Pomona’s First Black Council Member Elected
Willie E. White has become Pomona’s first black City Council member with the counting Friday of 69 absentee and provisional ballots from Tuesday’s election.
White, outreach director of the Pomona Valley YMCA, gained 16 additional votes, enough to avoid an April 16 runoff against Robert L. Stoddard, a 40-year-old salesman who was runner-up in the field of four District 6 council candidates.
White received 1,158 votes, 50.2% of the total cast in the district. Pomona, with a population of 131,723, is 51.3% Latino, 28.2% Anglo, 13.7% black and 6.3% Asian.
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