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2007 Elections Bring Some New Faces, Same Faces, and Face Offs |
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
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2007 Elections Bring Some New Faces, Same Faces, and Face Offs
Well, the voters have now finished weighing in on who our local government representatives should be, but not on how they should represent. In Riverside the city council may see three new faces with the addition of Mike Gardner, if he continues his lead over incumbent Dom Betro, once all the absentee ballots are tallied for Ward 1. William Rusty Bailey beat out incumbent Art Gage in Ward 3 with 56.7 percent of the voters seeking change. In the vacant 5th Ward seat Chris MacArthur beat out Donna "Doty" Michalka to become the new face for that ward with 57.7 percent of the votes. Steve Adams was the only incumbent to retain his status but barely by getting only 50.5 percent of the votes over challenger Terry Frizzel a former mayor of the city.  Betty Anderson
 Rikke Van Johnson  Gerald Bean
 Ben Johnson II  Wendy McCammack
Jim Penman, the city attorney, held off challenger Marianne Milligan with 52.1 percent of the vote. Even though he won, the votes signal a dissatisfaction with some of his strategies and approach to assisting the mayor and council in doing city business. Even the Sun Newspaper, who endorsed him, has cautioned Mr. Penman to temper his approach to working with the other entities of city government. We hope he heeds their advice in the next four years.
 Rachel Clark  Virniecia Green Davis
 Jim Penman
Ben Johnson, II was reelected to the Alvord School Board and so was Virniecia Green Davis to the Perris Elementary Board of Education.
Jerry Bean became a new face to the Redlands City Council along with returning council member Pete Aguilar.
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