For District Clerk, though we genuinely like and respect both candidates, we believe Republican challenger Zenaida Silva will do the better job running that office. The office ran smoothly under her direction when former District Clerk Sandra Clark was out with illness for extended periods in her final years in office. A competent clerk’s office runs invisibly in the background and that’s how the office functioned under Silva’s watch.

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