The day when his former representative of the City Council was not declared competence of the positions of sexual abuse, the residents of the 3th district of San José approached to choose their successor.
Gabby Chávez-López and Matthew Quevedo have jumped to the front, followed by Anthony Tordillos, Irene Smith, Adam Duran, Tyrone Wade and Phil Dollan, according to the first voting batch of Cholar Cholesdayday Nightb.
Although the final results of Tuesday’s special elections remain in the air, the city council race will probably go to a second round on June 24, with the prevention of field full of busy any of the candidates when receiving most of the vote.
Chávez-López has received 30% of the votes, followed by 22.4% for Qedo. However, Tordillos has received 20%, leaving him behind Qedo for 156 votes to enter the runoff.
“We are waiting to see if we will go to a runoff on June 24, but one thing is certainly true tonight: our movement is strong,” Quevedo said.
The seven -people field is competing to replace the members of the council of the dishonoric city, Omar Torres, who renounced his seat on election day last year before changing his plea that requires him to register as a sexual offer.
The Torres scandal led to the residents of District 3 to press for a special price of the elections, the multimillionaire price due to the growing distrust in the local government and the impulse of the residents to choose to choose their next repressive. Although the City Council agreed to celebrate a special election, it also chose to occupy the seat temporarily through an interim appointment process that turned out that the engineer and businessman Carl Salas served as a representative of the district until a winner of the elections arose.
Unless a candidate receives most of the votes, the two highest voters of the Tuesday’s elections will go to a runoff on June 24. The final account is not known for less a week because mail in votes will be an Ashye Anduve Mattar for April 8.
The last winner of the Seat of District 3, which represents the center of San José and its surrounding neighborhoods, could also play an important role in determining how the successful mayor of San José, Matt Mahan, to implement his political agenda next year due to the thin voting advantage that currently has his block in the City of the City.
The experts had been that the runoff was always the most likely scenario due to the great field and the number of strong candidates, which makes it Tos-Up for those who advanced to the next voting round.
The main contestants who were going to the elections on Tuesday were Quevedo, the Deputy Director of the Cabinet of Mahan, Chávez-López, the executive official of the Latin coalition of Silicon Valley, Tordillos, a Google engineer and the current president of the city planning commission and Smith, a Judge Pro temp, and the most recent challenger of Torres in the election of 2022.
The Quevedo’s policy platform largely reflected the Mahan Agenda presented in its budget message, focusing on addressing the epidemic of homeless people, increasing community safety, cleaning neighborhoods, growing the economy and building more homes.
While Mahan has recently presented policies proposals that have earned more attention throughout the State and that some consider controversial, Terry Christensen, Professor Emeritus in the State of San José and political experts that support the probabilities.
“I think it is mainly positive because many people like what Mayor Mahan is doing,” said Christensen. “The people who never like them were never going to vote for him anyway.”
Chávez-López, the favorite choice of work for the seat, focused its campaign around improving safety and cleaning, increasing housing density and simplifying development, guaranteeing the success of small businesses and creating a vibrant and inclusive nucleus of the center.
Meanwhile, Tordillos tried to differentiate himself from the current ruling class and dissociated special interests and lobbyists while prioritizing the lack of housing, the development of affordable homes, public safety.
“Our campaign has already crushed the expert and special interest expectations,” said Tordillos. “We hope that more votes are contained as the night progresses.”
Quevedo, Chávez-López and Tordillos also stood out from their peers in their ability to accumulate great sums in the contributions of the campaign.
Although Smith did not have the same fundraising skill, he has accumulated a level of recognition of names to make the voice outside his campaign, which focused on solutions of homeless people, fiscal responsibility, faster responsibility, faster and more profitable.
Although the race seemed cordial in the weeks before Tuesday, political advertising recently became more negative, be it candidates or the committees of independent expenses that supported them with their rivals in perhaps what could be a precursor to the types of attacks in the next round.
Quevedo and Tordillos campaigns, for example, have perfected how large corporations, even Big Oil and PG & E, contributed to one of the commissioners who support Chávez-López.
That same committee has also addressed Qedo, resurfaceing the old tweets in which he refers to Elon Musk as he is “hero.”
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