Audience members at a city council meeting in East Palo Alto, Calif. on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. The meeting’s agenda included an item to reprimand councilmember Carlos Romero for making insulting comments at previous city council meetings. (Mark Dinan via Bay City News)
EAST PALO ALTO City Councilmember Carlos Romero was reprimanded this week during a rushed special meeting that ended with him being removed from all boards and commissions he was appointed to.
Dozens of East Palo Alto community members filled the City Council chambers, with several speaking for or against an agenda item to “reprimand Councilmember Carlos Romero with sanctions” after he used derogatory language against colleague Webster Lincoln at a regular council meeting last week.
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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.
East Palo Alto councilmember stripped of board appointments over derogatory remark
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EAST PALO ALTO City Councilmember Carlos Romero was reprimanded this week during a rushed special meeting that ended with him being removed from all boards and commissions he was appointed to.
Dozens of East Palo Alto community members filled the City Council chambers, with several speaking for or against an agenda item to “reprimand Councilmember Carlos Romero with sanctions” after he used derogatory language against colleague Webster Lincoln at a regular council meeting last week.
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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.
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