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General. If there are three or more candidates running for a particular office, they will be voted on in the first election, and the top two will always go on to the General to be run off, no matter how many more votes one gets than the other. SANTANGELO: I'm going to speak against the amendment simply because, again, there's been an awful lot of discussion about money, and I know the 15%, and Sue, we both know that in a Presidential election, you get a lot more voters. It goes up and down, and it's really up to the voters to get off their can. And having been through these elections, I know what it's like to go through a Primary and then a General, and if the solution is there, if there's,a majority winner which is what we haven't had in a while for a lot of things, in the Primary then let it be and I would vote against this amendment and go for the original as we had it. And that's simply a friendly suggestion though. RAY: hand. Further discussion? All in favor of the amendment, raise your right HANDS RAISED: Commissioners Herkes, Irvine, Kurozawa. RAY: Opposed? HANDS RAISED: Commissioners Alonzo, Bess, Higashi, Ray, Santangelo, Yoshiyama. RAY: Okay, the amendment fails to carry. We're at the main motion in regard to a non-partisan election as we had originally voted on, and I think everybody •. understands that. Yes sir, you'd like to speak to the main motion? YOSHIYAMA: No, I want to make an amendment. I'd like to propose an amendment that we delete our proposed Section (e) relating to at -large Council election. IRVINE: Second. RAY: All in favor of that amendment, raise your right hand. HANDS RAISED: All Commissioners. SANTANGELO: I'd like to speak to the main motion, just real quick. As a Republican, I've had my Party beat me to death on not supporting non-partisan, and frankly, that's probably why I am supporting it. Having served this County, and along with you, John, as a Republican, I felt like that had very little to do with what I was as an elected official. I felt like once you're elected, you are there to serve all the people: Whether they voted or not; whether they're registered or not; whether they're male, female, child or adult; on a County level. On a State and a Federal level, you're dealing in some very different territory that's really working in our lives on a different level, but County, or the services, it's a different type of quality of life, and I firmly believe that 30