Looks like the BEST man won.

The incredible experience of Sheriff Carlos Bolanos has won over the Alinsky tactics of Melville and the small band of misfits who supported him.

These pathetic individuals tried to make a tremendous deal out of a non event that happened 11 years ago. The voters have spoken. This was never an issue, Carlos Bolanos never did anything wrong, and Melville and Stogner could not come up with the evidence or the goods because there never was any. This fake news will never rear its ugly head ever again.

Melville, your resignation should be tendered tomorrow. You're done here. You want to run an honest campaign, so be it, but you ran a dirty, below the belt one. You couldn't run on issues, so you ran on dirt. You're the one without the integrity to be sheriff or a law enforcement officer.

Bolanos is creepy and cretinous. Ick!

Experience wins: Bill Cosby was just convicted for a sexual assault that occurred in 2004. 14 years ago

Harvey Weinstein was just charged criminally for a sex crime that occurred in 2004. 14 years ago.

The reason that the unknown Melville- with one tenth the money of Bolanos- got so many votes was because voters were queasy about Dollhouse. Not over.

Experience Wins:

Melville " ran on dirt?"Huh? Melville wasn't the one cited in the United States Department of Justice -funded report "Domestic Minors sex trafficking" for being caught at a brothel where trafficked minors were found. If you don't want people to talk about being caught at an illegal brothel, then stay out of cathouses.

I also saw a rather ugly mailer that Bolanos (clearly panicked) sent out packed with false information about Melville on the day before the election.

Also, your language is threatening and dangerous towards Melville... Is the Sheriff behind this post?

Experience Wins, is the typical brave soul afraid to identify himself/herself.

Mark Melville will not be threatened and is not afraid of Carlos Bolanos the man who hid and refused to answer simple and honest questions for 11 years and counting. Operation Dollhouse is just one of many examples of why Bolanos should have been fired.

Like Obstruction of Justice Jan. 2011 His son Pioneer Bar Woodside. The Palo Alto Daily Post front page story.

But you already know that.

Go Melville! 41% of the voters on a first race, as an underdog, and with less than 1/10 the funding! The times they are changing.

EXPERIENCE WINS...sounds like someone who has some financial stakes in the Bolanos campaign or a job at risk.

Those sorts of comments and tactics used by Bolanos and his supporters are bullying and embarassing. Saying Vegas was "nothing" and trying to get the people to believe it's false OR trying to mislead people and discrediting them as crazy for telling the truth is the exact trait and tactic of a narcissist.

You people are ridiculous. Experience Wins hit it right on the head. You nay sayers and people who can’t get out of the past and move on need to take your defeated butts to Monterey like Stogner. Leave the great County of San Mateo as it is in very good and capable hands now.

Those who are attacking people who fought to get the truth out about Bolanos should be more gracious in victory. As for those you refer to as "you people "- - there were many of us (people you don't know )- who were working to help Melville. Stop picking on Stogner.

21,000 people voted against Bolanos- a considerable amount given Melville had one tenth of the money and none of the support from rank and file in Sheriff's office or elected officials.

Not the end.

The fact that Melville took 41% of the vote is HUGE! Hopefully, this means the next election will not go to one of the good ol' boys or corruptocrats.

Monterey?

Think I'll stay in San Mateo County
The more people that can vote out high ranking officials that dont actualpy care about the hundreds of thousands of people the better.

Victorious:

So, you're ok that our top law enforcement officer in our county was caught in a WHORE HOUSE featuring trafficked women and under age girls? You're ok with that because "it's in the past"? Seriously? Would you feel the same way if your daughter was one of those in that WHORE HOUSE? Really? Think about it. If you're still ok with it, then you're either one of the "good ol' boys" or you're a disgusting human being completely lacking in any ethics.

The people have spoken. You're precious POS sheriff is not being given a pass by a large portion of the voters in this county. A new day is coming.

