You Can't Tell the Players Without a Scorecard!

OK, I finally had time to perform my due diligence and get the list of candidates for city council in our new city. As I've mentioned previously, on November we will be voting for incorporation (Measure "D", for those keeping score). On the same ballot we will be voting for seven of the twenty-two people listed below. The top seven will become our new leaders.

Of those seven, the top vote getter will become the new mayor. If that person doesn't want to be mayor, then the group of seven will vote one of their own for the post. Unless it's a full moon. Or there's a playoff game scheduled. I don't know; it gets complicated.

But that doesn't mean your vote doesn't count. You will have the unique opportunity to select the seven people who will be the first city council. The fact that it is huge responsibility for them makes it a huge responsibility for you!

You will probably recognize some of the names below. A handful of them have been working toward cityhood for years. A few have emerged to help out recently. A few are career civil servants, and a few are career politicians (and yes, I believe there is a major difference). A few have been in the media espousing cityhood for some time. A few have enough money to ensure you will see their names quite a bit in the next few months. And as someone who has been on the inside for the past few years, there are a few names that are conspicuous in their absence.

And none of that should make a bit of difference to you. We already know that as a reader of this blog, you are more intelligent, creative, charismatic, and darn it, just plain cuter, than most folks, so of course you are able to cut through all the fluff and find the good stuff. And the good stuff is how they plan to run our new city. Frankly, I've worked tpo hard for this over the past four years to just hand over the keys to the person who steps up to the plate with the biggest bat. I want to see how they swing!

And in that vein, here is your starting lineup!


CARL BURTON carl@carlburton.com
PATRICIA COLE patmcole@aol.com
MATT POWERS powersmatt@comcast.net
BOB STEVENS rstvns@pacbell.net
WARREN HARDING warrenh2010@hotmail.com
ANTHONY A. HERNANDEZ anthony@joinanthony.org
RYAN ARBA ryan.arba@gmail.com
RALPH A. MARCELLO auditor5@marcello-cpa.com
GREIG L. BEST No email provided
JAY BOATWRIGHT jayboat@surewest.net
WILL WRIGHT wilvet@comcast.net
ROBERT J. "BOB" MATTEOLI rjmatteoli@sbcglobal.net
LIZ RICE lizmrice@surewest.net
MARY OSE maryose2010@yahoo.com
JOEL E. ARCHER jearcher2003@yahoo.com
GERALD J. KLAAS gerald.klaas@gmail.com
KATHIE HOWARD kh5284@sbcglobal.net
ROBYN SALTER rdsalter2@att.net
DAVID A. PEGOS davidpegos@hotmail.com
CHRISTOPHER SMITH cns650@gmail.com
MATT GRAY matt@votemattgray.com
NATHAN GAUFF ngauff1@yahoo.com

I've included emails where they were provided so that you can contact the candidates to receive their informational literature, subscribe to mailing lists, etc. Keep in mind they need to communicate their platform and beliefs to about a hundred thousand people in the nest 2.5 months. Please don't send them requests for advice on treating Aunt Hazel's bunions?

By the way, your first stop on the tour should be the county's list of candidates. You can learn a lot from this document:
http://www.elections.saccounty.net/coswcms/groups/public/@wcm/@pub/@vre/@inter/documents/webcontent/sac_024418.pdf

Now go! Play hard, but play nice and play fair!