Only 8 votes separate Ferreira and McClung; one vote separates King and McKimmie

I have been voting for 30 years. I had to vote on a provisional ballot because they did not send my absentee ballot as requested.  The poll workers assured me that it would be counted.  Looks like they have been mistaken.

“The County Elections office won’t say how many (provisional) ballots remain or how long it will take to finish counting, but they hope to finish by Friday.”

For the record, I voted for Ferreira.

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Well, they can’t have that many provisional ballots, so I would hope they would be finished by today.  Mike and Bonnie especially need to know so they can make decisions about a recount, if necessary. 
There is also an issue of fraud, which may or may not be a minor issue.  The HMB Review seems to think there may have been some non-resident (illegal) voting going on.
Did anyone else see the irony in Grady’s “Matter of Opinion” piece?  He gets the endorsement of the Review, then waits until after the election to blast their reporting.  Always the politician.  No apologies for illegal campaign signs, Mr. Mayor?  I know, you can’t help it if your supporters put signs in unauthorized or illegal locations, can you?

Comment 3 by Barry Parr  on  Nov 18  at  3:49pm  •  All my comments • 

Grady was replying to an editorial published after the election, so I’m pretty sure he couldn’t have written it before the election took place.

The Review’s editorial lumped a bunch of very different things together and suggested an equivalence. It also snidely implied, without proving, that there was something unethical with the way the Voice of the Coast was published. That was irresponsible and divisive.  This week’s cartoon exacerbated the damage by suggesting that politically-motivated vandalism was some sort of random event and not a conscious decision.

I don’t believe that any candidates sanctioned illlegal, violent, or unethical behavior by their supporters. I have no idea why the Review is winking at it.

I agree.  The Review doesn’t seem to want to report on this type of activity, even though its serious and should be brought to light.  The kind of vandalism that Jim was personally subjected to is abhorrent and should be roundly condemned.

I placed signs in legal locations for Grady, Ferreira, and Skinner.  They were stolen within two days.

Caltrans repeatedly removed signs from the Caltrans right of way, from Half Moon Bay to Montara.

Caltrans is not supposed to remove signs when candidates have properly assumed responsibility for their signs.  Grady, Ferreira, and Skinner had done so, so the removal of their signs by Caltrans was improper.

Voice of the Coast witnessed a Caltrans crew removing signs that were outside of the Caltrans right of way.  While the crew lead did note that, “We’re just doing what we’re told,” most of the crew’s responses to questions were unprintable. 

Jeff Weiss, Caltrans spokesperson, responded to our inquiry, saying, “If the workers took down any signs on private property, they did so in error.”

The crew members said that they were doing so at the request of the HMB police department.  “We did verify that someone from the Half Moon Bay police called to complain about the signs in the Right of Way,” Weiss said.

It is unclear which member of the police department made the call, and what their intention might have been.

Scott Boyd
Editor
Voice of the Coast