After finishing last in the 2008 City Council race, Fazlur has become active in the Barrack Obama group that tries to spur citizens to rally for the president’s agenda. As part of his work, Khan got to sit in on a conference call with Obama about the health care reform effort.

He said Obama was very passionate.

Now Khan is trying to mobilize. Click where it says to click for details

Winners:

The Oakland A’s: Their main man, Bob Wasserman won for mayor; his main woman, Sue Chan, won for City Council, and the A’s didn’t spend a cent to make it happen.

The Mayor: Wasserman avenges his 1996 loss to Gus Morrison, and picks up another ally on the council. He’s not an arm-twister, but he does have two folks who will be inclined to agree with him most of the time. And, come December, he won’t have give any cross looks in Steve Cho’s direction.

The City Manager: Wasserman and Fred Diaz go back to Tracy together, and they often see things the same way. If Morrison  Cho had won, Diaz might have been updating his resume.

Bob Wieckowski: He’s the top vote-getter for City Council, and now he’s perfectly positioned to head off to Sacramento in two years to take over for Torrico.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Her gal Sue Chan, won and her parents’ picks for Washington Hospital also won. Wonder if she’d give it all away for a Mitt Romney victory in 2012.

For more winners and losers, click where it says to click

Nancy Farber: It was an uglier election fight than usual, but the Washington Hospital CEO still has a loyal board intact. And, this post is probably the last time you’ll hear about the movie “Life For Sale,” at least until Evelyn Li’s medical board hearing next year.

Sue Chan: Community connections trump the Democratic machine. Or at least for what passes in Fremont for a political machine. Spending more than 90k on a council race probably didn’t hurt either.

John Dutra: The former Assemblyman turned political sugar daddy went six for seven. Wasserman, Wieckowski and Chan on the council, Bonaccorsi and Cox on the Ohlone College Board and Gebhardt on the school board. The only miss was Desrie Campbell for school board.

Ohlone College: Bye bye Bob Brunton.

NOT WINNERS, BUT…

Citizens for Better Community: Is it a community service group or a political group? I don’t know, but the predominantly Chinese-American service organization sure does field a lot of candidates. This year it had mixed results. Sue Chan won for council and so did Lily Mei and Ivy Wu for school board. But Steve Cho lost for mayor, and David Sheen got creamed in the Ohlone College race.

Vinnie Bacon: Bacon nearly led the rump of the failed Measure K campaign to a seat the council. And, as the vote now stands, the guy with the talking dog is leading the gal with all the endorsements. Lift a leg for Vinnie.

Trisha Tahmasbi: If she stays in fourth place, Torrico’s trusted assistant is a loser. But if she can squeeze past Vinnie into third place after the provisional ballots are counted, she still could have a shot at getting appointed to the council if/when Wieckowski leaves.

Alberto Torrico: He won re-election to the state Assembly. He’s the most powerful state politician in town, but he isn’t powerful enough to help get relatively inexperienced candidates into elected office. First Sharlene Mansfield in 07, now Trisha Tahmasbi. At least he has a soft spot for underdog women. How about Wynn Grcich in 2010?

Losers

Republicans: There’s still Dave Smith and Scott Haggerty, and probably a few others, but the GOP is becoming MIA around here. The Fremont council now is all Democratic, so is Union City’s. Steve Cho lost, as did Bob Brunton. The hospital board’s Bill Nicholson was the only GOP’er to win in the Tri-City area on Tuesday.

Fremont Hotel Guests: Not only are they staying in Fremont, but when the new hotel tax goes into effect, they’ll be paying a couple more dollars to do it.

A’s haters: Morrison and Bacon were their best chances to deep-six the project. Still more hurdles to climb, though. The big box retailers in Pacific Commons still aren’t on board, and neither is NUMMI.

And now, the first of many:

Other races:

Bryan Gebhardt, Ivy Wu(incumbent) and Lily Mei were elected to the Fremont Unified School District

Kevin Harper(incumbent)  Michelle Matthews and Jonas Dino(incumbent) were elected to the New Haven Unified Board.

Measure UU passed.

Fremont voters actually passed a tax. Measure MM coasted to victory.

Teresa Cox ousted Bob Brunton from the Ohlone College Board, while Greg Bonaccorsi defeated David Sheen in a separate Ohlone race.

The incumbents Pat Danielson and Bill Nicholson were re-elected to the Washington Hospital Board.

Fremont Mayor

Candidate                              Votes                 %
Wasserman                            20,406               42.67             
Cho                                        15,429               32.26
Gus Morrison                         9,875                 20.65
Paul Reeder                            1,953                 4.08

Council

Wieckowski                          22,223                27.67
Chan                                     16,709                20.81
Bacon                                    12,735                15.86
Tahmasbi                              11,773                 14.66
Montgomery                           3,922                4.88
Hou Leong                             3,873                4.82
Susoev                                   2,934                3.65
Bartlett                                   2,256                2.81

Still, as of Friday, Mayor Wasserman had raised more than $111,000 and spent $103,565 on his re-election bid. Meanwhile Steve Cho had raised $103,649 and spent $82,946, and Gus Morrison, who loaned his campaign $25,000, had raised $44,110 and spent $62,562.

Among the top council candidates, Sue Chan, as of Friday had spent $94,919 on her campaign, compared to $79,420 for Wieckowski and $51,380 for Tahmasbi.

Armonio is studying political science at Chabot College. He said he doesn’t expect to win, but he entered the race to gain experience in politics. Ultimately, he wants to become a legislator.

I’ll have a story about Armonio in either tomorrow or Wednesday’s paper. (I’m working on getting a photo of him.)

I don’t mean to give too much attention to Vinnie Bacon, but I’ve always had a thing for talking dogs. I wonder if he/she can also write mean-spirited anonymous blog comments.

Trisha Tahmasbi had to settle for Fabian Nunez’s campaign fund and Bob Wieckowski’s secretary.

Those of you who keep pointing to Chan’s ties to former Assemblyman John Dutra and Tahmasbi’s ties to her boss, current Assemblyman Alberto Torrico, should feel better than I feel with the NY Giants losing to the Browns at halftime.

If your name was Dutra, you were giving to Chan: John, Dominic, Bernadine, Lisa … Shlomo, Moishe — you name it. The Dutras delivered more than $5,000 to Chan.

As for Tahmasbi, she got more than 5k from the political action committees of 11 state legislators. She also got money from Anu Natarajan, Bill Harrison and his wife, and Wiekowski and his girlfriend. Wieckowski’s secretary, Stacey Stevens, gave Tahmasbi $450.

Overall Chan had more contributions and a higher percentage of contributions coming from Fremont residents.

I wrote a story about this for tomorrow’s paper. to read it, click here.

Also, no one should assume that people who say good things about a candidates are in any way part of that candidates campaign.

FYI, It’s looking like The Argus editorial board — those same visionaries who advised you last time around to support a utility tax and make Ray Bilodeau a school board member — won’t be making endorsements this year. What will you do without them?

To read about Trisha, click here.