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Former State Senator Christine Kehoe Will Not Run For San Diego Mayor

By Alison St John / Reporter

Published August 26, 2013 at 10:11 AM PDT

This story was published more than 11 years ago.

Former Democratic State Senator, Christine Kehoe said she is not going to run for mayor.

Kehoe’s name has come as a possible candidate to run for the seat that will become vacant at the end of this week, when Bob Filner’s resignation becomes official.

Kehoe was a San Diego city council member in the 1990s and served four years in the California Assembly, eight years in the Senate.

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There was speculation she might run since she was termed out of office in 2012. Toni Atkins, another potential democratic mayoral candidate who has declined the opportunity, would have had to abandon her role in the California State Assembly mid-term.

Kehoe said she is enjoying her current job as Executive Director of the California Plug-In vehicle Collaborative, which promotes the availability of all-electric cars.

After considering the option of throwing her hat in the ring for the San Diego mayor's seat, she has decided not to run.

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Alison St John currently serves as a general assignment reporter and occasionally co-hosts KPBS Midday Edition. She fell in love with KPBS Radio when she arrived in San Diego in 1985 and first heard NPR. She has been a voice on KPBS Radio since 1989, and has served as a news reporter for radio, TV and the web, as well as anchoring, hosting, producing and editing. Alison has reported on stories about North County and was based in the KPBS' North County Bureau. Alison covered the metro beat during the critical period of the San Diego City pension crisis, and the education beat while Alan Bersin was the controversial Superintendent of San Diego City School District. She covered health when the industry was converting to managed care and told welfare reform stories in the late 1990s when Clinton was “ending welfare as we know it.” She has covered land use issues extensively, looking at the challenges of meeting a growing population while preserving community character, and developing a better transportation system to meet environmental concerns. She has done many stories on the military in San Diego, and the series she edited on the challenges veterans face returning from active duty to civilian life won “Best of Show” from the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists. She occasionally hosts the KPBS Roundtable and KPBS Midday Edition. Alison has won awards from the San Diego Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press TV and Radio Association, and the California Golden Mike Awards. Alison was born in Tanzania, brought up in Scotland, and earned her degree in psychology and sociology from Durham University in England. Her postgraduate diploma is in student counseling. She worked in England, Nigeria, Switzerland, Belgium, India, and Japan before moving to the United States in 1981. She now lives in Oceanside and enjoys how her community is growing and changing.