Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Election Results In!

It looks like we have four new board members for the Pomona Unified School District. And if you don't think your vote counts, realize that some of these races were VERY close.

From the Daily Bulletin web site, with 100% of the precincts reporting, here are the results:

POMONA UNIFIED SCHOOL - GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER 


ANDREW S WONG

3,014
20
ROBERTA A PERLMAN

2,897
19.22
ADRIENNE K MACKLIN

2,309
15.32
JOHN J AVILA

2,186
14.5
FRANK C GUZMAN

1,914
12.7
HANK MOLLET

1,768
11.73
ROBERT S TORRES

985
6.53

Registration
59,473
Precincts Reporting
39
Total Precincts
39
% Precincts Reporting
100

For the one-year seat, it was:

POMONA UNIFIED SCHOOL - GBM TERM ENDS 12/11


Candidate

Votes
Percent
JASON A ROTHMAN

2,113
36.16
STEVE LUSTRO

1,984
33.96
NANCY A MATARRITA

1,746
29.88

Registration
59,473
Precincts Reporting
39
Total Precincts
39
% Precincts Reporting
100


Noting that there are 59,473 registered voters in the school district (different than the city), that means that there was a 9.25% turnout of voting (5843 votes cast).

So, do we see any trends? I note that with Jason Rothman's election that he only beat incumbent Steve Lustro by 129 votes. I, personally, would tend to attribute that to the strong effort made by the teacher's union on his behalf.  However, taking into consideration Wong's strong showing, I might also conclude that it might have been a strong indication of voting from South Pomona (Phillips Ranch) and Diamond Bar areas of the district.

The poor showing by Robert Torres, despite a strong push by Assemblywoman Norma Torres via robocalls and a lot of signage, might indicate that there was apathy in North Pomona, and that not getting the teachers' endorsement hurt as well.

But how influential were the teachers? Only two of the people that they endorsed (Rothman and Pearlman) won, while their arch nemesis, Wong, won handily.

Oh, and if you're interested, the Mt. Sac Board race was:

MT SAN ANTONIO COMM COLL - GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER


Candidate

Votes
Percent
JUDY CHEN HAGGERTY

26,403
42.34
DAVID K HALL

24,538
39.35
JOHN MENDOZA

11,419
18.31

Registration
340,701
Precincts Reporting
245
Total Precincts
245
% Precincts Reporting
100

So Water Board Commissioner, and perennial candidate for Mt. Sac Board, John Mendoza was once again rejected.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

One wonders how long Robert Torres will stay on the board of the V.P.D.
It's not the political career jump starter Norma must have thought it was.

Skrip said...

Thanks for the quick update!

Pride in Garfield Park said...

Disappointed Mollet didn't win. Hope he'll be willing to serve our fair city in other ways in the future.

Anonymous said...

I agree Pride.... I think the district has missed out by not having Hank Mollet elected to the board.
He seemed like a great candidate and recieved my vote.
Mark

Anonymous said...

Yeah...it's too bad hank didn't make it. I really liked the guy.

Pomona Diva said...

I agree, Hank was a choice of mine and I liked things that he had to say. Can't say much more about my disappointment in some of the results...I still have a house to rebuild in this town.

ciao

Hank Mollet said...

Thanks for your continued support.

I am considering running again in two years. Hopefully, I have learned enough in this campaign to run a more effective one then.

Anonymous said...

Wow, 985 people voted for Robert Torres....

Maybe his classmates in elementary school? ;-)