Peninsula 360 Press
Redwood City. After the general elections that took place on November 3rd, the city of Redwood City not only chose who would occupy the White House for the next four years, or congressmen, but at the local level, the counting of district votes is moving forward to find out the next councilmen.
Thus, and according to preliminary results, in District 1, candidate Jeff Gee has 64.11 percent of the votes, as he has 3,387 ballots in his favor, compared to his opponent, Nancy Radcliffe, who has obtained 1,896 votes, which represents 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 this district, it is known that 80.98 percent of the electorate voted, since of the seven thousand 603 people eligible to cast their vote, six thousand 157 did so, of which five thousand 608 cast their decision by mail and 549 at the polling stations.
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 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 dams against floods.
In that district, three thousand 140 votes were registered, out of the four thousand 622 that were contemplated, which represented 67.94% of votes, where the majority cast their ballots through the postal service (two thousand 858 votes).
In the fourth district there were no surprises, as the only contender was Michael Smith, who has, so far, a total of 1,849 votes, of which 1,632 were by mail, and 217 directly at polling places.
Businessman 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 his main proposals are providing communities with affordable housing, empowering young people with efficient public transportation and job and career development, and small business owners with grants, better leases 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, as they exercised their right six thousand 851 people of the eight thousand 250 registered to vote, of which, six thousand 348 did so through the mail and 503 in polling stations.
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 and racially unjust groups in the community, addressing the impacts of Covid-19, promoting affordable housing for vulnerable groups and supporting local businesses are her main proposals for city council in the city of more than 86,000 people.
It should be noted that there are still provisional ballots to be counted, as 77.6 percent of the ballots have been counted so far.
