UPDATE: CAMPBELL WINS DISTRICT 2 – Latest Numbers
With 100 per cent of precincts reporting, here are the final vote totals for District 2 race:
With about a quarter of the precincts yet to be counted, Dr. Jen Campbell is leading incumbent Lorie Zapf in the votes for District 2.
With 74% of the precincts reporting (at this hour 7:30 am Wed., Nov. 7), Jen Campbell has 56 per cent with Zapf trailing with 44 per cent.
That’s 15,300 votes for Campbell and 12,257 for Zapf.
This District 2 race was hotly contested, with millions of dollars being spent to woo voters.
With Campbell’s victory, the Democrats on the San Diego City Council will have a 6 to 3 majority over the Republicans. This means the Dems will be able to over-ride any veto by GOP’er Mayor Kevin Faulconer.
Zapf has another feather in her cap by being the first San Diego City Council incumbent to have lost a re-election race.
This is so welcome. We need these Dems to start looking out for tenants instead of developers and they can stop the Miami-fication of San Diego. But, if they are tools to the money-folks and get caught in Filner-esque scandals, then it will cripple the gains we have had to wait five years to earn back. Faulconer is a front-man for big money in the city. The Council needs to propose clear and contrasting alternatives that protect people who are working more and more for less and less.
We now have the final numbers for District 2. Campbell has won.
The Registrar of Voters says it still has 490,000 outstanding ballots still to be processed.