DENISE DE DE DECENTY STERNBERG and SALLY MC GUIRE have joined WALT STANCKIEWITZ, AND DOUG WILSON in a bid for the single seat of Mayor.
These new names are new to many people. The blog will post their public statements and the public assessment of their qualities and qualifications to be considered for the Mayor of Grand Terrace.
In past years third and fourth candidates were encouraged to run in order to dilute the votes resulting in the incumbent having a perpetual advantage. Lets hope all candidates have good intentions and have not been encouraged to run as a spoiler.
DENISE STERNBERG:
Lives on Michigan St in Grand Terrace. Related to Phylis Sternberg who owns Grand Terrace Real Estate. She ran for office and was on the States 2008 Official Write in Candidates List for the office of STATE SENATOR DISTRICT 31
DENISE M. STERNBERG
12215 MICHIGAN ST
GRAND TERRACE, CA 92313
(909) 824-8380 (Business)
(909) 247-5616 (Residence)
Denise Sternberg, Dee Dee Sternberg
In that election she received 5 votes from the entire Senate District 31. She ran as an Independent.
The Press Enterprise covers the election choices for Grand Terrace this way:
"Grand Terrace Mayor Maryetta Ferre is not running for re-election. Vying for her seat are real estate saleswoman Denise DeCenty-Sternberg, businesswoman Sally McGuire, Councilman Walt Stanckiewitz and business consultant Doug Wilson.
Incumbent Councilwoman Bea Cortes is seeking re-election to a four-year term, opposed by businessman Richard Loder, Bernardino Sandoval and Thomas Schwab, who was Grand Terrace's city manager from 1989 until he took a medical retirement last year.
Planning Commissioner Darcy McNaboe is running against retired budget analyst Sylvia Robles in a bid to fill the remaining two years in the term of former Councilman Jim Miller. Miller resigned and has since pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in connection with payments for advertising he voted to approve to his wife's weekly newspaper. "
http://www.pe.com/localnews/politics/stories/PE_News_Local_D_nelect13.30b8098.html
In 2004 on July 31, Morris Sternberg, 75, of the San Bernardino town of Grand Terrace, died in Redlands from West Nile Virus. There was standing water in a drainage ditch behind their home which may have been the host for the virus carrying mosquito.
Denise Sternberg Should Not Be GT's Mayor
Denise "DE DE" Sternberg may be an alright lady. However what we do not need on the Grand Terrace City Council is any Real Estate Sales Person or a Person Related to a Real Estate Office Owner who does business in Grand Terrace. Can you say Appearance of Pending Conflict of Interest? The citizens certainly would not expect Denise to stop her professional employment, but neither should she expect the citizens to elect a City Council Member who will have to abstain from nearly every development related decision brought to the City Council. Grand Terrace should avoid electing a person who will be put into a potential conflict of interest nearly every city council meeting.
Sally McGuire not ready for Mayor's Role:
Sally McGuire, Grand Terrace Area Chamber of Commerce President. Sally McGuire, president of Helping Hands Companion Care, a Grand Terrace firm that provides care for senior citizens. The results of Sally's Goggle ends there.
As the President of the Chamber of Commerce she has been at City Council Meetings to make presentations of the Business of the Month. The use of Council time for these kind of presentations always are an annoyance to many citizens. The time used for non council distractions could be use to allow citizens to address the council for longer than 3 minutes. The city Attorney and Staff run up billable or charged hours in order to provide a stage and audience for these presentations.
Exiting Mayor Ferre and Schwab/Berry are the individuals most responsible for the dog and pony shows being on the City Council Agenda. However, responsible organizations and citizens should focus the use of the Council's Time for actual Council Business. Sally McGuire has not shown an inclination toward this line of thinking. Nor has she expressed any type of an option or concern to the City Council during the past years of the Schwab/Berry Administration.
Schwab and Berry claimed they were "Close" to the Chamber of Commerce, so now we have to be cautious of Chamber Leadership being Schwab's Dupe. Sorry Sally, if you want to be a serious City Council Member or the Mayor perhaps you should not Leap from the Chamber of Commerce Leadership to the City Council or Mayor quite so fast. Grand Terrace is more than the Chamber of Commerce. Part of the problem we have in GT is that the City Council has been to related to the Chamber of Commerce Members and Leaders leaving the Citizens without a champion.
