It’s 10:10 am
That’s when Lalahpolitico saw all the Los Altos elections precincts become 100% reported. You can see the Santa Clara County finals for all voting 2012 here now.
For Santa Clara County Board of Education
Grace Mah holds her seat, besting Dave Cortright
For El Camino Hospital Board
Zoglin , Miller , Chiu take the 3 seats, bestinging Alles and James
For Foothill DeAnza Board
CasasFrier , Bechtel, Barram retain their 3 seats, outdistancing challenger Espinosa.
For Los Altos School District Board
Taglio and Luther take the two seats. Runners up are Burke-Aaronson and Ivanovic. Taglio and Luther had almost equal vote counts of 7,000. Burke-Aaronson had 4,500. Ivanovich who dropped out of the race garnered a bit more than 1000.
For Los Altos City Council
Pepper , Satterlee and Bruins will take the 3 seats. Baer , Sorensen , and Pelham were trailing.
For Foothill DeAnza Board
For Purrisma Hills Water District
For El Camino Hospital Board
Incumbent Zoglin stays in, incumbent Alles is out. Challengers Miller and Chiu, supported by unions are winners.
Measure M –
Limit the salaries of top El Camino Hospital District Executives
LALAHPOLITICO TAKE: It’s not going to be business as usual at El Camino Hospital. This salary cap measure passed. And incumbent board member Alles was ousted, leaving Zoglin. Union support — monetarily, with volunteer effort, and with getting the voters out to vote…tied with national and state items of interest to unions — carried this measure over the top. If this had appeared in a different election cycle, it could have failed.
Measure 30 – Passed
Brown measure raises income taxes to pay for education and other social services
Measure 38 – Failed
Munger measure also changes taxes, but revenues more narrowly focused on k-12 education
LALAHPOLITICO TAKE: With the unions highly energized by so many races and measures, and the presidential race of course, voter turnout was high. The union voters and all Democrats in California got the message to vote YES on 30 and NO on 38. If both had passed, it would have been complicated to say which taxes applied, and how revenue should be disbursed. Courts would have been involved. This is a nice clean ending.
Santa Clara County Sales Tax – Passed,
1/8th percent sales tax
Santa Clara Water District – Passed
Existing Tax Extended for more years
For the Greens
Measure 37 – Genetically Modified Food – Passed
can’t label GMO food as natural – seen as boost to the real organic farmers
Measure 21 – Union Dues – Failed
Would have banned corporations and unions from collecting dues from employees and using them for political purposes. So unions can continue to do so. Corporations don’t collect employee dues.
