green, CA, I focused on justice-centered climate policy in California, leaving a lasting impact. My dedication to this cause is deeply personal, driven by my love for my two grown children and my commitment to the equitable well-being of future generations.”

Harmon resigned as mayor in 2021 amid allegations she took gifts from cannabis kingpin Helios Dayspring. Shortly before Harmon’s resignation, Dayspring admitted to paying bribes to former-San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Adam Hill for favorable votes on his cannabis business interests and for deliberately failing to report millions of dollars in income to the IRS.

After resigning, Harmon took a public affairs job with the Romero Institute’s Let’s Green CA initiative, a nonprofit affiliated with electric provider Central Coast Community Energy. During Harmon’s tenure, the SLO City Council voted to contract with Central Coast Community Energy to provide electricity to residents.

At the time, Harmon suggested she had to choose between having a job or serving as mayor, even though the vast majority of mayors in SLO County have full time jobs.


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Kindly show some respect for our former mayor. She’s a victim here, too, if you think about it. Think on the lines of the film My Fair Lady: a relative nobody is selected by the political machine to be a candidate. She’s groomed. We watch her go from frumpy to having her own style; spewing well-written speeches and missives as she dutifully implements the progressive ideology as mayor. Believing she’s actually in charge, she goes too far from their agenda. She appears to go totally off the rails; leaves during a new term because she’s “not making enough money to support her lifestyle.” Personally, I believe Ms Harmon, in the beginning, thought she could make a difference, but sold her soul, and was caught up in a battle the public couldn’t see. And she had to leave (or possibly take the drug cocktail Adam Hill did, to exit the scene?). Only she knows what happened. I could be way off, but she had her Cinderella moment. I hope she’s talking to the Feds and shines a light on what is really going on. And possibly salvages her reputation as a SLO city mayor, and becomes the hero she thinks she is.


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Get a job at CNN or MSNBC in New York, nice and far away from us.


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What about Dee Torres’s old position at CAPSLO, I’m sure Heidi could steal gift cards and other donations as well as Dee!!!

There has to be a place for a corrupt Ex-Politician out there somewhere:)


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No jobs available at Megan’s Organic Market? A reliable source of income in the past, as we may soon hear from the FBI. Heidi jacked up the mayor’s salary as it was her only official source of income and she was couch-surfing. The purpose of paying elected officials is just to even the playing field by providing fair compensation so that not only the rich could afford voluntary service. Adam Hill and Dawn Ortiz-Legg made the position of County Supervisor into a sole full-time job. I’m not saying only people with the wealth of Peshong, Arnold, or little-JImmy should be supervisors, just that these should not be full-time County positions.


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It looks like Politicians are above the law.


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Heidi should just identify as a community organizer. That should get her a paycheck.


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She does identify as a a community organizer but no paycheck on the horizon. Why is she not slopping at the trough of the Romero Group and the fraudulent Central Coast Community Energy? I know people who got jobs there just because “jobs” were available. I guess the only way you don’t get a job; City, County, State Agency, CAPSLO, HASLO, ECHO with her “credentials” and connections is if the FBI is sniffing around.


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“I am seeking a new role and would appreciate your support,” Harmon posted on Instagram. “I am a passionate climate champion eager to collaborate and drive positive change for a just and generative world. For 30 years, I have been a dedicated champion for a generative future for all, championing social, environmental, and racial justice.” = NO MARKETABLE SKILLS.


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Apparently, Heidi is mighty……unemployable.


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Still lives in SLO? Has anyone seen her? Is she biking around using the bike lanes or in her EV paying for parking?

Pretty unprofessional to announce looking for a new job while still employed. Did she get fired?


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I saw her a couple weeks ago. Looked a bit homeless.


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