Cesar Zepeda won a Richmond City Council seat after a name drawing out of a gift bag in a tie-breaker held by the Contra Costa County clerk. This comes after both Cesar_Zepeda1 and Andrew Butt each received exactly 1,921 votes in the November election.
Cesar Zepeda has been elected to the Richmond City Council after his name was pulled out of a gift bag.On Tuesday, Cesar Zepeda won a Richmond City Council seat after a name drawing out of a gift bag in a tie-breaker held by the Contra Costa County clerk.
It started with the candidates writing down their own names in Sharpie, placing it into identical, unmarked envelopes, and then the moment when a political office was determined by drawing names out of a gift bag.Getting emotional at the thought of breathing a new generation of leadership to this city council, Zepeda was donning his own good luck charms, from a pocket square pin and "love is love" socks.
"In a perfect world, there would be an opportunity to have another vote, you know have a runoff or something like that, but you know the reality is, that takes time and money and we're short on both, so I think, I don't know what else you do honestly," Butt said.
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