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Sanchez wins, Measure L gets defeated By Samantha Nelson
OCEANSIDE — Last week, residents elected 20year council member Esther Sanchez as mayor and rejected the controversial Measure L. Sanchez, who was first elected to City Council in 2000, was born and raised in Oceanside, her family stretching back four generations here according to her profile on the city’s website. She worked as an attorney for 22 years, retiring from the SANCHEZ Public Defender’s Office in 2008 after 20 years before starting her law office in Oceanside. Sanchez will be the city’s first Latina mayor. Sanchez ran against Deputy Mayor Jack Feller, who was also first elected to Council in 2000, and fellow councilmember Christopher Rodriguez, who was first elected to represent District 2 in 2018. Sanchez received nearly 30% of the vote, with 24,041 votes total. Rodriguez came in second at nearly 19% with 15,100 votes and Feller third at 14% with 11,768 votes. There were 12 candidates running for Oceanside mayor this year. With Sanchez taking the seat of mayor next month, Council’s District 1 seat will be left open. Councilmember Ryan Keim, who was first appointed to Council in early 2019, won the new District 3 seat with 38% of the vote, TURN TO ELECTIONS ON A9
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Marlon Taylor will be the first Black resident elected to public office in Encinitas. Page A7.
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Del Mar council split over Black Lives Matter resolution By Dan Brendel
DEL MAR — The Del Mar City Council narrowly adopted a resolution commending “racial equity and justice and Black Lives Matter [BLM]” at their Nov. 9 meeting, eliciting mixed responses from councilmembers and residents. Del Mar residents Nicole Forrest, Valerie Dufort-Roy and Sudeepto Roy spearheaded the resolution “in response to the national A GROUP walks on July 4 in Del Mar carrying “Black Lives outrage” following the May Matter” signs and honoring the deceased Adolphus Deme- death of George Flloyd in Minneapolis, Roy told The trius “Demo” Dubose. Photo by Jordan P. Ingram
Coast News. “The resolution describes broad, aspirational policy goals,” according to an accompanying memo by Mayor Ellie Haviland and Councilman Dwight Worden, though it doesn’t enact any specific policies or commit public resources. The statement focuses especially on law enforcement, committing the city to “work with the sheriff to review policing policies.” Del Mar contracts with the county sheriff for law enforcement services, rather
than maintain a municipal police department. The resolution seeks to “strengthen police/community partnerships”; assert local “autonomy” against “intervention by federal law enforcement officers”; and support “legislation banning face recognition technologies,” which opponents say operate on race-biased algorithms. The sheriff’s department countywide used lethal force once in 2019, acTURN TO RESOLUTION ON A10
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