Big Bucks Darlings Faulconer, Turner Fail to Convince Voters

Early Results for Major Contests in San Diego County

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November 5, 2024 9pm - A disappointing turnout for local elections.

I’m not citing the vote counts in this posting. There aren’t many close races for top tier offices and I’ll give out numbers once more ballots are counted.

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria will win reelection. Early results show him with a double digit lead over the We Hate Todd candidate, Larry Turner. One lawyer from Point Loma dumped more than a million and a half bucks into his candidacy; the town’s monied gentry and organized labor coughed up enough cash and volunteers to match Turner’s landfill contribution. 

District 3 Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer fended off a challenge by former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer by a double-digit margin. The challenger tried to make the case that incumbent Lawson-Remer wasn’t doing her job; I think voters didn’t have fond memories of Faulconer’s performance as Mayor.

Adam Schiff (or watermelon head, as Dear Leader calls him) will represent California in the US Senate.

Darrell Issa will continue on as San Diego’s only Republican in Congress.

Incumbent Democratic Representatives Mike Levin, Scott Peters, Sara Jacobs, and Juan Vargas all won re-election by comfortable margins. 

Democrat Akilah Weber will represent the 39th State Senate District.

Republican Carl DeMaio defeated his party’s establishment candidate and will now have a platform in the State Assembly to crusade from.

Democrats Chris Duncan, Darshana Patel*, Tasha Boerner, Chris Ward, LaShea Sharp Collins*, and David Alvarez  will make up the rest of San Diego’s Assembly delegation. (*Early results close enough to keep an eye on.)

District 3 San Diego City Council member Stephen Whitburn easily fended off Colleen Cusack.

District 9 San Diego City Council member Sean Elo-Rivera also handily won reelection over Terry Hoskins.

Heather Ferbert won the contest for City Attorney over ex-Assemblyman Brian Maienschein.

State Propositions 2,3, & 4 all passed with local voters. Props 5 & 6 were voted down.

State Initiatives 32 & 33 were rejected. 34, 35, & 36 all passed.

San Diego County Measure G failed, though it was close.

San Diego City Measures C and D passed. Measure E (probably) failed. (I hope all the naysayers will skip the library and recreation center closing protests because they don’t want to be hypocrites.) 

I’ll post a more explanatory and results specific story later in the week as results are finalized min local contests.

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Here’s my plan for the next couple of days on the national contests:

I will post multiple times per day, but be very careful about facts claimed. Each post will start with a date and time for future reference.

I will report and clearly label significant developments that possibly are not reality based, with the aim of alerting readers to the overall picture.