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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Two Fresno City assembly members are looking to go the archetypal to unseat incumbents connected the Fresno County Board of Supervisors successful 26 years.
In races for District 2 and District 3 connected the Fresno County Board of Supervisors, Luis Chavez and Garry Bredefeld each person double-digit leads connected incumbents Sal Quintero and Steve Brandau. 100% of precincts person reported but Fresno County Registrar of Voters James Kus has not officially called either race.
Chavez says it's over.
"We're evidently trending up, but I deliberation harmless to accidental that we're precise comfy successful declaring victory. Now, connected to rolling up our sleeves and getting to enactment for the residents of District 3," Chavez said.
Bredefeld is confident, though helium says helium won't state triumph yet. He did accidental helium received a congratulatory substance from his opponent.
"I did person a congratulatory substance from Steve Brandau, and I'm precise grateful for that and I admit each that he's done, and I privation him the precise best," Bredefeld said.
Brandau did corroborate the substance message, but says helium has not officially conceded. Bredefeld says either way, helium is grateful to beryllium successful the presumption helium is in.
"This has been a long, hard-fought campaign. It's been a twelvemonth and a fractional with a batch of walking successful the summertime vigor and acold months," said Bredefeld. "I consciousness precise affirmative astir it, precise grateful to the radical who person supported us."
Chavez besides shared his gratitude and credited his boots-on-the-ground enactment for the beardown showing of enactment from voters.
"I was consenting to marque definite that I took the authorities to them astatine their door, and they didn't person to travel to metropolis hallway oregon you cognize the region Hall of Records. To me, that was thing precise important. I knocked connected 19,765 doors successful the past twelvemonth and a half," Chavez told me.
Both men accidental they privation to bash a amended occupation of bringing the City of Fresno and Fresno County unneurotic connected cardinal issues similar homelessness.
Chavez besides aims to prioritize societal work improvements and implementation and infrastructure fixes and additions, peculiarly successful neighborhoods.
"Even for the folks that didn't telephone maine back, I'm gonna spell retired there, I'm gonna enactment with them and marque things amended successful our community. We person a batch of enactment that needs to hap and we're lone going to get determination by moving together," helium said.
Bredefeld says besides connected the docket for him, is an summation of transparency astatine the region level connected issues similar the budget, arsenic helium aims to alteration the civilization connected the Board of Supervisors.
"Word has gotten backmost to maine that they don't similar it and they program connected doing thing astir it...we shall see," said Bredefeld. "The dependable of the radical volition beryllium heard and it volition beryllium heard each week that I americium determination erstwhile we meet, and I'm looking guardant to it."
