The Region - News from Nov. 8, 1985

Gilbert Avila, a Republican endorsed by Gov. George Deukmejian to replace former Los Angeles City Councilman Arthur K. Snyder in the Eastside council district, suffered a blow to his campaign when his campaign manager resigned. The resignation of Jeff Montgomery came only a week before Avila’s major $100-per-person fund-raiser in Eagle Rock on Nov. 14, which a Deukmejian spokesman said the governor plans to attend. Avila, once the highest-ranking Latino in the Deukmejian Administration, resigned as a special assistant to the governor in July. Montgomery’s departure leaves Avila without a strategist to devise mailers, considered important to alert voters to the special election, called by the City Council to replace Snyder, who resigned. Avila said Montgomery’s resignation grew out of a difference of opinion. “I didn’t want to pay for certain mailers at a certain time,” he said.