After a week without a mayor, the San Mateo City Council picked Amourence Lee to become the city's first Asian American female mayor.
Pro-housing activists describe Lisa Diaz Nash and Robert Newsom Jr., the two council members who initially declined to support Lee for mayor, as preferring slower growth.With political turmoil exploding from the Los Angeles City Council chambers to the U.S. Capitol, the conflict in San Mateo became yet another manifestation of how we just can’t get along.
“What this really boils down to is a conflict between two political factions,” said Grimes, 30, political director for the Peninsula Young Democrats and a lifelong San Mateo resident. “I always imagined myself as being the woman behind the woman,” said Lee, 44. But “everyone just kept pointing at me and saying no, we’re asking you to step up.”Loraine’s motion to appoint Lee as mayor failed repeatedly, with Nash and Newsom voting no.
That candidate, she said, pulling out an envelope, was Cliff Robbins, an attorney and member of the city’s sustainability and infrastructure commission.Newsom made a motion to pick Rich Hedges, the chair of the city’s sales tax measure oversight committee. Lee joined Loraine and Newsom in voting for Hedges, with Nash voting no.
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