Cartoon Council Race

Vote for No More than Two

Sometimes watching the Claremont City Council, its operations and its elections, is more entertaining than sitting down and reading the Sunday funny papers. For awhile, serious people thought there might not even be a race this year, with only two "serious" candidates--Corey Calaycay and Bridget Healy--getting much mention. We won't review the potential candidates; we did that here.

However, when the dust settled, when the filing deadline of 5:00 p.m. yesterday passed, there were three candidates standing: Calaycay, Healy, and dark horse Larry Schroeder.

So, friends, we are going to have an election in Claremont on March 3rd, 2009.

Since races in Claremont are almost never about issues, and more about who you know, and who thinks your're pretty, here are the three candidates--cartoonized--along with those who signed their nominating papers (note: we take the candidates alphabetically so as not to show any favoritsm. The order would be the same even if we used "Carpetbagger" instead of "Bridget Healy"):

Corey Calaycay

Nominators: Phil Andersen, Tom Andersen, Bernie Bernstein, Les Boring, Gwen Carr, Markus Dowd, Dick Hall, T. Willard Hunter, Susan Keith, Julie Lannom, Martin Lomelli, Jack Mills, Ivan Misner, Sam Mowbray, Opanyi Nasiali, Jean Platt, Joseph Platt, John Serpa, Beverly Speak, Jack Stark, Paul Steffen, Tracey Stoll, Sonja Stump, Jess Swick, Doug Thompson, Suzanne Thompson, Chris Ulrich, Msr. Tom Welbers, Paul Wheeler, Davetta Williams

Bridget Healy

Nominators: Tom Babineau, Sharon Bentley, Laura Bollinger, Gwen Carr, Ezekiel Chavez, Cecilia Conrad, Sara Domonoske, Krista Elhai, Anne Ellwanger, Carolina Garcia, Suzanne Hall, Kay Held, Rosemary Henderson, Brenda Barham Hill, Frank Hungerford, Mona Sparks Johnson, Susan Keith, Bernadette Kendall, Sue Likens, John Najarian, Muriel O'Brien, Joan Presecan, Nicholas Quackenbos, Micheal Shea, Gary Soto, Janet Vandevender, Mary Weis.

Larry Schroeder

Nominators: Suzanne Beaumaster, Theresa Cervantes, Alane Daugherty, Yvonne Davis, Eileen Goor, Mark Goor, Aileen Gordien, Joli Gordien, Duane Keith, Chuck Leeb, Morgan Leeb, Storme Leeb, Deanna Lindley, Heather Lindley, James Lindley, Modesta Lindley, Richard Lindley, Suzann Lindley, Anthony McCartney, Cynthia McGuire, Thomas McGuire, Christine Meek, Jack Meek, Beverly Mohl, Megan Pulham,David Riggs, John Roseman, Lynn Stanton, Erik von Wodtke, Glenda Walther.