Shooters

This year’s prize for most unusual source of income reported by a member of the San Diego City Council has to go to the Seventh District’s Marti Emerald, who reports selling her “personal gun collection” to Southern California Gun for between $10,000 and $100,000. The filing shows Emerald, a former TV reporter, still values her Emerald Group, a media consulting outfit, at between $2000 and $10,000, although it brought in less than $500. Third District councilman Todd Gloria gets the award for raking in the most freebies, listing no fewer than 31 gratuities, including a fruit basket from ex–city council hopeful Marshall Merrifield ($93.60); tickets to Ritz in the Zoo from the legal and lobbying firm of Hecht, Solberg, Robinson, Goldberg & Bagley ($185); admission to the San Diego County Taxpayers Association Watchdog Awards ($50); and a ticket to the play Cornelia, about the late Alabama governor George Wallace and his second wife, at the Old Globe ($58).