Judge Agrees on Calling a Mayor a Mayor

Call Her Mayor: Assemblyman Richard L. Mountjoy (R-Monrovia) says he doesn’t care how his Democratic challenger bills herself on the Nov. 6 election ballot. South Pasadena Mayor Evelyn Fierro can declare herself “queen of the prom,” for all he cares, Mountjoy said.

Maybe so. But some of Mountjoy’s fellow Republicans kicked up a big fuss when Fierro wanted her ballot designation to read “mayor/independent businesswoman.”

Three Arcadia Republicans, with the backing of the state Republican Party, filed a lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court to force Secretary of State March Fong Eu to change Fierro’s ballot designation, claiming that she could not call herself mayor because she was chosen for that post by fellow council members, not elected by voters. A judge on Friday rejected that argument, so mayor she will remain.

Mountjoy, emphasizing he was not personally involved in the suit, said his fellow Republicans were not trying to damage Fierro, but rather attempting to clarify the ballot-designation rules. And he said he does not need help in a district that is 51% Republican.

But Fierro insisted that Mountjoy was behind the lawsuit: “His fingerprints are all over it. He’s acting rather desperate.”

United They Stand?: Pasadena politicos have established not one, but two Pasadena Democratic party headquarters.

The Democratic Club of the Pasadena Foothills, at 584 N. Lake Ave., will be headed by City Director Rick Cole, who said his job as campaign director will be to organize volunteers for a “good, strong, Democratic, get-out-the-vote effort.”

Meanwhile, the United Democratic Headquarters, a few blocks away at 100 N. Lake Ave., is co-chaired by City Director Chris Holden and will hold a grand opening, 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday to be attended by former Gov. Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown Jr.

“The differences are not ideological; the difference is over the size and scope of the operation,” United member Judy Boggs said.

Love Boat Connection: Actor-director Ted Lange, best-known for his role as Isaac on the “Love Boat” television show, will play host to a $100-a-head screening of his film version of “Othello” at 6 p.m. Sept. 22, at the Shilo Inn in Pomona to raise money for the campaign of Democrat Georgia Houston Webb against Rep. David Dreier (R-La Verne).