‘You simply are the best’: Colleagues salute CoCo Supervisor Mitchoff as she exits board

After decades of county service, Contra Costa County Supervisor Karen Mitchoff chaired her final board meeting Tuesday with tears, laughs and a few parting shots from her regular critics during public comment.

“We’ve been called communists and today we got a new one: domestic terrorist,” Mitchoff said. “I’m keeping a list. It’s the only way you get through some of these comments.”