Last night's vote count makes her the favorite to win. With just 82,000 of 396,000 remaining votes counted since Tuesday, Gaspar has cut Roberts' lead from 1735 votes to just 560 votes.
If the remaining absentee and provisional ballots are anything like those counted so far, Gaspar wins. Roberts' only hope is if the remaining ballots to be counted are markedly different somehow. This could happen if the registrar is counting some geographies ahead of others, or counted absentees ahead of provisionals.
Depressing.
ReplyDeleteSame thing going on in the EUSD race. Yesterday, Leslie Schneider overtook Patricia Sinay as the #2 (2 open seats).
ReplyDeleteSee, prayer does work!
ReplyDeleteWhen is this finalized? Next year?
DeleteShe is ahead by 15 now. :-(
ReplyDeleteLet's hope her campaign manager is correct, and provisional ballots tilt towards Roberts.
Gaspar took the lead in today's new tally.
ReplyDeleteBased on pattern, trend and analysis - Kristin Gaspar will be our next Supervisor. I hope she treats Encinitas well!!!
ReplyDeleteYou "hope???" Why would she start now? Geez.
DeleteI feel confident she will treat Encinitas well. Just as she did, as mayor.
DeleteSo we're screwed, along with the rest of the county.
DeleteShe is ahead by 15 votes as of Friday's tally, but with a lot to go. Sadly, mail in provisional ballots lean older and whiter, which is Gaspar's base. Too bad, she doesn't add much as a politician, except her pro -development vote county wide.
DeleteDismal - money does buy elections.
DeleteWhat was depressing was Teresa Barth's disrespect toward our sitting mayor and those of us who had voted for Barth twice. The first time Barth was elected many of us target voted for her. She cut public speakers off, rudely, and tried to stifle public comments by eliminating time donations.
ReplyDeleteWith respect to Kristin Gaspar, she did her best to listen to all sides of every issue, to bring us together, to keep expenditures down. She and Mark Muir could have and would have negotiated much better on Pacific View, purchasing it at a price more in alignment with the official assessment in the same zoning, using local comps.
In fact, if it were not for Kristin's recusing herself when Stocks and Bond were in control, we would have lost Pacific View. It would have been rezoned BEFORE Prop A passed making residential rezoning impossible without a public vote.
Teresa Barth's comments to Queen GASpar were spot on. It was about time this lady got a whooping. She deserved every bit of it.
DeleteToo bad GASpar has you fooled 6:16 (aka Lynn)
Enough of the Barth bashing, and the Gaspar Bashing. Our council will not contain either member, nor will it contain Lisa Shaffer. Let's hope the current members can tackle some big issues, instead of fighting amongst themselves. Get over it, people....
DeleteNever enough. We'll be feeling the effects of their hypocrisy and backbiting for a long time to come.
DeleteGaspar is, and always will be, a bitch for the developers.
ReplyDeleteAs she hands out the money, the tone will certainly turn for those who worked against her and now need her. I can hear it now; you're the bestest Supervisor we ever had Kristin. Dave who??? I feel sorry for any person or group associated with Teresa Barth! Be advised, run away from her quickly!
ReplyDeleteThe off the rails folks, 10:04pm, just can't accept that their pauli boy lost and now are hoping against, that the princess will win out. That this is even close is scary.
ReplyDeleteThey do have one thing right. Run away quickly from anything to do with Barth. What an embittered sad creature she brought to the council lately.
The criticism toward the princess was well earned, but the vitriol was as ugly as it comes. Run away, run far away from Barth, less you be stained by an association with one who turned her back on her supporters to the extend it was two entirely different people. The before and after Teresa Barth approaches a mental condition. Split personality personified.
Happy Saturday.
Happy Monday, and happy Thanksgiving, coming up. When will we have the final determination on the Sup race?
DeleteHer last-minute hate mailers apparently did the trick. You have to especially love the one of Dave with half his face Trump's when she was the Trump voter. Evil.
ReplyDeleteGood luck, SD County! She's headed your way, but will no doubt still reach her tentacles down to us. We shouldn't naive enough to think she's done helping David Meyer get his way.
I agree with the above. Teresa Barth and her cartoon looking husband are evil people.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't look promising for Roberts. Gaspar will open up the back country for massive development and further degrade the quality of life in the region. The electorate is 50% ignorant.
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ReplyDelete11:16pm, Thomas Roger Ogden, you are a piece of work. Please spare us your hate and crawl back into your slimy underworld of sick minds.
ReplyDeleteWC Thanks for taking the trash out. We are better off for your attention here when some try to use this blog for their own despicable ends.
ReplyDeleteRoberts lost on account of three factors. One was the massive amount of money that the developers and special interests put into Gaspar's campaigns. They hammered Roberts on his office related scandal fiasco, where his staff sued and won over $350,000 for harassment. Suggestions were made of special preferences for a male employee.
ReplyDeleteThe second was Roberts bad timing with his limited campaign mailings - they were sent out late, after the crucial mail in ballots were already sent back to the Registrar. These were to be the votes that finished his career.
And lastly, his choice of his lifestyle presentation had a slight, but significant impact due to the extremely tight margin with which he lost. He showed his family in his mailers, which informed the voters of his gay lifestyle. There were just enough voters that reacted negatively to that to cast their votes to Gaspar. All three factors combined doomed his political career. Gaspar could be in office for decades - a disaster for regional planning.
There are now term limits for Supervisor, so she can't be in that office for decades.
DeleteMaybe she'll go for state legislature or Congress.
Analysis of Robert's loss was too hot to handle? Talk about PC!
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