Slocum vs Masur - Head to Head

The crowded San Mateo County Supe's race narrowed to the top two yesterday as Warren Slocum and Shelly Masur came out on top.  The Daily Journal noted

Slocum called the county budget and ongoing deficit his key priority. He supported three county tax measures on last night’s ballot, building a new jail and aggressively marketing the county for economic development.

Based on May finance disclosure forms, Slocum had the largest war chest in the race although the majority of the $112,162 this period included $102,683 in loans from himself and his wife, Maria Diaz-Slocum.

Masur, whose day job is executive director of the pregnancy prevention program Teen Talk, has sat on the school board since 2005 and actually serves with Diaz-Slocum. During the campaign she touted her public health background and experience as mom in bringing a unique point of view and link to the county’s younger residents. She also highlighted similarities in budgeting between the county and schools as both rely on the state for money.

I'm still very interested in their high-cost rail positions.  Even though supes' responsibilities for HSR are limited to the unincorporated parts of the route, they should still be clear on their positions.  In the June edition of "Labor" published by the SM County Central Labor Council, Masur is quoted as supporting HSR and that "The county can benefit from high speed rail; it is good for Caltrain and the benefits outweigh the costs."  That is clearly an uninformed position on about a dozen counts, so we will have to see if a) she changes her mind in five months or b) Slocum puts some distance between himself and high-cost rail that would merit supporting him.

The November election will have about triple the turn-out of yesterday's primary due to the presidential election, so it's a whole new ballgame.

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[Bartender]

A man walks into a bar.
He sits down on a barstool next to a beautiful woman.
He gets a drink.
He asks her "will you sleep with me for a million dollars?"
She says "sure".
He says "will you sleep with me for a hundred bucks?"
She says "no! what do you think I am?"
He says "we've already established that. Now we're just negotiating price."

Do Slocum and Masur both answer yes to the first question? That is the question.

[Cranky Joe]

I'm just catching up from being out of the country last week (Election week) so I am just reading a piece by Dave Price of the Daily Post. Here's a long but partial excerpt of what he writes:

"Big Labor did well in Tuesday's election on the national level with the re-election of President Obama and in California with the defeat of Prop 32, which would have banned the involuntary deduction of union workers' dues for political purposes.

But in San Mateo County, for the first time in many years, labor's candidate for the Board of Supervisors was defeated.

The county labor council backed Redwood City school board member Shelly Masur, who got only 44% of the vote against Warren Slocum, the former county clerk-recorder-assessor and chief elections official.....

The other setback for labor was the approval of Measure B in San Mateo County, which means elections for county supervisor will now be conducted by district rather than county-wide.

Previously, the only political force able to raise a quarter of a million or more needed to campaign throughout the county was the unions--including those unions representing county government workers."

Price goes on to speculate that Don Horsley will not have any problem being re-elected in two years, but that Carole Groom from San Mateo may struggle.