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Supervisor election goes to run-off
By JEFF KEARNS
As the smoke of Super Tuesday voting cleared late into the night, no clear victor emerged in the race for District 5 Supervisor.
With 298 of 303 precincts reporting, Palo Alto Mayor Liz Kniss led vote-getters with 27,770 or 42.5 percent of the votes, with Foothill-De Anza College District Trustee Dolly Sandoval a close second, garnering 22,158 or 33.9 percent of the votes. Santa Clara County Planning Commissioner Terry Trumbull drew the remaining 15,481 votes, or 23.7 percent.
With none of the three candidates earning at least 50 percent of the votes plus one, Kniss and Sandoval will face one another in a run-off election in November.
Kniss has spent the last 11 years on the Palo Alto City Council, and served on a school board there before that. She works as a communications for Sun Microsystems and is also trained as a public health nurse and holds a graduate degree in puxblic administration.
Kniss said she thanked supporters at a campaign party in Palo Alto, but said she wouldn't take a breather and would get up the next morning and start making phone calls to voters.
Although she's a Democrat, Kniss said she credits bipartisan support in the non-partisan race for her win in Tuesday's race.
Sandoval, a Cupertino resident who teaches math at Los Gatos High School, has been on the Foothill-De Anza board for eight years. Celebrating at an election-night party at her house, Sandoval said she was ready for the showdown ahead.
"The issues we raised--youth services, health services, keeping an eye on the budget--have really resonated with voters in this district," she said. "I've been working hard in this community for the last 15 years and working even harder on this community in the last 10 months. I've been able to unite Latinos, Asian-Americans, and Anglos in a real positive manner...by getting out and walking precincts, phoning voters and meeting with people."
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