EDITORIAL - Madera will have a new mayor in December, Mr. Santos Garcia. Our new mayor accepted money from the socialist arm of the Democratic Party and owes his entire success to Republican spoiler-candidate Steve Salter for splitting the vote. Madera City Councilman Santos Garcia beat sitting mayor Andy Medellin by less than 500 votes with 4587 of the total 11,103 votes cast, But Salter scored 2416 votes, splitting the votes available in the westside of Madera with Medellin who scored 4097 votes. In short, of the total votes, over 6500 of the electorate voted against Garcia denying him any clear mandate.
Garcia, who raised $55k mostly from union sources, raised $13k in just the last three days. He also took thousands of dollars from the Central California Progressive Political Action Committee and the city council campaign fund for Fresno City Councilmember Esmerelda Sorin, the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (A.O.C.) of the west coast. I wonder how the conservative Salter will sleep at night knowing that it's possible he caused the beginnings of socialism on the city council?