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Dublin Mayor David Haubert has taken the hotly contended race for Alameda County Board of Supervisors District 1, defeating Fremont City Councilman Vinnie Bacon with around 54% of the vote to claim victory after a contentious campaign marked by discord from both sides.
Haubert, who also has past experience on the school board and council in Dublin, will succeed retiring Supervisor Scott Haggerty and ensure that the five-member county board will continue to have at least one Tri-Valley resident on the dais.
“I am humbled and honored to serve the residents of Alameda County. Nearly 100 volunteers, from across the district helped to make phone calls, deliver lawn signs, send emails of support and so much more. I’d like to thank each one of them,” Haubert told the Weekly.
“I promise to work hard for all residents whether they voted for me or not,” he said. “We have a lot of work to do to crush the coronavirus curve, get our economy going again and tackle homelessness. I feel well prepared drawing upon my 18 years of experience in public service.”
“I’m also excited to work alongside such a great group of current supervisors. They have decades of experience and I plan to learn a lot from each of them,” Haubert added.
The Dublin mayor grabbed the advantage early in the reporting on Nov. 3, finishing Election Night with 53.03% of the vote in the two-candidate runoff. His lead has inched forward as the Alameda County Registrar of Voters’ Office has continued to process ballots. The election stood at 70,780 votes for Haubert (54.13%) to 59,552 votes for Bacon (45.54%) as of Thursday’s results update.
The Nov. 3 election results remain unofficial as of press time, but the data reported thus far represent the totals with a vast majority of eligible ballots counted, making the margin too great for Bacon to overcome.
The Fremont councilman reflected on the tough campaign in concession remarks to the Weekly on Wednesday.
“I first have to thank all of the people who have supported me over the years in my clean money campaigns. Unfortunately, in the race for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors I was not successful,” Bacon said.
“It was very disheartening to see the developer/corporate money that I have been speaking out against used against me personally in such a dishonest, deceitful and unethical manner. Over a half million dollars was raised and used to disparage me and distort my record as a Fremont city councilmember,” he contended.
“I’m not sure exactly what the future holds for me,” Bacon added. “But this election made it even more clear to me that the need to fight corporate money in politics is very important and necessary than ever. I am not done fighting for what I believe is right.”
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