Three are in the running to represent San Mateo County in the state Senate as incumbent Jerry Hill seeks to secure his final term representing the 13th district.
The candidates from varied political parties include Rick Ciardella, a Menlo Park Republican who owns a landscape company; Libertarian John Webster, a software engineer residing in Mountain View; and Jerry Hill, a San Mateo Democrat who’s seeking his second term in the state Senate.
The district encompasses all of San Mateo County as well as Los Altos, Palo Alto, Mountain View and Sunnyvale. The top two candidates, regardless of party, in the June 7 race will advance to the November general election.
Webster and Hill have varied opinions on how to address critical issues facing constituents from how to address the high cost of housing and the region’s traffic woes, to the role of government. Ciardella opted not to participate in the Daily Journal’s endorsement process.
Webster will again vie against Hill, having also run in the 2012 election.
“My main concern is fighting the dark side of democracy. I really admire liberal thinking people, they’ve got good values and all that. The problem is they want to impose them on everybody by forcing them into laws that then make other people support those causes,” Webster said.
Hill, a longtime politician who formerly served on the San Mateo City Council, county Board of Supervisors and in the Assembly, said he remains committed to representing his constituents and prefers to focus on policy not politics.
“I’m accessible, I work hard, I listen and I think what I have is a sense of the district,” Hill said. “I try to represent [constituents’] views in Sacramento and frankly, I’ve always considered myself an average guy. So I look at the issues like an average person … and I take on these issues and personalize them.” For the full article click here
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