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By
Randy Economy
Reporter
Los Cerritos Community News
Friday, September 30, 2011
12:32 p.m.
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Arroyo is campaigning hard for a seat on the Hawaiian Gardens City Council, yet
official voting records indicate he has never voted in a past Hawaiian Gardens
city council election, Los Cerritos Community News has learned.
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first time candidate in the upcoming November 8th Hawaiian Gardens
City Council election changed his voter registration just days before filing to
become an official candidate in the campaign.
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to documents obtained from Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters Office, Los
Cerritos Community News has confirmed that the 46-year-old Arroyo changed his
voter registered status on July 8, 2011 and indicated a “change of address” to
a residence located at the 21000 block of Claretta Avenue.
Additional
certified records obtained by Los Cerritos Community News from County Registrar
Dean Logan also confirms that Arroyo has only voted in one recent previous
election, that being the November 8, 2008 Presidential election.
In
an interview with LCCN Publisher Brian Hews, Editor Jerry Bernstein and
Reporter Randy Economy on Monday, Arroyo said he has lived in Hawaiian Gardens
for the past “five and a half months,” but that he had registered to vote in
the one square mile city two years earlier, and that he recently moved “from
one part of Hawaiian Gardens into another part” of the city.
Arroyo
is the second candidate to have their residency called into question within the
past two weeks. Previously it was
discovered by LCCN that council hopeful Kathy Trimble moved into the one square
mile community and registered to vote on June 1st of this year from
a location in Long Beach.
Registrar
Logan also confirmed that Trimble has participated in past elections as a voter
during 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, and 2008 and in the 2010 General Election. Her voting record does not show her taking
part in a Hawaiian Gardens City Council election during the past 12 years.
Trimble
has refused comment over the situation, and repeated calls to her by Los
Cerritos Community News have gone unreturned.
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| Arroyo at this weeks Hawaiian Gardens City Council Meeting |
He
also said that his residency in Hawaiian Gardens should not be a detractor in
his current campaign effort. Arroyo also
said he wants to “bring down” the walls of communications between city council members
and administrators.”
According
to filings with the California Secretary of State’s office, Arroyo and his campaign
treasurer Cecy Groom, a former member of the ABC Unified School District Board
of Education, were issued an official campaign committee identification number
that lists a location on the same 21900 block of Claretta Avenue as the primary
location of the campaign committee called “Arroyo for City Council 2011. Vote
to Clean Up City Hall.”
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