#special-election

#special-election

If you are dissatisfied, if you are not OK with what's going on, then I'm your candidate, Behn said. If you think things are fine, I am not your candidate. If you are upset with the cost and chaos, I am your candidate. We have been working to build a coalition of the disenchanted, a coalition of the pissed off, and I think it's working to our favor.

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors will ask the public tomorrow night (Oct. 28) for their ideas on how to fill the vacancy left when the sheriff was fired. The board unanimously ousted elected Sheriff Christina Corpus on Oct. 14. Undersheriff Dan Perea, who was hired by Corpus, has assumed the sheriff's duties but won't be elevated to the title of interim sheriff.

Lee said he wants to calm the "charged atmosphere" in the wake of Kirk's death. Bittner said the violence briefly gave her pause about running for office, but she concluded that "there's no way to solve this problem if we shrink back in fear." Lee, a former Brooklyn Park City Council member, easily won a three-way Democratic primary in August. Bittner, a real estate agent, was the sole Republican on the primary ballot for the seat in the heavily Democratic district.

Drey beat out Republican candidate Christopher Prosch for the Sioux City district, which Donald Trump won in 2024. Drey secured 55 percent of the vote compared to Prosch's 44 percent, giving Democrats 17 seats in the state Senate next to Republicans' 33 and breaking the two-thirds supermajority by one seat. She replaces Republican state Sen. Rocky De Witt, who died from pancreatic cancer in June.

We have these candidates who are interested come before us here in this room, or if there's another facility, and basically allow the council to ask questions, to probe, and to have these individuals state why she or he should be appointed to this position,

“It's difficult for us, just in a regular election, being a smaller rural county,” said Juan Pablo Cervantes, the registrar of voters for Humboldt County, which has just over 85,000 registered voters. Usually Cervantes and his staff have at least five months of lead time to find voting sites, hire staff and procure all the machines, pens and ballots for a statewide election.

Candidates in the Santa Clara County assessor race have raised significant campaign funds ahead of the upcoming special election, reflecting high levels of interest and competition.