Save Our Community was founded in the movement to resist Wal-Mart's development in Rosemead, California. Now, it has become a general site for news, information, gossip, talk, and blogging about Rosemead. We also have stories about South San Gabriel, San Gabriel, Montebello, and occasionally about Pico Rivera, El Monte, South El Monte, Alhambra, Temple City, and other nearby communities. Your host is Todd. If you want a blog just sign up, get approved, and start writing. Good posts will be moved onto the home page.
Thanks to Polly and Victor, too!
Yes, they both wore their shoe leather out walking around Rosemead. They should also be proud that they ran a good, clean, very positive campaign. We stuck to the facts and didn't resort to the sort of hysterical distortions that our opponents used.
By the way, looking at the numbers more closely, things were not as bad as the first impression would have you think. Polly got 244 more votes than there were "YES" votes to recall Jay Imperial. That's just an educational problem (clearly, most of those 244 voters wanted Polly in office but did not understand that they also needed to vote YES on the recall part of the ballot for that to happen). In a straight-up election, that's 244 more votes for her. And some folks voted for Jay just because they didn't want him to go out "that way." Pick up even a few hundred of those votes in a regular election and we're within spitting distance of a win.