I appreciate your concern for my daughter but she would NEVER be in a whore house. I am very ok with the choice that 35,000 people made and elected the better of the two candidates. You act like Bolanos committed rape or murder or child abuse. He was charged with NOTHING !!!!!!! Never lost his position in the Sheriff’s Office and was appointed by the Board of Supervisors to the position of Sheriff. And if there is a better candidate out there, well I guess we will find out in FOUR YEARS.

Victorious: The fact is not that he wasn't charged- none of the johns were- including Munks ,who was inside with a trafficked woman,. We both know that's a red herring cooked up by the defensive Bolanos campaign. The only people charged were the pimps who were trafficking the women. That is in all news reports

Many people aren't charged for things but should have been. Harvey Weinstein wasn't initially charged by the Manhattan DA in 2015 when a woman went to him and said she had been sexually assaulted. NO CHARGES. It took the #metoo movement and reports from the New York Times and the New Yorker in October 2017 to get the Manhattan DA to review the charges against him. He is now charged with the same assault he wasn't charged first time around.

Long way around of saying that not being charged means nothing.

The reason he didn't lose his position in the department because Wagstaffe and Supervisors circled the wagons.

The fact is that he and Bolanos were caught and detained in a federal FBI trafficking sting in a filthy rundown brothel, where it was clear to all the neighbors that bad things were going down there, where trafficked women from Asia and Venezuela , including a 15 year old, were found.

Bolanos has changed his stories about where he was. He told a Las Vegas TV station he was in a limo, about to leave, when the sting went down. Really? About to leave without Munks? Feds wouldn't put someone in a lineup who was in a limo. That limo story vanished...never to be uttered by the cowardly Bolanos again

He never manned up and explained how he came to be there, how he couldn't tell like everyone else in the neighborhood knew, that it was a bad place where bad things were going down.

His failure to answer questions in the media, and in one instance telling the reporter to look at what he said in another smaller paper, but refusing to talk about the issue with reporter from the larger paper who was interviewing him, is childish, bizarre and cowardly

The truth will come out.

We will make sure of it.

I asked candidate Carlos Bolanos just one question and he refused to answer it.

How many minutes were you detained the night of April 21, 2007 in Las Vegas Nevada?

I didn't ask him any other questions, because I felt he could answer that one question without admitting to a crime.

Everybody and their mother knows he was detained, he admits he was detained, How many minutes?

Lets see who retires from top management of the SMCSO next.

For a long time - months, in fact - Melville did not mention the Dollhouse incident - he avoided it, and wanted to run on his own merit, instead. There was also the fact that there had not been an election for 25 years. No mention of the incumbent. That is all a matter of record. He ran a clean campaign, up until the last two weeks prior to the election. Pressure from so many voters, however, begged for answers, especially since the Dollhouse issue kept surfacing from other sources. Melville was called "weak" and derided for not mentioning that incident. "Dollhouse" wasn't "nothing" - it reflected not only upon Munks and Bolanos, but on the sheriffs office, deputies, and trust in law enforcement, too. Add in the amount of taxpayer dollars spent for Munks/Bolanos' recreation - even if one were to excuse the sheriff and his undersheriff for not having "completed their assignments" at the massage parlor, the funding involved was pretty extreme.

There were, of course, good reasons for Melville's running - including knowledge of the incumbent's history, and the surrounding issues about SM County's appointed sheriffs. How else to break that continuing "good old boy's club", which hinted of corruption on many levels? When Susan Manheimer initially threw her hat into the ring, she was accepted as the candidate, which Melville fully supported and expected. But when she dropped out with no one else offered to run, Melville thought it was his duty to step in, at his own expense. Bolanos had all of the advantage; he had 2 years to campaign, gather his endorsements, and way more funding than Melville could ever drum up. Melville was courageous enough to do this -he had major cojones in challenging the appointed incumbent, not least in part because Bolanos has a reputation of bullying. Unfortunately, most voters didn't know about any of this until the campaign (and many still don't). Melville has been a good, hard-working deputy, with 40 years of experience in law enforcement and public service. He wants transparency and honesty in the SM Sheriff's office. But at this period in time, most of the votes have been counted, and it is assumed that Bolanos is sheriff again. That being said....the cat is out of the cathouse...er...bag....about the Dollhouse incident. Way more people know about it, and investigations are ongoing. If Bolanos threatens or tries to harm anyone involved, it will spotlight the fact that he has something to hide, and come back on HIM. Melville got over 40% of the vote, as of today's count. That is not a small amount of voters. All citizens want is law enforcement that we can trust. Is that too much to ask?

