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Redwood City. After the general election held on November 3, Redwood City not only elected the next four years White House, or congressmen, but at the local level, the district vote count is moving forward to meet the next councilmen.
Thus, according to preliminary results, in District 1, candidate Jeff Gee has 64.11 percent of the votes, with 3,387 ballots in his favor, compared to his opponent, Nancy Radcliffe, who has 1,896 votes, representing 3l 35.89 percent of the preferences.
Jeff Gee is an architect, business leader, and has served as mayor and vice mayor, in addition to being a member of the City Council from 2010 to 2018. Among his main proposals were to address the Covid-19 health care crisis and prevent further layoffs, request benefits and support for the unemployed, and protect the local economy, including with loans and grants for small businesses.
It should be noted that in that district, it is known that 80.98 percent of the electorate voted, since of the 7,603 people eligible to vote, 6,157 voted, of which 5,608 voted by mail and 549 at the polls.
In the case of District Three, Lissette Espinoza-Garnica leads with 40.49 percent of the votes, while her contenders, Janet Borgens and Isabella Chu, obtained 36.13 and 23.37 percent of the votes, respectively.
Candidate Espinoza-Garnica identifies herself as a non-binary queer girl, caregiver and teaching assistant. Her proposal was to act against displacement and gentrification, reduce the police budget and promote the decriminalization of people of African descent, the LGTBQ+ community, and migrants, among others. In addition, restore wetlands to create living dikes against flooding.
In that district, 3,140 votes were registered, out of the 4,622 that were contemplated, representing 67,94% of votes, most of which were cast through the postal service (2,858 votes).
In the fourth district there were no surprises, since the only contender was Michael Smith, who has a total of 1,849 votes so far, of which 1,632 were by mail, and 217 directly at the polls.
Entrepreneur Michael Smith, is a volunteer and member of the El Camino Real Corridor Citizens Advisory Group, and a member of the Redwood City Planning Commission.
Among its main proposals are to provide communities with affordable housing, empower young people with efficient public transport and job and professional development, and small entrepreneurs with subsidies, better rentals and other opportunities.
For District Seven in the city of Redwood, Alicia Aguirre has a wide lead with 49.18 percent of the vote, followed by Chris Rasmussen with 38.04 percent of the vote, and Mark Wolohan with 12.78 percent of the vote.
The above, as a result of a vote of 83.04 percent of the electorate, since six thousand 851 people of the eight thousand 250 registered to vote exercised their right, of which six thousand 348 did so through the mail and 503 in voting centers.
Alicia Aguirre is a professor with a doctorate in social anthropology, was the first Latina mayor in the city's history and is a current member of the City Council.
Protecting underrepresented community groups and those who are the object of racial injustice, as well as addressing the impacts of Covid-19, promoting affordable housing for vulnerable groups and supporting local businesses are his main proposals for becoming a city councilor in the city that has over 86,000 inhabitants.
It should be noted that provisional votes have yet to be counted, as 77.6 percent of the ballots have been counted so far.
