Frontrunners in Zone 7 board race reflect on early election results
Three new faces — and one familiar — are poised to win the open seats for the Zone 7 Water Agency Board of Directors following the June 2 primary election, according to preliminary tallies from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters’ Office.
The county results, which are based on mailed-in ballots and voter turnout Tuesday, show Jim Lehrman as the leading candidate with 26.47% (13,641 votes) as of 11:27 p.m. Tuesday night.
“I’m very happy to see that I’m currently the top vote-getter,” Lehrman told the Weekly the following day. “I thank all the people who voted for me, as well as my family, friends and neighbors here in the Tri-Valley for all of their support.”
Lehrman is a longtime Pleasanton resident who comes from a 40-year professional background in geology and hydrogeology. In the past, he also worked in environmental site assessment and remediation and spent the last decade leading an annual Earth Day creek cleanup along a stretch of the Arroyo Del Valle.
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