Vargas elected SANDAG chair, board members walk out to protest 'weighted vote'

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Vargas elected SANDAG chair, board members walk out to protest 'weighted vote'
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Representatives of smaller cities, mostly in North County, walked out of Friday's meeting in what one member called a 'tantrum.'

, most SANDAG votes were counted with a simple tally of board members. That system gave Del Mar — with its population of less than 4,000 — the same decision-making power as San Diego, with its population of 1.4 million.

San Diego City Council President Sean Elo-Rivera, who was elected as the board's vice chair, called the walkout"a legislative tantrum."

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