Pomona is one of the largest cities in Los Angeles County. It seems to always be in the Democratic column come election time. However, the Mayor’s office has been held by Republicans most recently Eddie Cortez. He passed away last year and a special election was held to replace him. Three Republican council members jumped in.
All of them were beat by the heavily union backed Norma Torres. We are talking more mail and IE’s for Norma than the other candidates combined. One Rep councilman, George Hunter who came in second was supported by the Pomona police unions.
She won by about 250 votes, according to the City Clerk employee I just talked to. Results MAY be posted on the web by now at the city web site. Memo to city officials—get your act together and post election results on the web!
On interesting thing is that former Pomona City Councilwoman and State Senator publicly supported Republican Dan Rodriguez. Norma Torres was going to run against Soto for the Assembly seat she now seeks. See the rest of the background from an earlier blog here.
Now Blue State Pomona is in the hands of a Blue State kind of Mayor