San Mateo County

I'm not happy with how things are going down here with the children.

You know, I'm working in San Mateo County child welfare with abusive parents, you know, sex abuse, all kinds of abuse.

And it was really hard.

And I thought, you know, God, come on, come on, we need to talk.

And so, you know, it is becoming more progressive.

And I know we're going to talk about San Mateo County, but it is becoming rapidly more progressive.

So, yeah, that's California.

You know, if you look at the breakdown nationally in terms of who voted, why they voted, by age, by gender, by race, all of those things, I mean, it was staggering.

So that'll be interesting to see.

I want to focus on briefly on the Board of Equalization, which nobody pays much attention to.

But we had an incumbent Sally Lieber, Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, former Assemblywoman from Mountain View, running against John Pimentel, who's a San Mateo County Community College District trustee.

This is an interesting race, which is funny because it's not an interesting office.

Well, there are some people that are just hostile to cars and they want to take as many lanes off the roads as possible and And you got to start somewhere.

Now, when it comes to the big Bay Area transit tax measure, RTM, and this was on the ballot in San Francisco City and County, Alameda County, San Mateo, San Jose, and Contra Costa, that passed pretty handily, nearly a 30-point lead, at least in San Francisco.

The margins are pretty similar across the entire Bay to fund BART, to fund Caltrain, AC Transit, the VTA.

That one passed by wide open.

Because I'm tired of throwing good money after bad.

Measure RTM will now implement a 14-year, half percent sales tax increase in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, and San Mateo counties.

In San Francisco, it increases by one whole percent.

At a Yes for RTM rally on election night, one of the measure's leaders, CEO of Spur, Sean Elsburn, explained what he felt made the difference in this race.

And we work with about 350 local nonprofit partners worldwide.

providing nutritious food at no cost to more than 650 community distribution sites throughout Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.

And a lot of these partners, their boys and girls clubs, their meal programs, women's shelters, but the majority of the food goes out as groceries to families, pay through 12 schools.

Maybe it's a food distribution for families on Saturday or before or after school.

well there are some people that are just hostile to cars and they want to take as many lanes off the roads as possible and And you got to start somewhere.

Now, when it comes to the big Bay Area transit tax measure, RTM, and this was on the ballot in San Francisco City and County, Alameda County, San Mateo, San Jose and Contra Costa.

That passed pretty handily, nearly a 30 point lead, at least in San Francisco.

The margins are pretty similar across the entire Bay Area.