Fun Midterm Election Fact: In Primary, District 4 Incumbent Henry Foster Beat His Challenger Martha Abraham by Only 12 Votes

District 4

On election night during the June 2 California Primary, incumbent Henry Foster and challenger Martha Abraham 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.

Yet, by the time the final election results were certified, Foster only bested Abraham by 12 votes.

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.

Frank Gormlie
A former lawyer and current grassroots activist, I have been editing the Rag since Patty Jones and I launched it in Oct 2007. Way back during the Dinosaurs in 1970, I founded the original Ocean Beach People’s Rag - OB’s famous underground newspaper -, and then later during the early Eighties, published The Whole Damn Pie Shop, a progressive alternative to the Reader.

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