The latest vote totals for San Diego have now made it clear which city council candidates made it to the General Election in November. In California, primaries don’t decide who wins council seats in San Diego as runoffs between the top two candidates are required in all races. This “jungle primary” then makes the second slot in every race crucial.
District 2
Nicole Crosby and Richard Bailey hold the top two spots. Bailey’s election-night lead of 2,000 votes over Crosby has shrunk significantly as the county registrar continues to count votes. As of today, it is less than 500 votes.
In the latest tally, Bailey has 14,683 votes, for 34.88%, and Crosby has 14,189, for 33.71%. And as District 2 voters break Democrat over Republican by 2 to 1, it is sensible to assume that voters for the other Democrats in the D2 race will support Crosby (all except Bailey are Democrats). This means that Crosby could very well be the next councilmember for the district.
District 4
Since election night, the results for incumbent Henry Foster have improved. He and Martha Abraham have secured the top two spots and will face off in November.
On that fateful night, Abraham led Foster by 249 votes when final election night totals were posted in the early morning hours of June 3. Foster has since moved into first place and was leading by 22 votes in the latest results posted Tuesday. This incredible showing by Abraham, a relative unknown without governing experience, displays voters’ frustration with city hall. Reportedly, Foster kept his powder dry in order to save his resources for the General Election — and this may have been a mistake because it has allowed Abraham to even overtake him in the days immediately after the primary.
District 6
Since election eve, another incumbent, Kent Lee, has improved his vote standing. Lee has widened his lead over second-place finisher Mark Powell from fewer than 2,000 votes on June 3 to more than 5,300 on Tuesday, June 9.
District 8
With only 11,000 votes left to tally countywide — and only a small fraction of those from District 8 — Gerardo Ramirez seems likely to end up finishing second and making the runoff against first-place finisher Antonio Martinez.
Ramirez is 295 votes ahead of Venus Molina, the former chief of staff for current D2 councilmember Jen Campbell. While Molina has narrowed his lead by 57 votes over the last week, she is not gaining at a pace that is nearly fast enough. Molina does not plan to concede until all the votes are counted. She said she is “waiting till the end.”
News source: David Garrick at San Diego U-T.
A hearty congratulations to the residents of District 2 who clearly saw through one of the most cynical political campaigns in recent San Diego memory. While Bailey may have come in first place (barely), only receiving under 35% of the vote is a dismal outcome, despite the hundreds of thousands spent lying to residents about who he was. Nicole Crosby will be the D2 representative moving forward; it’s just a question of how badly she beats Bailey in November now.
You take us as fools, D2. Crosby is a Democrat, but she also supported paid parking in Balboa Park and follows the Todd doctrine of taxing constituents and not addressing the staffing bloat or ballooning deficit. I guess that doesn’t matter to you because she is part of your ‘Blue team’.
Crosby works as an attorney in Todd Gloria’s city attorney’s office. The office that has a strong losing streak when it comes to lawsuits against the city creating millions of dollars’ worth of taxpayer funded pay outs. But D2, you are right she’s a Dem.
I will love watching the debates to hear Bailey talk about the issues and policy while Nicole is defending our city’s $250million deficit.
Good luck!
I am proud to say, I am a former Democrat with 20/20 vision.
Now I know I will get a very lengthly screed from you in reply to this. Go right ahead and whine away.
Not sure why there would be a screed? I was right the whole time, and your guy is going to lose by double digits in November.
Winners don’t whine :)
Hope you enjoy the continued destruction of our once fine city.
Hey, longtime resident Lisa M. with the 20/20 vision, did you know the City Attorney’s office is completely independent of the mayor? You can learn something new every day!
I am not happy with the mayor or the council. I do not support the YIMBY democrat agenda. But no matter how disillusioned I become with the dem party, I will never vote for an “Independent” who is a Trump supporter. That’s the problem with politics today: not enough choices, just tons of ego and cash.
Bailey supported a PPP loan scamming felon, who bought and sold unlicensed guns in San Diego county, showing he is no different that Trump. He will excuse corruption, crime and fraud as long as it is committed by his friends.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2022/10/28/san-diego-jeweler-leo-hamel-sentenced-to-house-arrest-in-illegal-gun-buying-scheme/
Lisa, does this not bother you at all? He could have just not written a letter. But he did and it shows where his loyalties lie.
Thanks for your comment. You saved me a lot of time writing pretty much the same thing. Nicole Crosby will just be an extension of Todd Gloria and Jenn Campbell’s miserable policies. Plus, she is all in on Midway Rising. Most Likely “team blue “ will elect her in November, and the ruination of San Diego will continue.
Obviously we shall see, but all the people discounting Bailey now that he’s up against a Dem may be surprised. In the primary I was going back and forth between Bailey and Havlik and I know I’m not alone in that. So I feel like many of Havlik’s supporters will end up voting for Bailey. So I don’t feel like it’s the typical ‘Dem vote was split in the primary and now we’ll get all the unified Dem votes’ scenario.