Glendale elections come to climactic end

Yerkir/arm
8 April 05

Of the nineteen candidates vying for open seats on the Glendale City
Council, only four went home victorious as the final numbers were
released six hours after the polls closed.

As reported by Asbarez daily, with 8,362 votes (10.4%), Attorney Ara
Najarian will join incumbent council members Bob Yousefian (7230
votes–9%), Frank Quintero (7119 votes–8.8%), and Dave Weaver
(6574–8.2%) on the city’s new council as it convenes later on this
month.

Voters demonstrated their confidence in current Glendale School Board
President Greg Krikorian by reelecting him by a sizable margin with
11649 votes.

In the treasurer’s race, incumbent Ronald T. Borucki defeated his only
opponent, former Glendale Community College Board of Trustees Phillip
Kazanjian, with 64% of the vote. A banker of 34 years, Borucki had
received the support of numerous community groups including the
Glendale Chapter of the Armenian National Committee.

All three of the Glendale Community College Board of Trustees
incumbents–Armine G. Hacopian, Victor King, and Anita Quinonez
Gabrielian–were reelected by comfortable margins, with King leading
the pack with 14,070 votes (30.2%). Hacopian came in second with
13,203 votes (28.3%).

Not one to accept a political hand-me-down position, Ardashes “Ardy”
Kassakhian became the first clerk since 1929, to reach the office by
election, on Tuesday, not appointment.

Kassakhian received 27.3% of the vote, beating out Paulette Mardikian,
who had 13.7% of the votes, and George McCullough, who received 16.6%.