San Jose
On Wednesday, our coalition partners made good on our collective promise to fight the unlawful Measure B in the courts. Local 21 will be filing our legal challenge shortly but it will mirror both of the lawsuits filed by the police and fire unions. The city stipulated they will not implement Measure B until further notice from the state court. Read the court filings and stay updated on the issue.
In the City Council races, Local 21 successfully supported Kansen Chu and Ash Kalra, who were both re-elected. In D10 there are three candidates at the top and with around 40-45K votes still to be counted, the results could change. Our coalition partners have deployed vote count observers to the Registrar of Voters to ensure the vote count is conducted per the law.
In D8 we achieved a major victory in that we worked to force a runoff. This is an extremely rare event and is a clear indication that voters in D8 want a council member they can trust, and who is ethical and keeps their word.
Local 21 will be evaluating our next steps with regard to the November runoff election and legal strategy moving forward. We will conduct a general membership meeting shortly.
San Francisco
As elections go, things were relatively quiet in San Francisco. Proposition A, which could award the city’s garbage collection contract to a non-union firm, lost by a landslide while Proposition B, a measure to protect Coit Tower, won. Local 21 opposed A and backed B. Our endorsed candidate Phil Ting trounced his anti-public employee opponent by more than 2-1, but they’ll face off again in November. Local 21 member Jo Elias Jacksonwas not successful in her bid for a seat on the Democratic Central Committee, but earlier won a spot as an Obama Delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
Contra Costa County
The only contested race for the Board of Supervisors was in Dist. 2 where Community College Trustee and labor-backed candidate Tomi Van De Brooke faced an uphill battle against Danville Mayor Candace Anderson. Anderson’s top issue is going after County employee retirement security. Ultimately, Anderson won.
A big thanks to Contra Costa Chapter campaign volunteers Sue Guest, Tim Carlisle, Mike Courchaine, Margie Valdez, Scott Hutchinson andRay Neuman. Not wasting any time, they’ve already started planning for the November election!
A big round of applause to the 60 South Bay members, half dozen City of Oakland members, and Local 21 staff who completed more than 95 shifts on the phone or walking door to door to talk to San Jose voters.
AEA: City of San Jose
Kevin Maung
Dave Printy
Heidi Geiger
Chris Dayley
Sim Ong
Henry Servin
Steve Pagan
Maria Angeles
John Chien
Thuy Nguyen
Ellen Yuen
Stacey Palomar
Badaoui Mouderes
Medi Sinaki
Nelson Petroni
Greg Jobe
John Mukhar
Titus Raceles
AMSP: City of San Jose
Dale Dapp
Joe Pomeroy
Paul Blach
Angel Alvarez
Mike Zapien
Phyllis Schulz
Dan Keller
CAMP: City of San Jose
Matt Farrell
Cay Denise MacKenzie
Lisa Tulee
Alan Wiley
Cathy Hoang-Mendoza
Mark Brogan
Linden Skjeie
Karla Enany
Dale Grogan
ES: Santa Clara Valley Water District
Metra Valle
Luis Ortiz
Sarah Young
George Cook
Tracy Hemmeter
Marie Garcia
PMA: Santa Clara Valley Water District
Deanna Forsythe
Jim Crowley
Bruce Cabral
Mike Munson
Angela Cheung
Shree Dharasker
SCCEAA: Santa Clara County
Jim Baker
Paul Pascoal
TAEA: Valley Transportation Authority
Harry Yip
Sal Lanzo
City of Oakland members
Chris Candell
Tom Manley, L21 VP for Legislative and Political Action
Kathleen Salem Boyd
Renee Sykes
Cookie Robles Wong
Local 21 Staff
Nancy Ostrowski
Michelle Hatfield
Rachel Richman
Celeste Granger
Cassandra Waters
Vickie Carson
Note: This article was written 6/6/12 and not all vote totals or the complete list of volunteers has been completed. Updates to follow.
