Overview
- Bruce Giudici, a Valley Springs resident and leading candidate for the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors District 5 seat, fell while door‑knocking and died Monday after being hospitalized for a head injury.
- Giudici finished first in the June primary and had advanced to a November runoff against Clyde Clapp in a race decided by narrow margins.
- The county and state election deadline to remove a deceased candidate passed on Aug. 27, so votes cast for Giudici in the Nov. 3 runoff will be counted.
- Giudici’s campaign said it will continue to press supporters to vote for him and that, if he wins posthumously, state law and county guidance call for the resulting vacancy to be filled by appointment from the governor.
- District 5 covers rural communities including Valley Springs, Milton and Rancho Calaveras, and the loss raises immediate questions about local representation, how the board will handle an incoming vacancy, and who the governor may choose to appoint.