Sacramento councilman representing Del Paso Heights appears to be sworn in at Granite Bay house
Sean Loloee stood in what appears to be his wife’s $1.4 million Granite Bay estate to raise his right hand to be sworn in to represent Del Paso Heights on the Sacramento City Council — not a friend’s house in East Sacramento, as he previously told The Sacramento Bee.
Loloee does not live in the Hagginwood house where he is registered to vote, The Bee reported Friday.
After he was sworn in, rumors started to swirl that he did not live in the largely low-income North Sacramento district — rumors that now appear to be true.
The house where he was sworn in, streamed online by the city, showed a spacious house with high ceilings and a fireplace. Loloee told The Bee last week that house was a friend’s in the Fabulous 40s neighborhood in East Sacramento.
A real estate listing for his wife’s Granite Bay House on Birch Meadow Court, which The Bee obtained, appears to be the same house where Loloee was sworn in. Photos of the listing, on a Roseville real estate agent’s website, show the same detailed features — the beige fireplace with the same design, dark brown light fixtures built into the wall, and high windows with arches on top.
After The Bee sent Loloee a link to the listing Tuesday, he said the location where he was sworn in is “nobody’s business.”
“I’m telling you my primary residence is in District 2, and that’s all I need to prove,” Loloee said Tuesday.
Alicia Bledsoe, who lives in Del Paso Heights, said it is the public’s business, especially the residents of the disadvantaged neighborhoods he is supposed to represent.
“Once you’re a public figure, a representative of the neighborhood, that becomes everybody’s business,” said Bledsoe, who plans to run against Loloee in 2024. “Everything he does becomes everybody’s business. He’s just mad he got caught. What is the City Council going to do about it? What is the mayor going to do about it?”
The council is meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday; several people have submitted written comments asking the council to take action.
Loloee continues to insist he lives at a house on Nogales Street in the Hagginwood neighborhood, one block from Del Paso Heights, where he has been registered to vote since November 2019, just before filing papers to run for council. When The Bee visited the house last week, a man told The Bee he was renting the house from Loloee with his son. Five neighbors told The Bee they did not know Loloee.
Loloee has voted three times since registering to vote at the Nogales house, including earlier this month.
In California, if a city council member does not reside or have a domicile in the district they represent, the council could vote to declare the seat vacant, and the member would be replaced, or any individual could file a lawsuit, said Fred Woocher, an election law attorney.
A person who votes from a place they don’t live could face criminal charges for perjury and voter fraud, Woocher said. If convicted, the person would lose the council seat.
