San Jose mayoral candidate Dave Cortese late Monday afternoon conceded the Nov. 4 election in a phone call to rival Sam Liccardo, according to Liccardo’s campaign manager Ragan Henninger.
Speaking on the campaign run by Cortese, a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, Henninger said, “I think we congratulate Supervisor Cortese on a hard fought and well thought race.”
“Sam looks forward to becoming the 65th mayor of San Jose and implementing the plan he wrote in his book,” she said. Henninger was referring to Liccardo’s paperback book “Safer City, Smarter Government, A Plan For San Jose’s Future,” that he released this fall during the campaign.
Henninger said that Liccardo would be sworn in during the first City Council meeting after the first of the year.
According to the Santa Clara County Registrar’s Office, with 11,000 provisional ballots still to be counted Liccardo had 88,759 votes or 51 percent to Cortese’s 85,280 votes or 49 percent.
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