Election night is over but Sacramento County workers are still wading in ballots. The Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections Department must keep counting votes, according to Brad Buyse, the county’s campaign services manager. Tens of thousands of vote-by-mail ballots were turned in Tuesday, he said. However, the county finished its precinct-counting from Tuesday’s voting.  Here is a roundup of local election results with all precincts reported: Sacramento City Council District 5 Education policy consultant Jay Schenirer had a significant lead by late Tuesday night. Schenirer: 53 percent Patrick Kennedy: 46 percent Sacramento City Council District 7 The two candidates are

After counting everything except absentee ballots turned in on election day, Darrell Fong is leading by 373 votes. As of 11:20 p.m., District 7 City Council candidate Darrell Fong said he was hopeful. “We’ll see how the race ends up,” he said. “We’re ahead and our numbers are going up, but until the precincts are counted, we’re hopeful. We’ve had a great time, and there’s a lot of support, a lot of volunteers,” Fong said. “In the primaries we were 800 votes down, so we’ve closed the gap. But the fight is not over.” The most recent update Fong had seen showed he was 270 votes ahead of Chin. “We’ve run the race, and we’ve both run a strong campaign,” he said. “I just want to thank eve

After counting everything except absentee ballots turned in on election day, Darrell Fong is leading by 373 votes. As of 11:20 p.m., District 7 City Council candidate Ryan Chin said the results were way too close to call. The most recent update he had to reference showed Chin at 49 percent and Fong with 51 percent. “There are lots of other ballots to be counted still,” Chin said. If Chin does lose, he said he’ll go back to doing what he’s always done: “I’ll make sure I’m working in the community, making sure that I’m raising funds for scholarships for kids going into college or vocational training, or helping with our youth conference and lending my talents and abilities to the commun

Sacramento City Council District 7 candidates Darrell Fong and Ryan Chin were leading their campaigns’ election day efforts Tuesday to get voters to the polls. Fong voted at Greenhaven Neighborhood Church Tuesday morning. Exiting the polling place, he vowed not to take a salary if elected until the city budget improves. The retired Sacramento police captain said his top priorities are public safety, building and figuring out how to provide city services when revenue is down. "The only agenda I have is seeing the city move forward," he said. "We will come out of this. We'll just have to be more efficient with how we deliver services." Fong then headed to his campaign headquarters in a s

As polling began Tuesday morning, accusations flew between District 7 candidates. Darrell Fong claimed that volunteers from Ryan Chin's campaign were removing his signs and harassing voters at polling places. Chin made the same claims about volunteers from Fong's campaign.  A campaign spokesperson reported that Robbie Waters' headquarters received complaints by phone about Chin's supporters trying to swayvoters. Chin responded in part by saying his volunteers had nothing to do with the "negative tactics" reported by Waters and Fong.  By late afternoon, David Plag, who works for Waters' campaign, said that the early results were leaning Republican. Fong sent a text to community contribut

It appeared Tuesday night that longtime Sacramento City Council incumbents Robbie Waters and Ray Tretheway may lose their seats. But it was too soon to call the races Tuesday at 11:45 p.m. because of problems with Sacramento County’s election results website. Brad Buyse, the county’s campaign services manager, said Friday that the county planned to update election results on its website Tuesday night, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 12 a.m. However, the county’s election website did not continually renew some vote totals. Natomas neighborhood activist Angelique Ashby was surpassing Tretheway in the polls Tuesday night. Ashby is competing for Tretheway’s District 1 seat, which includes

The Sacramento Press election team is pulling an all-nighter Tuesday to bring our readers City Council election results. We will continuously update our election coverage starting at 4 p.m. Tuesday until the Sacramento County Registrar of Voters stops releasing results late that night.  In addition to reporting the results from the polls, our staffers will be on-the-scene at election parties to cover the perspectives of candidates and their supporters. In Sacramento, polls will open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Election results will start coming in after 8 p.m. "I'm out campaigning," City Councilman Steve Cohn said late Monday afternoon. "Tonight's the last time I'll be walking door-t

