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| Shelly Masur |
Our district 3 supervisor is Don Horsley.. At-large candidates represent a district, but also represent and campaign in the entire county (which is a very expensive campaign for them). In California, San Mateo is the only remaining county with at-large supervisor representation and elections. Measure B in our 11/6/12 ballot will again ask voters if we wish to amend the Charter, but in the past similar measures have failed.
Reference information - County supervisor candidate websites: Shelly Masur, and Warren Slocum.
Related - Afternoon invitation to meet Shelly Masur, hosted by David Pine, 9/30/12. Articles - San Mateo Daily Journal, 6/30/12, "District 4 tally matched countywide results," (picture of Shelly Masur above) Half Moon Bay Patch, 4/20/12, "Candidate for supervisor visits downtown HMB." Pacifica Tribune, 9/4/12, "Karen Ervin kicks off campaign for city council," see embedded picture.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
14 comments:
Wow Ian Butler has a big head!
small head and really really big brain
The picture of Ian is "perfect", and I'll plan to include it as a logo on any Wavelength interview articles I post in the future.
Ian deserves a lot of recognition for his initiative in putting together and interviewing, in an easy manner, people in our local and regional news. What a great contribution to our community that is.
wild cheering and thunderous applause can be heard
but not for you Anonymous 1128, too bad
Relax ninny. It's for Ian.
Meeh, Isn't having and praising Ian on a site called Fix Pacifica like saying have a good-bad day, hello-goodbye, and enter-leave all at the same time.
Seriously, Fix Pacifica not praise the people who busted the town.
Back to the subject, or maybe on the subject for the first time - What needs changing in this county is the "at-large" campaign, forcing candidates to either be wealthy enough to fund a campaign for supervisor, or to be so in hock to the powers-that-be that they represent the status quo.
As noted in the article, San Mateo is the last county in the state with this corrupt system that insures a disfunctional political leadership such as ours.
"..good-bad day, hello-goodbye, and enter-leave.." Anonymous 3:19 AM, Hatfields-McCoys?
I'm happy to give Ian the credit and respect he deserves for a long track record of volunteer work well done.
As Lionel Emde says at 8:00 AM, "back to the subject". And the subject he brings-up is Measure B, the proposed amendment to the county charter providing district elections for supervisors. As is, it costs too much for a district candidate to fund a county election. And that candidate may win in their district but lose in the county, hence they lose. The representation difference in the county body of 5 supervisors is less clear, (further information would be appreciated).
@319 By all means, hang on to the past and act like those people with different opinions are all going to disappear. Evolve, quick!
District elections would mean a whole new ballgame. Anything that weakens the hold of the special interest money groups on government is a good thing.
Meeh, you drank the kool-aid?
Anonymous 3:42 PM, you've got to do better than 5 word conclusion sentences. Really, I have no clue what you're talking about.
What's a "conclusion sentence"?
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