Stats - you said that, "Feds wouldn't put someone in a lineup who was in a limo." Was Bolanos in a lineup after this bust?

This is how others Sheriff get rid of the competition even after he beats you, very funny.
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Again you people are ridiculous. There is NO investigation. The Board of Supervisors APPOINTED him to Sheriff and he WON AN ELECTION OF THE VOTERS. Bolanos will be the sheriff for the next four years and beyond if he chooses. You have that much time to conjur up some more dirt for the next election. In the mean time this topic should die.

Victorious: your mistake is that you think the investigation is being conducted by the San Mateo Sheriff's office. May I remind you that there all sorts of interested organizations that are continuing to look into this matter.

Victorious:

Bolanos was ILLEGALLY appointed by the board of supervisors. Just another in a long line of corrupt activities in this county.

“Fear The Future” - I know the Sheriff’s Office isn’t doing an investigation and I know the FBI isn’t doing an investigation. I’m positive Las Vegas Metro isn’t doing an investigation. So if anyone else is doing an investigation it’s not going to matter because it won’t have an effect on anything. I’m going to call it “Wishiful Thinking” on your part. The problem with you all is that you are putting your faith in people who are grasping at straws. They are backing people who themselves are corrupt and gutless. SMH

Victorious: Fear. The. Future.

I voted for Melville, but think Victorious is correct (about what will happen with Bolanos, not his/her rather crass description of Melville supporters).

To me, the more interesting question is, even with the 41% going to Melville, how and why did SMC buck the trend sweeping the nation of casting aside people who have been tainted with accusations of sexual misconduct?

Our close neighbor to the south, Santa Clara County, removed a judge from office in the same election for going too soft on a young man accused of sexual misconduct. Here in San Mateo County, we elected a Sheriff who was tainted with a similar brush (but not a brush of rape like the Stanford student, just to be fair).

Why do people think SMC is so different?

"Why do people think SMC is so different?"

Because the corruption runs deep in this county and has been there for a very, very long time.

Questions - If Operation Dolhouse was more recent, I think Bolanos would've really been tainted. Note that in SC County, Judge Persky has just been reelected around the same time of the Turner conviction/sentencing, so voters really were NOT paying attention. News of his sentencing was global, and a law prof involved with TItle IX issues at Stanford AND was friends with the victim spearheaded the recall movement. This was an unusual combination of factors. Please note - for all the criticism about Persky, the sentence was within legal guidelines, and those sentence guidelines were light due to how the flawed law characterized the crime - vs - Bolanos, whose behavior was unconscionable when he could've easily found legal sex services outside county limits OR a legit massage at his hotel.

"In light of the estimated 70,496 ballots Chief Elections Officer Mark Church said officials had yet to count as of Wednesday June 6, 2018, SMC Voters should be asking What is that number for Friday night June 8, 2018. The reason I ask is that Mark Simon said Mark Church called him and stated that 45,000 - 50,000 yet to count. Thats a 25,000 vote difference. Why doesn't Mark Church just have this info on the County's website?

If it turns out to be close to 100,000 ballots there is a good chance that would favor Mark Melville with more residents getting informed.

"In light of the estimated 70,496 ballots Chief Elections Officer Mark Church said officials had yet to count as of Wednesday June 6, 2018, SMC Voters should be asking What is that number for Friday night June 8, 2018. The reason I ask is that Mark Simon said Mark Church called him and stated that 45,000 - 50,000 yet to count. Thats a 25,000 vote difference. Why doesn't Mark Church just have this info on the County's website?

If it turns out to be close to 100,000 ballots there is a good chance that would favor Mark Melville.