SAY THEIR NAMES: Torrance Residents who Signed Aurelio Mattucci Recall

So, former reporter/editor/loser candidate Jean Adelsman cannot accept that she lost an election fair and square.

She campaigned against the Recall of LA County DA George Gascon. When she lost her bid for city council in 2022, she pledged not to initiate a recall against Aurelio Mattucci.

Yet here we are today, and Jean is trying to collect signature to put a recall measure on the ballot for District Five voters.

Why does she want to get rid of Aurelio?

Well, we all know it's spite, pure and simple. She is making excuses about the LA Metro and statements from the city councilman to justify removing him from office.

What is really alarming is that there are 60+ people in the district who want him gone. (Or do they? More to follow. Some reports claim that some of the residents below really had no idea what they were signing. Other reports suggest that Jean lied to these voters, claiming that Aurelio wanted to defund the police)

So, who signed off on the initial intent to recall? Jean needed to get 60 signatures, or 60 electors (voters) in Torrance City Council District Five.

She obtained 68 signatures, presumably anyone who initiates a recall has to collect more than the minimum, just in case some of the signatures don't match the names, the addresses, etc.

Here are the pages. For your convenience, I have re-typed the names beneath each page, and for the privacy of each voter, I have blocked out their home addresses.

Mary Bailey

Mathilde Terre

Marla Shwarts

Rita Smith

Justin Smith

Evelyn Smith

Carolyn Snider

Isaac Elisaldez

Perla Mejia

Jim Specht

Pamela Popovich

Judy Ann Brunetti

Anthony William Brunetti

Phylis Sanfield (?)

Mitchell Numark

Wendy Wengrow

Barbara Maxwell (?)

Gerald Maxwell

April Telles

James Montgomery

Gail Rodkin

Jonathan Frey

David Frey 

Janet Hake

Thomas Fallo (?)

Julie Nielsen

Richard Johnson

Patrick Garvey

Haram Castello Branco (?)

Sheila Millman

Joseph Millman

Robert Rauzon

Jennifer Nelson

John Nelson

Deborah Kissell

John Kissell

Jean Kissell

Mary Cilva

Jean Adelsman (of course)

James Power

Nancy Power

Thomas Rasmussen

Natalie Brecher

Hydee Ong

Benjamin Mason

Hannah Mason

Brett Woodridge (?)

Charles Costello

Suli Crank

Francisco Morales

Susan Crank

Melinda Stogsdill

Layton Stogsdill

Dianali Sayb

George Buck

Helen Dennis

Leah Lewis

David Lewis

Anne Moore

Gary Moore

Susan Reuter

Dean Reuter

David Olson

Ruth Stevens

Ronald Perez

Andrea Perez

Seth Alvarez (?)

Amber Maron

There are a couple of names which I could not decipher based on the poor printing of the initial electors who signed the first intent to recall.

If I could not read the names, how could the city clerk?

The partisan breakdown of the names who signed the initial intent to recall is:

56 Democrats

1 Green Party Member

2 No Party Preference

7 Republicans

Why 7 Republicans would sign this recall intent is a mystery, since Aurelio is also a registered Republican.