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The 5th Seat. Part 1 - Basic Information

There are 12 people asking to be appointed to the seat vacated when Peter Herzog resigned from the City Council. The following articles will compare and contrast each of the applicants on the answers to the candidate questionnaires, as well as looking at some of the data gleaned from their resumes.

In Part 1 we look at the data about demographics and participation in city-oriented activities. In some cases the data has been organized in an ordinal fashion since the data lends itself to that type of analysis. In other cases it’s merely listed alphabetically. Attempts have been made to organize the answers when “too many” is being compared to “far too many”. Bear in mind all the data offered here is self-report and there has been no attempt to verify the information.

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·       Terri Lynn Graham – 36 years

·       Marcia Rudolph – 34 years

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·       Steven Carlson – 33 years

·       Terry Anderson – 31 years

·       James Richert – 26 years

·       Trevor Sullivan – 22 years

·       David Bass – 20 years

·       Anna Antoniou – 11 years

·       Jim Gardner – 10 years

·       Jowanna Cannon – 9+ years

·       Andrew Hamilton – 7 years

·       Hugh Everhart – 6 years

Graduate of Lake Forest Leadership Academy?

·       Anna Antoniou – Yes

·       Jim Gardner – Yes

·       Terri Lynn Graham – Yes

·       James Richert – Yes

·       Marcia Rudolph – Yes

·       Terry Anderson –No

·       Trevor Sullivan – No

·       Hugh Everhart – No

·       Steven Carlson – No

·       Jowanna Cannon – No

·       David Bass – No

·       Andrew Hamilton – No

Number of City Council or Commission Meetings Attended

·       Jim Gardner – “100% of the council and commission meetings, either in person or via the Internet”

·       Marcia Rudolph – “all council”

·       Terry Anderson – “about 35”

·       Andrew Hamilton – 20

·       Terri Lynn Graham – “far too many to count”

·       James Richert – 10

·       Anna Antoniou – “3 or 4”

·       Trevor Sullivan – 0

·       Hugh Everhart – 0

·       Steven Carlson – 0

·       Jowanna Cannon – 0

·       David Bass - No

Number of City sponsored workshops or seminars attended?

·       Terry Anderson –“too many to enumerate”

·       Terri Lynn Graham – “many”

·       Jim Gardner – 9

·       Marcia Rudolph – 5+

·       Andrew Hamilton – 2

·       James Richert – 1

·       Anna Antoniou – 0

·       Trevor Sullivan – 0

·       Hugh Everhart – 0

·       Steven Carlson – 0

·       Jowanna Cannon – 0

·       David Bass - No

Number of Grand Openings attended?

·       Anna Antoniou – “too many to list”

·       Terri Lynn Graham – “far too many Grand openings to enumerate”

·       Terry Anderson –“most chamber ribbon cuttings”

·       Andrew Hamilton – 3

·       Jowanna Cannon – 2

·       Marcia Rudolph – 0

·       Trevor Sullivan – 0

·       Hugh Everhart - 0

·       Steven Carlson – 0

·       David Bass - 0

·       Jim Gardner – 0

·       James Richert – 0

Relationship with Current Council Members

·       Marcia Rudolph – “Kathryn McCullough is my best friend…” “I endorsed Kathryn McCullough”

·       Trevor Sullivan – “friends with Mayor Voigts and Councilman Robinson…”

·       Andrew Hamilton – “business relationships…” “I publicaly supported, campaigned and donated to many of the recent candidates for city council.”

·       Hugh Everhart – None

·       Terri Lynn Graham – None

·       Steven Carlson – None

·       Jowanna Cannon – None

·       David Bass - None

·       Anna Antoniou – None

·       Terry Anderson –“all arms length relationships with current members”

·       James Richert – None

·       Jim Gardner - None

Occupation

·       Anna Antoniou – Real estate agent

·       Terry Anderson – Stock Broker/Financial Planner

·       David Bass – Consultant (Former Finance Director Bell Gardens)

·       Jowanna Cannon – Underwriter

·       Steven Carlson – Computer networking (retired Marine)

·       Hugh Everhart – Real estate appraiser

·       Jim Gardner – Clinical Psychologist (retired), Management Consultant

·       Terri Lynn Graham – Lake Forest business owner

·       Andrew Hamilton – CPA, Consultant

·       James Richert – Consultant

·       Marcia Rudolph – Teacher (retired)

·       Trevor Sullivan –  student at Chapman University

Education

·       Jim Gardner – Ph.D. (Ohio State University) 1972

·       Terry Anderson – MBA-FP (California Lutheran University) 2009

·       David Bass MPA (Brigham Young) 1978

·       Hugh Everhart – MBA (Pepperdine) 2002

·       Steven Carlson – MA (Naval War College) 1985

·       Terri Lynn Graham – BA (Political Science), MS in Kinesiology (CSU Fullerton) 1998

·       Jowanna Cannon – BS (CSU Fullerton) 2005

·       Andrew Hamilton – BS (Taylor University) 1992

·       James Richert – BS (California Coast University) 2000

·       Marcia Rudolph – BA (Mt. St. Mary’s College) 1962

·       Trevor Sullivan –  student at Chapman University

·       Anna Antoniou – not listed

Tomorrow we'll crunch some of this data. Wednesday we'll look at what the different candidates want to accomplish, and Thursday we'll look at what they've done to help make the City a better place to live. Friday we'll look at what issues they're most interested in. Saturday we'll try to sum up.

Note - I am one of the 12 people who applied. For that reason I have tried to stick to the data as much as possible and not introduce any editorial comments.

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