Alameda City Councilmember · Candidate for Mayor
Tony Daysogfor Mayor of Alameda
Twenty-two years on this City Council. Three times your Vice Mayor. A West End kid who never left — and now I'm asking for your vote to be Alameda's Mayor.
My promise is simple: a City Hall that actually responds — to rising crime, to bigotry aimed at our neighbors, to the water rising around this island, and to the everyday quality of life on your block.
22
years on this Council
1996–2006, 2012–2016, 2018–2026
3×
made Vice Mayor by his colleagues
1998-2000, 2002-2004, and 2022-2024
1st
Filipino- or Japanese-American to sit on it
elected in 1996, and still its longest-serving member
100%
Perfect attendance over 22 years!
Never missed a Regular Tuesday night Council meeting
What's broken that Mayor Daysog will fix
Four top priorities to make City Hall responsive to you. Period.
These are not value statements. Every one has a plan you can check me against.
- Priority One
Put 88 officers back on the street: end the police hiring freeze
Crime is rising — speeding through neighborhoods — the recent “beach takeovers” — our police force is significantly understaffed because Tony's colleagues have enacted a hiring freeze: Tony will lift the hiring freeze.
Read the plan for Staff the police department - Priority Two
Fight bigotry aimed at our neighbors
I was the first American of Filipino or Japanese descent to sit on this Council. I grew up on the West End among Filipino, Guamanian, Samoan, Cape Verdean, Afghani, Black, Chinese, Latino, White and Jewish neighbors. That is why I will keep fighting bigotry in every form. As Mayor, I will stand with our LGBTQ+ neighbors, our immigrant families, and every faith community in Alameda.
Read the plan for Fight bigotry - Priority Three
Infrastructure and climate change
I will create a new “infrastructure and sea level rise commission” to oversee streets, sidewalks, sewerage infrastructure, and to oversee sea level rise strategies.
Read the plan for Hold back the water - Priority Four
Maintain Quality of Life Through Neighborhood Consensus Planning
This is the most important take-away: as Mayor, I will not sacrifice neighborhood quality of life, most especially when, as in the case of the recent Gibbons drive matter, there are approaches around which concerned neighborhood residents, City Hall staff, and local activists can reach a compromise. I was the only one to vote against the plan that kept the Gibbons left-turn closure alive. We need to keep Gibbons fully open and not move the traffic onto the narrower side streets.
Read the plan for Protect narrow streets