Jerome Pudwill News Today

This irritating prolonging of the tiresome election process. . .why does Georgia have to have a run-off! 

Mayor Sue Kempf, as well as first-time City Council hopefuls Alex Rounaghi and Mark Orgill, lead a group of seven candidates vying for three seats on the Laguna Beach City Council. Incumbent Peter Blake appears to have been turned out by voters.

Polls closed officially across the state at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Preliminary results were released shortly thereafter, but the true results may not be available for days.

Laguna Beach has seven candidates vying for three open seats open on the Laguna Beach City Council. The Laguna Beach Independent created seven questions for the candidates to answer in 150 words or less. Election Day is Nov. 8.  

Election day is almost here. I am confident that before voting, Laguna Beach residents will do their due diligence by carefully examining our two incumbent's overall representation, conduct and voting records and will vet the professional experience and personal qualities of five new candidates as well as take the time to understand the facts on three ballot measures presented to us.

Seven candidates vying for three open seats on the Laguna Beach City Council answered questionnaires, providing insight into themselves and their priorities should they be elected.

Daily Pilot and TimesOC readers share their thoughts about local issues and events, including upcoming local elections.

The recent City Council candidate forums have been quite revealing. Although many Laguna Beach residents support Measure Q, only two candidates, Jerome Pudwill and Ruben Flores, stated their support for it.

Here are my guesses about our coming elections, Laguna Beach Edition.Council Member Toni Iseman will not win because she is not running again. Otherwise, she probably would win because incumbents almost always win because of high name recognition. Given that, she has been in office since Clinton was President, which is a long time to make a lot of enemies, which she did, who would have attacked her. No matter. She isn’t running.

Jerome Pudwill declared his intention to run for one of three open Laguna Beach City Council seats in November just five weeks ago, relatively late to throw his hat into the ring. Still, the 35-year resident said he felt it essential to step up and represent the Laguna Beach locals.