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Veronica Cabrera (Mayor Of Pomona, California, candidate 2024)
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Veronica Cabrera ran for election to the Mayor of Pomona in California. She was on the ballot in the primary on March 5, 2024.[source]
Cabrera completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Veronica Cabrera provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on September 7, 2023:
- Birth date: February 28, 1972
- Birth place: Irapuato, Outside the U.S.
- Bachelor's: Univeristy of Phoenix, 2017
- M.D.: University of Phoenix, 2021
- Gender: Female
- Religion: Catholic
- Profession: Real Estate Broker
- Prior offices held:
- n/a
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- First time running for office: Yes
- Campaign slogan: Housing, Health Care and Jobs are the solution for Homelessness
- Campaign website
Elections
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Mayor of Pomona
Incumbent Tim Sandoval, Veronica Cabrera, Gustavo Ramirez, and Freddie Rodriguez ran in the primary for Mayor of Pomona on March 5, 2024.
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Veronica Cabrera completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Cabrera's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a real estate broker living and doing business in Pomona. I started my first business in Anaheim, CA in 1996 and since then I have managed to do business and travel around the world, learning from other cultures. I have a bachelor's in business administration and a Masters in Adult Education which gives me the ability to see with clarity the financial struggles and have a vision of how to improve the public needs. I have a dual nationality and I speak English, Spanish plus basic Chinese. I lived and work in China during 2018 – 2021. I understand the concept of different types of government. I believe in the freedom of this country, respect the autonomy of the individuals, but I do not tolerate the abuse of indolent governments that neglect their people.
- There is a list of 1700 section-8 applicants waiting up to 7 years to receive the public service. The housing crisis is caused due to the shortage of housing available. To face the housing and homelessness crisis, its necessary to build enough homes to satisfy demand, that will stabilize the rents costs and home values without the need of rent control measurements
- The city of Pomona streets is deplorable. It is necessary to have a city owned construction company to create government-owned-homes for section -8 purposes, to restore the public areas, while we stimulate the local economy while producing jobs and we help Pomona’s business economy. The city of Pomona just privatized its 125 years owned trash company making the commercial property owners and business of Pomona pay from 2 to 5 times more the cost of the service. Therefore, even though we respect the private market, the government needs to find the way to supply the citizens with public services at service cost. The government is to provide services to its citizens with their taxes paid. The cities can’t be profiting from the citizens under t
- The small businesses in Pomona are struggling to keep their doors opened. it’s necessary that the city create program to stimulate the economy. Business grants, financial mentoring, and apprenticeship programs are necessary. The requirements need to be reduced to the minimum, because the programs that are currently offered, help a minimum number of applicants which make barely no difference in the sector.
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I do not believe COVID - 19 are an issue.
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Crime rates are very high. i get the data by walking the streets and talking to the citizens and businesses owners. i would definitely make big changes in the public safety policy where the people are the center of the attention to protect and prioritize above everything else.
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Pomona downtown is not healthy. A heathy downtown is a place where the citizens feel safe to walk with their families. They go to do shopping or sightseeing. The city of Pomona downtown is not clean neither safe. There aren't much of entertainment options or activities for the families.
The public sanitary service needs to be supervised and evaluated. New directors need to be hired. New business needs to be promoted, movie theaters, stores, and city attractions to be opened.
The public sanitary service needs to be supervised and evaluated. New directors need to be hired. New business needs to be promoted, movie theaters, stores, and city attractions to be opened.
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It is the social responsibility of every citizen to know what their government are doing, to question them and supervise them. If the public elected do not represent the general public best interest, the citizens then should vote them out and elect other officials that care for the people and not for any personal interest. If there were nobody qualified to run the government with honesty and loyalty to the people, then, they as responsible citizens should postulate for public seats. It is my goal to educate as many citizens as possible in relation to the public affairs because only social and civic educated citizens can guarantee efficient performance of the government.
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i believe the people needs to be approached at their own neighborhood. There should be plenty of public servants working with the communities to investigate their needs and facilitate the resoures availabe.
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The citizens need to be attended, educated, and serve their basic needs, with job opportunities, after school programs, 12 hours quality and public daycare centers, The police service needs audited to make sure its resources are being used efficiently and free of corruption.
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There is plenty of available land in Pomona, no current businesses or property owners should be obligated to leave their city due to new developments or city actions.
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I recommend implementing educational topics in schools and educational centers related to the harm of substance abuse, make a massive campaign to teach the community of the risks, prevention, at the same time to facilitate the people a way to spend time with the family, listen to the children and take care of each other even if they are not family. We need to care not just for ourselves and families but for our communities to build better society.
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The city safety needs a new approach. it is known by some of the citizens and business of some neighborhoods where the drug dealers do business, without any concern. The people live terrified with business doors locked, afraid of even walking out of their stores to leave the area.
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The city environmental health would be discussed with professionals in the matter then make decision in a way that will not affect the people economically.
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I want to build 1000 home in Pomona to combat the housing and homelessness crisis. With the creation of a city owned construction company, we the city of Pomona can build those 1000 home to supply the section-8 housing assistance need, to repair all the city streets, and to create three public medical clinics (mental, substances abuse, and general health treatments) Without creating our own city own construction company, its impossible to advance and grow. The cost of the private construction building is too high to afford any infrastructure. There is for the city is in such poor condition. The current and former governments, outsource all the services needs making it impossible to do much with the city budget. But I am sure that with the plan that I have, we will be able to build 1000 homes, repair streets, and create the medical clinics needed in two term period. The benefits will be for everybody, the homeless will be placed and treated giving their dignity back, the city will be vibrant, the economy will be booming, the business will be successful with the economic overflow.
