Here at the Voice, we love election season. The pomp and circumstance of the filings, the mailers, the signs, the debates and the counting on November 5th or perhaps even longer keep everyone engaged. With our messed-up district election changeover it's not quite as exciting as before and we certainly have each lost 80% of our say in who gets elected. But you play with the roster you have, not the roster you wish you had (hat tip Donald Rumsfeld). The filing deadline was last Friday, so the DJ has assembled the roster as follows:
Burlingame Councilmember Andrea Pappajohn, who was appointed earlier this year to replace Ricardo Ortiz in the District 1 seat, is now running to complete the term, which ends November 2026. (i.e. unopposed, so she is in).
There’s a crowded race for the Burlingame City Council’s District 2 seat: business owners Rachel Ni, Hadia Khoury and Nirmala Idumalla Bandrapalli, as well as scientist and educator Desiree Thayer are all in the mix.
Current Burlingame Mayor Donna Colson is running to hold on to her District 4 seat against senior transportation engineer Tony Paul.
Nirmala ran back in 2015 garnering 20.9% in a four-way race to finish out of the money in third place. The rest of the challengers are newcomers. That means we have our work cut out for us vetting the challengers and evaluating Donna Colson's record to date. Should be fun!
The Daily Journal followed up the next day with a more detailed piece on the candidates that can be found here.
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