Eleassia Davis Deflects: Avoids Addressing Homeless Shelter Failure

Stealing a Page from the Political Swamp of Washington DC, Tracy’s Mayor Pro Tem and Chairperson of the Homeless Advisory Committee Does Her Best Political Spin to Date. 

Below is Mayor Pro Tem Davis’ response to our previous post, “Mayor Pro Tem Eleassia Davis Owns the Tracy Homeless Shelter Failure.”  We break it down part by part.

Our previous post clearly struck a sensitive chord with Eleassia Davis, as she doesn’t want to own the homeless shelter debacle (particularly with an upcoming election year), but the facts speak for themselves.



FACT:     Eleassia Davis is the senior ranking and longest serving member on the Homeless Advisory Committee.   

Mayor Pro Tem Davis has served on the Committee since March of 2021. The Committee itself was established in March 2021. She has since been named Chairperson of the Committee and saw to the appointment of the hapless Council Member Mateo Bedolla.

FACT:     Eleassia Davis and her “Community First” campaign promised to fix the homeless issue where her counterparts failed. She has not fulfilled that promise.

During her mayoral campaign, she spoke ad nauseum about how if her fellow council members had listened to her plans, then the homeless issue would have not been as bad as it is. 

FACT:     Eleassia Davis, along with Dan Evans and the hapless Mateo Bedolla, have majority control over the Tracy City Council.

Instead of getting things done, the three are obsessed at laying blame for all the city’s woes on lame duck Mayor Nancy Young and every business and developer in the city. The three’s biggest accomplishments so far: censoring Nancy Young, handing all decision power to the Tracy City Attorney, and running off Michael Rogers. Otherwise, the city’s major issues – homelessness, crime, poor infrastructure, etc. – persist. The majority in control are the ones accountable for city affairs.

FACT:     The Tracy Homeless Shelter situation is an ongoing bureaucratic disaster with no accountability and no end in sight.  

Two years of meetings, fancy powerpoint presentations, commitment of local, county, and federal funds, and grant monies, and yet the building of the homeless shelter is no closer to being built than it was when the Committee was formed. Mayor Pro Tem Davis has been on the Committee since its inception, and she campaigned on getting things done. She has failed in that promise and is being called out for it based on facts.

Tracy’s issues are too important to be caught-up with political campaign promises and backroom dealings that have been demonstrated thus far by Mayor Pro Tem Davis and her majority council. Actions speak louder than words, especially words straight from the swamp!