Alejandra Gutierrez Wins District 1

Give her a chance she might do some great things quit being so Negative...

Very very nice to see locals, born and raised in Santa Barbara run for office and run against rich move-ins, outside developers and their representative incumbents. Some how the new folks come in wanting to change everything, especially making it easier for developers, to rise building heights to three stories and build a shopping center and parking garage around a no parking available Balboa Building (such as bay area developer Robert Klausner who did just that). More recently the City Council, using affordable housing ADU's as an excuse, approved developer Greg Reitz to tear down vacant Grace Lutheran church with an empty parking lot and build the 89 unit Marc with its tiny apartments. Recently Reitz sold his unaffordable project to a hedge fund investment company for $56 million. The current Council is to blame for this and many other densification changes to Santa Barbara that resulted in increased traffic, crime and population to a formerly beautiful and livable downtown. Hopefully Ms. Gutierrez will have concerns for our current population over those who wish to exploit the beauty and livability of Santa Barbara.

Dominguez did not represent my neighborhood in the Eastside when an illegal business took up residence. Violating the Zoning Ordinance and confirmed by the City Attorney, the City Council then refused to investigate what has happened in the Dominguez Dumping Ground. He bailed completely for us. Trust no one.

Dominguez should have asked for the recount..... Good luck with Gutierrez...... I don't really have anything nice to say about her, so I'm gonna keep quiet.

As a lifelong Santa Barbara Democrat I am sad to see Dominguez go. The City Council needed his contrary voice to balance out the incompetence and sheer laziness in much of City governance. Any decisionmaking group dominated by one viewpoint is vulnerable to making poor decisions. Now Cathy and the local Democratic Party machine can ignore serious issues and cut ribbons to their hearts' content.

Mayoral Puppet #2. Santa Barbara lost a wonderful Councilmember and got a fraud who's strings will be pulled by Cathy Murillo.

Time to choose the GOP candidates. We have seen what too many years of Democrats running things have done to our town, county and state.

Sorry he didn't win, but I hope he smokes the mayor in the Assembly race. Her career needs to just end right now. Word on the street is the Dems know she could not win in a one-on-one race for her re-election campaign for mayor. That's why they're trying to fob her off on the Assembly.

Tremendously disappointing but not surprising, given the huge push made by the Democratic Party against fellow Democrat Dominguez because he is too independent. (It will be interesting to see how they like Jordan who also is independent and a very recent Democrat but more politic than Dominguez.) Hopefully, A. Gutierrez will turn out to be less of Murillo clone than (relative?) O. Gutierrez. Both Murillo and O. Gutierrez walked the eastside against Dominguez. That plus the embarrassingly low voter turnout made the difference. Clearly, what the residents of the Eastside said was, "who cares? Not I!" Jason reached out to eastsiders and, despite what Alejandra and friends claimed, was very responsive to residents' needs. It will be interesting to see if Alejandra does similarly --- will she be keeping her fulltime school job, btw? The district is geographically very large, from State Street to Salinas, from Canon Perdido to Cabrillo Boulevard, with many differing interests and concerns that have nothing to do with Franklin School. Thanks, Jason, for all you've done, from streetlights to trash removal to in depth study of the issues --- I felt that you sabotaged your campaign for re-election by running for Assembly at the same time . It was a great pity for your eastside constituents AND the city as a whole - and each councilmember is a representative of the CITY as a whole, not just the 963 voters.

In the "old days" people working the polls hand counted the votes after closing the polls; for state wide and national elections. The results were known the next day. For an election this small I don't understand why that couldn't have happened instead of the crazy way this was handled. Good grief, took way too long to get the results.

Now Jason can focus full time on his State Assembly race where he is going against his favorite foe the Mayor! So the fireworks are not over yet. Stay tuned.

P.S. Congratulations Alejandra...

I'll miss Jason he liked to stir the pot and question everything that came passed him he took care of this area as best he could that is my opinion anyway, I don't care what Alan thinks...Lol inside joke.

This is just my opinion but losing Jason on the City Council is a huge loss for the City of Santa Barbara as a whole not just our district. Some say he was too argumentative on council but I saw that as to questioning why the city council was allowing our tax dollars to be spent on wasteful things. We the taxpayers and property owners are paying for all their wasteful spending. For those who do not like the current mayor and her minions another one was just elected who took money from the mayor for her campaign (this can be looked up on the city website for campaign donations) and will possibly be beholding to the mayor to vote the way she wants her too. Jason was the only candidate that ever came to my neighborhood and asked me what problems were going on in the neighborhood and what my concerns were. I told him I had a long list which he wrote down and even before he was elected he personally took care of some of those problems and continued to help me after he was elected. We have a much better neighborhood due to his concern for his district and it's residents. Jason Dominguez thank you for your service to Santa Barbara. As a District 1 resident, you will be missed on City Council.

Because this is the last odd year election in Santa Barbara and the cost of operating the SB County Elections office just to send out 10,000 ballots and count the 5,000 ballots returned was much more than the price it costs Los Angeles County.

Can someone tell me why we had LA County provide the tally of this election?