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From Congress to county supervisor and school boards, The Fresno Bee Editorial Board offers its range of endorsements for the Nov. 5 election.
There are more than 640,000 eligible voters in Fresno County, and a little more than 507,000 are registered to vote. Sadly, only 30.84% of registered voters bothered to vote in the March primary.
Jim Patterson, state assemblymember from the 8th district (2012–present) and former mayor of Fresno (1993–2001) [4] Local officials. Garry Bredefeld, Fresno city councilmember from the 6th district [4] Mike Karbassi, Fresno city councilmember from the 2nd district [4] Lisa Smittcamp, Fresno County District Attorney [4] Organizations
Garry Bredefeld (Republican), Fresno city councilor (ran for the Fresno County Board of Supervisors) [17] John Burrows (Democratic), spokesman for Fresno city councilor Nelson Esparza (endorsed Wood) [18] Tal Eslick (Republican), political consultant and former chief of staff for U.S. Representative David Valadao [17]
García Rose squeezed past Soria in the primary with 50.9% of the votes to 49.1% — 29,457 to 28,402 — when more than 75% of eligible voters did not vote. Opinion
2nd: Jim Wood retired. [3]6th: Kevin McCarty retired to run for mayor of Sacramento. [4]13th: Carlos Villapudua retired to run for state senate. [5]15th: Tim Grayson retired to run for state senate.
The five-member elected Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) is the county legislature. The board operates in a legislative, executive, and quasi-judicial capacity. As a legislative authority, it can pass ordinances for the unincorporated areas (ordinances that affect the whole county, like posting of restaurant ratings, must be ratified by the individual city).
A Republican operative drew the boundaries for Fresno’s new election lines, but supervisors ultimately settled on some minor changes to that plan. Gov. Gavin Newsom strips Fresno County ...