Ryan Chin said he would weigh neighborhood and business concerns if elected to the City Council. The Sacramento Press is interviewing City Council candidates in advance of the June 8 election. Chin is one of four candidates competing for the District 7 seat, which represents neighborhoods including Pocket/Greenhaven and Valley Hi. His competitors are incumbent Robbie Waters, Darrell Fong and Diedre Hobart. Chin said he has experience working on neighborhood and business issues. “I understand business,” he said, “but I’ll always be connected and committed to the community, and making sure they’re represented.” Chin, who works as a strategic communications director at California State U

Darrell Fong, a retired Sacramento Police Department captain who is running for City Council, said he could provide a better perspective to the city and his district because he does not intend to make politics his career. The Sacramento Press is interviewing City Council candidates in advance of the June 8 election. Fong, a third-generation Sacramento resident, is running for the District 7 seat on the City Council. His opponents are incumbent Robbie Waters, and Ryan Chin and Diedre Hobart. “My goal is just to focus on the city alone and the district,” Fong said. District 7 neighborhoods include Greenhaven, Pocket and Valley Hi. Fong, 53, noted that he has lived in the Pocket neighborh

In a statement Tuesday on his blog, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson made his endorsements for candidates competing in the June 8 primary election.  A KCRA reporter asked Johnson at a Monday press conference if Johnson would endorse candidates who oppose a “strong mayor” form of government. Johnson is leading an effort to bring more authority to the mayor’s office. In response to the reporter’s question, Johnson said: “I think that’s not really the issue before people. I don’t think that people have had to make a decision on that. So, there’s not a litmus, in general, for that right now.” Johnson said the candidates he is supporting are not content with the status quo. He explained that h

They walked out onto the stage at the gym at Genevieve Didion Elementary, each wearing suits and ties. They weren’t clammed up, having talked to various people in the crowd prior to taking the stage. Each of them was familiar with the neighborhood, and had a desire to represent it. Current City Councilmember Robbie Watters, retired Sacramento Police Captain Darrell Fong, and Sacramento State professor Ryan Chin all participated in Thursday night’s Sacramento City Council 7th District Candidate Forum, organized by the Didion-Lewis Park Recreation Center Committee. And once they took their seats, none of them could escape responding to questions about the Strong Mayor Initiative, acrimony a

All but four of 13 candidates running for a City Council seat in June received campaign contributions from sources outside Sacramento County from July to December 2009. It also should be noted that many of the candidates have received numerous contributions from individuals and groups in Sacramento. To provide information about contributions to candidates from sources outside the county, The Sacramento Press has prepared the following guide. The following contributions were made to candidates between July 1 and Dec. 31. DISTRICT 1 Angelique Ashby, City Council candidate Top outside contributions: Lewis Investment Company, Upland: $500 James Milliken, retired Superior Court judge, San

The Sacramento Press is reviewing campaign contributions for the candidates in June's City Council race. Here is a breakdown of the main contributions to the candidates in Districts 5 and 7 from July to December 2009. Read our guide to campaign contributions for Districts 1 and 3 here.  The June 8 election covers four City Council seats for Districts 1, 3, 5 and 7. The July to December figures provide the most recent information on campaign contributions for City Council candidates. The next deadline for candidates to submit statements listing their contributions is March 17, according to Assistant City Clerk Stephanie Mizuno. Those statements will list contributions from Jan. 1 to March

Sacramento City Councilman Robbie Waters wants to advance public safety in his district by bolstering neighborhood associations and watch groups. Waters, a former Sacramento County sheriff, said that public safety is his top priority for the year. The Sacramento Press is publishing a series on the 2010 goals of members of the City Council. Links to stories on other councilmembers’ goals can be found at the end of this story. Waters represents District 7, which includes the Greenhaven, Pocket and Valley Hi neighborhoods. He is running for re-election in June. His opponents in the race are Darrell Fong, who had a longtime career as a Sacramento police officer, and Ryan Chin, the strategic