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Top-runners in District 6 prepare for a face-off in November
Cunningham and Yeager mull new campaign strategies
By Chantal Lamers
Super Tuesday has come and gone. And, in the wake of the March 7 election, the two top candidates for the San Jose City Council District 6 seat, Ken Yeager and Kris Cunningham, will have to wage yet another campaign battle in November.
Needing a majority of the vote to win, Yeager and Cunningham pulled through as the expected two front-runners. Yeager grabbed about 1,000 more votes than Cunningham did--scoring 38.5 percent of the vote to her 32.8 percent.
Police sergeant Jim Spence came in third with 18 percent of the votes. Those are the votes Yeager and Cunningham will vie for over the next eight months.
Mortgage banker Mike Borquez took home 778 of the votes--nearly five percent--and multimedia producer and roller skater Bill Chew grabbed about four percent of the vote. Retired public heath worker Dan Lopez won three percent of the votes at the end of the election.
This week, both council hopefuls and their campaign teams are taking a short break to rest up, regroup and re-evaluate their strategies for the long months ahead.
"We won't take it easy for long," Yeager said, adding he's feeling pretty pleased with Tuesday's percentages.
Yeager, who held a marginal lead throughout the day, said he's looks forward to hitting the pavement and getting out to talk to the voters again. "We always expected that there would be a run-off," said the political science professor. "It was a good campaign. I had very worthy opponents."
Cunningham is resting, too, giving her kitchen table a short break from working overtime as campaign headquarters.
She said she predicted that Yeager would come out with most of the votes, though she hoped the percentage gap would have been smaller. "With six people running and Jim [Spence] coming in as a quality candidate I knew it would be close," Cunningham said.
But the neighborhood activist isn't discourage by percentages, since this is her first campaign. She's happy with the results and is almost ready to get back to work. "We feel good," she said. "We have an idea about where we want to go from here. We're confident in the end we'll succeed."
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