The Los Gatos Town Council has two slots coming open and four candidates running for those seats: Peggy Dallas, Steve Rice, Michael Kane and Barbara Spector (who is the mayor currently).

On September 25th, the candidates came together for an hourlong forum which can now be viewed online on the Los Gatos town website: Council Candidate Forum 2008. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear and see the agents side-by-side, see how they respond to critical questions and to get their vision of what they hope to do if elected. I found it immensely helpful in evaluating each one directly.

The San Jose Mercury News and Los Gatos Weekly-Times posted an article on this today too, and it's also worth reading: "Los Gatos council candidates focus on development, recreation in forum".

Please see also: Election 2008 - Voting in Los Gatos, posted November 2, 2008

Please vote today - it is both the Presidential Primary and also the chance to resolve the extremely controversial Los Gatos skatepark issue by voting on that initiative - Measure D.

The voter guides we received didn't have the voting location printed, but you can find out where to vote by visiting the Smart Voter site, using this link for Santa Clara County:
http://www.smartvoter.org/ca/scl/

Remember to bring your photo ID.

See you at the polls!

(PS: Jim and I just returned from voting and as of about 9:15 or 9:30 am, the weather was ideal and the lines were very short at our polling place in east Los Gatos.)
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Updated November 2, 2008: For information on the election of Nov 4, 2008, please see

Perhaps the most hotly contested and divisive issue in the history of Los Gatos has been the skatepark ballot initiative. It is upsetting to see how much hostility has emerged.

The Los Gatos Observer carries the controvery in an "up close and personal" kind of way. There have been an inordinate about of personal opinions, rebuttals, comments, and accusations - all found on this news site's pages. It's a soap opera with a political bent.

As for me: I have just one request. Please vote. My hope is that the town gets a huge turnout next Tuesday and that the voters will speak their peace and then we will HAVE peace. Truthfully, I am sick of the complaints. Most of them are coming from the "pro D" camp, but they are found on both sides. I am sick of the stolen political signs. And perhaps most of all, I am sick of the villification of the other side. There are good people on both sides of the argument and it is sickening to read the villification of folks on the other side of the argument.  Arguments could be made for voting either way - so let's leave the "ad hominems" out of it.

Vote.

And then, please, let's move forward.