On Sunday we wrote about the Goddess of Pomona's finding a gem of a photo showing Pomona Mayor Norma Torres standing proudly in front of a weed-encrusted concrete median on a highway in Pomona.
The photo had been uploaded to Flickr by the Norma Torres' State Assembly campaign. Now we find it's been pretty quickly offloaded from Torres' online collection of campaign photos. As you can see from the image on the left, Goddess of Pomona's original April 24th post has a blank spot where the linked-in Torres image was, along with a message courtesy of Flickr that says, "This image is currently unavailable."
Torres must have been understandably embarrassed by the photo, which really isn't the best advertisement for Torres' accomplishments as Pomona's mayor. Looking at the photo, one might come to the conclusion that Torres' legacy to her city is one of neglect and that her outsized political ambition has completely blinded her to the reality of that neglect.
We thought the image, with Torres standing proudly in front of her weeds, was a perfect emblem of Torres' inanity. It's a shame her campaign had to banish it from the Internet because we found the truth in advertising remarkably refreshing. Fortunately, the ever-packratty Insider staff has preserved the photo for all eternity - or at least what passes for it on the Web.
If only Norma could erase her political legacy of Three Valleys Municipal Water District board member Xavier Alvarez as easily as deleting her photo, she might have our vote. Unfortunately, it's very clear, our lout is here to stay.
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