CYPRESS : Card Club Foes Endorse Candidates
An organization that successfully battled a proposed card club in the city in 1993 is endorsing two candidates in the Nov. 8 City Council election.
Cypress Citizens Against Card Clubs announced it is backing Mary Ann Jones, a businesswoman, and Tom Carroll, a small business owner and retired business executive, for two of the three seats to be filled. Jones and Carroll are founding members of Cypress Citizens Against Card Clubs.
The anti-card-club group will not be endorsing a candidate for the third seat, said spokesman Tim Keenan.
Only one incumbent, Councilman Walter K. Bowman, is running for reelection this fall. Councilwoman Joyce C. Nicholson chose not to seek a second term, and Mayor Richard Partin was barred by term limits from seeking reelection.
Cypress Citizens Against Card Clubs organized in 1993, when a ballot proposal, Measure A, called for authorizing a card club at Los Alamitos Race Track. The organization helped mobilize opposition to Measure A, and it was defeated in the June, 1993, election.
Currently, there is no proposal in the city for reviving the card club issue. But Keenan said Cypress Citizens Against Card Clubs members believe the threat is always present.
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