Yesenia Sanchez declared victory Tuesday evening in the race for sheriff in Alameda County, in an apparent — and stunning — upset against her incumbent boss.
Sanchez, a commander with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office who oversees the Santa Rita Jail, led the race Tuesday evening 52.7% of the vote — a total that, if held, will allow her to forgo a runoff in November. The latest results show Sanchez trouncing four-term incumbent Sheriff Greg Ahern, who received just 31.5%, despite having never faced a challenger in any of his previous campaigns. Veteran San Francisco police officer JoAnn Walker is in third with 15.8% of the vote.
Sanchez said the results showed that Ahern had lost touch with constituents under his watch — leading to a backlash from voters looking for more accountability from law enforcement and better conditions at the county’s main jail in Dublin. There simply weren’t enough votes in the county’s eastern half — including the traditionally more conservative cities of Dublin, Pleasanton and Livermore, which skewed heavily toward Ahern — to make up the difference, local politics experts said Tuesday.
“We knew going in that voters were concerned about crime,” Matthews added. “Voters also do not believe that the old, failed strategies of the past are the solution.” “We are now a representation of what our young women and what our young Latina women can achieve if we put our efforts forth,” Sanchez said.
The sheriff’s office is now seeking to implement a series of reforms outlined in a federal settlement reached earlier this year, including increasing staffing at the facility, creating a new unit for people with mental illness and improving oversight.
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