Early returns reveal close races for both Folsom City Council seats up for grabs. Raithel and Leary lead some opponents by mere hundreds of votes.
FOLSOM, Calif. — Early returns reveal close races for both Folsom City Council seats up for grabs in 2024, while more ballot counts will publish later this week.
The latest results show Justin Raithel, a businessman, leads his two opponents Dustin Silva, a sheriff’s captain, and Hla Elkhatib, a small business owner and law student, by hundreds of votes for the District 2 seat.
In the District 4 race, Barbara Leary, a retired nurse practitioner, leads her opponent Jim Ortega, a retired police chief, by hundreds of votes and her other opponent Gul Khan, an entrepreneur, by over 1,000 votes.
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Raithel secured 1,701 votes so far in the council race.
Sacramento County will offer more in its first interim report set to publish Friday afternoon.
“I’m feeling good,” Raithel …