He was previously a Democratic city council member. convicted of ballot abuse He was recently appointed Deputy Mayor of the City of San Luis, Arizona. Arizona Daily Independent News Network report.
According to a Dec. 14 announcement, San Luis Mayor Nieves Riedel and the City Council voted 4-3 to nominate Gloria Torres as the city's next vice mayor. press release. The decision was recommended by former Vice Mayor Luis E. Cabrera and supported by Councilman Matias Rosales.
Mr. Torres was elected to the City Council in 2000 and is currently serving his third term.
“In addition to serving on the San Luis City Council, she is an active member of the Bian Esther Committee, the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO), and the League of Arizona Cities. She is a member of the Gadsden Elementary School District 32 Board of Directors. , the Regional Council on Aging of the Western Arizona Council of Governments, and the Yuma County Advisory Council,” the city's announcement states.
“I am excited to be appointed Deputy Mayor of the City of San Luis,” said Torres.
In October 2022, Torres and Nadia Guadalupe Lizarraga-Mayoquin will Paid There was conspiracy and voter fraud by the Arizona Attorney General's Office. The two San Luis women allegedly participated in a “vote harvesting” scheme on August 4, 2020, to collect early votes from voters and deliver them to ballot boxes.
The AG's office accused Torres of collecting seven ballots from Lizarraga Mayorquin. The illegal activity was caught on camera by two Yuma County residents, David Lara and Gary Garcia Snyder, the Arizona Daily Independent reported. The paper also noted that former San Luis Mayor Guillermina Fuentes and another resident, Alma Yadira Juarez, were also convicted in 2022 for their involvement.
Ballot harvesting is considered a class 6 felony under Arizona law.
Torres' appointment as deputy mayor is puzzling given that she pleaded guilty in June to one count of ballot fraud, a first-degree misdemeanor, which would prevent her from running for or being appointed to public office. Kayma report. She was sentenced to two years of supervised probation and ordered to pay a $2,500 fine. Even though Torres admitted her guilt, she was allowed to finish her current term as a City Council member, which is scheduled to end in December 2024.
This incident is not the first time Torres has courted controversy in local politics. When she was a member of the state School District 32 Board of Governors, the Arizona Comptroller General found that the district “paid (local elementary school) staff for time not worked” and “unnecessarily paid employees for time not worked.” They found that they were wasting $65,000 on business trips. The school district's failures led to employees stealing approximately $8,000 from taxpayers.
Snyder, a Republican running for Arizona's 25th Congressional District, told the Arizona Daily Independent that he was “outraged that a convicted ballot abuser was elevated to this leadership position. The fact that the majority of councils seem to have so little regard for our laws is an insult to our residents, especially the Latino community. I’m tired of Democrats putting this on display to my face.”
“The promotion of a convicted ballot harvester who has played a key role in maintaining the Democratic Party’s corrupt control over the Latino community should serve as a wake-up call to the Hispanic community in San Luis and surrounding areas. Absolutely,” he added.
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