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Voice of the People: Carolina Padilla to Fill the Position of City Clerk

By Ronald H. Lawrence
Colton Resident
07/23/2014 at 12:57 PM

On July 15 the Colton City Council, in a vote of 5 to 2, selected Carolina Padilla to fill the position of City Clerk. The position was vacated when Eileen Gomez moved to Laguna Nagel for a much deserved position after doing a great job for Colton. Does not the city council remember how the citizens of Colton voted Ms. Padilla out of office in 2008? Perhaps she lost because of a newspaper photo of her playing solitaire on her laptop during a city council meeting. Again, Ms. Padilla lost an attempt to regain her seat in the 2012 election when her opponent got a resounding 72.17% of the vote. These two elections showed that the people of Colton did not want Ms. Padilla as City Clerk. It appears that the majority of the city council did not respect the wishes of the citizens of Colton as shown in the last two elections. They seem to forget that its “We the People…”, not we the council, who by the way work for the citizens of Colton.

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