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Bontanistas are making a big pitch for Venus Johnson; The recallers, law enforcement, and Asian American leaders are deploying a full-court press in favor of Ursula Jones Dickson and Annie Esposito

☕️MORNING BUZZ

—The Alameda County Board of Supervisors will appoint Pamela Price’s replacement as district attorney on Tuesday.

—The behind-the-scenes machinations going on over the past five days indicates it remains a three-woman race between Venus Johnson, chief deputy attorney general; Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ursula Jones Dickson; and Annie Esposito, a current Contra Costa County assistant DA and former Alameda County prosecutor.

—Johnson, whose candidacy is strongly backed by Attorney General Rob Bonta, received an endorsement over the weekend from a local newspaper.

—Esposito and Jones Dickson carried the endorsement of Save Alameda For Everyone (SAFE), the groups that led the successful recall of Price last November, into last week’s interviews. The endorsement included the Alameda County Prosecutors Association, and 13 police unions in Alameda County.

—There is a belief that the Board of Supervisors are deadlocked on who should replace Price, with one supervisor being the swing vote on Tuesday afternoon.

—More inside:

• If the Board of Supervisors are deadlocked, 2-2, then who is the swing vote?

• Alameda County’s required number of new housing units through ’31 could get a boost from BART

• Hayward has been checking under cushions for spare change recently. A funding source placed on pause by the pandemic might help.

• Some Oakland leaders want to spend to consult their way through the next few budget cycles.

• Oakland to honor a local baseball icon with his own intersection.

• San Leandro is again having rent control pangs, but a rent registry appears first on the to-do list.

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