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The current police service is known to be called by the citizens or business owner, but they do not show up or even respond the phone calls. The city of Pomona takes 55% of the general city budget. That is about 72 million annually, yet the service received is unacceptable. the police department has a list of 98 traffic violation codes. That means that we may be paying the police department to find reasons to fine citizens, while the violence and insecurity is at the highest levels.
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The pandemic is not a problem anymore but if it were to have another crisis, we will follow the recommendations of the heath authorities.
I believe in the free market and competition to create a healthy market. The government should interfere the minimum, but it should create and facilitate for the private sector to start new business and succeed. The government is created to provide public services at the cost, not to profit from the citizens. The government is the citizens’ property, therefore when the public representatives privatize the public property, it can be considered embezzlement to the nation. The government and the private sector should be separate. The government to serve the people, the private sector to serve the free market.
The person I admire the most is my mother. She taught me independency and respect for me and others with example. She let me be whatever I wanted to be and do whatever I dreamed to do if it was safe and good for me or others. I admire my mother because she was a hardworking, and clean person. She was so wise that with two words she would tell you everything you need the to hear at that moment. My mother would raise her children respecting their space and autonomy, but she would never neglect them. She could read our minds and correct us as need it right when it was needed without using physical or verbal aggression. For those and many other reasons, the person I admire the most is my mother.
A book that I would recommend understanding my political view are:
Politics of Love -Marianne Williamson, and Franklin D Roosevelt a Political Life by Robert Dallek
Politics of Love -Marianne Williamson, and Franklin D Roosevelt a Political Life by Robert Dallek
The elected officials need to have a sense of care and responsibility toward what the people who they represent. honesty, care, sensibility towards the people's needs, respect for the other's property and humbleness is key to be a good city representative. Power is only worth to have when it is used to serve the people.
Determinant, honest, persistent, responsible, caring, sensitive, hardworking, good communicator, charismatic, fearless and a go getter.
The core responsibilities for someone elated for Mayor are: To know the people's most crucial needs. To make a government plan that satisfy those needs, then. follow through explaining the citizens what is planned, create surveys when its necessary, hire the professional or companies.to performed the task, after the city councils and citizens agree to it. The city councils and the mayor support themselves on the city employees and the whole government system to serve the people as stated. The mayor and the council are responsible to verify all the information presented to them, approve when it makes sense and represent the best interests of the people, supervise and make the necessary changes when it needed.
The legacy that I would like to leave is of someone who changed thousands of lives for the better, someone to took hundreds of peoples out of the streets giving them their dignity back. someone who treated everyone with justice and fairness. Someone who change the city in a positive way using the same resources available without getting the city in debt or increasing taxes. Someone who use the best of each of us to cooperate with to become a better society.
At the age of 17, I participated in a school marathon. Without know exactly what is it that I was doing, I met the school students and teachers in a community sport campus, about 6 miles from the ending point. The whole school participated in the marathon. There were probably about 300 people. When the race started, I just followed the crowd. The road was closed to the public traffic due to the marathon. I just run minding my own business, I didn’t turn around or talk to anyone, but at certain point, I realized that there was nobody in front of me or behind, I thought that everybody must have been so far ahead that I couldn’t see anyone in front of behind me. This race was running across the main street of that city, so all I saw was houses on both sides of the streets I run. The traffic was diverted to allow the sport race. When I found myself along on the street, I decided to sit down for a minute, hoping to see someone coming. After a few minutes, I saw another participant passing in front of me. I doubt for a minute but then I decided to just continue running since I had to get to the ending point, no matter what. When I arrived (running of course) people applauded, I just thought that it was the excitement of the moment. For my surprise, when they name the winners, they called me a second place! I realized then that I was so ahead of everyone that I could not see anyone behind. The girl that passed me when I was sitting down, end it up being the first-place winner.
At the age of 15 I became a beautician. I got hired when I knocked the first door, on my first day of job searching. I served in that business for two years.
No favorite. I like political books and history..
if I could be a fictional character i would be wonder woman.
Yi ge ren (a Chinese song)
Staying in one place for too long is something that I have struggled in life. I like to exploit my full potential and that has caused me to sacrifice long term relationships or formalize any close relationship at all.
The mayor represents the citizens and for their best interested. The government should make decisions that benefit the people and only the people. The public servants are there because they feel they can do what's needed to have a to healthy and well attended city. The city mayor or any public servant or employee should not make any decisions based on their personal interest or benefits. the public servants supposed to be individuals with the highest levels of integrity and concern for the people.
The Mayor and the City councils are elected by the people to run the city matters and financials in their best capacity to the benefit of the people. No city council board should never depend on any city employee to make decisions for the citizens. it is the obligation of the city council and Mayor to supervise the city employees just like a CEO would do at a private company would do. The city Mayor and the councils are responsible for every decision made and for the city employee's actions.
The city Mayor and the city councils should work together to make the necessary decision to run the city matters in the way that will benefit the citizens the most regardless of each of their personal believes and interest.
The reason I want to run for Mayor in Pomona is because of the great need for better government. I love the people and I feel sorry for the current economic and social situation. Because of the people I am willing to invest and sacrifice my own time and lifestyle. I feel I can change thousands of lives for the better, this way.
If we don't do the so needed changes, the city of Pomona will be in the next 10 years in greater deteriorated condition, more people on the streets, and more businesses gone. The financial of the city will continues decreasing as well as the population because people go to where more opportunities are available, public safety, and affordable lifestyle.
I know the state and the federal governments help cities with funds and programs. I believe it is up to the city Mayor and councils how to leverage that help and use it smartly and with austerity.
How does the ocean say hello? It waves.
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See also
2024 Elections
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