Janessa Goldbeck | Candidate for San Diego County Board of Supervisors District 4

Four candidates are competing for San Diegan's votes in a special election on August 15 for the vacant District 4 seat on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.

Former supervisor Nathan Fletcher resigned from his seat on the board on May 15th, following accusations of sexual harassment from a former Metropolitan Transit System.

In alphabetical order by last name, the four candidates are: Janessa Goldbeck, Paul McQuigg, Monica Montgomery Steppe, and Amy Reichert.

We gave each candidate two (2) minutes to answer each of the following three questions:

1. Rent is expensive, mortgages are high. A recent study found nearly 60% of homes in San Diego are selling for more than $1 million. Some people are choosing to leave or ending up on the streets. What can you do to help fix that as a supervisor?

2. We ask our elected officials all types of questions and demand all kinds of things-- what do you think is the purpose of a County Board of Supervisors?

3. You've spent time and effort putting together a campaign as you run for this seat, but what do you want voters to know that they won't find on your campaign website or by Googling you?

At the end of their answers to each question, any time left on the clock was open for the candidate to use as they liked. We also gave each one two (2) minutes at the end to address voters freely.

[Denise_Larson]

She is great, smart, very articulate. We need new people in govt.

[mrsteveinsandiego]

Affordable: let the city planners and developers decide whom to build for.

[silentmajority]

A little Dutch boy would be confused where to put his finger if he were in a room of Democrats

[dp]

I will work for a candidate who will do their part to solve this homelessness issue. We need affordable housing YES but we can't let people be on the streets like this. Our streets have been disgustingly dirty and unsafe. We should not accept this as reality we all deserve better.

[Earthling]

Build new affordable housing on all the golf courses in San Diego that would help.

[mrsteveinsandiego]

Affordable: let the city planners and developers decide whom to build for.