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Council member Shoun Thao has represented District 2 since April, after he was appointed to temporarily fill the seat until the winner of the November election takes office. Thao is serving the remainder of former Council member Sean Loloee’s term.
Loloee resigned in January after pleading not guilty to a 25-count federal indictment related to his Viva Supermarket grocery store businesses. The U.S. Department of Justice identified him as a resident of the Placer County community of Granite Bay, despite the determination in 2022 by a city-ordered independent investigation that he lived in the Sacramento area he represented.
District 2 includes Del Paso Heights, Strawberry Manor, Hagginwood, Old North Sacramento, Woodlake, Ben Ali, and Swanston Estates. As they were in the March primary, boundaries for the northeast corner of the district are slightly shifted compared to the 2020 elections because of redistricting. Most of the area was annexed into the city in the 1960s.
As the representative for District 2, the council member votes on the city’s budget and policies, covering issues from housing development to road improvements to park programs. The member also serves on regional committees on topics like transportation and additionally gets a say in hiring charter officers such as the city manager and city attorney.
Voters in this election will decide who they want to trust to represent them from December 2024 to December 2028. They can choose from two candidates who won the most votes out of a field of nine people who ran in the March primary:
Dickinson, 74, works as the policy director for CivicWell, a nonprofit that supports developing sustainable policies. He served as a state assembly member from 2010 to 2014, and as a Sacramento County Supervisor from 1994 to 2010.
He lives in Woodlake and has called the North Sacramento area home since 1978.
Sacramento City Council District 2 candidate Roger Dickinson.Courtesy of Roger Dickinson
Stephen Walton
Walton, 43, works as a real estate agent and hasn’t held public elected office before. He grew up in Del Paso Heights and graduated from Grant Union High School.
He lives in Old North Sacramento and has served as a city community ambassador and adviser for the plan to revitalize the Marysville-Del Paso Boulevard corridor.
Sacramento City Council District 2 candidate Stephen Walton.Courtesy of Stephen Walton
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