SAN DIEGO—In what looks to be the most hotly contested of Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors races, District 3’s one-term incumbent, Terra Lawson-Remer, faces former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer—with the board’s left versus right alignment potentially at stake.
Though supervisor seats are nonpartisan, Lawson-Remer, the board vice chair, is a Democrat, and Faulconer a Republican.
Currently, the board’s makeup is three Democrats (Lawson-Remer, Nora Vargas, and Monica Montgomery Steppe) and two Republicans (Joel Anderson and Jim Desmond). Vargas (District 1) and Anderson (District 2) are also up for reelection.
If the District 1 and 2 incumbents hold serve on election night, the District 3 battle between Lawson-Remer and Faulconer could prove the difference-maker in shaping future board policy….