Fremont Mayor Lily Mei is the first person to be deemed anti-LGBTQIA+ under a recent bylaws change adopted by the Democratic Party in Alameda County.
It means she will no longer be eligible to be endorsed by it, nor will anyone who personally endorses her going forward. That could mean local officials who are endorsing Mei's 2022 bid to succeed Senator Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont), who will be termed out of his 10th Senate District seat, will be deemed ineligible to be endorsed by the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee in their next campaigns, like Fremont City Councilmen Rick Jones and Raj Salwan.
It could also cause problems for Congressman Ro Khanna (D-San Jose), who is among Mei's endorsers and was one of three central committee