• St. Bart’s Local Organizing Committee for Social Justice and Interfaith Action is hosting a forum for San Mateo City Council candidates with housing, unemployment, reduction in library services and lack of after-school programs for teens set for discussion. The forum is Thursday, Oct. 29, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., St. Bart’s Auditorium, 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo.
• The San Mateo County Democratic Party conducted a straw poll Sunday with voters getting a first opportunity to show support for candidates in key statewide races. Candidates or their surrogates running for the positions of Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Insurance Commissioner and Superintendent of Public Instruction were in attendance including Attorney General Jerry Brown, Assemblyman Alberto Torrico (D-Fremont), former Facebook executive Chris Kelly, Los Angeles City Councilmember Janice Hahn, and Assemblyman Tom Torlkason. Torrico received the most votes for attorney general; Hahn received the most votes for lieutenant governor and; Assemblyman Hector De La Torre, D-South Gate, took the most votes for insurance commissioner.
• Questions recently arose about the absence of who paid for fliers supporting Measure I, a measure in Burlingame that would make the city clerk position appointed if approved.
Fliers were mailed for both measures I and H, which would increase the hotel tax by 2 percent. The similar design created questions as to how one had a California Fair Political Practices Commission number and the other did not. An inquiry to City Manager Jim Nantell noted both were paid by the same group, Protect Burlingame FPPC No. 80-0317956. It was left off of one flier by mistake, Nantell said. |