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Councilman-Elect George Ray.
Voters in Cerritos on Tuesday reelected incumbent councilwoman Carol Chen and businessman George Ray to the city council in one of the most heated campaign’s in recent local memory.
Challenger Frank Aurelio Yokoyama, a member of the Planning Commission can in third place.
Here are the unofficial results.
Carol Chen 3438
George Ray 3316
Frank Aurelio Yokoyama 2623
James Kang 1096
K.Y. Ma 953
Alejandro Estella 613
Gerad Valencia 203
Wednesday, March 06, 2013. RE: Carol and George. Race was won by Republican Slate. Doesn’t appear the unions influenced the race results. Voters did not head to the polls as strong compared to other years, as there were no strong candidates vying. Carol and George did not receive as many supporting votes compared to other yrs. Prior elections, Democrats received higher turnouts in the ballots and more support during the election tallying eve in Chambers. LCCN needs to chart our city’s election results over the past 50 + years, as graphs speak truth. More surprising, female voters failed to strongly… Read more »
Wednesday, March 06, 2013. Carol, George, Mark, Bruce & Joe. Since 3 of you are hot off the campaign trail 2013; please address the concerns you have heard from 90703 residents. First CCC March meeting must include: 1. APPOINTEES: Select community members which have resume of experience and stop selecting friends, money donors who are brain dead on the subject. Staffs time is valuable and should not have to be your free educators to the appointees being resurrected from pool of dunces. 2. BREACHED: PUBLIC- WORKS: http://cerritospublicworks.blogspot.com/ Demand a city wide audit of all the breached PW here & yonder,… Read more »
Yes McMahon, the voters spoke loud … by re-electing Carol Chen and rejecting Brian Hews’ agenda.
Disagree w/ your calculation. Decades ago, with smaller population for 90703, winning candidate would take 20%-40% of the votes. Today’s 90703 population around 42,000; each winning candidate took <10% of votes. Even election in 2011, winners took substantially more votes then either Carol or George. Lack of diversity is not being worn in Cerritos. Sacramento reduced its subsidization ABC ; as Cerritos has failed to produce equal parts to diversity. Last decade, Cerritos has lost aprox 6,000-8,000 residents, even though additional housing elements were constructed. Yeeeess, Carol and George were the winners, but the numbers were substantially down. …… Wednesday,… Read more »
Mr retsofsirhc:
Spoke loud? 3,400 votes? I seem to rememeber Pulido getting over 5,000, and George Ray almost beat her who the newspaper endorsed. Its her demographic that voted for her of which you are a part of.
So enjoy reading how she eats $100 meals on your dime retso.
RE retsofsirhc
Loud and Clear? More like a whimper.
Chen owes her victory to VBM ballots.
VBM ballots are most always suspect. Too often one family member controls all the ballots. One individual in a household filling out a VBM ballot for a spouse, elderly parents, children away at school, etc.
VBM cast by property owners not living in the city, state or country. Double voting, both VBM and in person.
Be very cautious before declaring a loud and clear victory.
Now that the election is over, what are the winners going to do to make information on the financial performance of the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts available to the citizens of this city?
It’s our city. Don’t we have a right to know, clearly and concisely, about what is happening financially at the CCPA and what has been happening there for 20 years?
If you can read a budget you can have your answer
Wednesday, March 06, 2013. Like to have the public receipt for flowers which were presented to Carol after election, viewed on Chan 3?? Our grass meridian strips can not be fertilized, but city has $$$ for flowers and CCC Inauguration transition showdown next week. How much gasoline money will be used for this Mayor Transition, when we can not get our trees trimmed and SHOEMAKER GORE WATERFALL landscape is on life supports. http://cerritospublicworks.blogspot.com/ Mail- In Ballots: If Carol received more mail in ballots, compared to live ballot polling; poss. of obtaining many proxy voters registered to one Cerritos physical address,… Read more »
Mr. McMahon….so much anger if you are so upset about the way the city is run, why don’t you run for office yourself? After all with all the opinions you express in this paper it could almost be a platform for you to run on….oh wait it is much easier to sit back and criticize…then to work to try to improve our city..the voters have spoken..for those who complain about a low voter turn out that is the choice of the residents so maybe they don’t see a need for change all cities have a low turnout for elections unless… Read more »
Friday, March 08, 2013. JS. Too old to hold office. As of today, there are no winners, as the Provisional ballots are being weighted in per city clerk. In past, under dogs could be the top winner. Call winners when the election is certified & or investigated by DA Office for fraud AV ballots. Volunteered for countless of issues in our rich history. Not a brag, compared to you! We are not voting for candidates, but slates; as council are not free to vote and have to abstain from voting on many issues and resolutions. Our elected are more in… Read more »
At least you are consistent. Maybe 30 years you’ve been complaining? Look around and see what Cerritos has accomplished compared to other cities that have no distinguishable attributes like waterfront property, mountains, vistas, etc etc. compare it to surrounding cities. Why did you pick it as a place to reside? George and Carol will both do a great job.
When a US citizen criticizes his/her government they are exercising their constitutional right.
When a citizen criticizes questionable government practices and policies in public they are taking a stand to preserve freedom for all.
When a FREE citizen sits quite and accepts the statues quo they do nothing more but hinder Freedom and carry the torch of an unjust government toward Natizsm, Fascism, Socialism and Communism.
We need more Jim McMahons and fewer Jim Edwards and Jim Smiths.