Before going on, we wanted to acknowledge the historic events of the last 24 hours.
Last night, in a pivotal moment for democracy, a repudiation of the status quo and a stunning rebuke to the incumbent, Ross mayor Julie McMillan lost her reelection bid. The people have spoken, and they delivered a mandate for change: Julie is out and someone named Bob is in.
Who is mayoral frontrunner Bob Herbst?
With Bob Herbst now on the path to power, many questions remain unanswered, the most crucial of which we just asked. Well, Bob Herbst has lived in Ross for 15 years, a good long while. He designed the headquarters of Autodesk, is the president of the Friends of Ross Valley Firehouse and is, according to insiders, a very nice guy.
With sources saying Julie is also a great person, and they look forward to bumping into her at Woodlands, what are the ramifications? One is that we will be pedantically posing rhetorical questions that set up what we want to say next. The other? That this was a referendum on McMillan-ism, which voters have soundly rejected in favor of the Herbst Doctrine. What’s that? We sense that you are tiring of this format. But he is a YIMBY, so there may in fact be some civil friction in Ross’s future.
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