SACRAMENTO, California — Assemblymember Kevin McCarty will turn out to be the subsequent mayor of Sacramento after defeating newcomer Flojaune “Flo” Cofer in a fierce battle over homelessness and public security coverage.
Cofer on Tuesday launched a press release conceding the race, saying she known as McCarty on Monday evening to “provide my congratulations” and that the 2 “had the primary of many very forthright conversations about the way forward for Sacramento.”
The assemblymember declared victory final week, however Cofer waited to touch upon the outcomes till the vote-counting concluded. McCarty won by just 1,938 votes, 50.5 percent to 49.5 percent, in keeping with the ultimate tally posted by the county on Tuesday.
“We have now a accountability to remain concerned and carry our imaginative and prescient ahead,” Cofer mentioned in her assertion. “I’m dedicated to supporting this new administration as a result of their success is our success.”
McCarty, a Democrat who represented Sacramento within the Capitol for practically a decade, was the extra average candidate within the race to succeed Mayor Darrell Steinberg and had been anticipated to win. Cofer, a progressive, grew her public profile as an activist within the wake of the police capturing of Stephon Clark.
The assemblymember defeated two different extra average Democrats in a really shut main. Cofer ran to his left within the common election, permitting him to assault her on her extra liberal stances.
After Cofer advised finding sanctioned homeless campsites in “underutilized parks,” McCarty’s supporters used the place to say she needed to place them within the metropolis’s hottest inexperienced areas.
Cofer, however, tied McCarty to Steinberg, saying the assemblymember needed to proceed a failed tactic of repeatedly sweeping homeless encampments.
