A voter’s guide to local candidates and issues in today’s primary

Stories the Post has printed about the candidates and issues on the ballot in the March 3 primary.

State Senate, District 13

Senate candidate Annie Oliva is focused on housing
Senate candidate Shelly Masur’s attention is on education
Senate candidate Sally Lieber hopes to return to Legislature
Senate candidate Alex Glew will take a different approach
Climate’s a priority for Senate candidate Josh Becker
Senate candidate Michael Brownrigg gives views on the issues
• Jan. 22, 2020 — Brownrigg’s mother dumps $460,000 into legislative race
• Jan. 24, 2020 — State pulled brokers license of Senate candidate Oliva
• Jan. 25, 2020 — Becker leads in fundraising for Senate race
• Jan. 27, 2020 — Billionaire Reid Hoffman gives candidate Josh Becker a $500,000 boost
• Feb. 5, 2020 — Incumbent Jerry Hill endorses Becker
• Feb. 16, 2020 — Becker dropped ballot designation after state said it wasn’t justified
• Feb. 18, 2020 — Candidates split over gig economy law
• Feb. 19, 2020 — Opinion: Post endorses Brownrigg for senate
• Feb. 21, 2020 — Donors throw millions of dollars into state senate race
• Feb. 27, 2020 — Special interest groups attack Lieber with mailers

Proposition 13, a statewide school bond issue

• Feb. 13, 2020 — The Prop. 13 on this ballot would deprive schools of fees from housing projects near transit
• Feb. 14, 2020 — Gov. Newsom pushed for provision in new Prop. 13 measure to cut fees developers pay to schools
• March 2, 2020 — Opinion: Reject the 2020 version of Prop 13

East Palo Alto Sanitary District
Three seats available

• Feb. 26, 2020 — Martha Stryker wants to sit on same board with father, climate’s her issue
• Feb. 20, 2020 — Incumbent Glenda Savage denies family went on trips, says district’s on the right track
• Feb. 7, 2020 — Mark Dinan says sanitary district board is taking vacations on taxpayers’ dime
• Feb. 28, 2020 — Edrick Haggans says district’s rate increases were illegal
• March 2, 2020 — A look at the six candidates running for the sanitary district board

Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Measures G (bonds) and H (parcel tax)

• Dec. 30, 2019 — Libertarian says college district is using the number 8 to influence Chinese voters
• Jan. 9, 2020 — College district defends putting ‘lucky’ number in tax measures
• Feb. 6, 2020 — College district adds teacher housing to bond measure
• Feb. 19, 2020 — Opinion: College district’s pandering shows a lack of respect to Chinese-Americans
• Feb. 24, 2020 — Opinion: Vote ‘no’ on the college district’s measures G and H

Mountain View Whisman
School District Measure T

• Jan. 22, 2020 — Passage of Measure T would reduce rent for many teachers
• Feb. 6, 2020 — Measure T will include money for teacher housing

Mountain View Measure D

• Feb. 6, 2020 — Measure D would allow for higher rent increases

Tax questions

March ballot will have several tax questions
Ballot may look like Alphabet Soup to many voters

1 Comment

  1. California realtors spent a new record on attack spending against Assemblywoman Sally Lieber (responsible for lowering license plate fees and banning fruit flavored cigarettes for kids among other things), which is why I’ll be voting for her.

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