Re “Deloatch Makes the Case for Being Compton’s Next Mayor”
[img]1802|left|Ms. Deloatch||no_popup[/img]Dateline Compton – Heralding a pledged return to the old-fashioned values of 1900 yesterday in tomorrow’s municipal election, Jacquelyn Deloatch, one of 12 candidates for mayor of this community, intends to help uncommitted voters understand precisely what she means.
With a live, four-legged face-to-face demonstration.
At 5 o’clock this afternoon, for the second straight day, your grandparents’ generation will
gallop to life in downtown Compton.
You know, a Compton version of the Gallop Poll.
At the appointed hour, a horse and carriage will draw up in front of Ms. Deloatch’s bail bonds office on the north side of West Compton Boulevard.
Ms. Deloatch will step from the modern curb into the traditional 19th and 20th century form of transportation, especially for Westerners.
And away they will gallop – as they did yesterday just before the dinner hour, and as they will all day tomorrow, Election Day, to ferry voters who are seeking a ride to their polling stations.
Ms. Deloatch spent yesterday – and intends to devote this afternoon –to introducing herself to voters, especially those who feel overwhelmed by the dense field.
It can be reported, objectively, that among Ms. Deloatch’s 11 rivals, a number fall a mile short of being noble citizens.
In a city of 96,000 known throughout Southern California as a touchstone for corrupt government, Ms. Deloatch, a grandmotherly type, presents herself as a striking antidote to decades of suspicious, and in some cases convicted, politicians.
To counter the slickness and rhetorical rapidity of periodically rapacious foes, Ms. Deloatch, alternatively, offers herself as an epicenter of old-fashioned stability, home cooking, looking and sounding like the loving mother you grew up with – plus one more appealing nugget. She is an astute business owner. Mushy people don’t survive in the fiercely competitive field of bail bonds.
Besides her keen business acumen, Ms. Deloatch is known for her teaching ability and her generosity.
Last time she toured her adopted hometown in a horse and carriage was four months ago, to distribute Christmas presents.
